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While passive agents merely follow instructions, proactive agents align with higher-level objectives, such as assistance and safety by continuously monitoring the environment to determine when and how to act. However, developing proactive…

In most modern cities, traffic congestion is one of the most salient societal challenges. Past research has shown that inserting a limited number of autonomous vehicles (AVs) within the traffic flow, with driving policies learned…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-01-26 Yulin Zhang , William Macke , Jiaxun Cui , Daniel Urieli , Peter Stone

In multi-agent reinforcement learning, centralized training with decentralized execution (CTDE) methods typically assume that agents make decisions based on their local observations independently, which may not lead to a correlated joint…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-12-16 Zhiyuan Li , Wenshuai Zhao , Lijun Wu , Joni Pajarinen

Theory and empirical research on management teams' influence on firm performance have witnessed continuous development, and by now incorporate numerous details. Classic, experiment-based studies examining social systems collect vast amount…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Tamás Kiss

We find that, simply via a sampling-and-voting method, the performance of large language models (LLMs) scales with the number of agents instantiated. Also, this method, termed as Agent Forest, is orthogonal to existing complicated methods…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Junyou Li , Qin Zhang , Yangbin Yu , Qiang Fu , Deheng Ye

Multi-agent systems, where specialized agents collaborate to solve a shared task hold great potential, from increased modularity to simulating complex environments. However, they also have a major caveat -- a single agent can cause the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Ohav Barbi , Ori Yoran , Mor Geva

Many intelligent transportation systems are multi-agent systems, i.e., both the traffic participants and the subsystems within the transportation infrastructure can be modeled as interacting agents. The use of AI-based methods to achieve…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-11-09 Mingxi Cheng , Junyao Zhang , Shahin Nazarian , Jyotirmoy Deshmukh , Paul Bogdan

We propose a dynamic model for a system consisting of self-propelled agents in which the influence of an agent on another agent is weighted by geographical distance. A parameter $\alpha$ is introduced to adjust the influence: the smaller…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-06-24 Han-Xin Yang , Tao Zhou , Liang Huang

There is a growing interest in Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL) as the first steps towards building general intelligent agents that learn to make low and high-level decisions in non-stationary complex environments in the presence…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-01-01 Marco Jerome Gasparrini , Ricard Solé , Martí Sánchez-Fibla

A major challenge in autonomous vehicle research is modeling agent behaviors, which has critical applications including constructing realistic and reliable simulations for off-board evaluation and forecasting traffic agents motion for…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-09-30 Zhenghao Peng , Wenjie Luo , Yiren Lu , Tianyi Shen , Cole Gulino , Ari Seff , Justin Fu

In this paper we consider the problem of navigation and motion control in an area densely populated with other agents. We propose an algorithm that, without explicit communication and based on the information it has, computes the best…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-28 Mario Santillo , Mrdjan Jankovic

This paper is concerned with the design of a distributed cooperative synchronization controller for a class of higher-order nonlinear multi-agent systems. The objective is to achieve synchronization and satisfy a predefined time-based…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-02-28 Hashim A. Hashim , Sami El-Ferik , Frank L. Lewis

Rapid urbanization in cities like Bangalore has led to severe traffic congestion, making efficient Traffic Signal Control (TSC) essential. Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL), often modeling each traffic signal as an independent agent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Sayambhu Sen , Shalabh Bhatnagar

This study proposes a distributed algorithm that makes agents' adaptive grouping entrap multiple targets via automatic decision making, smooth flocking, and well-distributed entrapping. Agents make their own decisions about which targets to…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2022-06-30 Chen Wang , Minqiang Gu , Wenxi Kuang , Dongliang Wang , Weicheng Luo , Zhaohui Shi , Zhun Fan

A reinforcement learning agent that needs to pursue different goals across episodes requires a goal-conditional policy. In addition to their potential to generalize desirable behavior to unseen goals, such policies may also enable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-21 Paulo Rauber , Avinash Ummadisingu , Filipe Mutz , Juergen Schmidhuber

This paper addresses the consensus of a class of uncertain nonlinear fractional-order multi-agent systems (FOMAS). First a fractional non-fragile dynamic output feedback controller is put forward via the output measurements of neighboring…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-12-14 Elyar Zavary , Pouya Badri , Mahdi Sojoodi

Dense and complex air traffic scenarios require higher levels of automation than those exhibited by tactical conflict detection and resolution (CD\&R) tools that air traffic controllers (ATCO) use today. However, the air traffic control…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2022-06-16 George Vouros , George Papadopoulos , Alevizos Bastas , Jose Manuel Cordero , Ruben Rodrigez Rodrigez

The level of autonomy is increasing in systems spanning multiple domains, but these systems still experience failures. One way to mitigate the risk of failures is to integrate human oversight of the autonomous systems and rely on the human…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-09-28 Dylan M. Asmar , Mykel J. Kochenderfer

In this paper, we consider a simple linear exponential quadratic Gaussian (LEQG) tracking problem for a multi-agent system. We study the dynamical behaviors of the group as we vary the risk-sensitivity parameter, comparing in particular the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2007-07-27 Jerome Le Ny , Eric Feron