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We study asynchronous distributed decision-making for scalable multi-agent bandit submodular maximization. We are motivated by distributed information-gathering tasks in unknown environments and under heterogeneous inter-agent communication…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-09 Pranjal Sharma , Zirui Xu , Vasileios Tzoumas

Safe and efficient navigation through human crowds is an essential capability for mobile robots. Previous work on robot crowd navigation assumes that the dynamics of all agents are known and well-defined. In addition, the performance of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Shuijing Liu , Peixin Chang , Weihang Liang , Neeloy Chakraborty , Katherine Driggs-Campbell

Multi-parameter cognition in a cognitive radio network (CRN) provides a more thorough understanding of the radio environments, and could potentially lead to far more intelligent and efficient spectrum usage for a secondary user. In this…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-02 Rui Zhang , Peng Cheng , Zhuo Chen , Yonghui Li , Branka Vucetic

We study the problem of regret minimization for distributed bandits learning, in which $M$ agents work collaboratively to minimize their total regret under the coordination of a central server. Our goal is to design communication protocols…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-30 Yuanhao Wang , Jiachen Hu , Xiaoyu Chen , Liwei Wang

Recent advances in learning techniques have garnered attention for their applicability to a diverse range of real-world sequential decision-making problems. Yet, many practical applications have critical constraints for operation in real…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-06 Jose A. Ayala-Romero , Andres Garcia-Saavedra , Xavier Costa-Perez

Contextual multi-armed bandits provide powerful tools to solve the exploitation-exploration dilemma in decision making, with direct applications in the personalized recommendation. In fact, collaborative effects among users carry the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-24 Yikun Ban , Yunzhe Qi , Tianxin Wei , Jingrui He

We consider distributed online learning for joint regret with communication constraints. In this setting, there are multiple agents that are connected in a graph. Each round, an adversary first activates one of the agents to issue a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Dirk van der Hoeven , Hédi Hadiji , Tim van Erven

Setting up the future Internet of Things (IoT) networks will require to support more and more communicating devices. We prove that intelligent devices in unlicensed bands can use Multi-Armed Bandit (MAB) learning algorithms to improve…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-07-03 Rémi Bonnefoi , Lilian Besson , Christophe Moy , Emilie Kaufmann , Jacques Palicot

Decentralized optimization methods enable on-device training of machine learning models without a central coordinator. In many scenarios communication between devices is energy demanding and time consuming and forms the bottleneck of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-11-04 Dmitry Kovalev , Anastasia Koloskova , Martin Jaggi , Peter Richtarik , Sebastian U. Stich

Decentralized planning for multi-agent systems, such as fleets of robots in a search-and-rescue operation, is often constrained by limitations on how agents can communicate with each other. One such limitation is the case when agents can…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-09-15 Victoria Tuck , Yash Vardhan Pant , Sanjit A. Seshia , S. Shankar Sastry

In many real-world problems, a team of agents need to collaborate to maximize the common reward. Although existing works formulate this problem into a centralized learning with decentralized execution framework, which avoids the…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2019-11-21 Liheng Chen , Hongyi Guo , Yali Du , Fei Fang , Haifeng Zhang , Yaoming Zhu , Ming Zhou , Weinan Zhang , Qing Wang , Yong Yu

The ability of neural radiance fields or NeRFs to conduct accurate 3D modelling has motivated application of the technique to scene representation. Previous approaches have mainly followed a centralised learning paradigm, which assumes that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-03 Lachlan Holden , Feras Dayoub , David Harvey , Tat-Jun Chin

In this paper, we study a network of distributed radar sensors that collaboratively perform sensing tasks by transmitting their quantized radar signals over capacity-constrained fronthaul links to a central unit for joint processing. We…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-27 Christian Eckrich , Abdelhak M. Zoubir , Vahid Jamali

In multi-armed bandits with network interference (MABNI), the action taken by one node can influence the rewards of others, creating complex interdependence. While existing research on MABNI largely concentrates on minimizing regret, it…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Zichen Wang , Haoyang Hong , Chuanhao Li , Haoxuan Li , Zhiheng Zhang , Huazheng Wang

In modern radar systems, precise target localization using azimuth and velocity estimation is paramount. Traditional unbiased estimation methods have utilized gradient descent algorithms to reach the theoretical limits of the Cramer Rao…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-24 Shyam Venkatasubramanian , Sandeep Gogineni , Bosung Kang , Muralidhar Rangaswamy

Communication bottleneck and data privacy are two critical concerns in federated multi-armed bandit (MAB) problems, such as situations in decision-making and recommendations of connected vehicles via wireless. In this paper, we design the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-03 Tan Li , Linqi Song

We study a decentralized collaborative requesting problem that aims to optimize the information freshness of time-sensitive clients in edge networks consisting of multiple clients, access nodes (ANs), and servers. Clients request content…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Yi Zhuang , Kun Yang , Xingran Chen

This paper develops a decentralized approach to mobile sensor coverage by a multi-robot system. We consider a scenario where a team of robots with limited sensing range must position itself to effectively detect events of interest in a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-10-01 Walker Gosrich , Siddharth Mayya , Rebecca Li , James Paulos , Mark Yim , Alejandro Ribeiro , Vijay Kumar

We consider a remote contextual multi-armed bandit (CMAB) problem, in which the decision-maker observes the context and the reward, but must communicate the actions to be taken by the agents over a rate-limited communication channel. This…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-11 Francesco Pase , Deniz Gunduz , Michele Zorzi

Resource allocation is of great importance in the next generation wireless communication systems, especially for cognitive radio networks (CRNs). Many resource allocation strategies have been proposed to optimize the performance of CRNs.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-07-17 Fuhui Zhou , Xiongjian Zhang , Rose Qingyang Hu , Apostolos Papathanassiou , Weixiao Meng