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Multi-agent systems built on large language models have shown strong performance on complex reasoning tasks, yet most work focuses on agent roles and orchestration while treating inter-agent communication as a fixed interface. Latent…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Ye Yu , Heming Liu , Haibo Jin , Xiaopeng Yuan , Peng Kuang , Haohan Wang

Multi-modal AI systems will likely become a ubiquitous presence in our everyday lives. A promising approach to making these systems more interactive is to embody them as agents within physical and virtual environments. At present, systems…

Human-robot interaction is increasingly moving toward multi-robot, socially grounded environments. Existing systems struggle to integrate multimodal perception, embodied expression, and coordinated decision-making in a unified framework.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Shaid Hasan , Breenice Lee , Sujan Sarker , Tariq Iqbal

Modeling agent behavior is central to understanding the emergence of complex phenomena in multiagent systems. Prior work in agent modeling has largely been task-specific and driven by hand-engineering domain-specific prior knowledge. We…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2018-08-02 Aditya Grover , Maruan Al-Shedivat , Jayesh K. Gupta , Yura Burda , Harrison Edwards

The cornerstone of multilingual neural translation is shared representations across languages. Given the theoretically infinite representation power of neural networks, semantically identical sentences are likely represented differently.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-21 Danni Liu , Jan Niehues

Communication between multiple language model (LM) agents has been shown to scale up the reasoning ability of LMs. While natural language has been the dominant medium for inter-LM communication, it is not obvious this should be the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Vignav Ramesh , Kenneth Li

This paper considers cooperative Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning, focusing on emergent communication in settings where multiple pairs of independent learners interact at varying frequencies. In this context, multiple distinct and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-11-23 J. D. Thomas , R. Santos-Rodríguez , R. Piechocki , M. Anca

One of the long-term goals of artificial intelligence is to build an agent that can communicate intelligently with human in natural language. Most existing work on natural language learning relies heavily on training over a pre-collected…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-05-30 Haichao Zhang , Haonan Yu , Wei Xu

Driving in the dynamic, multi-agent, and complex urban environment is a difficult task requiring a complex decision policy. The learning of such a policy requires a state representation that can encode the entire environment. Mid-level…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-03-03 Eshagh Kargar , Ville Kyrki

Emergent communication has made strides towards learning communication from scratch, but has focused primarily on protocols that resemble human language. In nature, multi-agent cooperation gives rise to a wide range of communication that…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Niko A. Grupen , Daniel D. Lee , Bart Selman

Communication is essential for coordination among humans and animals. Therefore, with the introduction of intelligent agents into the world, agent-to-agent and agent-to-human communication becomes necessary. In this paper, we first study…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2021-03-04 Varun Bhatt , Michael Buro

In this work, we address challenging multi-agent cooperation problems with decentralized control, raw sensory observations, costly communication, and multi-objective tasks instantiated in various embodied environments. While previous…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Hongxin Zhang , Weihua Du , Jiaming Shan , Qinhong Zhou , Yilun Du , Joshua B. Tenenbaum , Tianmin Shu , Chuang Gan

The development of artificial agents able to learn through dialog without domain restrictions has the potential to allow machines to learn how to perform tasks in a similar manner to humans and change how we relate to them. However,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Eugénio Ribeiro , Ricardo Ribeiro , David Martins de Matos

Multi-agent systems using large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated impressive capabilities across various domains. However, current agent communication suffers from verbose output that overload context and increase computational…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Danqing Wang , Da Yin , Ruta Desai , Lei Li , Asli Celikyilmaz , Ansong Ni

Large Language Models (LLMs) have achieved remarkable success across a wide array of tasks. Due to the impressive planning and reasoning abilities of LLMs, they have been used as autonomous agents to do many tasks automatically. Recently,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-22 Taicheng Guo , Xiuying Chen , Yaqi Wang , Ruidi Chang , Shichao Pei , Nitesh V. Chawla , Olaf Wiest , Xiangliang Zhang

In a multi-agent setting, the optimal policy of a single agent is largely dependent on the behavior of other agents. We investigate the problem of multi-agent reinforcement learning, focusing on decentralized learning in non-stationary…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-10-01 Anahita Mohseni-Kabir , David Isele , Kikuo Fujimura

Almost all multi-agent reinforcement learning algorithms without communication follow the principle of centralized training with decentralized execution. During centralized training, agents can be guided by the same signals, such as the…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2022-12-08 Zhiwei Xu , Bin Zhang , Dapeng Li , Zeren Zhang , Guangchong Zhou , Hao Chen , Guoliang Fan

Large Language Models (LLMs) have transformed agent-agent and human-agent interaction by enabling software, physical, and simulation agents to communicate and deliberate through natural language. Yet fluent language use does not by itself…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Önder Gürcan , Moharram Challenger

A few decades of work in the AI field have focused efforts on developing a new generation of systems which can acquire knowledge via interaction with the world. Yet, until very recently, most such attempts were underpinned by research which…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2012-07-23 Michał B. Paradowski

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