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In this paper, we propose SwarmNet -- a neural network architecture that can learn to predict and imitate the behavior of an observed swarm of agents in a centralized manner. Tested on artificially generated swarm motion data, the network…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-11-04 Siyu Zhou , Mariano Phielipp , Jorge A. Sefair , Sara I. Walker , Heni Ben Amor

Nowadays, social media networks are increasingly significant to our lives, the imperative to study social media networks becomes more and more essential. With billions of users across platforms and constant updates, the complexity of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Haoyuan Li , Lidia Conde Matos , Eduardo César Galobardes , Anna Sikora

Multi-agent systems (MAS) powered by large language models (LLMs) hold significant promise for solving complex decision-making tasks. However, the core process of collaborative decision-making (CDM) within these systems remains…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Xuyang Zhao , Shiwan Zhao , Hualong Yu , Liting Zhang , Qicheng Li

Swarm robotics has experienced a rapid expansion in recent years, primarily fueled by specialized multi-robot systems developed to achieve dedicated collective actions. These specialized platforms are in general designed with swarming…

Contemporary sensorimotor learning approaches typically start with an existing complex agent (e.g., a robotic arm), which they learn to control. In contrast, this paper investigates a modular co-evolution strategy: a collection of primitive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-25 Deepak Pathak , Chris Lu , Trevor Darrell , Phillip Isola , Alexei A. Efros

In swarm robotics, just as for an animal swarm in Nature, one of the aims is to reach and maintain a desired configuration. One of the possibilities for the team, to reach this aim, is to see what its neighbours are doing. This approach…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2020-04-08 R. dell'Erba

We develop a learning-based algorithm for the distributed formation control of networked multi-agent systems governed by unknown, nonlinear dynamics. Most existing algorithms either assume certain parametric forms for the unknown dynamic…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-13 Christos K. Verginis , Zhe Xu , Ufuk Topcu

Realization of universal computing units for nanorobots is highly promising in creating new and wide arrays of applications, particularly in the realm of distributed computation. However, such realization is also a challenging problem due…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-24 Alireza Rowhanimanesh , Mohammad-R Akbarzadeh-T

Automatic design is a promising approach to realizing robot swarms. Given a mission to be performed by the swarm, an automatic method produces the required control software for the individual robots. Automatic design has concentrated on…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-30 David Garzón Ramos , Mauro Birattari

Mean-shift-based approaches have recently emerged as a representative class of methods for robot swarm shape assembly. They rely on image-based target-shape representations to compute local density gradients and perform mean-shift…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Shuoyu Yue , Pengpeng Li , Yang Xu , Kunrui Ze , Xingjian Long , Huazi Cao , Guibin Sun

Optimizing large-language model (LLM) training on distributed domain-specific accelerator systems presents significant challenges due to its complex optimization space. Existing optimization methods, however, rely on time-consuming manual…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Yuran Ding , Xinwei Chen , Xiaofan Zhang , Zongwei Zhou

Large Intelligent Systems are so complex these days that an urgent need for designing such systems in best available way is evolving. Modeling is the useful technique to show a complex real world system into the form of abstraction, so that…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2011-11-04 Ankit Chaudhary , Jagdish L. Raheja

Purpose: To present an algorithm for spatially sorting objects into an annular structure. Design/Methodology/Approach: A swarm-based model that requires only stochastic agent behaviour coupled with a pheromone-inspired…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2008-05-13 Martyn Amos , Oliver Don

The analysis and control of large-population systems is of great interest to diverse areas of research and engineering, ranging from epidemiology over robotic swarms to economics and finance. An increasingly popular and effective approach…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2022-09-09 Kai Cui , Anam Tahir , Gizem Ekinci , Ahmed Elshamanhory , Yannick Eich , Mengguang Li , Heinz Koeppl

Coordinating robotic swarms in dynamic and communication-constrained environments remains a fundamental challenge for collective intelligence. This paper presents a novel framework for event-triggered organization, designed to achieve…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Fidel Aznar , Mar Pujol , Álvaro Díez

We introduce shape-changing swarm robots. A swarm of self-transformable robots can both individually and collectively change their configuration to display information, actuate objects, act as tangible controllers, visualize data, and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Ryo Suzuki , Clement Zheng , Yasuaki Kakehi , Tom Yeh , Ellen Yi-Luen Do , Mark D. Gross , Daniel Leithinger

One of the most important promises of decentralized systems is scalability, which is often assumed to be present in robot swarm systems without being contested. Simple limitations, such as movement congestion and communication conflicts,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Karthik Soma , Vivek Shankar Vardharajan , Heiko Hamann , Giovanni Beltrame

Effective coordination is crucial to solve multi-agent collaborative (MAC) problems. While centralized reinforcement learning methods can optimally solve small MAC instances, they do not scale to large problems and they fail to generalize…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-22 Nicolas Carion , Gabriel Synnaeve , Alessandro Lazaric , Nicolas Usunier

Swarming systems, such as drone fleets and robotic teams, exhibit complex dynamics driven by both individual behaviors and emergent group-level interactions. Unlike traditional multi-agent domains such as pedestrian crowds or traffic…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Minah Lee , Saibal Mukhopadhyay

In this paper, we use simulated swarms of robots to further explore the aggregation dynamics generated by these simple individual mechanisms. Our objective is to study the introduction of "informed robots", and to study how many of these…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2019-03-12 Ziya Firat , Eliseo Ferrante , Yannick Gillet , Elio Tuci