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Learning to cooperate is crucially important in multi-agent environments. The key is to understand the mutual interplay between agents. However, multi-agent environments are highly dynamic, where agents keep moving and their neighbors…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-12 Jiechuan Jiang , Chen Dun , Tiejun Huang , Zongqing Lu

In this work, we propose a novel memory-based multi-agent meta-learning architecture and learning procedure that allows for learning of a shared communication policy that enables the emergence of rapid adaptation to new and unseen…

A graphical multiagent model (GMM) represents a joint distribution over the behavior of a set of agents. One source of knowledge about agents' behavior may come from gametheoretic analysis, as captured by several graphical game…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2012-06-18 Quang Duong , Michael P. Wellman , Satinder Singh

Multi-agent collaboration enhances the perception capabilities of individual agents through information sharing. However, in real-world applications, differences in sensors and models across heterogeneous agents inevitably lead to domain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Junfei Zhou , Penglin Dai , Quanmin Wei , Bingyi Liu , Xiao Wu , Jianping Wang

Coordination graphs are a central abstraction in cooperative multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL), yet existing sparse-graph learners lack a theoretically grounded mechanism to decide which edges should exist and how much information…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Wei Duan , Junyu Xuan , En Yu , Xiaoyu Yang , Jie Lu

A standard belief on emerging collective behavior is that it emerges from simple individual rules. Most of the mathematical research on such collective behavior starts from imperative individual rules, like always go to the center. But how…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2018-02-23 El Mahdi El Mhamdi , Rachid Guerraoui , Alexandre Maurer , Vladislav Tempez

Deep reinforcement learning has been applied successfully to solve various real-world problems and the number of its applications in the multi-agent settings has been increasing. Multi-agent learning distinctly poses significant challenges…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-24 Ngoc Duy Nguyen , Thanh Thi Nguyen , Doug Creighton , Saeid Nahavandi

Cooperative multi-agent reinforcement learning agents that act on partial local observations face a fundamental information bottleneck: the knowledge needed to select jointly optimal actions is scattered across the team, yet each agent must…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Nikunj Gupta , James Zachary Hare , Jesse Milzman , Rajgopal Kannan , Viktor Prasanna

Integrated communication and control serves as a critical ingredient in Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning. However, partial observability limitations will impair collaboration effectiveness, and a potential solution is to establish…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Ziqiong Wang , Xiaoxue Yu , Rongpeng Li , Zhifeng Zhao

Although large language model (LLM) based multi-agent systems (MAS) show their capability to solve complex tasks and achieve higher performance over single agent systems, they lead to huge computational overheads because of heavy…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Ziyang Ma , Dingyi Zhang , Sichu Liang , Jiajia Chu , Pengfei Xia , Hui Zang , Deyu Zhou

We propose a novel semi-supervised, Multi-Level Sequential Generative Adversarial Network (MLS-GAN) architecture for group activity recognition. In contrast to previous works which utilise manually annotated individual human action…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-19 Harshala Gammulle , Simon Denman , Sridha Sridharan , Clinton Fookes

Graph-based multi-view clustering aiming to obtain a partition of data across multiple views, has received considerable attention in recent years. Although great efforts have been made for graph-based multi-view clustering, it remains a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-11 Yiming Wang , Dongxia Chang , Zhiqiang Fu , Yao Zhao

A multi-cell cluster-free NOMA framework is proposed, where both intra-cell and inter-cell interference are jointly mitigated via flexible cluster-free successive interference cancellation (SIC) and coordinated beamforming design. The joint…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-26 Xiaoxia Xu , Yuanwei Liu , Qimei Chen , Xidong Mu , Zhiguo Ding

Recent progress in large language model (LLM)-based multi-agent collaboration highlights the power of structured communication in enabling collective intelligence. However, existing methods largely rely on static or graph-based inter-agent…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Song Wang , Zhen Tan , Zihan Chen , Shuang Zhou , Tianlong Chen , Jundong Li

In this paper we study the problem of social learning under multiple true hypotheses and self-interested agents which exchange information over a graph. In this setup, each agent receives data that might be generated from a different…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2021-10-27 Konstantinos Ntemos , Virginia Bordignon , Stefan Vlaski , Ali H. Sayed

While a multi-agent approach based on large language models (LLMs) represents a promising strategy to surpass the capabilities of single models, its success is critically dependent on synergistic team composition. However, forming optimal…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Kotaro Furuya , Yuichi Kitagawa

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs), developed by the graph learning community, have been adopted and shown to be highly effective in multi-robot and multi-agent learning. Inspired by this successful cross-pollination, we investigate and…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-02-17 Siva Kailas , Shalin Jain , Harish Ravichandar

In the field of Multi-Agent Systems (MAS), known for their openness, dynamism, and cooperative nature, the ability to trust the resources and services of other agents is crucial. Trust, in this setting, is the reliance and confidence an…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Behzad Akbari , Mingfeng Yuan , Hao Wang , Haibin Zhu , Jinjun Shan

Flocking behavior of multiple agents can be widely observed in nature such as schooling fish and flocking birds. Recent literature has proposed the possibility that flocking is possible even only a small fraction of agents are informed of…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-05-08 Jin Zhou , Wenwu Yu , Xiaoqun Wu , Michael Small , Jun-an Lu

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