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Multi-UAV pursuit-evasion, where pursuers aim to capture evaders, poses a key challenge for UAV swarm intelligence. Multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) has demonstrated potential in modeling cooperative behaviors, but most RL-based…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Jiayu Chen , Chao Yu , Guosheng Li , Wenhao Tang , Shilong Ji , Xinyi Yang , Botian Xu , Huazhong Yang , Yu Wang

Generative models and machine learning promise accelerated material discovery in MOFs for CO2 capture and water harvesting but face significant challenges navigating vast chemical spaces while ensuring synthetizability. Here, we present…

Multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) is a promising framework for solving complex tasks with many agents. However, a key challenge in MARL is defining private utility functions that ensure coordination when training decentralized…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2022-02-17 Seung Hyun Kim , Neale Van Stralen , Girish Chowdhary , Huy T. Tran

We study how to generate molecule conformations (i.e., 3D structures) from a molecular graph. Traditional methods, such as molecular dynamics, sample conformations via computationally expensive simulations. Recently, machine learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-01 Minkai Xu , Shitong Luo , Yoshua Bengio , Jian Peng , Jian Tang

Federated Learning (FL) enables privacy-preserving collaborative model training, but its effectiveness is often limited by client data heterogeneity. We introduce a client-selection algorithm that (i) dynamically forms nonoverlapping…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Alessandro Licciardi , Roberta Raineri , Anton Proskurnikov , Lamberto Rondoni , Lorenzo Zino

Multi-Agent Path Finding (MAPF), which focuses on finding collision-free paths for multiple robots, is crucial for applications ranging from aerial swarms to warehouse automation. Solving MAPF is NP-hard so learning-based approaches for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Yimin Tang , Xiao Xiong , Jingyi Xi , Jiaoyang Li , Erdem Bıyık , Sven Koenig

Collaborative pursuit-evasion in cluttered environments presents significant challenges due to sparse rewards and constrained Fields of View (FOV). Standard Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL) often suffers from inefficient…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Jialin Ying , Zhihao Li , Zicheng Dong , Guohua Wu , Yihuan Liao

As a step towards studying human-agent collectives we conduct an online game with human participants cooperating on a network. The game is presented in the context of achieving group formation through local coordination. The players set…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-07-11 Kunal Bhattacharya , Tuomas Takko , Daniel Monsivais , Kimmo Kaski

In this work a robust and scalable cooperative multi-agent searching and tracking framework is proposed. Specifically, we study the problem of cooperative searching and tracking of multiple moving targets by a group of autonomous mobile…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-24 Savvas Papaioannou , Panayiotis Kolios , Theocharis Theocharides , Christos G. Panayiotou , Marios M. Polycarpou

Existing defenses against adversarial attacks are typically tailored to a specific perturbation type. Using adversarial training to defend against multiple types of perturbation requires expensive adversarial examples from different…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-10-16 Jay Nandy , Wynne Hsu , Mong Li Lee

This paper introduces a novel framework to learn data association for multi-object tracking in a self-supervised manner. Fully-supervised learning methods are known to achieve excellent tracking performances, but acquiring identity-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Shuai Li , Michael Burke , Subramanian Ramamoorthy , Juergen Gall

Recent visual object tracking methods have witnessed a continuous improvement in the state-of-the-art with the development of efficient discriminative correlation filters (DCF) and robust deep neural network features. Despite the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-02 Tianyang Xu , Zhen-Hua Feng , Xiao-Jun Wu , Josef Kittler

Feature point detection and description is the backbone for various computer vision applications, such as Structure-from-Motion, visual SLAM, and visual place recognition. While learning-based methods have surpassed traditional handcrafted…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-23 Ali Youssef , Francisco Vasconcelos

Existing multi-agent coordination techniques are often fragile and vulnerable to anomalies such as agent attrition and communication disturbances, which are quite common in the real-world deployment of systems like field robotics. To better…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-10-27 Anthony Goeckner , Yueyuan Sui , Nicolas Martinet , Xinliang Li , Qi Zhu

While a multi-agent approach based on large language models (LLMs) represents a promising strategy to surpass the capabilities of single models, its success is critically dependent on synergistic team composition. However, forming optimal…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Kotaro Furuya , Yuichi Kitagawa

Training agents that can coordinate zero-shot with humans is a key mission in multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL). Current algorithms focus on training simulated human partner policies which are then used to train a Cooperator agent.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-22 Yancheng Liang , Daphne Chen , Abhishek Gupta , Simon S. Du , Natasha Jaques

Collective behaviors are typically hard to model. The scale of the swarm, the large number of interactions, and the richness and complexity of the behaviors are factors that make it difficult to distill a collective behavior into simple…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Stephen Powers , Carlo Pinciroli

Pansharpening is a widely used image enhancement technique for remote sensing. Its principle is to fuse the input high-resolution single-channel panchromatic (PAN) image and low-resolution multi-spectral image and to obtain a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-01 Zixiang Zhao , Jiangshe Zhang , Shuang Xu , Kai Sun , Lu Huang , Junmin Liu , Chunxia Zhang

It can largely benefit the reinforcement learning (RL) process of each agent if multiple geographically distributed agents perform their separate RL tasks cooperatively. Different from multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) where…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Kaiyue Wu , Xiao-Jun Zeng

Recent work on the multi-agent pathfinding problem (MAPF) has begun to study agents with motion that is more complex, for example, with non-unit action durations and kinematic constraints. An important aspect of MAPF is collision detection.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-11-18 Thayne T. Walker , Nathan R. Sturtevant