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Reaching agreement despite noise in communication is a fundamental problem in multi-agent systems. Here we study this problem under an idealized model, where it is assumed that agents can sense the general tendency in the system. More…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-01-09 Amos Korman , Robin Vacus

Consider a small group of mobile agents whose goal is to locate a certain cell in a two-dimensional infinite grid. The agents operate in an asynchronous environment, where in each discrete time step, an arbitrary subset of the agents…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-05-09 Sebastian Brandt , Jara Uitto , Roger Wattenhofer

Parallel applications with irregular and time-varying workloads often suffer from load imbalance. Dynamic load balancing techniques address this challenge by redistributing work during execution. We present a new type of distributed…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Maya Taylor , Kavitha Chandrasekar , Laxmikant V. Kale

This paper studies distributed nonconvex optimization problems with stochastic gradients for a multi-agent system, in which each agent aims to minimize the sum of all agents' cost functions by using local compressed information exchange. We…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-05 Antai Xie , Xinlei Yi , Xiaofan Wang , Ming Cao , Xiaoqiang Ren

We consider several estimation and learning problems that networked agents face when making decisions given their uncertainty about an unknown variable. Our methods are designed to efficiently deal with heterogeneity in both size and…

Applications · Statistics 2016-11-11 M. Amin Rahimian , Ali Jadbabaie

In this paper, we plan missions for a fleet of agents in undirected graphs, such as grids, with multiple goals. In contrast to regular multi-agent path-finding, the solver finds and updates the assignment of goals to the agents on its own.…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Stefan Edelkamp

This paper considers a distributed optimization problem over a multi-agent network, in which the objective function is a sum of individual cost functions at the agents. We focus on the case when communication between the agents is described…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-11-01 Chenguang Xi , Van Sy Mai , Ran Xin , Eyad H. Abed , Usman A. Khan

The gathering problem requires a set of mobile agents, arbitrarily positioned at different nodes of a network to group within finite time at the same location, not fixed in advanced. The extensive existing literature on this problem shares…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-04-12 Giuseppe Antonio Di Luna , Paola Flocchini , Linda Pagli , Giuseppe Prencipe , Nicola Santoro , Giovanni Viglietta

Cellular sheaves and sheaf Laplacians provide a far-reaching generalization of graphs and graph Laplacians, resulting in a wide array of applications ranging from machine learning to multi-agent control. In the context of multi-agent…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-02 Yichen Zhao , Tyler Hanks , Hans Riess , Samuel Cohen , Matthew Hale , James Fairbanks

In this paper, we propose a distributed algorithm, called Directed-Distributed Gradient Descent (D-DGD), to solve multi-agent optimization problems over directed graphs. Existing algorithms mostly deal with similar problems under the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-02-02 Chenguang Xi , Qiong Wu , Usman A. Khan

In this work, we study the problem where a group of mobile agents needs to reach a set of goal locations, but it does not matter which agent reaches a specific goal. Unlike most of the existing works on this topic that typically assume the…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Stepan Dergachev , Konstantin Yakovlev

We study the problem in which a central planner sequentially allocates a single resource to multiple strategic agents using their utility reports at each round, but without using any monetary transfers. We consider general agent utility…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Moise Blanchard , Patrick Jaillet

In multi-agent navigation, agents need to move towards their goal locations while avoiding collisions with other agents and static obstacles, often without communication with each other. Existing methods compute motions that are optimal…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2017-10-13 Julio Godoy , Tiannan Chen , Stephen J. Guy , Ioannis Karamouzas , Maria Gini

Current research in distributed Nash equilibrium (NE) seeking in the partial information setting assumes that information is exchanged between agents that are "truthful". However, in general noncooperative games agents may consider sending…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-11-30 Dian Gadjov , Lacra Pavel

This paper considers gossiping among mobile agents in graphs: agents move on the graph and have to disseminate their initial information to every other agent. We focus on self-stabilizing solutions for the gossip problem, where agents may…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2008-12-18 Toshimitsu Masuzawa , Sébastien Tixeuil

We study the problem of distributed coverage control in a network of mobile agents arranged on a line. The goal is to design distributed dynamics for the agents to achieve optimal coverage positions with respect to a scalar density field…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-11-25 P. Davison , N. E. Leonard , A. Olshevsky , M. Schwemmer

We present a novel approach for collision-free global navigation for continuous-time multi-agent systems with general linear dynamics. Our approach is general and can be used to perform collision-free navigation in 2D and 3D workspaces with…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-10-03 Liang He , Jia Pan , Dinesh Manocha

In this paper, we design a greedy routing on networks of mobile agents. In the greedy routing algorithm, every time step a packet in agent $i$ is delivered to the agent $j$ whose distance from the destination is shortest among searched…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2011-12-21 Han-Xin Yang , Wen-Xu Wang , Ying-Cheng Lai , Bing-Hong Wang

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

We propose a Bayesian method for distributed sequential localization of mobile networks composed of both cooperative agents and noncooperative objects. Our method provides a consistent combination of cooperative self-localization (CS) and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-01-01 Florian Meyer , Ondrej Hlinka , Henk Wymeersch , Erwin Riegler , Franz Hlawatsch