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We address the problem of learning to assign prediction tasks to one agent from a set of available human or AI agents. In particular, we focus on the sequential learning of agent expertise and assignment policies where each agent is…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Shang Wu , Saatvik Kher , Padhraic Smyth

This paper studies the synthesis of control policies for an agent that has to satisfy a temporal logic specification in a partially observable environment, in the presence of an adversary. The interaction of the agent (defender) with the…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-03-19 Bhaskar Ramasubramanian , Andrew Clark , Linda Bushnell , Radha Poovendran

Generating competitive strategies and performing continuous motion planning simultaneously in an adversarial setting is a challenging problem. In addition, understanding the intent of other agents is crucial to deploying autonomous systems…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-12 Hongrui Zheng , Zhijun Zhuang , Johannes Betz , Rahul Mangharam

Opacity, or non-interference, is a property ensuring that an external observer cannot infer confidential information (the "secret") from system observations. We introduce an information-theoretic measure of opacity, which quantifies…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-05 Chongyang Shi , Sumukha Udupa , Michael R. Dorothy , Shuo Han , Jie Fu

Identifying features that leak information about sensitive attributes is a key challenge in the design of information obfuscation mechanisms. In this paper, we propose a framework to identify information-leaking features via information…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-10-21 Hsiang Hsu , Shahab Asoodeh , Flavio du Pin Calmon

In this paper we deal with a practical problem that arises in military mission planning. The problem is to plan a path for one, or more, agents to reach a target without being detected by enemy sensors. Agents are not passive, rather they…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-10-01 J. E. Beasley

Metric Temporal Logic can express temporally evolving properties with time-critical constraints or time-triggered constraints for real-time systems. This paper extends the Metric Interval Temporal Logic with a distribution eventuality…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2021-05-12 Lening Li , Jie Fu

Sequential multi-agent large language model (LLM) systems are increasingly deployed in sensitive domains such as healthcare, finance, and enterprise decision-making, where multiple specialized agents collaboratively process a single user…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Sadia Asif , Mohammad Mohammadi Amiri

In strategic classification, agents modify their features, at a cost, to ideally obtain a positive classification from the learner's classifier. The typical response of the learner is to carefully modify their classifier to be robust to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-15 Lee Cohen , Saeed Sharifi-Malvajerdi , Kevin Stangl , Ali Vakilian , Juba Ziani

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed in multi-agent settings where communication must balance informativeness and secrecy. In such settings, an agent may need to signal information to collaborators while preventing an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Adar Avsian , Larry Heck

We consider the problem of decentralized constrained optimization with multiple agents $E_1,\ldots,E_N$ who jointly wish to learn the optimal solution set while keeping their feasible sets $\mathcal{P}_1,\ldots,\mathcal{P}_N$ private from…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Shreya Meel , Sennur Ulukus

Language agents increasingly act as web-enabled systems that search, browse, and synthesize information from diverse sources. However, these sources can include unreliable or adversarial content, and the robustness of agents to adversarial…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Shrey Shah , Levent Ozgur

When reasoning about the strategic capabilities of an agent, it is important to consider the nature of its adversaries. In the particular context of controller synthesis for quantitative specifications, the usual problem is to devise a…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2014-04-04 Véronique Bruyère , Emmanuel Filiot , Mickael Randour , Jean-François Raskin

We study the statistical design of a fair mechanism that attains equalized odds, where an agent uses some useful data (database) $X$ to solve a task $T$. Since both $X$ and $T$ are correlated with some latent sensitive attribute $S$, the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Amirreza Zamani , Ayfer Özgür , Mikael Skoglund

This paper investigates the problem of synthesizing proactive defense systems in which the defender can allocate deceptive targets and modify the cost of actions for the attacker who aims to compromise security assets in this system. We…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-01-05 Haoxiang Ma , Shuo Han , Nandi Leslie , Charles Kamhoua , Jie Fu

Bounded agents are limited by intrinsic constraints on their ability to process information that is available in their sensors and memory and choose actions and memory updates. In this dissertation, we model these constraints as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-03-31 Roy Fox

We are working to develop automated intelligent agents, which can act and react as learning machines with minimal human intervention. To accomplish this, an intelligent agent is viewed as a question-asking machine, which is designed by…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-06-03 N. K. Malakar , K. H. Knuth , D. J. Lary

It has been shown that one can accommodate data (Bayes) and constraints (MaxEnt) in one method, the method of Maximum (relative) Entropy (ME) (Giffin 2007). In this paper we show a complex agent based example of inference with two different…

Methodology · Statistics 2016-09-08 Adom Giffin

We consider a counter-adversarial sequential decision-making problem where an agent computes its private belief (posterior distribution) of the current state of the world, by filtering private information. According to its private belief,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-09 Inês Lourenço , Robert Mattila , Cristian R. Rojas , Bo Wahlberg

This paper focuses on two commonly used path assignment policies for agents traversing a congested network: self-interested routing, and system-optimum routing. In the self-interested routing policy each agent selects a path that optimizes…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2017-09-28 Guni Sharon , Michael Albert , Tarun Rambha , Stephen Boyles , Peter Stone