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Maximizing long-term rewards is the primary goal in sequential decision-making problems. The majority of existing methods assume that side information is freely available, enabling the learning agent to observe all features' states before…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Saeed Ghoorchian , Evgenii Kortukov , Setareh Maghsudi

We investigate the non-identifiability issues associated with bidirectional adversarial training for joint distribution matching. Within a framework of conditional entropy, we propose both adversarial and non-adversarial approaches to learn…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-11-07 Chunyuan Li , Hao Liu , Changyou Chen , Yunchen Pu , Liqun Chen , Ricardo Henao , Lawrence Carin

In the sequential learning problem, agents in a network attempt to predict a binary ground truth, informed by both a noisy private signal and the predictions of neighboring agents before them. It is well known that social learning in this…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-02-10 William Guo , Edward Xiong , Jie Gao

We apply recent advances in deep generative modeling to the task of imitation learning from biological agents. Specifically, we apply variations of the variational recurrent neural network model to a multi-agent setting where we learn…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-02 Michael Teng , Tuan Anh Le , Adam Scibior , Frank Wood

In this paper, we present a framework for multi-agent learning in a nonstationary dynamic network environment. More specifically, we examine projected gradient play in smooth monotone repeated network games in which the agents'…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Feras Al Taha , Kiran Rokade , Francesca Parise

A plethora of networks is being collected in a growing number of fields, including disease transmission, international relations, social interactions, and others. As data streams continue to grow, the complexity associated with these highly…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-09-11 Daniele Durante , Nabanita Mukherjee , Rebecca C. Steorts

Recent developments in deep reinforcement learning are concerned with creating decision-making agents which can perform well in various complex domains. A particular approach which has received increasing attention is multi-agent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-13 Georgios Papoudakis , Filippos Christianos , Arrasy Rahman , Stefano V. Albrecht

In this work, we study the social learning problem, in which agents of a networked system collaborate to detect the state of the nature based on their private signals. A novel distributed graphical evolutionary game theoretic learning…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-24 Xuanyu Cao , K. J. Ray Liu

This paper proposes distributed discrete-time algorithms to cooperatively solve an additive cost optimization problem in multi-agent networks. The striking feature lies in the use of only the sign of relative state information between…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-12-11 Jiaqi Zhang , Keyou You , Tamer Başar

We study the problem of distributed hypothesis testing over a network of mobile agents with limited communication and sensing ranges to infer the true hypothesis collaboratively. In particular, we consider a scenario where there is an…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-20 Bo Wu , Steven Carr , Suda Bharadwaj , Zhe Xu , Ufuk Topcu

We study distributed estimation and learning problems in a networked environment where agents exchange information to estimate unknown statistical properties of random variables from their privately observed samples. The agents can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Marios Papachristou , M. Amin Rahimian

Multi-agent reinforcement learning systems aim to provide interacting agents with the ability to collaboratively learn and adapt to the behaviour of other agents. In many real-world applications, the agents can only acquire a partial view…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-04 Ozsel Kilinc , Giovanni Montana

We study a tandem of agents who make decisions about an underlying binary hypothesis, where the distribution of the agent observations under each hypothesis comes from an uncertainty class. We investigate both decentralized detection rules,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-10-28 Jack Ho , Wee Peng Tay , Tony Q. S. Quek , Edwin K. P. Chong

We study interpersonal trust by means of the all-or-nothing public goods game between agents on a network. The agents are endowed with the simple yet adaptive learning rule, exponential moving average, by which they estimate the behavior of…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Benedikt Valentin Meylahn

We formulate the problem of fake news detection using distributed fact-checkers (agents) with unknown reliability. The stream of news/statements is modeled as an independent and identically distributed binary source (to represent true and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-05 Ashwin Verma , Soheil Mohajer , Behrouz Touri

Continual data collection and widespread deployment of machine learning algorithms, particularly the distributed variants, have raised new privacy challenges. In a distributed machine learning scenario, the dataset is stored among several…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-12-16 Shripad Gade , Nitin H. Vaidya

We consider a group of Bayesian agents who are each given an independent signal about an unknown state of the world, and proceed to communicate with each other. We study the question of asymptotic learning: do agents learn the state of the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2012-11-14 Elchanan Mossel , Allan Sly , Omer Tamuz

This paper considers the problem of Byzantine fault tolerance in distributed linear regression in a multi-agent system. However, the proposed algorithms are given for a more general class of distributed optimization problems, of which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-05 Nirupam Gupta , Nitin H. Vaidya

Learning algorithms are essential for the applications of game theory in a networking environment. In dynamic and decentralized settings where the traffic, topology and channel states may vary over time and the communication between agents…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2011-03-15 Quanyan Zhu , Hamidou Tembine , Tamer Basar

We consider discrete-time distributed averaging algorithms over multi-agent networks with measurement noises and time-varying random graph flows. Each agent updates its state by relative states between neighbours with both additive and…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-02-14 Tao Li , Jiexiang Wang