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In this paper we describe a decision process framework allowing an agent to decide what information it should reveal to its neighbours within a communication graph in order to maximise its utility. We assume that these neighbours can pass…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-12-18 Chatschik Bisdikian , Federico Cerutti , Yuqing Tang , Nir Oren

Multi-agent collaboration has emerged as a pivotal paradigm for addressing complex, distributed tasks in large language model (LLM)-driven applications. While prior research has focused on high-level architectural frameworks, the granular…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Haochun Wang , Sendong Zhao , Jingbo Wang , Zewen Qiang , Bing Qin , Ting Liu

Many real-world problems require the coordination of multiple autonomous agents. Recent work has shown the promise of Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) to learn explicit communication strategies that enable complex multi-agent coordination.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-11-05 Jan Blumenkamp , Amanda Prorok

Recent papers have treated {\em control communication complexity} in the context of information-based, multiple agent control systems including nonlinear systems of the type that have been studied in connection with quantum information…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2012-02-02 Wing Shing Wong , John Baillieul

This paper investigates multi-agent frequencybased patrolling of intersecting, circle graphs under conditions where graph nodes have non-uniform visitation requirements and agents have limited ability to communicate. The task is modeled as…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2014-02-10 Tao Mao , Laura Ray

Communication between embodied AI agents has received increasing attention in recent years. Despite its use, it is still unclear whether the learned communication is interpretable and grounded in perception. To study the grounding of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-13 Shivansh Patel , Saim Wani , Unnat Jain , Alexander Schwing , Svetlana Lazebnik , Manolis Savva , Angel X. Chang

We propose a method, based on empirical game theory, for a robot operating as part of a team to choose its role within the team without explicitly communicating with team members, by leveraging its knowledge about the team structure. To do…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2021-10-01 Fengjun Yang , Negar Mehr , Mac Schwager

In this paper, we consider the cooperative output regulation problem for heterogeneous linear multi-agent systems in the presence of communication constraints. Under standard assumptions on the agents dynamics, we propose a distributed…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-10-06 Abdelkader Abdessameud , Abdelhamid Tayebi

Most existing approaches for goal-oriented dialogue policy learning used reinforcement learning, which focuses on the target agent policy and simply treat the opposite agent policy as part of the environment. While in real-world scenarios,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-22 Zheng Zhang , Lizi Liao , Xiaoyan Zhu , Tat-Seng Chua , Zitao Liu , Yan Huang , Minlie Huang

Computational agents support humans in many areas of life and are therefore found in heterogeneous contexts. This means they operate in rapidly changing environments and can be confronted with huge state and action spaces. In order to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-08-31 Nicole Merkle , Ralf Mikut

Interactions between agents are usually designed from a global viewpoint. However, the implementation of a multi-agent interaction is distributed. This difference can introduce issues. For instance, it is possible to specify protocols from…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2019-02-14 Angelo Ferrando , Michael Winikoff , Stephen Cranefield , Frank Dignum , Viviana Mascardi

This paper proposes a generative probabilistic model integrating emergent communication and multi-agent reinforcement learning. The agents plan their actions by probabilistic inference, called control as inference, and communicate using…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-07-12 Tomoaki Nakamura , Akira Taniguchi , Tadahiro Taniguchi

This paper addresses the problem of collaboratively satisfying long-term spatial constraints in multi-agent systems. Each agent is subject to spatial constraints, expressed as inequalities, which may depend on the positions of other agents…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-23 Farhad Mehdifar , Mani H. Dhullipalla , Charalampos P. Bechlioulis , Dimos V. Dimarogonas

This paper introduces a decentralized multi-agent reinforcement learning framework enabling structurally heterogeneous teams of agents to jointly discover and acquire randomly located targets in environments characterized by partial…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Gabriele Calzolari , Vidya Sumathy , Christoforos Kanellakis , George Nikolakopoulos

This work considers the problem of learning cooperative policies in multi-agent settings with partially observable and non-stationary environments without a communication channel. We focus on improving information sharing between agents and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-03 Eshagh Kargar , Ville Kyrki

An agent who interacts with a wide population of other agents needs to be aware that there may be variations in their understanding of the world. Furthermore, the machinery which they use to perceive may be inherently different, as is the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-11-20 Rodolfo Corona , Stephan Alaniz , Zeynep Akata

Event-triggered communication and control provide high control performance in networked control systems without overloading the communication network. However, most approaches require precise mathematical models of the system dynamics,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-16 Lukas Kesper , Sebastian Trimpe , Dominik Baumann

We study interactions between agents in multi-agent systems, in which the agents are misinformed with regards to the game that they play, essentially having a subjective and incorrect understanding of the setting, without being aware of it.…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Konstantinos Varsos , Merkouris Papamichail , Giorgos Flouris , Marina Bitsaki

In this work we study a multi-agent coordination problem in which agents are only able to communicate with each other intermittently through a cloud server. To reduce the amount of required communication, we develop a self-triggered…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-04-07 Sean L. Bowman , Cameron Nowzari , George J. Pappas

Effective communication is an essential component in collaborative multi-agent systems. Situations where explicit messaging is not feasible have been common in human society throughout history, which motivate the study of implicit…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Han Wang , Binbin Chen , Tieying Zhang , Baoxiang Wang