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Multi-agent collaborative perception (MCP) has recently attracted much attention. It includes three key processes: communication for sharing, collaboration for integration, and reconstruction for different downstream tasks. Existing methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-23 Tianhang Wang , Guang Chen , Kai Chen , Zhengfa Liu , Bo Zhang , Alois Knoll , Changjun Jiang

Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X) collaborative perception extends sensing beyond single vehicle limits through transmission. However, as more agents participate, existing frameworks face two key challenges: (1) the participating agents are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Yueran Zhao , Zhang Zhang , Chao Sun , Tianze Wang , Chao Yue , Nuoran Li

In visual semantic navigation, the robot navigates to a target object with egocentric visual observations and the class label of the target is given. It is a meaningful task inspiring a surge of relevant research. However, most of the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Xinzhu Liu , Di Guo , Huaping Liu , Fuchun Sun

In this paper we tackle the problem of routing multiple agents in a coordinated manner. This is a complex problem that has a wide range of applications in fleet management to achieve a common goal, such as mapping from a swarm of robots and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-08-18 Quinlan Sykora , Mengye Ren , Raquel Urtasun

Many multi-agent systems require inter-agent communication to properly achieve their goal. By learning the communication protocol alongside the action protocol using multi-agent reinforcement learning techniques, the agents gain the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-10 Astrid Vanneste , Thomas Somers , Simon Vanneste , Kevin Mets , Tom De Schepper , Siegfried Mercelis , Peter Hellinckx

Designing an effective communication mechanism among agents in reinforcement learning has been a challenging task, especially for real-world applications. The number of agents can grow or an environment sometimes needs to interact with a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-01 Wei-Cheng Tseng , Wei Wei , Da-Cheng Juan , Min Sun

In this article, we propose a centralized Multi-Agent Learning framework for learning a policy that models the simultaneous behavior of multiple agents that need to coordinate to solve a certain task. Centralized approaches often suffer…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Ángel Aso-Mollar , Eva Onaindia

As a pivotal technology for autonomous driving, collaborative perception enables vehicular agents to exchange perceptual data through vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communications, thereby enhancing perception accuracy of all collaborators.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-23 Guowei Liu , Le Liang , Chongtao Guo , Hao Ye , Shi Jin

With the ever-increasing range of applications of Internet in Things (IoT) and sensor networks, challenges are emerging in various categories of classification tasks. Applications such as vehicular networking, UAV swarm coordination and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Andrew Nash , Dirk Pesch , Krishnendu Guha

As agents move into shared workspaces and their execution becomes visible, human-agent collaboration faces a fundamental shift from sequential delegation to concurrent co-creation. This raises a new coordination problem: what interaction…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Kihoon Son , Hyewon Lee , DaEun Choi , Yoonsu Kim , Tae Soo Kim , Yoonjoo Lee , John Joon Young Chung , HyunJoon Jung , Juho Kim

We study the process of multi-agent reinforcement learning in the context of load balancing in a distributed system, without use of either central coordination or explicit communication. We first define a precise framework in which to study…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-11-17 A. Schaerf , Y. Shoham , M. Tennenholtz

The main approach to evaluating communication is by assessing how well it facilitates coordination. If two or more individuals can coordinate through communication, it is generally assumed that they understand one another. We investigate…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Nikolaos Kondylidis , Anil Yaman , Frank van Harmelen , Erman Acar , Annette ten Teije

The evolution of 6G networking toward agentic AI networking (AgentNet) systems requires a shift from traditional data pipelines to task-aware, agentic AI-native communication solutions. Emergent communication, a novel communication paradigm…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Yong Xiao , Jingxuan Chai , Guangming Shi , Ping Zhang

Communication is one of the core components for cooperative multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL). The communication bandwidth, in many real applications, is always subject to certain constraints. To improve communication efficiency, in…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-01-02 Qi Tian , Kun Kuang , Baoxiang Wang , Furui Liu , Fei Wu

The idea of cooperative perception is to benefit from shared perception data between multiple vehicles and overcome the limitations of on-board sensors on single vehicle. However, the fusion of multi-vehicle information is still challenging…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-08-30 Kun Jiang , Yining Shi , Benny Wijaya , Mengmeng Yang , Tuopu Wen , Zhongyang Xiao , Diange Yang

Cooperative perception enables autonomous agents to share encoded representations over wireless communication to enhance each other's live situational awareness. However, the tension between the limited communication bandwidth and the rich…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Shilpa Mukhopadhyay , Amit Roy-Chowdhury , Hang Qiu

When working around other agents such as humans, it is important to model their perception capabilities to predict and make sense of their behavior. In this work, we consider agents whose perception capabilities are determined by their…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Maulik Bhatt , HongHao Zhen , Monroe Kennedy , Negar Mehr

Communication is highly overloaded. Despite this, even young children are good at leveraging context to understand ambiguous signals. We propose a computational account of overloaded signaling from a shared agency perspective which we call…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-06-07 Stephanie Stacy , Chenfei Li , Minglu Zhao , Yiling Yun , Qingyi Zhao , Max Kleiman-Weiner , Tao Gao

Knowledge-graph-based reasoning has drawn a lot of attention due to its interpretability. However, previous methods suffer from the incompleteness of the knowledge graph, namely the interested link or entity that can be missing in the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-12-06 Yunan Zhang , Xiang Cheng , Heting Gao , Chengxiang Zhai

Due to accelerating urbanization, the importance of solving the signal control problem increases. This paper analyzes various existing methods and suggests options for increasing the number of agents to reduce the average travel time.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Maksim Tislenko , Dmitrii Kisilev