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In edge computing systems, autonomous agents must make fast local decisions while competing for shared resources. Existing MARL methods often resume to centralized critics or frequent communication, which fail under limited observability…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Andrea Fox , Francesco De Pellegrini , Eitan Altman

Deep Q-learning has achieved significant success in single-agent decision making tasks. However, it is challenging to extend Q-learning to large-scale multi-agent scenarios, due to the explosion of action space resulting from the complex…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2019-10-14 Ming Zhou , Yong Chen , Ying Wen , Yaodong Yang , Yufeng Su , Weinan Zhang , Dell Zhang , Jun Wang

Integrated communication and control serves as a critical ingredient in Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning. However, partial observability limitations will impair collaboration effectiveness, and a potential solution is to establish…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Ziqiong Wang , Xiaoxue Yu , Rongpeng Li , Zhifeng Zhao

A distributed adaptive control strategy is developed for heterogeneous multiagent systems in nonlinear Brunovsky form with \({\pd}\)-dimensional $n^{\text{th}}$-order dynamics, operating under time-triggered switching communication…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-10 Armel Koulong , Ali Pakniyat

We consider the problem of estimating the states of a distributed network of nodes (targets) through a team of cooperating agents (sensors) persistently visiting the nodes so that an overall measure of estimation error covariance evaluated…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-14 Shirantha Welikala , Christos G. Cassandras

The paper considers the problem of multi-agent consensus in the presence of adversarial agents which may try to prevent and introduce undesired influence on the coordination among the regular agents. To our setting, we extend the so-called…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-25 Hiroki Matsume , Yuan Wang , Hideaki Ishii

Model-based representations recently stand out as a promising framework that embeds latent dynamics information into the representations for downstream off-policy actor-critic learning. It implicitly combines the advantages of both…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Jiafei Lyu , Zichuan Lin , Scott Fujimoto , Kai Yang , Yangkun Chen , Saiyong Yang , Zongqing Lu , Deheng Ye

Event-based methods carefully select when to transmit information to enable high-performance control and estimation over resource-constrained communication networks. However, they come at a cost. For instance, event-based communication…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-04 Dominik Baumann , Thomas B. Schön

This paper addresses a fundamental question of multi-agent knowledge distribution: what information should be sent to whom and when, with the limited resources available to each agent? Communication requirements for multi-agent systems can…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2019-03-08 Michael C. Fowler , T. Charles Clancy , Ryan K. Williams

A predictive triggering (PT) framework for the distributed control of resource constrained multi-agent systems is proposed. By predicting future communication demands and deriving a probabilistic priority measure, the PT framework is able…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-30 José Mario Mastrangelo , Dominik Baumann , Sebastian Trimpe

This study considers the problem of periodic event-triggered (PET) cooperative output regulation for a class of linear multi-agent systems. The advantage of the PET output regulation is that the data transmission and triggered condition are…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-24 Shiqi Zheng , Peng Shi , Ramesh K. Agarwal , Chee Peng Lim

Emerging 6G industrial networks envision autonomous in-X subnetworks to support efficient and cost-effective short range, localized connectivity for autonomous control operations. Supporting timely transmission of event-driven, critical…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Samira Abdelrahman , Hossam Farag , Gilberto Berardinelli

The rapid growth of wearable sensor technologies holds substantial promise for the field of personalized and context-aware Human Activity Recognition. Given the inherently decentralized nature of data sources within this domain, the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-09 Ahmad Esmaeili , Zahra Ghorrati , Eric T. Matson

Recent progress in Learning by Reading and Machine Reading systems has significantly increased the capacity of knowledge-based systems to learn new facts. In this work, we discuss the problem of selecting a set of learning requests for…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Abhishek Sharma

This paper investigates the communication strategy for second-order multi-agent systems with nonlinear dynamics. To save the scarce resources of communication channels, a novel event-triggered communication mechanism is designed without…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-25 Tao Li , Quan Qiu , Chunjiang Zhao

In this work, we focus on the communication aspect of decentralized learning, which involves multiple agents training a shared machine learning model using decentralized stochastic gradient descent (D-SGD) over distributed data. In…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-07-10 Zheng Chen , Martin Dahl , Erik G. Larsson

We study the interplay between the data distribution and Q-learning-based algorithms with function approximation. We provide a unified theoretical and empirical analysis as to how different properties of the data distribution influence the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-13 Pedro P. Santos , Diogo S. Carvalho , Alberto Sardinha , Francisco S. Melo

When deploying autonomous agents in the real world, we need effective ways of communicating objectives to them. Traditional skill learning has revolved around reinforcement and imitation learning, each with rigid constraints on the format…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-11-21 Mark Woodward , Chelsea Finn , Karol Hausman

Extreme events are occurrences whose magnitude and potential cause extensive damage on people, infrastructure, and the environment. Motivated by the extreme nature of the current global health landscape, which is plagued by the coronavirus…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-14 Nhuong V. Nguyen , Sybille Legitime

Deep reinforcement learning algorithms have recently been used to train multiple interacting agents in a centralised manner whilst keeping their execution decentralised. When the agents can only acquire partial observations and are faced…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-27 Emanuele Pesce , Giovanni Montana