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Deciding which sensing capabilities to deploy on an agent in uncertain domains is a fundamental engineering challenge, in which one balances task achievability against the high costs of hardware and processing. This problem has previously…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Adrian Zvizdenco , Arthur Conrado Veiga Bosquetti , Alberto Lluch Lafuente , Christoph Matheja

Deterministic partially observable Markov decision processes (DetPOMDPs) often arise in planning problems where the agent is uncertain about its environmental state but can act and observe deterministically. In this paper, we propose…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-02 Alex Schutz , Yang You , Matias Mattamala , Ipek Caliskanelli , Bruno Lacerda , Nick Hawes

Decentralized policies for information gathering are required when multiple autonomous agents are deployed to collect data about a phenomenon of interest without the ability to communicate. Decentralized partially observable Markov decision…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-02-27 Mikko Lauri , Joni Pajarinen , Jan Peters

This paper extends the framework of partially observable Markov decision processes (POMDPs) to multi-agent settings by incorporating the notion of agent models into the state space. Agents maintain beliefs over physical states of the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2011-09-13 P. Doshi , P. J. Gmytrasiewicz

We propose a finite-state, decentralized decision and control framework for multi-agent ground coverage. The approach decomposes the problem into two coupled components: (i) the structural design of a deep neural network (DNN) induced by…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-06 Hossein Rastgoftar

We introduce a scheme for molecular simulations, the Deep Potential Molecular Dynamics (DeePMD) method, based on a many-body potential and interatomic forces generated by a carefully crafted deep neural network trained with ab initio data.…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-04-11 Linfeng Zhang , Jiequn Han , Han Wang , Roberto Car , Weinan E

Decentralized partially observable Markov decision processes with communication (Dec-POMDP-Com) provide a framework for multiagent decision making under uncertainty, but the NEXP-complete complexity for finite-horizon problems renders…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Dylan M. Asmar , Mykel J. Kochenderfer

Deterministic reaction networks (RNs) are tools to model diverse biological phenomena characterized by particle systems, when there are abundant number of particles. Examples include but are not limited to biochemistry, molecular biology,…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2021-07-22 Carsten Wiuf , Chuang Xu

We consider the problem of interactive partially observable Markov decision processes (I-POMDPs), where the agents are located at the nodes of a communication network. Specifically, we assume a certain message type for all messages.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-11-11 Yitao Chen , Deepanshu Vasal

This work introduces sIPOMDPLite-net, a deep neural network (DNN) architecture for decentralized, self-interested agent control in partially observable stochastic games (POSGs) with sparse interactions between agents. The network learns to…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2022-02-24 Gengyu Zhang , Prashant Doshi

In recent years significant attention has been attracted to proposals which utilize DNA for nanotechnological applications. Potential applications of these ideas range from the programmable self-assembly of colloidal crystals, to biosensors…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2008-05-02 Nicholas A. Licata

Segmenting biomarkers in medical images is crucial for various biotech applications. Despite advances, Transformer and CNN based methods often struggle with variations in staining and morphology, limiting feature extraction. In medical…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-25 Saad Wazir , Daeyoung Kim

DNA nanotechnology promises to provide controllable self-assembly on the nanoscale, allowing for the design of static structures, dynamic machines and computational architectures. In this article I review the state-of-the art of DNA…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-07-13 Thomas E. Ouldridge

The interaction between light and matter can be controlled efficiently by structuring materials at a length scale shorter than the wavelength of interest. With the goal to build optical devices that operate at the nanoscale, plasmonics has…

Optics · Physics 2021-05-06 Na Liu , Tim Liedl

Designing control policies for large, distributed systems is challenging, especially in the context of critical, temporal logic based specifications (e.g., safety) that must be met with high probability. Compositional methods for such…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-08 Krishna C. Kalagarla , Matthew Low , Rahul Jain , Ashutosh Nayyar , Pierluigi Nuzzo

In many real-world decision problems there is partially observed, hidden or latent information that remains fixed throughout an interaction. Such decision problems can be modeled as Latent Markov Decision Processes (LMDPs), where a latent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-27 Jeongyeol Kwon , Shie Mannor , Constantine Caramanis , Yonathan Efroni

In this paper a decentralized control algorithm for systems composed of $N$ dynamically decoupled agents, coupled by feasibility constraints, is presented. The control problem is divided into $N$ optimal control sub-problems and a…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2017-02-28 Ugo Rosolia , Francesco Braghin , Andrew G. Alleyne , Stijn De Bruyne , Edoardo Sabbioni

Over the past few years, as large language models have ushered in an era of intelligence emergence, there has been an intensified focus on scaling networks. Currently, many network architectures are designed manually, often resulting in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Kai Liu , Ruohui Wang , Jianfei Gao , Kai Chen

This paper is concerned with planning in stochastic domains by means of partially observable Markov decision processes (POMDPs). POMDPs are difficult to solve. This paper identifies a subclass of POMDPs called region observable POMDPs,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-02-08 Nevin Lianwen Zhang , Wenju Liu

Motile nanosized particles, or "nanobots", promise more effective and less toxic targeted drug delivery because of their unique scale and precision. We consider the case in which the cancer is "diffuse", dispersed such that there are…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Noble Harasha , Nancy Lynch