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Masked diffusion language models (MDLMs) have recently emerged as a new paradigm in language modeling, offering flexible generation dynamics and enabling efficient parallel decoding. However, existing decoding strategies for pre-trained…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Xueyu Zhou , Yangrong Hu , Jian Huang

Multi-agent systems built from prompted large language models can improve multi-round reasoning, yet most existing pipelines rely on fixed, trajectory-wide communication patterns that are poorly matched to the stage-dependent needs of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Yuxing Lu , Yucheng Hu , Xukai Zhao , Jiuxin Cao

Introducing cooperative coded caching into small cell networks is a promising approach to reducing traffic loads. By encoding content via maximum distance separable (MDS) codes, coded fragments can be collectively cached at small-cell base…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-06-25 Xiongwei Wu , Jun Li , Ming Xiao , P. C. Ching , H. Vincent Poor

The field of Distributed Constraint Optimization Problems (DCOPs) has gained momentum, thanks to its suitability in capturing complex problems (e.g., multi-agent coordination and resource allocation problems) that are naturally distributed…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2014-05-16 Tiep Le , Enrico Pontelli , Tran Cao Son , William Yeoh

We consider the online planning problem for a team of agents to discover and track an unknown and time-varying number of moving objects from onboard sensor measurements with uncertain measurement-object origins. Since the onboard sensors…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Hoa Van Nguyen , Ba-Ngu Vo , Ba-Tuong Vo , Hamid Rezatofighi , Damith C. Ranasinghe

Efficient robotic extraterrestrial exploration requires robots with diverse capabilities, ranging from scientific measurement tools to advanced locomotion. A robotic team enables the distribution of tasks over multiple specialized…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Matthias Rubio , Julia Richter , Hendrik Kolvenbach , Marco Hutter

Large language model (LLM) agents have shown increasing promise for collaborative task completion. However, existing multi-agent frameworks often rely on static workflows, fixed roles, and limited inter-agent communication, reducing their…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Chengxuan Xia , Qianye Wu , Sixuan Tian , Yilun Hao

In this paper, we propose a distributionally robust control synthesis for an agent with stochastic dynamics that interacts with other agents under uncertainties and constraints expressed by signal temporal logic (STL). We formulate the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-14 Arash Bahari Kordabad , Eleftherios E. Vlahakis , Lars Lindemann , Sebastien Gros , Dimos V. Dimarogonas , Sadegh Soudjani

The main goal of this paper is to investigate continuous-time distributed dynamic programming (DP) algorithms for networked multi-agent Markov decision problems (MAMDPs). In our study, we adopt a distributed multi-agent framework where…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-14 Donghwan Lee , Han-Dong Lim , Do Wan Kim

We analyze the problem of using Explore-Exploit techniques to improve precision in multi-result ranking systems such as web search, query autocompletion and news recommendation. Adopting an exploration policy directly online, without…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-04-30 Dragomir Yankov , Pavel Berkhin , Lihong Li

Motivated by practical federated learning settings where clients may not be always available, we investigate a variant of distributed online optimization where agents are active with a known probability $p$ at each time step, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Juliette Achddou , Nicolò Cesa-Bianchi , Hao Qiu

The field of Distributed Constraint Optimization has gained momentum in recent years, thanks to its ability to address various applications related to multi-agent cooperation. Nevertheless, solving Distributed Constraint Optimization…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-02-24 Ferdinando Fioretto , Agostino Dovier , Enrico Pontelli , William Yeoh , Roie Zivan

This paper investigates distributed zeroth-order feedback optimization in multi-agent systems with coupled constraints, where each agent operates its local action vector and observes only zeroth-order information to minimize a global cost…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-17 Yingpeng Duan , Yujie Tang

Online solvers for partially observable Markov decision processes have difficulty scaling to problems with large action spaces. Monte Carlo tree search with progressive widening attempts to improve scaling by sampling from the action space…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-11-04 John Mern , Anil Yildiz , Zachary Sunberg , Tapan Mukerji , Mykel J. Kochenderfer

The multi-agent setting is intricate and unpredictable since the behaviors of multiple agents influence one another. To address this environmental uncertainty, distributional reinforcement learning algorithms that incorporate uncertainty…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-06 Jihwan Oh , Joonkee Kim , Minchan Jeong , Se-Young Yun

There is increasing interest in using streaming data to inform decision making across a wide range of application domains including mobile health, food safety, security, and resource management. A decision support system formalizes online…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-05-14 Tao Hu , Eric B. Laber , Zhen Li , Nick J. Meyer , Krishna Pacifici

The size and capabilities of Earth-observing satellite constellations are rapidly increasing. Leveraging distributed onboard control, we can enable novel time-sensitive measurements and responses. However, deploying autonomy to large…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Itai Zilberstein , Steve Chien

Cooperatively avoiding collision is a critical functionality for robots navigating in dense human crowds, failure of which could lead to either overaggressive or overcautious behavior. A necessary condition for cooperative collision…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-06-28 Muchen Sun , Francesca Baldini , Peter Trautman , Todd Murphey

Distributed opportunistic scheduling (DOS) is studied for wireless ad-hoc networks in which many links contend for the channel using random access before data transmissions. Simply put, DOS involves a process of joint channel probing and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-07-14 Chandrashekhar Thejaswi P. S. , Junshan Zhang , Man-On Pun , H. Vincent Poor , Dong Zheng

This paper considers a novel approach to scalable multiagent resource allocation in dynamic settings. We propose an approximate solution in which each resource consumer is represented by an independent MDP-based agent that models expected…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-07-08 Hadi Hosseini , Jesse Hoey , Robin Cohen