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Most neural solvers for the Traveling Salesperson Problem (TSP) are trained to output a single solution, even though practitioners rarely stop there: at test time, they routinely spend extra compute on sampling or post-hoc search. This…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Andoni Irazusta Garmendia

Schelling games model the wide-spread phenomenon of residential segregation in metropolitan areas from a game-theoretic point of view. In these games agents of different types each strategically select a node on a given graph that models…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-02-24 Tobias Friedrich , Pascal Lenzner , Louise Molitor , Lars Seifert

We present decentralized rollout sampling policy iteration (DecRSPI) - a new algorithm for multi-agent decision problems formalized as DEC-POMDPs. DecRSPI is designed to improve scalability and tackle problems that lack an explicit model.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2012-03-19 Feng Wu , Shlomo Zilberstein , Xiaoping Chen

In this paper, we study the distributed generalized Nash equilibrium seeking problem of non-cooperative games in dynamic environments. Each player in the game aims to minimize its own time-varying cost function subject to a local action…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-04-02 Kaihong Lu , Guangqi Li , Long Wang

On a 300-persona life-simulation benchmark, pcsp achieves compositional zero-shot persona identification up to 17x above chance, Spearman rho approx 0.73 semantic-behavioral alignment, and 22x faster inference than an LLM-as-policy…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Yoosung Hong

Diffusion policies, widely adopted in decision-making scenarios such as robotics, gaming and autonomous driving, are capable of learning diverse skills from demonstration data due to their high representation power. However, the sub-optimal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Ningyuan Yang , Jiaxuan Gao , Feng Gao , Yi Wu , Chao Yu

This paper studies networked multi-agent reinforcement learning (NMARL) with interdependent rewards and coupled policies. In this setting, each agent's reward depends on its own state-action pair as well as those of its direct neighbors,…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Pengcheng Dai , Dongming Wang , Wenwu Yu , Wei Ren

Large Language Models (LLMs) employ multi-turn interaction as a fundamental paradigm for completing complex tasks. However, their performance often degrades in extended interactions, as they are typically trained on static, single-turn…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Chenxing Wei , Hong Wang , Ying He , Fei Yu , Yao Shu

The multi-cluster games are addressed in this paper, where all players team up with the players in the cluster that they belong to, and compete against the players in other clusters to minimize the cost function of their own cluster. The…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-19 Zhenhua Deng , Yan Zhao

A common strategy for improving optimization algorithms is to restart the algorithm when it is believed to be trapped in an inferior part of the search space. However, while specific restart strategies have been developed for specific…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-09-14 Tobias Friedrich , Timo Kötzing , Markus Wagner

Systems of competing agents can often be modeled as games. Assuming rationality, the most likely outcomes are given by an equilibrium (e.g. a Nash equilibrium). In many practical settings, games are influenced by context, i.e. additional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-13 Daniel McKenzie , Howard Heaton , Qiuwei Li , Samy Wu Fung , Stanley Osher , Wotao Yin

Bundle adjustment is the common way to solve localization and mapping. It is an iterative process in which a system of non-linear equations is solved using two optimization methods, weighted by a damping factor. In the classic approach, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-28 Amir Belder , Refael Vivanti , Ayellet Tal

In practical applications, decision-makers with heterogeneous dynamics may be engaged in the same decision-making process. This motivates us to study distributed Nash equilibrium seeking for games in which players are mixed-order (first-…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-09-05 Maojiao Ye , Lei Ding , Jizhao Yin

Multi-agent interactions are increasingly important in the context of reinforcement learning, and the theoretical foundations of policy gradient methods have attracted surging research interest. We investigate the global convergence of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-03-21 Sarath Pattathil , Kaiqing Zhang , Asuman Ozdaglar

In this work, we study the distributed Nash equilibrium seeking problem for monotone generalized noncooperative games with set constraints and shared affine inequality constraints. A distributed regularized penalty method is proposed. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-09-28 Chao Sun , Guoqiang Hu

The Negative selection Algorithm (NSA) is one of the important methods in the field of Immunological Computation (or Artificial Immune Systems). Over the years, some progress was made which turns this algorithm (NSA) into an efficient…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Kishor Datta Gupta , Dipankar Dasgupta

Policy-Space Response Oracles (PSRO) as a general algorithmic framework has achieved state-of-the-art performance in learning equilibrium policies of two-player zero-sum games. However, the hand-crafted hyperparameter value selection in…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-04-18 Pengdeng Li , Shuxin Li , Chang Yang , Xinrun Wang , Xiao Huang , Hau Chan , Bo An

Non-prehensile multi-object rearrangement is a robotic task of planning feasible paths and transferring multiple objects to their predefined target poses without grasping. It needs to consider how each object reaches the target and the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Fan Bai , Fei Meng , Jianbang Liu , Jiankun Wang , Max Q. -H. Meng

Reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms find applications in inventory control, recommender systems, vehicular traffic management, cloud computing and robotics. The real-world complications of many tasks arising in these domains makes them…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-03 Sindhu Padakandla

Traditional language model alignment methods, such as Direct Preference Optimization (DPO), are limited by their dependence on static, pre-collected paired preference data, which hampers their adaptability and practical applicability. To…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-03 Yueqin Yin , Zhendong Wang , Yujia Xie , Weizhu Chen , Mingyuan Zhou