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In this paper, we build upon previous work on designing informative and efficient Exploratory Landscape Analysis features for characterizing problems' landscapes and show their effectiveness in automatically constructing algorithm selection…

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Recent scholarly work has extensively examined the phenomenon of algorithmic collusion driven by AI-enabled pricing algorithms. However, online platforms commonly deploy recommender systems that influence how consumers discover and purchase…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Xingchen Xu , Stephanie Lee , Yong Tan

Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS) is a sampling best-first method to search for optimal decisions. The MCTS's popularity is based on its extraordinary results in the challenging two-player based game Go, a game considered much harder than…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-12-21 Edgar Galván , Gavin Simpson

With the increasing popularity of recommendation systems (RecSys), the demand for compute resources in datacenters has surged. However, the model-wise resource allocation employed in current RecSys model serving architectures falls short in…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Yujeong Choi , Jiin Kim , Minsoo Rhu

We propose a novel approach for sampling-based and control-based motion planning that combines a representation of the environment obtained via a modified version of optimal Rapidly-exploring Random Trees (RRT*), with landmark-based…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Mahroo Bahreinian , Marc Mitjans , Roberto Tron

This paper introduces MRTA-Sim, a Python/ROS2/Gazebo simulator for testing approaches to Multi-Robot Task Allocation (MRTA) problems on simulated robots in complex, indoor environments. Grid-based approaches to MRTA problems can be too…

The evolution of existing transportation systems,mainly driven by urbanization and increased availability of mobility options, such as private, profit-maximizing ride-hailing companies, calls for tools to reason about their design and…

Tool-augmented language models have demonstrated strong capabilities, but their reliance on live API access creates scalability and reliability challenges during training and deployment. We propose MTR, a simulation-first training framework…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Chenpeng Wang , Xiaojie Cheng , Chunye Wang , Linfeng Yang , Lei Zhang

Games and simulators can be a valuable platform to execute complex multi-agent, multiplayer, imperfect information scenarios with significant parallels to military applications: multiple participants manage resources and make decisions that…

Reinforcement Learning has drawn huge interest as a tool for solving optimal control problems. Solving a given problem (task or environment) involves converging towards an optimal policy. However, there might exist multiple optimal policies…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-16 Simo Alami. C , Fernando Llorente , Rim Kaddah , Luca Martino , Jesse Read

This paper addresses the optimization problem to maximize the total costs that can be shared among a group of agents, while maintaining stability in the sense of the core constraints of a cooperative transferable utility game, or TU game.…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Rong Zou , Boyue Lin , Marc Uetz , Matthias Walter

This paper considers an online multi-player resource-sharing game with bandit feedback. Multiple players choose from a finite collection of resources in a time slotted system. In each time slot, each resource brings a random reward that is…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Mevan Wijewardena , Michael. J Neely

Despite the emerging progress of integrating evolutionary computation into reinforcement learning, the absence of a high-performance platform endowing composability and massive parallelism causes non-trivial difficulties for research and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-22 Hui Bai , Ruimin Shen , Yue Lin , Botian Xu , Ran Cheng

Stackelberg games are a classic example of bilevel optimization problems, which are often encountered in game theory and economics. These are complex problems with a hierarchical structure, where one optimization task is nested within the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2013-07-25 Ankur Sinha , Pekka Malo , Anton Frantsev , Kalyanmoy Deb

Robotic simulators are crucial for academic research and education as well as the development of safety-critical applications. Reinforcement learning environments -- simple simulations coupled with a problem specification in the form of a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-07-27 Jacopo Panerati , Hehui Zheng , SiQi Zhou , James Xu , Amanda Prorok , Angela P. Schoellig

Our goal in this paper is to plan the motion of a robot in a partitioned environment with dynamically changing, locally sensed rewards. We assume that arbitrary assumptions on the reward dynamics can be given. The robot aims to accomplish a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2012-08-30 Maria Svorenova , Jana Tumova , Jiri Barnat , Ivana Cerna

The applicability of reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms in real-world domains often requires adherence to safety constraints, a need difficult to address given the asymptotic nature of the classic RL optimization objective. In contrast…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-15 Moritz A. Zanger , Karam Daaboul , J. Marius Zöllner

Digital collectible card games are not only a growing part of the video game industry, but also an interesting research area for the field of computational intelligence. This game genre allows researchers to deal with hidden information,…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Pablo García-Sánchez , Alberto Tonda , Antonio J. Fernández-Leiva , Carlos Cotta

Assume that a treasure is placed in one of $M$ boxes according to a known distribution and that $k$ searchers are searching for it in parallel during $T$ rounds. We study the question of how to incentivize selfish players so that the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-06-23 Amos Korman , Yoav Rodeh

Learning to locomote is one of the most common tasks in physics-based animation and deep reinforcement learning (RL). A learned policy is the product of the problem to be solved, as embodied by the RL environment, and the RL algorithm.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-12 Daniele Reda , Tianxin Tao , Michiel van de Panne