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Multi-agent active perception is a task where a team of agents cooperatively gathers observations to compute a joint estimate of a hidden variable. The task is decentralized and the joint estimate can only be computed after the task ends by…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-10-24 Mikko Lauri , Frans A. Oliehoek

We study a decentralized variant of stochastic approximation, a data-driven approach for finding the root of an operator under noisy measurements. A network of agents, each with its own operator and data observations, cooperatively find the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-17 Sihan Zeng , Thinh T. Doan , Justin Romberg

Making Smart Cities more sustainable, resilient and democratic is emerging as an endeavor of satisfying hard constraints, for instance meeting net-zero targets. Decentralized multi-agent methods for socio-technical optimization of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Srijoni Majumdar , Chuhao Qin , Evangelos Pournaras

Effective long-term predictions have been increasingly demanded in urban-wise data mining systems. Many practical applications, such as accident prevention and resource pre-allocation, require an extended period for preparation. However,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-06-17 Haoxing Lin , Rufan Bai , Weijia Jia , Xinyu Yang , Yongjian You

We study the policy evaluation problem in multi-agent reinforcement learning where a group of agents, with jointly observed states and private local actions and rewards, collaborate to learn the value function of a given policy via local…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-11-08 Dongsheng Ding , Xiaohan Wei , Zhuoran Yang , Zhaoran Wang , Mihailo R. Jovanović

We propose an efficient protocol for decentralized training of deep neural networks from distributed data sources. The proposed protocol allows to handle different phases of model training equally well and to quickly adapt to concept…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-14 Michael Kamp , Linara Adilova , Joachim Sicking , Fabian Hüger , Peter Schlicht , Tim Wirtz , Stefan Wrobel

This paper proposes a decentralized controller for large-scale heterogeneous multi-agent systems subject to bounded external disturbances, where agents must satisfy Signal Temporal Logic (STL) specifications requiring cooperation among…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-06 Tommaso Zaccherini , Siyuan Liu , Dimos V. Dimarogonas

Neural agents trained in reinforcement learning settings can learn to communicate among themselves via discrete tokens, accomplishing as a team what agents would be unable to do alone. However, the current standard of using one-hot vectors…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-08 Mycal Tucker , Huao Li , Siddharth Agrawal , Dana Hughes , Katia Sycara , Michael Lewis , Julie Shah

In this paper, we devise three actor-critic algorithms with decentralized training for multi-agent reinforcement learning in cooperative, adversarial, and mixed settings with continuous action spaces. To this goal, we adapt the MADDPG…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Diego Bolliger , Lorenz Zauter , Robert Ziegler

The emergence of the semantic-aware paradigm presents opportunities for innovative services, especially in the context of 6G-based applications. Although significant progress has been made in semantic extraction techniques, the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Hamidreza Mazandarani , Masoud Shokrnezhad , Tarik Taleb

We consider the problem of dynamic spectrum access for network utility maximization in multichannel wireless networks. The shared bandwidth is divided into K orthogonal channels. In the beginning of each time slot, each user selects a…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-11-06 Oshri Naparstek , Kobi Cohen

We present and analyze a computational hybrid architecture for performing multi-agent optimization. The optimization problems under consideration have convex objective and constraint functions with mild smoothness conditions imposed on…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-08-26 Matthew T. Hale , Angelia Nedic , Magnus Egerstedt

In decentralized cooperative multi-agent reinforcement learning, agents can aggregate information from one another to learn policies that maximize a team-average objective function. Despite the willingness to cooperate with others, the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-27 Martin Figura , Yixuan Lin , Ji Liu , Vijay Gupta

In this paper, we consider the finite-state multiple access channel (MAC) with partially cooperative encoders and delayed channel state information (CSI). Here partial cooperation refers to the communication between the encoders via…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Ziv Goldfeld , Haim H. Permuter , Benjamin M. Zaidel

Decentralized collision avoidance remains challenging, particularly when agents do not communicate any information related to planned trajectories. Most existing approaches either rely on conservative coordination mechanisms or provide…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-12 Max Studt , Georg Schildbach

In a multi-agent environment, In order to overcome and alleviate the non-stationarity of the multi-agent environment, the mainstream method is to adopt the framework of Centralized Training Decentralized Execution (CTDE). This thesis is…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Zeng Da

Many safety-critical real-world problems, such as autonomous driving and collaborative robots, are of a distributed multi-agent nature. To optimize the performance of these systems while ensuring safety, we can cast them as distributed…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-20 Abdullah Tokmak , Thomas B. Schön , Dominik Baumann

This paper focuses on decentralized composite optimization over networks without a central coordinator. We propose a novel decentralized symmetric ADMM algorithm that incorporates multiple communication rounds within each iteration, derived…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-06 Jinrui Huang , Xueqin Wang , Dong Liu , Jingguo Lan , Runxiong Wu

We present a new class of decentralized first-order methods for nonsmooth and stochastic optimization problems defined over multiagent networks. Considering that communication is a major bottleneck in decentralized optimization, our main…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-02-07 Guanghui Lan , Soomin Lee , Yi Zhou

This paper is devoted to distributed continuous-time and discrete-time optimization problems with nonuniform convex constraint sets and nonuniform stepsizes for general differentiable convex objective functions. The communication graphs are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-03-03 Peng Lin , Wei Ren , Chunhua Yang , Weihua Gui