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This work presents MAC-Flow, a simple yet expressive framework for multi-agent coordination. We argue that requirements of effective coordination are twofold: (i) a rich representation of the diverse joint behaviors present in offline data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Dongsu Lee , Daehee Lee , Amy Zhang

In recent years Landmark Complexes have been successfully employed for localization-free and metric-free autonomous exploration using a group of sensing-limited and communication-limited robots in a GPS-denied environment. To ensure rapid…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Xiatao Sun , Yuwei Wu , Subhrajit Bhattacharya , Vijay Kumar

Vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communications have greatly enhanced the perception capabilities of connected and automated vehicles (CAVs) by enabling information sharing to "see through the occlusions", resulting in significant performance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-09 Yunsheng Ma , Juanwu Lu , Can Cui , Sicheng Zhao , Xu Cao , Wenqian Ye , Ziran Wang

Learning to cooperate is crucially important in multi-agent environments. The key is to understand the mutual interplay between agents. However, multi-agent environments are highly dynamic, where agents keep moving and their neighbors…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-12 Jiechuan Jiang , Chen Dun , Tiejun Huang , Zongqing Lu

This paper presents deep meta coordination graphs (DMCG) for learning cooperative policies in multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL). Coordination graph formulations encode local interactions and accordingly factorize the joint value…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Nikunj Gupta , James Zachary Hare , Jesse Milzman , Rajgopal Kannan , Viktor Prasanna

Increasing interest in integrating advanced robotics within manufacturing has spurred a renewed concentration in developing real-time scheduling solutions to coordinate human-robot collaboration in this environment. Traditionally, the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-06-30 Zheyuan Wang , Matthew Gombolay

As terminal agents scale to long-horizon, multi-turn workflows, a key bottleneck is not merely limited context length, but the accumulation of noisy terminal observations in the interaction history. Retaining raw observations preserves…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Jincheng Ren , Siwei Wu , Yizhi Li , Kang Zhu , Shu Xu , Boyu Feng , Ruibin Yuan , Wei Zhang , Riza Batista-Navarro , Jian Yang , Chenghua Lin

The availability of challenging benchmarks has played a key role in the recent progress of machine learning. In cooperative multi-agent reinforcement learning, the StarCraft Multi-Agent Challenge (SMAC) has become a popular testbed for…

Multi-Agent Path Finding (MAPF) is a fundamental coordination problem in large-scale robotic and cyber-physical systems, where multiple agents must compute conflict-free trajectories with limited computational and communication resources.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-10 Kevin Riehl , Julius Schlapbach , Anastasios Kouvelas , Michail A. Makridis

Recent progress in large language model (LLM)-based multi-agent collaboration highlights the power of structured communication in enabling collective intelligence. However, existing methods largely rely on static or graph-based inter-agent…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Song Wang , Zhen Tan , Zihan Chen , Shuang Zhou , Tianlong Chen , Jundong Li

In data-parallel optimization of machine learning models, workers collaborate to improve their estimates of the model: more accurate gradients allow them to use larger learning rates and optimize faster. We consider the setting in which all…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-09 Thijs Vogels , Hadrien Hendrikx , Martin Jaggi

We propose to meta-learn causal structures based on how fast a learner adapts to new distributions arising from sparse distributional changes, e.g. due to interventions, actions of agents and other sources of non-stationarities. We show…

Safe and efficient autonomous driving in dense traffic is fundamentally a decentralized multi-agent coordination problem, where interactions at conflict points such as merging and weaving must be resolved reliably under partial…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Xiaotong Zhang , Gang Xiong , Yuanjing Wang , Siyu Teng , Alois Knoll , Long Chen

The multi-robot adaptive sampling problem aims at finding trajectories for a team of robots to efficiently sample the phenomenon of interest within a given endurance budget of the robots. In this paper, we propose a robust and scalable…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-02 Lishuo Pan , Sandeep Manjanna , M. Ani Hsieh

The Multi-agent Path Finding (MAPF) problem involves finding collision-free paths for a team of agents in a known, static environment, with important applications in warehouse automation, logistics, or last-mile delivery. To meet the needs…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-08-07 Chengyang He , Tanishq Duhan , Parth Tulsyan , Patrick Kim , Guillaume Sartoretti

Multi-agent proximal policy optimization (MAPPO) has recently demonstrated state-of-the-art performance on challenging multi-agent reinforcement learning tasks. However, MAPPO still struggles with the credit assignment problem, wherein the…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-02-10 Aditya Kapoor , Benjamin Freed , Howie Choset , Jeff Schneider

Predicting the behavior of complex systems is critical in many scientific and engineering domains, and hinges on the model's ability to capture their underlying dynamics. Existing methods encode the intrinsic dynamics of high-dimensional…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Jingwen Cheng , Ruikun Li , Huandong Wang , Yong Li

Multimodal Graph Neural Networks (MGNNs) have shown strong potential for learning from multimodal attributed graphs, yet most existing approaches rely on tightly coupled architectures that suffer from prohibitive computational overhead. In…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Daohan Su , Hao Liu , Xunkai Li , Yinlin Zhu , Xiong Yongfu , Yi Liu , Hongchao Qin , Rong-Hua Li , Guoren Wang

Learning to coordinate actions among agents is essential in complicated multi-agent systems. Prior works are constrained mainly by the assumption that all agents act simultaneously, and asynchronous action coordination between agents is…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2022-02-25 Jingqing Ruan , Linghui Meng , Xuantang Xiong , Dengpeng Xing , Bo Xu

Cooperative Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL) has attracted significant attention and played the potential for many real-world applications. Previous arts mainly focus on facilitating the coordination ability from different aspects…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-05-24 Lei Yuan , Lihe Li , Ziqian Zhang , Fuxiang Zhang , Cong Guan , Yang Yu