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In recent years, as data and problem sizes have increased, distributed learning has become an essential tool for training high-performance models. However, the communication bottleneck, especially for high-dimensional data, is a challenge.…

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To enhance the performance of aerial-ground networks, this paper proposes an integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) framework for multi-UAV systems. In our model, ground base stations (BSs) cooperatively serve multiple unmanned aerial…

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With the advent of the modern mobile traffic, e.g., online gaming, augmented reality delivery and etc., a novel bidirectional computation task model where the input data of each task consists of two parts, one generated at the mobile device…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-14 Yaping Sun , Lyutianyang Zhang , Zhiyong Chen , Sumit Roy

We study minimum-variance feedback-control design for a networked control system with retarded dynamics, where inter-agent communication is subject to latency. We prove that such a design can be solved efficiently for circular formations…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-04 Luca Ballotta , Mihailo R. Jovanović , Luca Schenato

Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) has been envisioned as a promising technology to tackle the spectrum congestion problem for future networks. In this correspondence, we investigate to deploy a reconfigurable intelligent surface…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-04 Honghao Luo , Rang Liu , Ming Li , Yang Liu , Qian Liu

In large-scale federated and decentralized learning, communication efficiency is one of the most challenging bottlenecks. While gossip communication -- where agents can exchange information with their connected neighbors -- is more…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-25 He Wang , Yuejie Chi

Collaboration is crucial for reaching collective goals. However, its effectiveness is often undermined by the strategic behavior of individual agents -- a fact that is captured by a high Price of Stability (PoS) in recent literature [Blum…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-11-21 Nika Haghtalab , Mingda Qiao , Kunhe Yang

Distributed blackbox consensus optimization is a fundamental problem in multi-agent systems, where agents must improve a global objective using only local objective queries and limited neighbor communication. Existing methods largely rely…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Zi-Bo Qin , Feng-Feng Wei , Tai-You Chen , Wei-Neng Chen

The central result of this paper is the analysis of an optimization problem which allows one to assess the limiting performance of a team of two agents who coordinate their actions. One agent is fully informed about the past and future…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-09-08 Benjamin Larrousse , Achal Agrawal , Samson Lasaulce

In this paper, we consider a point-to-point integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system, where a transmitter conveys a message to a receiver over a channel with memory and simultaneously estimates the state of the channel through the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Homa Nikbakht , Michèle Wigger , Shlomo Shamai , H. Vincent Poor

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

Noncooperative multi-agent systems often face coordination challenges due to conflicting preferences among agents. In particular, when agents act in their own self-interest, they may prefer different choices among multiple feasible…

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Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) is the study of multi-agent interactions in a shared environment. Communication for cooperation is a fundamental construct for sharing information in partially observable environments. Cooperative Multi-Agent…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-02-15 Nancirose Piazza , Vahid Behzadan

We develop model free PAC performance guarantees for multiple concurrent MDPs, extending recent works where a single learner interacts with multiple non-interacting agents in a noise free environment. Our framework allows noisy and resource…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-11 Or Raveh , Ron Meir

In this paper, a semantic-aware joint communication and computation resource allocation framework is proposed for mobile edge computing (MEC) systems. In the considered system, each terminal device (TD) has a computation task, which needs…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-22 Yihan Cang , Ming Chen , Zhaohui Yang , Yuntao Hu , Yinlu Wang , Zhaoyang Zhang , Kai-Kit Wong

We introduce a reduced-communication distributed optimization scheme based on estimating the solution to a proximal minimization problem. Our proposed setup involves a group of agents coordinated by a central entity, altogether operating in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-07-10 Giorgos Stathopoulos , Colin N. Jones

Recent studies have shown that introducing communication between agents can significantly improve overall performance in cooperative Multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL). However, existing communication schemes often require agents to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-12-29 Sai Qian Zhang , Jieyu Lin , Qi Zhang

In this paper, we consider controlled linear dynamical systems in which the controller has only access to a compressed version of the system state. The technical problem we investigate is that of allocating compression resources over time…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-16 Li Wang , Chao Zhang , Samson Lasaulce , Lina Bariah , Merouane Debbah

Task-oriented communication presents a promising approach to improve the communication efficiency of edge inference systems by optimizing learning-based modules to extract and transmit relevant task information. However, real-time…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Songjie Xie , Hengtao He , Shenghui Song , Jun Zhang , Khaled B. Letaief

Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) is an enabling technology for the sixth-generation mobile communications, which equips the wireless communication networks with sensing capabilities. In this paper, we investigate transmit…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-19 Chunwei Meng , Zhiqing Wei , Dingyou Ma , Wanli Ni , Liyan Su , Zhiyong Feng