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Semantic communication transmits the extracted features of information rather than raw data, significantly reducing redundancy, which is crucial for addressing spectrum and energy challenges in 6G networks. In this paper, we introduce…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Wenjun Zhang , Qiong Wu , Pingyi Fan , Kezhi Wang , Nan Cheng , Wen Chen , Khaled B. Letaief

The 6G network enables a subnetwork-wide evolution, resulting in a "network of subnetworks". However, due to the dynamic mobility of wireless subnetworks, the data transmission of intra-subnetwork and inter-subnetwork will inevitably…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-05-11 Xiao Du , Ting Wang , Qiang Feng , Chenhui Ye , Tao Tao , Yuanming Shi , Mingsong Chen

Scheduling the transmission of time-sensitive data to multiple users over error-prone communication channels is studied with the goal of minimizing the long-term average age of information (AoI) at the users under a constraint on the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-06-04 Elif Tuğçe Ceran , Deniz Gündüz , András György

Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL) is a challenging subarea of Reinforcement Learning due to the non-stationarity of the environments and the large dimensionality of the combined action space. Deep MARL algorithms have been applied…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-27 Yuanchao Xu , Amal Feriani , Ekram Hossain

Cooperative multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) has achieved significant results, most notably by leveraging the representation-learning abilities of deep neural networks. However, large centralized approaches quickly become…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2022-12-05 Nikunj Gupta , G Srinivasaraghavan , Swarup Kumar Mohalik , Nishant Kumar , Matthew E. Taylor

Existing distributed cooperative multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) frameworks usually assume undirected coordination graphs and communication graphs while estimating a global reward via consensus algorithms for policy evaluation.…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2022-01-14 Gangshan Jing , He Bai , Jemin George , Aranya Chakrabortty , Piyush. K. Sharma

This paper presents a novel approach to Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL) that combines cooperative task decomposition with the learning of reward machines (RMs) encoding the structure of the sub-tasks. The proposed method helps…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-02-17 Leo Ardon , Daniel Furelos-Blanco , Alessandra Russo

With the development of sensing and communication technologies in networked cyber-physical systems (CPSs), multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL)-based methodologies are integrated into the control process of physical systems and…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-16 Songyang Han , He Wang , Sanbao Su , Yuanyuan Shi , Fei Miao

Sixth-generation (6G) networks are designed to meet the hyper-reliable and low-latency communication (HRLLC) requirements of safety-critical applications such as autonomous driving. Integrating non-terrestrial networks (NTN) into the 6G…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Ahmet Melih Ince , Ayse Elif Canbilen , Halim Yanikomeroglu

We consider the problem of robust multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) for cooperative communication and coordination tasks. MARL agents, mainly those trained in a centralized way, can be brittle because they can adopt policies that…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2020-12-16 T. van der Heiden , C. Salge , E. Gavves , H. van Hoof

We formulate offloading of computational tasks from a dynamic group of mobile agents (e.g., cars) as decentralized decision making among autonomous agents. We design an interaction mechanism that incentivizes such agents to align private…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2022-08-11 Jing Tan , Ramin Khalili , Holger Karl , Artur Hecker

As a data-driven approach, multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) has made remarkable advances in solving cooperative residential load scheduling problems. However, centralized training, the most common paradigm for MARL, limits…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Zhaoming Qin , Nanqing Dong , Di Liu , Zhefan Wang , Junwei Cao

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface (RIS) is a pivotal technology in communication, offering an alternative path that significantly enhances the link quality in wireless communication environments. In this paper, we propose a RIS-assisted…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Kangwei Qi , Qiong Wu , Pingyi Fan , Nan Cheng , Wen Chen , Jiangzhou Wang , Khaled B. Letaief

This paper proposes an exploration technique for multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) with graph-based communication among agents. We assume the individual rewards received by the agents are independent of the actions by the other…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Ainur Zhaikhan , Ali H. Sayed

Networks in the current 5G and beyond systems increasingly carry heterogeneous traffic with diverse quality-of-service constraints, making real-time routing decisions both complex and time-critical. A common approach, such as a heuristic…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Sebastian Racedo , Brigitte Jaumard , Oscar Delgado , Meysam Masoudi

The Age of Information (AoI) has recently gained recognition as a critical quality-of-service (QoS) metric for quantifying the freshness of status updates, playing a crucial role in supporting massive ultra-reliable and low-latency…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-17 Jingqing Wang , Wenchi Cheng , Wei Zhang

In this paper, we study a vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) system where distributed base stations (BSs) acting as road-side units (RSUs) collect multimodal (wireless and visual) data from moving vehicles. We consider a decentralized rate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Charbel Bou Chaaya , Mehdi Bennis

Previous work has shown that when multiple selfish Autonomous Vehicles (AVs) are introduced to future cities and start learning optimal routing strategies using Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL), they may destabilize traffic…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Anastasia Psarou , Łukasz Gorczyca , Dominik Gaweł , Rafał Kucharski

Many recent successful off-policy multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) algorithms for cooperative partially observable environments focus on finding factorized value functions, leading to convoluted network structures. Building on the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Raphaël Avalos , Mathieu Reymond , Ann Nowé , Diederik M. Roijers

The next-generation wireless technologies, including beyond 5G and 6G networks, are paving the way for transformative applications such as vehicle platooning, smart cities, and remote surgery. These innovations are driven by a vast array of…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-01-05 Eslam Eldeeb , Hirley Alves