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Reinforcement Learning (RL) algorithms have been used to address the challenging problems in the offloading process of vehicular ad hoc networks (VANET). More recently, they have been utilized to improve the dissemination of high-definition…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Jeffrey Redondo , Nauman Aslam , Juan Zhang , Zhenhui Yuan

In this paper, a novel Q-learning scheduling method for the current controller of switched reluctance motor (SRM) drive is investigated. Q-learning algorithm is a class of reinforcement learning approaches that can find the best…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-16 Hamad A. Alharkan , Sepehr Saadatmand , Mehdi Ferdowsi , Pourya Shamsi

In this paper, we investigate a data-driven framework to solve Linear Quadratic Regulator (LQR) problems when the dynamics is unknown, with the additional challenge of providing stability certificates for the overall learning and control…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-13 Lorenzo Sforni , Guido Carnevale , Ivano Notarnicola , Giuseppe Notarstefano

This paper considers a distributed multi-agent optimization problem, with the global objective consisting of the sum of local objective functions of the agents. The agents solve the optimization problem using local computation and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-11-07 Shripad Gade , Nitin H. Vaidya

Q-learning is a widely used reinforcement learning (RL) algorithm for optimizing wireless networks, but faces challenges with large state-spaces. Recently proposed multi-environment mixed Q-learning (MEMQ) algorithm addresses these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Talha Bozkus , Urbashi Mitra

In this paper, we propose a distributed zeroth-order policy optimization method for Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL). Existing MARL algorithms often assume that every agent can observe the states and actions of all the other agents…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Yan Zhang , Michael M. Zavlanos

This paper addresses the problem of distributed coordination control for multi-robot systems (MRSs) in the presence of localization uncertainty using a Linear Quadratic Gaussian (LQG) approach. We introduce a stochastic LQG control strategy…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-07 Tohid Kargar Tasooji , Sakineh Khodadadi

We analyze independent policy-gradient (PG) learning in $N$-player linear-quadratic (LQ) stochastic differential games. Each player employs a distributed policy that depends only on its own state and updates the policy independently using…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-19 Philipp Plank , Yufei Zhang

How to realize high-level autonomy of individuals is one of key technical issues to promote swarm intelligence of multi-agent (node) systems with collective tasks, while the fully distributed design is a potential way to achieve this goal.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-17 Peihu Duan , Yuezu Lv , Guanghui Wen , Maciej Ogorzałek

Reinforcement learning (RL) has achieved significant success across a wide range of domains, however, most existing methods are formulated in discrete time. In this work, we introduce a novel RL method for continuous-time control, where…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Chengxiu Hua , Jiawen Gu , Yushun Tang

We introduce a distributed, cooperative framework and method for Bayesian estimation and control in decentralized agent networks. Our framework combines joint estimation of time-varying global and local states with information-seeking…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2015-09-24 Florian Meyer , Henk Wymeersch , Markus Fröhle , Franz Hlawatsch

We examine the problem of transmission control, i.e., when to transmit, in distributed wireless communications networks through the lens of multi-agent reinforcement learning. Most other works using reinforcement learning to control or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-16 Collin Farquhar , Prem Sagar Pattanshetty Vasanth Kumar , Anu Jagannath , Jithin Jagannath

Event-triggered communication and control provide high control performance in networked control systems without overloading the communication network. However, most approaches require precise mathematical models of the system dynamics,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-16 Lukas Kesper , Sebastian Trimpe , Dominik Baumann

Offline Reinforcement Learning (RL) focuses on learning policies solely from a batch of previously collected data. offering the potential to leverage such datasets effectively without the need for costly or risky active exploration. While…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Riccardo Zamboni , Enrico Brunetti , Marcello Restelli

This work studies the problem of non-Bayesian learning over multi-agent network when there are some adversarial (faulty) agents in the network. At each time step, each non-faulty agent collects partial information about an unknown state of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-01-08 Pooja Vyavahare , Lili Su , Nitin H. Vaidya

Consider a linear quadratic regulator (LQR) problem being solved in a model-free manner using the policy gradient approach. If the gradient of the quadratic cost is being transmitted across a rate-limited channel, both the convergence and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-09-20 Lintao Ye , Aritra Mitra , Vijay Gupta

In this paper, we present a framework to understand the convergence of commonly used Q-learning reinforcement learning algorithms in practice. Two salient features of such algorithms are: (i)~the Q-table is recursively updated using an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Amit Sinha , Matthieu Geist , Aditya Mahajan

In this paper, we study a distributed privacy-preserving learning problem in social networks with general topology. The agents can communicate with each other over the network, which may result in privacy disclosure, since the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-01-30 Youming Tao , Shuzhen Chen , Feng Li , Dongxiao Yu , Jiguo Yu , Hao Sheng

In this work, we develop a scalable, local trajectory optimization algorithm that enables robots to interact with other robots. It has been shown that agents' interactions can be successfully captured in game-theoretic formulations, where…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-10 Zach Williams , Jushan Chen , Negar Mehr

Developing scalable and efficient reinforcement learning algorithms for cooperative multi-agent control has received significant attention over the past years. Existing literature has proposed inexact decompositions of local Q-functions…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-30 Shahbaz P Qadri Syed , He Bai