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An important challenge in robust machine learning is when training data is provided by strategic sources who may intentionally report erroneous data for their own benefit. A line of work at the intersection of machine learning and mechanism…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Eric Balkanski , Cherlin Zhu

Automated extraction of individual plant branches from time-series imagery is essential for high-throughput phenotyping, yet it remains computationally challenging due to non-rigid growth dynamics and severe identity fragmentation within…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Yueqianji Chen , Kevin Williams , John H. Doonan , Paolo Remagnino , Jo Hepworth

The rendezvous task calls for two mobile agents, starting from different nodes of a network modeled as a graph to meet at the same node. Agents have different labels which are integers from a set $\{1,\dots,L\}$. They wake up at possibly…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-03-11 Subhash Bhagat , Andrzej Pelc

Obviously strategyproof (OSP) mechanisms maintain the incentive compatibility of agents that are not fully rational. They have been object of a number of studies since their recent definition. A research agenda, initiated in…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2018-04-30 Diodato Ferraioli , Carmine Ventre

We consider a multi-stage facility reallocation problems on the real line, where a facility is being moved between time stages based on the locations reported by $n$ agents. The aim of the reallocation algorithm is to minimise the social…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-25 Bart de Keijzer , Dominik Wojtczak

The design of algorithms or protocols that are able to align the goals of the planner with the selfish interests of the agents involved in these protocols is of paramount importance in almost every decentralized setting (such as, computer…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Diodato Ferraioli , Carmine Ventre

We theoretically study the transport properties of self-propelled particles on complex structures, such as motor proteins on filament networks. A general master equation formalism is developed to investigate the persistent motion of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-09-19 M. Reza Shaebani , Zeinab Sadjadi , Igor M. Sokolov , Heiko Rieger , Ludger Santen

In this paper, we study the Facility Location Problem with Scarce Resources (FLPSR) under the assumption that agents' type follow a probability distribution. In the FLPSR, the objective is to identify the optimal locations for one or more…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Gennaro Auricchio , Jie Zhang

Trajectory prediction is a critical functionality of autonomous systems that share environments with uncontrolled agents, one prominent example being self-driving vehicles. Currently, most prediction methods do not enforce scene…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Yuxiao Chen , Boris Ivanovic , Marco Pavone

We consider strategy proof mechanisms for facility location which maximize equitability between agents. As is common in the literature, we measure equitability with the Gini index. We first prove a simple but fundamental impossibility…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Toby Walsh

In the one-dimensional facility assignment problem, m facilities and n agents are positioned along the real line. Each agent will be assigned to a single facility to receive service. Each facility incurs a building cost, which is shared…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Mengfan Ma , Mingyu Xiao , Tian Bai , Xin Cheng

This paper considers a multi-agent Markov Decision Process (MDP), where there are $n$ agents and each agent $i$ is associated with a state $s_i$ and action $a_i$ taking values from a finite set. Though the global state space size and action…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-09-17 Guannan Qu , Na Li

Predicting the motion of multiple agents is necessary for planning in dynamic environments. This task is challenging for autonomous driving since agents (e.g. vehicles and pedestrians) and their associated behaviors may be diverse and…

In their seminal paper that initiated the field of algorithmic mechanism design, \citet{NR99} studied the problem of designing strategyproof mechanisms for scheduling jobs on unrelated machines aiming to minimize the makespan. They provided…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-12 Eric Balkanski , Vasilis Gkatzelis , Xizhi Tan

Our goal is to solve both problems of adverse selection and moral hazard for multi-agent projects. In our model, each selected agent can work according to his private "capability tree". This means a process involving hidden actions, hidden…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-01-11 Endre Csóka

In this paper, we study discrete evacuation in networks, where agents know the network topology and designated exit nodes but do not know the number and initial positions of other agents. Each agent initially occupies a distinct node and…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Piotr Borowiecki , Dariusz Dereniowski , Łukasz Kuszner

The challenge of engineering autonomous agents capable of navigating the stochastic and adversarial nature of the physical world has historically resided at the intersection of symbolic logic and control theory. Traditional multi-agent…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Manuel Hernández , Eduardo Sánchez-Soto

We consider the following problem: Given a finite set of straight line segments in the plane, determine the positions of a minimal number of points on the segments, from which guards can see all segments. This problem can be interpreted as…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2015-03-14 Valentin E. Brimkov

Expressing attack-defence trees in a multi-agent setting allows for studying a new aspect of security scenarios, namely how the number of agents and their task assignment impact the performance, e.g. attack time, of strategies executed by…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-10-20 Jaime Arias , Carlos Olarte , Laure Petrucci , Łukasz Maśko , Wojciech Penczek , Teofil Sidoruk

We consider the classic facility location problem in fully dynamic data streams, where elements can be both inserted and deleted. In this problem, one is interested in maintaining a stable and high quality solution throughout the data…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-10-26 Sayan Bhattacharya , Silvio Lattanzi , Nikos Parotsidis