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Determinantal Point Processes (DPPs) are elegant probabilistic models of repulsion and diversity over discrete sets of items. But their applicability to large sets is hindered by expensive cubic-complexity matrix operations for basic tasks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-05-31 Chengtao Li , Stefanie Jegelka , Suvrit Sra

Informative data selection is a key requirement for large language models (LLMs) to minimize the amount of data required for fine-tuning, network distillation, and token pruning, enabling fast and efficient deployment, especially under…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Ahmad Sarlak , Abolfazl Razi

We propose a \emph{collaborative} multi-agent reinforcement learning algorithm named variational policy propagation (VPP) to learn a \emph{joint} policy through the interactions over agents. We prove that the joint policy is a Markov Random…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-01 Chao Qu , Hui Li , Chang Liu , Junwu Xiong , James Zhang , Wei Chu , Weiqiang Wang , Yuan Qi , Le Song

Multi-agent reinforcement learning typically suffers from the problem of sample inefficiency, where learning suitable policies involves the use of many data samples. Learning from external demonstrators is a possible solution that mitigates…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-06 Sriram Ganapathi Subramanian , Matthew E. Taylor , Kate Larson , Mark Crowley

We develop a learning-based algorithm for the distributed formation control of networked multi-agent systems governed by unknown, nonlinear dynamics. Most existing algorithms either assume certain parametric forms for the unknown dynamic…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-13 Christos K. Verginis , Zhe Xu , Ufuk Topcu

We present a new model-based reinforcement learning algorithm, Cooperative Prioritized Sweeping, for efficient learning in multi-agent Markov decision processes. The algorithm allows for sample-efficient learning on large problems by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Eugenio Bargiacchi , Timothy Verstraeten , Diederik M. Roijers , Ann Nowé

Deep reinforcement learning for multi-agent cooperation and competition has been a hot topic recently. This paper focuses on cooperative multi-agent problem based on actor-critic methods under local observations settings. Multi agent deep…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-10-04 Xiangxiang Chu , Hangjun Ye

To know which operators to apply and in which order, as well as attributing good values to their parameters is a challenge for users of computer vision. This paper proposes a solution to this problem as a multi-agent system modeled…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-11-26 Issam Qaffou , Mohamed Sadgal , Abdelaziz Elfazziki

Distributed Distributional DrQ is a model-free and off-policy RL algorithm for continuous control tasks based on the state and observation of the agent, which is an actor-critic method with the data-augmentation and the distributional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-17 Zehao Zhou

Multi-agent reinforcement learning typically employs a centralized training-decentralized execution (CTDE) framework to alleviate the non-stationarity in environment. However, the partial observability during execution may lead to…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-02-06 Yang Zhou , Siying Wang , Wenyu Chen , Ruoning Zhang , Zhitong Zhao , Zixuan Zhang

Many recent successful off-policy multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) algorithms for cooperative partially observable environments focus on finding factorized value functions, leading to convoluted network structures. Building on the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Raphaël Avalos , Mathieu Reymond , Ann Nowé , Diederik M. Roijers

Designing efficient algorithms for multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) is fundamentally challenging because the size of the joint state and action spaces grows exponentially in the number of agents. These difficulties are exacerbated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Emile Anand , Ishani Karmarkar , Guannan Qu

Finding feasible, collision-free paths for multiagent systems can be challenging, particularly in non-communicating scenarios where each agent's intent (e.g. goal) is unobservable to the others. In particular, finding time efficient paths…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2016-09-29 Yu Fan Chen , Miao Liu , Michael Everett , Jonathan P. How

Deep Q-Learning is an important reinforcement learning algorithm, which involves training a deep neural network, called Deep Q-Network (DQN), to approximate the well-known Q-function. Although wildly successful under laboratory conditions,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Arunselvan Ramaswamy , Eyke Hüllermeier

We consider the problem of multiple agents sensing and acting in environments with the goal of maximising their shared utility. In these environments, agents must learn communication protocols in order to share information that is needed to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-05-25 Jakob N. Foerster , Yannis M. Assael , Nando de Freitas , Shimon Whiteson

We study multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) in infinite-horizon discounted zero-sum Markov games. We focus on the practical but challenging setting of decentralized MARL, where agents make decisions without coordination by a…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Muhammed O. Sayin , Kaiqing Zhang , David S. Leslie , Tamer Basar , Asuman Ozdaglar

The main goal of this paper is to investigate continuous-time distributed dynamic programming (DP) algorithms for networked multi-agent Markov decision problems (MAMDPs). In our study, we adopt a distributed multi-agent framework where…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-14 Donghwan Lee , Han-Dong Lim , Do Wan Kim

We present an approach to reduce the communication of information needed on a Distributed Q-Learning system inspired by Event Triggered Control (ETC) techniques. We consider a baseline scenario of a distributed Q-learning problem on a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Daniel Jarne Ornia , Manuel Mazo

We propose a decentralized reinforcement learning solution for multi-agent shepherding of non-cohesive targets using policy-gradient methods. Our architecture integrates target-selection with target-driving through Proximal Policy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-04 Stefano Covone , Italo Napolitano , Francesco De Lellis , Mario di Bernardo

Real world deployment of multi agent reinforcement learning MARL systems is fundamentally constrained by limited compute memory and inference time. While expert policies achieve high performance they rely on costly decision cycles and large…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Monirul Islam Pavel , Siyi Hu , Muhammad Anwar Masum , Mahardhika Pratama , Ryszard Kowalczyk , Zehong Jimmy Cao