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The design of autonomous agents that can interact effectively with other agents without prior coordination is a core problem in multi-agent systems. Type-based reasoning methods achieve this by maintaining a belief over a set of potential…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-06-12 Jonathon Schwartz , Hanna Kurniawati , Marcus Hutter

Robots must understand their environment from raw sensory inputs and reason about the consequences of their actions in it to solve complex tasks. Behavior Cloning (BC) leverages task-specific human demonstrations to learn this knowledge as…

Today's automated vehicles lack the ability to cooperate implicitly with others. This work presents a Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS) based approach for decentralized cooperative planning using macro-actions for automated vehicles in…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-02-04 Karl Kurzer , Chenyang Zhou , J. Marius Zöllner

Monte Carlo tree search (MCTS) has been successful in a variety of domains, but faces challenges with long-horizon exploration when compared to sampling-based motion planning algorithms like Rapidly-Exploring Random Trees. To address these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Liam Schramm , Abdeslam Boularias

This paper introduces the MCTS algorithm to the financial world and focuses on solving significant multi-period financial planning models by combining a Monte Carlo Tree Search algorithm with a deep neural network. The MCTS provides an…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2022-05-19 Afşar Onat Aydınhan , Xiaoyue Li , John M. Mulvey

In multi-objective optimization, a single decision vector must balance the trade-offs between many objectives. Solutions achieving an optimal trade-off are said to be Pareto optimal: these are decision vectors for which improving any one…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-08-07 Abhishek Roy , Geelon So , Yi-An Ma

In this paper, we propose a new descent method, termed as multiobjective memory gradient method, for finding Pareto critical points of a multiobjective optimization problem. The main thought in this method is to select a combination of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-06-02 Wang Chen , Xinmin Yang , Yong Zhao

Feature acquisition algorithms address the problem of acquiring informative features while balancing the costs of acquisition to improve the learning performances of ML models. Previous approaches have focused on calculating the expected…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-23 Sungsoo Lim , Diego Klabjan , Mark Shapiro

Efficient tabletop rearrangement planning seeks to find high-quality solutions while minimizing total cost. However, the task is challenging due to object dependencies and limited buffer space for temporary placements. The complexity…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Jiaming Hu , Jiawei Wang , Henrik I Christensen

Large Language Model (LLM) agents are increasingly applied to complex, multi-step tasks that require interaction with diverse external tools across various domains. However, current LLM agent tool planning methods typically rely on greedy,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Shuo Yang , Soyeon Caren Han , Yihao Ding , Shuhe Wang , Eduard Hoy

Mutual information is an important measure of the dependence among variables. It has become widely used in statistics, machine learning, biology, etc. However, the standard techniques for estimating it often perform poorly in higher…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2023-09-18 Nick Carrara , Jesse Ernst

We present a scalable tree search planning algorithm for large multi-agent sequential decision problems that require dynamic collaboration. Teams of agents need to coordinate decisions in many domains, but naive approaches fail due to the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-01-14 Shushman Choudhury , Jayesh K. Gupta , Peter Morales , Mykel J. Kochenderfer

Creating meaningful interpretations for black-box machine learning models involves balancing two often conflicting objectives: accuracy and explainability. Exploring the trade-off between these objectives is essential for developing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Aniruddha Joshi , Supratik Chakraborty , S Akshay , Shetal Shah , Hazem Torfah , Sanjit Seshia

Online solvers for partially observable Markov decision processes have difficulty scaling to problems with large action spaces. Monte Carlo tree search with progressive widening attempts to improve scaling by sampling from the action space…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-11-04 John Mern , Anil Yildiz , Zachary Sunberg , Tapan Mukerji , Mykel J. Kochenderfer

Planning under partial obervability is essential for autonomous robots. A principled way to address such planning problems is the Partially Observable Markov Decision Process (POMDP). Although solving POMDPs is computationally intractable,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-07-24 Marcus Hoerger , Hanna Kurniawati , Alberto Elfes

Pareto optimization via evolutionary multi-objective algorithms has been shown to efficiently solve constrained monotone submodular functions. Traditionally when solving multiple problems, the algorithm is run for each problem separately.…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Liam Wigney , Frank Neumann

Path planning is one of the most vital elements of mobile robotics, providing the agent with a collision-free route through the workspace. The global path plan can be calculated with a variety of informed search algorithms, most notably the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2015-11-04 Alexander Lavin

This paper introduces COR-MCTS (Conservation of Resources - Monte Carlo Tree Search), a novel tactical decision-making approach for automated driving focusing on maneuver planning over extended horizons. Traditional decision-making…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-23 Karim Essalmi , Fernando Garrido , Fawzi Nashashibi

We present a self-improving, Neural Tree Expansion (NTE) method for multi-robot online planning in non-cooperative environments, where each robot attempts to maximize its cumulative reward while interacting with other self-interested…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-07-12 Benjamin Riviere , Wolfgang Hoenig , Matthew Anderson , Soon-Jo Chung

We propose a novel method for multi-objective motion planning problems by leveraging the paradigm of lexicographic optimization and applying it for the first time to graph search over probabilistic roadmaps. The competing resources of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-08-19 Tixiao Shan , Brendan Englot