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Best arm identification (or, pure exploration) in multi-armed bandits is a fundamental problem in machine learning. In this paper we study the distributed version of this problem where we have multiple agents, and they want to learn the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-02 Chao Tao , Qin Zhang , Yuan Zhou

In this paper, a novel decentralized intelligent adaptive optimal strategy has been developed to solve the pursuit-evasion game for massive Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) under uncertain environment. Existing strategies for pursuit-evasion games…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-10 Zejian Zhou , Hao Xu

Interacting particle systems are known for their ability to generate large-scale self-organized structures from simple local interaction rules between each agent and its neighbors. In addition to studying their emergent behavior, a main…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-10-21 Nathalie Ayi , Nastassia Pouradier Duteil , David Poyato

In this paper, we consider an unconstrained distributed optimization problem over a network of agents, in which some agents are adversarial. We solve the problem via gradient-based distributed optimization algorithm and characterize the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-03-22 Iyanuoluwa Emiola , Laurent Njilla , Chinwendu Enyioha

Accurate motion prediction of pedestrians, cyclists, and other surrounding vehicles (all called agents) is very important for autonomous driving. Most existing works capture map information through an one-stage interaction with map by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Yinke Dong , Haifeng Yuan , Hongkun Liu , Wei Jing , Fangzhen Li , Hongmin Liu , Bin Fan

In a multi-agent system, an agent's optimal policy will typically depend on the policies chosen by others. Therefore, a key issue in multi-agent systems research is that of predicting the behaviours of others, and responding promptly to…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2019-10-22 Dongge Han , Wendelin Boehmer , Michael Wooldridge , Alex Rogers

The paper considers the problem of multi-agent consensus in the presence of adversarial agents which may try to prevent and introduce undesired influence on the coordination among the regular agents. To our setting, we extend the so-called…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-25 Hiroki Matsume , Yuan Wang , Hideaki Ishii

This paper presents a novel strategy for a multi-agent pursuit-evasion game involving multiple faster pursuers with heterogenous speeds and a single slower evader. We define a geometric region, the evader's safe-reachable set, as the…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Kamal Mammadov , Damith C. Ranasinghe

Suppose that a set of mobile agents, each with a predefined maximum speed, want to patrol a fence together so as to minimize the longest time interval during which a point on the fence is left unvisited. In 2011, Czyzowicz, G\k{a}sieniec,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-01-20 Akitoshi Kawamura , Makoto Soejima

The development of autonomous agents which can interact with other agents to accomplish a given task is a core area of research in artificial intelligence and machine learning. Towards this goal, the Autonomous Agents Research Group…

In this work, we consider the problem of autonomous racing with multiple agents where agents must interact closely and influence each other to compete. We model interactions among agents through a game-theoretical framework and propose an…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-02 Yixuan Jia , Maulik Bhatt , Negar Mehr

This paper investigates the problem of cooperative tuning of multi-agent optimal control systems, where a network of agents (i.e. multiple coupled optimal control systems) adjusts parameters in their dynamics, objective functions, or…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-27 Zehui Lu , Wanxin Jin , Shaoshuai Mou , Brian D. O. Anderson

We consider cooperative multi-agent consensus optimization problems over both static and time-varying communication networks, where only local communications are allowed. The objective is to minimize the sum of agent-specific possibly…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-06-27 Erfan Yazdandoost Hamedani , Necdet Serhat Aybat

We propose a multi-agent system that enables groups of agents to collaborate and work autonomously to execute tasks. Groups can work in a decentralized manner and can adapt to dynamic changes in the environment. Groups of agents solve…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Karishma , Shrisha Rao

Multiagent coordination in cooperative multiagent systems (MASs) has been widely studied in both fixed-agent repeated interaction setting and the static social learning framework. However, two aspects of dynamics in real-world multiagent…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2018-05-23 Hongyao Tang , Li Wang , Zan Wang , Tim Baarslag , Jianye Hao

The vulnerability of machine learning models to adversarial attacks has been attracting considerable attention in recent years. Most existing studies focus on the behavior of stand-alone single-agent learners. In comparison, this work…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Ying Cao , Elsa Rizk , Stefan Vlaski , Ali H. Sayed

In the graph exploration problem, a team of mobile computational entities, called agents, arbitrarily positioned at some nodes of a graph, must cooperate so that each node is eventually visited by at least one agent. In the literature, the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-05-21 Giuseppe Antonio Di Luna , Stefan Dobrev , Paola Flocchini , Nicola Santoro

Designing protocols enhancing cooperation for multi-agent systems remains a grand challenge. Cheap talk, defined as costless, non-binding communication before formal action, serves as a pivotal solution. However, existing theoretical…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Zhao Song , Chen Shen , Zhen Wang , The Anh Han

Adversarial attacks during training can strongly influence the performance of multi-agent reinforcement learning algorithms. It is, thus, highly desirable to augment existing algorithms such that the impact of adversarial attacks on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-19 Martin Figura , Yixuan Lin , Ji Liu , Vijay Gupta

The ability to detect faults is an important safety feature for event-based multi-agent systems. In most existing algorithms, each agent tries to detect faults by checking its own behavior. But what if one agent becomes unable to recognize…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-03 Alexander Gräfe , Dominik Baumann , Sebastian Trimpe