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Communication enables coordination in multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL), but many real-world applications, e.g., search-and-rescue with drone swarms, operate under severe bandwidth constraints. Many communication architectures still…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Alexi Canesse , Benoît Goupil , Jesse Read , Sonia Vanier

Deep reinforcement learning has been applied successfully to solve various real-world problems and the number of its applications in the multi-agent settings has been increasing. Multi-agent learning distinctly poses significant challenges…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-24 Ngoc Duy Nguyen , Thanh Thi Nguyen , Doug Creighton , Saeid Nahavandi

While significant advances have been made for single-agent perception, many applications require multiple sensing agents and cross-agent communication due to benefits such as coverage and robustness. It is therefore critical to develop…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-04 Yen-Cheng Liu , Junjiao Tian , Nathaniel Glaser , Zsolt Kira

Learning communication strategies in cooperative multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) has recently attracted intensive attention. Early studies typically assumed a fully-connected communication topology among agents, which induces high…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-05-24 Xuefeng Wang , Xinran Li , Jiawei Shao , Jun Zhang

Emergent communication research often focuses on optimizing task-specific utility as a driver for communication. However, human languages appear to evolve under pressure to efficiently compress meanings into communication signals by…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-07-04 Mycal Tucker , Julie Shah , Roger Levy , Noga Zaslavsky

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

Multi-agent systems using large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated impressive capabilities across various domains. However, current agent communication suffers from verbose output that overload context and increase computational…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Danqing Wang , Da Yin , Ruta Desai , Lei Li , Asli Celikyilmaz , Ansong Ni

In typical multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) problems, communication is important for agents to share information and make the right decisions. However, due to the complexity of training multi-agent communication, existing methods…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Xuyan Ma , Yawen Wang , Junjie Wang , Xiaofei Xie , Boyu Wu , Shoubin Li , Fanjiang Xu , Qing Wang

Prior works have explored multi-armed bandit (MAB) algorithms for the selection of optimal beams for millimeter-wave (mmW) communications between base station and mobile users. However, when the number of beams is large, the existing MAB…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-10 Akanksha Sneh , Shobha Sundar Ram , Sumit J Darak , Aakanksha Tewari

In this paper, we consider a point-to-point integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system, where a transmitter conveys a message to a receiver over a channel with memory and simultaneously estimates the state of the channel through the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Homa Nikbakht , Michèle Wigger , Shlomo Shamai , H. Vincent Poor

Chain-of-thought prompting has popularized step-by-step reasoning in large language models, yet model performance still degrades as problem complexity and context length grow. By decomposing difficult tasks with long contexts into shorter,…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Michael Rizvi-Martel , Satwik Bhattamishra , Neil Rathi , Guillaume Rabusseau , Michael Hahn

Task-oriented communication aims to extract and transmit task-relevant information to significantly reduce the communication overhead and transmission latency. However, the unpredictable distribution shifts between training and test data,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-16 Hongru Li , Jiawei Shao , Hengtao He , Shenghui Song , Jun Zhang , Khaled B. Letaief

Information exchange in multi-agent systems improves the cooperation among agents, especially in partially observable settings. In the real world, communication is often carried out over imperfect channels. This requires agents to handle…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Jannis Weil , Gizem Ekinci , Heinz Koeppl , Tobias Meuser

We study the process of multi-agent reinforcement learning in the context of load balancing in a distributed system, without use of either central coordination or explicit communication. We first define a precise framework in which to study…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-11-17 A. Schaerf , Y. Shoham , M. Tennenholtz

Multi-robot navigation is increasingly crucial in various domains, including disaster response, autonomous vehicles, and warehouse and manufacturing automation. Robot teams often must operate in highly dynamic environments and under strict…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Anirudh Chari , Rui Chen , Han Zheng , Changliu Liu

The rapid development of agentic artificial intelligence (AI) is driving future wireless networks to evolve from passive data pipes into intelligent collaborative ecosystems under the emerging paradigm of integrated learning and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Zhouxiang Zhao , Jiaxiang Wang , Zhaohui Yang , Kun Yang , Zhaoyang Zhang , Mingzhe Chen , Kaibin Huang

In this work, we study emergent communication through the lens of cooperative multi-agent behavior in nature. Using insights from animal communication, we propose a spectrum from low-bandwidth (e.g. pheromone trails) to high-bandwidth (e.g.…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2020-12-10 Niko A. Grupen , Daniel D. Lee , Bart Selman

In this work, we introduce a novel perspective, i.e., dimensional analysis, to address the challenge of communication efficiency in Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL). Our findings reveal that simply optimizing the content and timing…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Chuxiong Sun , Peng He , Rui Wang , Changwen Zheng

This paper investigates task-oriented communication for multi-device cooperative edge inference, where a group of distributed low-end edge devices transmit the extracted features of local samples to a powerful edge server for inference.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-13 Jiawei Shao , Yuyi Mao , Jun Zhang

In most multiagent applications, communication is essential among agents to coordinate their actions, and thus achieve their goal. However, communication often has a related cost that affects overall system performance. In this paper, we…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Abeer Alshehri , Tim Miller , Liz Sonenberg