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Reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms have been around for decades and employed to solve various sequential decision-making problems. These algorithms however have faced great challenges when dealing with high-dimensional environments. The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-01 Thanh Thi Nguyen , Ngoc Duy Nguyen , Saeid Nahavandi

We propose a mechanism for distributed resource management and interference mitigation in wireless networks using multi-agent deep reinforcement learning (RL). We equip each transmitter in the network with a deep RL agent that receives…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-12 Navid Naderializadeh , Jaroslaw Sydir , Meryem Simsek , Hosein Nikopour

Communication is one of the effective means to improve the learning of cooperative policy in multi-agent systems. However, in most real-world scenarios, lossy communication is a prevalent issue. Existing multi-agent reinforcement learning…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Guang Yang , Tianpei Yang , Jingwen Qiao , Yanqing Wu , Jing Huo , Xingguo Chen , Yang Gao

We consider the problem of the limited-bandwidth communication for multi-agent reinforcement learning, where agents cooperate with the assistance of a communication protocol and a scheduler. The protocol and scheduler jointly determine…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-06-24 Rundong Wang , Xu He , Runsheng Yu , Wei Qiu , Bo An , Zinovi Rabinovich

In this letter, we study a wireless federated learning (FL) system where network pruning is applied to local users with limited resources. Although pruning is beneficial to reduce FL latency, it also deteriorates learning performance due to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Jianyang Ren , Wanli Ni , Hui Tian

Communication is crucial in multi-agent reinforcement learning when agents are not able to observe the full state of the environment. The most common approach to allow learned communication between agents is the use of a differentiable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-13 Astrid Vanneste , Simon Vanneste , Kevin Mets , Tom De Schepper , Siegfried Mercelis , Steven Latré , Peter Hellinckx

Effective communication in multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) is critical for success but constrained by bandwidth, yet past approaches have been limited to complex gating mechanisms that only decide \textit{whether} to communicate,…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Aditya Kapoor , Yash Bhisikar , Benjamin Freed , Jan Peters , Mingfei Sun

As emerging networks such as Open Radio Access Networks (O-RAN) and 5G continue to grow, the demand for various services with different requirements is increasing. Network slicing has emerged as a potential solution to address the different…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-06-19 Fatemeh Lotfi , Fatemeh Afghah , Jonathan Ashdown

Recently, distributed controller architectures have been quickly gaining popularity in Software-Defined Networking (SDN). However, the use of distributed controllers introduces a new and important Request Dispatching (RD) problem with the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-05-19 Victoria Huang , Gang Chen , Qiang Fu

Communication networks able to withstand hostile environments are critically important for disaster relief operations. In this paper, we consider a challenging scenario where drones have been compromised in the supply chain, during their…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-12-11 Chris Hicks , Vasilios Mavroudis , Myles Foley , Thomas Davies , Kate Highnam , Tim Watson

Mission planning for a fleet of cooperative autonomous drones in applications that involve serving distributed target points, such as disaster response, environmental monitoring, and surveillance, is challenging, especially under partial…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-04-14 Michael Elrod , Niloufar Mehrabi , Rahul Amin , Manveen Kaur , Long Cheng , Jim Martin , Abolfazl Razi

The continuous expansion of network data presents a pressing challenge for conventional routing algorithms. As the demand escalates, these algorithms are struggling to cope. In this context, reinforcement learning (RL) and multi-agent…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Wang Zhang , Chenguang Liu , Yue Pi , Yong Zhang , Hairong Huang , Baoquan Rao , Yulong Ding , Shuanghua Yang , Jie Jiang

Split-learning (SL) has recently gained popularity due to its inherent privacy-preserving capabilities and ability to enable collaborative inference for devices with limited computational power. Standard SL algorithms assume an ideal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-03 Mounssif Krouka , Anis Elgabli , Chaouki ben Issaid , Mehdi Bennis

We approach autonomous drone-based reforestation with a collaborative multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) setup. Agents can communicate as part of a dynamically changing network. We explore collaboration and communication on the back…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Philipp Dominic Siedler

Recent advancements in large language model (LLM)-powered agents have shown that collective intelligence can significantly outperform individual capabilities, largely attributed to the meticulously designed inter-agent communication…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-10-04 Guibin Zhang , Yanwei Yue , Zhixun Li , Sukwon Yun , Guancheng Wan , Kun Wang , Dawei Cheng , Jeffrey Xu Yu , Tianlong Chen

Communication is one of the core components for cooperative multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL). The communication bandwidth, in many real applications, is always subject to certain constraints. To improve communication efficiency, in…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-01-02 Qi Tian , Kun Kuang , Baoxiang Wang , Furui Liu , Fei Wu

This paper investigates a futuristic spectrum sharing paradigm for heterogeneous wireless networks with imperfect channels. In the heterogeneous networks, multiple wireless networks adopt different medium access control (MAC) protocols to…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-03-26 Yiding Yu , Soung Chang Liew , Taotao Wang

Emerging wireless services with extremely high data rate requirements, such as real-time extended reality applications, mandate novel solutions to further increase the capacity of future wireless networks. In this regard, leveraging large…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-11 Reza Barazideh , Omid Semiari , Solmaz Niknam , Balasubramaniam Natarajan

Packet routing is one of the fundamental problems in computer networks in which a router determines the next-hop of each packet in the queue to get it as quickly as possible to its destination. Reinforcement learning (RL) has been…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-11-15 Xinyu You , Xuanjie Li , Yuedong Xu , Hui Feng , Jin Zhao , Huaicheng Yan

In multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL), the integration of a communication mechanism, allowing agents to better learn to coordinate their actions and converge on their objectives by sharing information. Based on an interaction graph,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Valentin Cuzin-Rambaud , Laetitia Matignon , Maxime Morge