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Multi-Agent Path Finding (MAPF) is a challenging combinatorial problem that asks us to plan collision-free paths for a team of cooperative agents. In this work, we show that one of the reasons why MAPF is so hard to solve is due to a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-03-15 Jiaoyang Li , Daniel Harabor , Peter J. Stuckey , Sven Koenig

Multi-Agent Path Finding (MAPF) is a fundamental problem in robotics that asks us to compute collision-free paths for a team of agents, all moving across a shared map. Although many works appear on this topic, all current algorithms…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-02-01 Zhe Chen , Daniel Harabor , Jiaoyang Li , Peter J. Stuckey

Multi-Agent Path Finding (MAPF) seeks collision-free paths for multiple agents from their respective starting locations to their respective goal locations while minimizing path costs. Although many MAPF algorithms were developed and can…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Shuai Zhou , Shizhe Zhao , Zhongqiang Ren

Multi-agent path finding (MAPF) is the problem of moving agents to the goal vertex without collision. In the online MAPF problem, new agents may be added to the environment at any time, and the current agents have no information about…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-01-12 Mingkai Tang , Boyi Liu , Yuanhang Li , Hongji Liu , Ming Liu , Lujia Wang

With the development of machine learning, it is difficult for a single server to process all the data. So machine learning tasks need to be spread across multiple servers, turning the centralized machine learning into a distributed one.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-05-13 Zoe L. Jiang , Jiajing Gu , Hongxiao Wang , Yulin Wu , Junbin Fang , Siu-Ming Yiu , Wenjian Luo , Xuan Wang

The emergence of cloud computing provides a new computing paradigm for users -- massive and complex computing tasks can be outsourced to cloud servers. However, the privacy issues also follow. Fully homomorphic encryption shows great…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-04-01 Lizhi Xiong , Wenhao Zhou , Zhihua Xia , Qi Gu , Jian Weng

With an increasing focus on data privacy, there have been pilot studies on recommender systems in a federated learning (FL) framework, where multiple parties collaboratively train a model without sharing their data. Most of these studies…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Peihua Mai , Yan Pang

Generating an investment strategy using advanced deep learning methods in stock markets has recently been a topic of interest. Most existing deep learning methods focus on proposing an optimal model or network architecture by maximizing…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-07-13 Jinho Lee , Raehyun Kim , Seok-Won Yi , Jaewoo Kang

We study a variant of the multi-agent path finding problem (MAPF) in which agents are required to remain connected to each other and to a designated base. This problem has applications in search and rescue missions where the entire…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-06-08 Arthur Queffelec , Ocan Sankur , François Schwarzentruber

Multi-Agent Path-Finding (MAPF) focuses on the collaborative planning of paths for multiple agents within shared spaces, aiming for collision-free navigation. Conventional planning methods often overlook the presence of other agents, which…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-04 S Nordström , Y Bai , B Lindqvist , G Nikolakopoulos

Existing multi-agent path finding (MAPF) solvers do not account for uncertain behavior of uncontrollable agents. We present a novel variant of Enhanced Conflict-Based Search (ECBS), for both one-shot and lifelong MAPF in dynamic…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Kegan J. Strawn , Thomy Phan , Eric Wang , Nora Ayanian , Sven Koenig , Lars Lindemann

Building a recommendation system involves analyzing user data, which can potentially leak sensitive information about users. Anonymizing user data is often not sufficient for preserving user privacy. Motivated by this, we propose a…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-04-19 Sohan Salahuddin Mugdho , Hafiz Imtiaz

Multi-Agent Path finding (MAPF) is the problem of finding paths for a set of agents such that each agent reaches its desired destination while avoiding collisions with the other agents. This problem arises in many robotics applications,…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Raz Beck , Roni Stern

In this work, we study the problem of privacy preserving computation on PageRank algorithm. The idea is to enforce the secure multi party computation of the algorithm iteratively using homomorphic encryption based on Paillier scheme. In the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-11-08 Ferhat Ozgur Catak

We introduce the Cooperative Multi-Agent Path Finding (Co-MAPF) problem, an extension to the classical MAPF problem, where cooperative behavior is incorporated. In this setting, a group of autonomous agents operate in a shared environment…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2021-05-25 Nir Greshler , Ofir Gordon , Oren Salzman , Nahum Shimkin

This paper presents a novel approach to address the Production Routing Problem with Privacy Preserving (PRPPP) in supply chain optimization. The integrated optimization of production, inventory, distribution, and routing decisions in…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-06-14 Luiza Pellin Biasoto , Vinicius Renan de Carvalho , Jaime Simão Sichman

The multi-agent path finding (MAPF) problem asks to find a set of paths on a graph such that when synchronously following these paths the agents never encounter a conflict. In the most widespread MAPF formulation, the so-called Classical…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-05-16 Artem Agafonov , Konstantin Yakovlev

This paper addresses a generalization of the well known multi-agent path finding (MAPF) problem that optimizes multiple conflicting objectives simultaneously such as travel time and path risk. This generalization, referred to as…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Zhongqiang Ren , Sivakumar Rathinam , Maxim Likhachev , Howie Choset

We present Scalable Multi-Agent Realistic Testbed (SMART), a realistic and efficient software tool for evaluating Multi-Agent Path Finding (MAPF) algorithms. MAPF focuses on planning collision-free paths for a group of robots. While…

Communication bottleneck and data privacy are two critical concerns in federated multi-armed bandit (MAB) problems, such as situations in decision-making and recommendations of connected vehicles via wireless. In this paper, we design the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-03 Tan Li , Linqi Song