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This study informs the design of future multi-agent pathfinding (MAPF) and multi-robot motion planning (MRMP) algorithms by guiding choices based on constraint classification for constraint-based search algorithms. We categorize constraints…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Hannah Lee , James D. Motes , Marco Morales , Nancy M. Amato

Multi-robot motion planning (MRMP) is the fundamental problem of finding non-colliding trajectories for multiple robots acting in an environment, under kinodynamic constraints. Due to its complexity, existing algorithms either utilize…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-15 Justin Kottinger , Shaull Almagor , Morteza Lahijanian

While the study of unit-cost Multi-Agent Pathfinding (MAPF) problems has been popular, many real-world problems require continuous time and costs due to various movement models. In this context, this paper studies symmetry-breaking…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Thayne T. Walker , Nathan R. Sturtevant , Ariel Felner

Existing multi-agent path finding (MAPF) solvers do not account for uncertain behavior of uncontrollable agents. We present a novel variant of Enhanced Conflict-Based Search (ECBS), for both one-shot and lifelong MAPF in dynamic…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Kegan J. Strawn , Thomy Phan , Eric Wang , Nora Ayanian , Sven Koenig , Lars Lindemann

Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) is a commonly used approach for enhancing large language models (LLMs) with relevant and up-to-date information. However, the retrieved sources can often contain conflicting information and it remains…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Arie Cattan , Alon Jacovi , Ori Ram , Jonathan Herzig , Roee Aharoni , Sasha Goldshtein , Eran Ofek , Idan Szpektor , Avi Caciularu

Conflicts of interest often arise between data sources and their users regarding how the users' information needs should be interpreted by the data source. For example, an online product search might be biased towards presenting certain…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Nischal Aryal , Arash Termehchy , Marianne Winslett

Continuous-time Conflict Based-Search (CCBS) has long been viewed as the standard optimal baseline for multi-agent path finding in continuous time (MAPFR), yet recent critiques show that the theoretically described CCBS can fail to…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Alvin Combrink , Sabino Francesco Roselli , Martin Fabian

Boolean Satisfiability (SAT) is a well-known NP-complete problem. Despite this theoretical hardness, SAT solvers based on Conflict Driven Clause Learning (CDCL) can solve large SAT instances from many important domains. CDCL learns clauses…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-05-12 Md Solimul Chowdhury , Martin Müller , Jia You

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems implicitly assume mutual consistency among retrieved documents -- an assumption that frequently fails in practice. We present ConflictRAG, a conflict-aware RAG framework that detects, classifies,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Chenyu Wang , Yingmin Liu , Yang Shu

Standard planners for sequential decision making (including Monte Carlo planning, tree search, dynamic programming, etc.) are constrained by an implicit sequential planning assumption: The order in which a plan is constructed is the same in…

Branch-and-bound (BnB) algorithms are widely used to solve combinatorial problems, and the performance crucially depends on its branching heuristic.In this work, we consider a typical problem of maximum common subgraph (MCS), and propose a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-23 Yan-li Liu , Chu-min Li , Hua Jiang , Kun He

We consider the problem of search through comparisons, where a user is presented with two candidate objects and reveals which is closer to her intended target. We study adaptive strategies for finding the target, that require knowledge of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-06-22 Amin Karbasi , Stratis Ioannidis , laurent Massoulie

Conflict-Based Search (CBS) algorithm for the multi-agent pathfinding (MAPF) problem is that it is incomplete for problems which have no solution; if no mitigating procedure is run in parallel, CBS will run forever when given an unsolvable…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Thayne T Walker , Nathan R Sturtevant

The increasing use of LLM-based agents to support decision-making and control across diverse domains motivates the need for systematic deconfliction of their proposed actions. We present a deconfliction framework for coordinating multiple…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-14 Shiva Poudel , Thiagarajan Ramachandran , Orestis Vasios , Andrew P. Reiman

An aircraft conflict occurs when two or more aircraft cross at a certain distance at the same time. Specific air traffic controllers are assigned to solve such conflicts. A controller needs to consider various types of information in order…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-27 Md Siddiqur Rahman , Laurent Lapasset , Josiane Mothe

A multi-agent system (MAS) enhances its capacity to solve complex natural language processing (NLP) tasks through collaboration among multiple agents, where consensus-seeking serves as a fundamental mechanism. However, existing…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Wentao Deng , Jiahuan Pei , Zhiwei Xu , Zhaochun Ren , Zhumin Chen , Pengjie Ren

The fundamental goal assignment problem for a multi-robot application aims to assign a unique goal to each robot while ensuring collision-free paths, minimizing the total movement cost. A plausible algorithmic solution to this NP-hard…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-02-22 Aakash , Indranil Saha

In this work we study a well-known and challenging problem of Multi-agent Pathfinding, when a set of agents is confined to a graph, each agent is assigned a unique start and goal vertices and the task is to find a set of collision-free…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-07-26 Yelisey Pitanov , Alexey Skrynnik , Anton Andreychuk , Konstantin Yakovlev , Aleksandr Panov

Multi-Agent Path Finding (MAPF) involves finding collision-free paths for multiple agents while minimizing a cost function--an NP-hard problem. Bounded suboptimal methods like Enhanced Conflict-Based Search (ECBS) and Explicit Estimation…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Yimin Tang , Zhenghong Yu , Jiaoyang Li , Sven Koenig

Modern shared memory multiprocessors permit reordering of memory operations for performance reasons. These reorderings are often a source of subtle bugs in programs written for such architectures. Traditional approaches to verify weak…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2016-02-29 Ganesh Narayanaswamy , Saurabh Joshi , Daniel Kroening