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Selfish behaviors are common in self-organized Mobile Ad hoc Networks (MANETs) where nodes belong to different authorities. Since cooperation of nodes is essential for routing protocols, various methods have been proposed to stimulate…

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In this paper, we devise three actor-critic algorithms with decentralized training for multi-agent reinforcement learning in cooperative, adversarial, and mixed settings with continuous action spaces. To this goal, we adapt the MADDPG…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Diego Bolliger , Lorenz Zauter , Robert Ziegler

A popular formalism for multiagent control applies tools from game theory, casting a multiagent decision problem as a cooperation-style game in which individual agents make local choices to optimize their own local utility functions in…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-28 David Grimsman , Joshua H. Seaton , Jason R. Marden , Philip N. Brown

A system relying on the collective behavior of decision-makers can be vulnerable to a variety of adversarial attacks. How well can a system operator protect performance in the face of these risks? We frame this question in the context of…

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In this paper, we consider a network allocation problem motivated by peer-to-peer cloud storage models. The setting is that of a network of units (e.g. computers) that collaborate and offer each other space for the back up of the data of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-09-21 Barbara Franci , Fabio Fagnani

This paper proposes a novel game-theoretical autonomous decision-making framework to address a task allocation problem for a swarm of multiple agents. We consider cooperation of self-interested agents, and show that our proposed…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2018-11-30 Inmo Jang , Hyo-Sang Shin , Antonios Tsourdos

In this paper, multi-agent systems minimizing a sum of objective functions, where each component is only known to a particular node, is considered for continuous-time dynamics with time-varying interconnection topologies. Assuming that each…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Guodong Shi , Karl Henrik Johansson , Yiguang Hong

This paper studies multi-agent reinforcement learning with submodular team utilities for online distributed task allocation. In this setting, each agent selects one action from a local categorical policy, so feasible joint actions form a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-14 Jing Liu , Yangyang Yang , Luca Ballotta , Fangfei Li , Yang Tang , Ruggero Carli

We study the stochastic multi-armed bandit (MAB) problem in the presence of side-observations across actions that occur as a result of an underlying network structure. In our model, a bipartite graph captures the relationship between…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-07-14 Swapna Buccapatnam , Fang Liu , Atilla Eryilmaz , Ness B. Shroff

In decentralized consensus optimization, a connected network of agents collaboratively minimize the sum of their local objective functions over a common decision variable, where their information exchange is restricted between the…

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We consider the problem of \emph{fully decentralized} multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL), where the agents are located at the nodes of a time-varying communication network. Specifically, we assume that the reward functions of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-02-28 Kaiqing Zhang , Zhuoran Yang , Han Liu , Tong Zhang , Tamer Başar

In this paper, we study multi-agent network games subject to affine time-varying coupling constraints and a time-varying communication network. We focus on the class of games adopting proximal dynamics and study their convergence to a…

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A cyber security problem in a networked system formulated as a resilient graph problem based on a game-theoretic approach is considered. The connectivity of the underlying graph of the network system is reduced by an attacker who removes…

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The maximization of submodular functions is an NP-Hard problem for certain subclasses of functions, for which a simple greedy algorithm has been shown to guarantee a solution whose quality is within 1/2 of the optimal. When this algorithm…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-01-11 David Grimsman , Mohd. Shabbir Ali , João P. Hespanha , Jason R. Marden

Congestion Control (CC), as the core networking task to efficiently utilize network capacity, received great attention and widely used in various Internet communication applications such as 5G, Internet-of-Things, UAN, and more. Various CC…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Jianing Bai , Tianhao Zhang , Guangming Xie

In this paper, we consider an unconstrained distributed optimization problem over a network of agents, in which some agents are adversarial. We solve the problem via gradient-based distributed optimization algorithm and characterize the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-03-22 Iyanuoluwa Emiola , Laurent Njilla , Chinwendu Enyioha

In this article, we employ an input-output approach to expand the study of cooperative multi-agent control and optimization problems characterized by mean-field interactions that admit decentralized and selfish solutions. The setting…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-02 Vivek Khatana , Duo Wang , Petros Voulgaris , Nicola Elia , Naira Hovakimyan

In this paper, we investigate a constrained optimal coordination problem for a class of heterogeneous nonlinear multi-agent systems described by high-order dynamics subject to both unknown nonlinearities and external disturbances. Each…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-04-26 Yutao Tang , Ding Wang

Networked systems are systems of interconnected components, in which the dynamics of each component are influenced by the behavior of neighboring components. Examples of networked systems include biological networks, critical…

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