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We propose a model enabling decentralized multiple agents to share their perception of environment in a fair and adaptive way. In our model, both the current message and historical observation are taken into account, and they are handled in…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2022-02-23 Jingchen Li , Haobin Shi , Kao-Shing Hwang

Multi-view implicit scene reconstruction methods have become increasingly popular due to their ability to represent complex scene details. Recent efforts have been devoted to improving the representation of input information and to reducing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Edward J. Smith , Michal Drozdzal , Derek Nowrouzezahrai , David Meger , Adriana Romero-Soriano

Most AI agents remain confined to an instrumental "command-execution" model, resulting in unequal, one-sided interactions. While recent works attempt to build relationships through hidden memory backends, these invisible processes often…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Zihong He , Shuqin Wang , Songchen Zhou , Qinghui Lin , Jialin Wang , Chen Liang , Hai-Ning Liang

Multi-agent robotic systems are increasingly operating in real-world environments in close proximity to humans, yet are largely controlled by policy models with inscrutable deep neural network representations. We introduce a method for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-24 Renos Zabounidis , Joseph Campbell , Simon Stepputtis , Dana Hughes , Katia Sycara

Flexible, goal-directed behavior is a fundamental aspect of human life. Based on the free energy minimization principle, the theory of active inference formalizes the generation of such behavior from a computational neuroscience…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-08-03 Fedor Scholz , Christian Gumbsch , Sebastian Otte , Martin V. Butz

The tasks that an agent will need to solve often are not known during training. However, if the agent knows which properties of the environment are important then, after learning how its actions affect those properties, it may be able to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-04-29 Amy Zhang , Adam Lerer , Sainbayar Sukhbaatar , Rob Fergus , Arthur Szlam

An information agent is viewed as a deductive database consisting of 3 parts: an observation database containing the facts the agent has observed or sensed from its surrounding environment, an input database containing the information the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Phan Minh Dung , Do Duc Hanh , Phan Minh Thang

A visual hard attention model actively selects and observes a sequence of subregions in an image to make a prediction. The majority of hard attention models determine the attention-worthy regions by first analyzing a complete image.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Samrudhdhi B. Rangrej , James J. Clark

In audio-visual navigation, an agent intelligently travels through a complex, unmapped 3D environment using both sights and sounds to find a sound source (e.g., a phone ringing in another room). Existing models learn to act at a fixed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-12 Changan Chen , Sagnik Majumder , Ziad Al-Halah , Ruohan Gao , Santhosh Kumar Ramakrishnan , Kristen Grauman

Multi-agent systems exhibit complex behaviors that emanate from the interactions of multiple agents in a shared environment. In this work, we are interested in controlling one agent in a multi-agent system and successfully learn to interact…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-30 Georgios Papoudakis , Stefano V. Albrecht

Real-world reinforcement learning applications are often hindered by delayed feedback from environments, which violates the Markov assumption and introduces significant challenges. Although numerous delay-compensating methods have been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Jongsoo Lee , Jangwon Kim , Jiseok Jeong , Soohee Han

We propose a planning and perception mechanism for a robot (agent), that can only observe the underlying environment partially, in order to solve an image classification problem. A three-layer architecture is suggested that consists of a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-24 Hossein K. Mousavi , Guangyi Liu , Weihang Yuan , Martin Takáč , Héctor Muñoz-Avila , Nader Motee

Cooperative problems under continuous control have always been the focus of multi-agent reinforcement learning. Existing algorithms suffer from the problem of uneven learning degree with the increase of the number of agents. In this paper,…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2021-07-05 Kai Liu , Yuyang Zhao , Gang Wang , Bei Peng

Artificial visual attention systems aim to support technical systems in visual tasks by applying the concepts of selective attention observed in humans and other animals. Such systems are typically evaluated against ground truth obtained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-08-01 Jan Tünnermann , Markus Hennig , Michael Silbernagel , Bärbel Mertsching

We present an investigation into how representational losses can affect the drawings produced by artificial agents playing a communication game. Building upon recent advances, we show that a combination of powerful pretrained encoder…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-21 Daniela Mihai , Jonathon Hare

Reinforcement learning algorithms can train agents that solve problems in complex, interesting environments. Normally, the complexity of the trained agent is closely related to the complexity of the environment. This suggests that a highly…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-03-16 Trapit Bansal , Jakub Pachocki , Szymon Sidor , Ilya Sutskever , Igor Mordatch

Designing realistic multi-object scenes requires not only generating images, but also planning spatial layouts that respect semantic relations and physical plausibility. On one hand, while recent advances in diffusion models have enabled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Zezhong Fan , Xiaohan Li , Luyi Ma , Kai Zhao , Liang Peng , Topojoy Biswas , Evren Korpeoglu , Kaushiki Nag , Kannan Achan

The way of analyzing, designing and building of real-time projects has been changed due to the rapid growth of internet, mobile technologies and intelligent applications. Most of these applications are intelligent, tiny and distributed…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2011-08-03 Venkatesh. M , K. Kumar , Srinivas. V

We study systems of interacting reinforced stochastic processes, where agents' decisions evolve under reinforcement, network-mediated interactions, and environmental influences. In competitive environments with irreducible networks, we…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-09-18 Michele Aleandri , Paolo Dai Pra , Ida Germana Minelli

We describe the task of Visual Understanding and Narration, in which a robot (or agent) generates text for the images that it collects when navigating its environment, by answering open-ended questions, such as 'what happens, or might have…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-25 Stephanie M. Lukin , Claire Bonial , Clare R. Voss