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Multi-agent systems built on large language models have shown strong performance on complex reasoning tasks, yet most work focuses on agent roles and orchestration while treating inter-agent communication as a fixed interface. Latent…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Ye Yu , Heming Liu , Haibo Jin , Xiaopeng Yuan , Peng Kuang , Haohan Wang

Carrier Sense Multiple Access (CSMA) MAC protocols are known to suffer from the hidden station (HS) problem. The complete mathematical analysis of CSMA networks with HSs is still an open problem, even for broadcast communication with a…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-12-20 Yunpeng Zang , Bernhard Walke , Guido Hiertz , Christian Wietfeld

In this paper, we study the problem of secret communication over a Compound Multiple Access Channel (MAC). In this channel, we assume that one of the transmitted messages is confidential that is only decoded by its corresponding receiver…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Hassan Zivari-Fard , Bahareh Akhbari , Mahmoud Ahmadian-Attari , Mohammad Reza Aref

In this work, we study the problem where a group of mobile agents needs to reach a set of goal locations, but it does not matter which agent reaches a specific goal. Unlike most of the existing works on this topic that typically assume the…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Stepan Dergachev , Konstantin Yakovlev

We consider a real-time communication system with noisy feedback consisting of a Markov source, a forward and a backward discrete memoryless channels, and a receiver with finite memory. The objective is to design an optimal communication…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-09-25 Aditya Mahajan , Demosthenis Teneketzis

A memoryless state-dependent multiple-access channel (MAC) is considered, where two transmitters wish to convey their messages to a single receiver while simultaneously sensing (estimating) the respective states via generalized feedbacks.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-04-01 Mehrasa Ahmadipour , Michele Wigger , Mari Kobayashi

In this paper, we consider a cognitive multi-hop relay secondary user (SU) system sharing the spectrum with some primary users (PU). The transmit power as well as the hop selection of the cognitive relays can be dynamically adapted…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-08-01 Liangzhong Ruan , Vincent K. N. Lau

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

In large-scale systems there are fundamental challenges when centralised techniques are used for task allocation. The number of interactions is limited by resource constraints such as on computation, storage, and network communication. We…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-05-12 Niall Creech , Natalia Criado Pacheco , Simon Miles

The main goal of this paper is to investigate continuous-time distributed dynamic programming (DP) algorithms for networked multi-agent Markov decision problems (MAMDPs). In our study, we adopt a distributed multi-agent framework where…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-14 Donghwan Lee , Han-Dong Lim , Do Wan Kim

This paper focuses on the decentralized optimization problem, where agents in a network cooperate to minimize the sum of their local objective functions by information exchange and local computation. Based on the alternating direction…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-01-25 Zhen Zhang , Shaofu Yang , Wenying Xu

Constrained multi-agent reinforcement learning offers the framework to design scalable and almost surely feasible solutions for teams of agents operating in dynamic environments to carry out conflicting tasks. We address the challenges of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-03 Leopoldo Agorio , Sean Van Alen , Santiago Paternain , Miguel Calvo-Fullana , Juan Andres Bazerque

We consider a task-effective quantization problem that arises when multiple agents are controlled via a centralized controller (CC). While agents have to communicate their observations to the CC for decision-making, the bit-budgeted…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-01-05 Arsham Mostaani , Thang X. Vu , Symeon Chatzinotas , Bjorn Ottersten

We consider a network of devices, such as generators, fixed loads, deferrable loads, and storage devices, each with its own dynamic constraints and objective, connected by lossy capacitated lines. The problem is to minimize the total…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-04-06 Matt Kraning , Eric Chu , Javad Lavaei , Stephen Boyd

In important applications involving multi-task networks with multiple objectives, agents in the network need to decide between these multiple objectives and reach an agreement about which single objective to follow for the network. In this…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-12-27 Sahar Khawatmi , Abdelhak M. Zoubir , Ali H. Sayed

The problem of decentralized sequential detection with conditionally independent observations is studied. The sensors form a star topology with a central node called fusion center as the hub. The sensors make noisy observations of a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2008-12-29 Leena Zacharias , Rajesh Sundaresan

Consider a decision maker who is responsible to dynamically collect observations so as to enhance his information about an underlying phenomena of interest in a speedy manner while accounting for the penalty of wrong declaration. Due to the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-12-19 Mohammad Naghshvar , Tara Javidi

Recent advances in decentralized deep learning algorithms have demonstrated cutting-edge performance on various tasks with large pre-trained models. However, a pivotal prerequisite for achieving this level of competitiveness is the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-15 Nastaran Saadati , Minh Pham , Nasla Saleem , Joshua R. Waite , Aditya Balu , Zhanhong Jiang , Chinmay Hegde , Soumik Sarkar

N-agent ad hoc teamwork (NAHT) is a newly introduced challenge in multi-agent reinforcement learning, where controlled subteams of varying sizes must dynamically collaborate with varying numbers and types of unknown teammates without…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Caroline Wang , Di Yang Shi , Elad Liebman , Ishan Durugkar , Arrasy Rahman , Peter Stone

This paper characterizes the capacity region of a two-user additive-multiplicative multiple access channel (AM-MAC) under heterogeneous input constraints. This model captures the fundamental limits of symbiotic radio, where an active…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Qianqian Zhang , Ying-Chang Liang