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Recent years have seen the application of deep reinforcement learning techniques to cooperative multi-agent systems, with great empirical success. However, given the lack of theoretical insight, it remains unclear what the employed neural…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Jacopo Castellini , Frans A. Oliehoek , Rahul Savani , Shimon Whiteson

We consider the problem of exploration of an anonymous, port-labeled, undirected graph with $n$ nodes and $m$ edges and diameter $D$, by a single mobile agent. Initially the agent does not know the graph topology nor any of the global…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-12-01 Artur Menc , Dominik Pająk , Przemysław Uznański

We consider the fundamental task of network exploration. A network is modeled as a simple connected undirected n-node graph with unlabeled nodes, and all ports at any node of degree d are arbitrarily numbered 0,.....,d-1. Each of two…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-01-25 Subhash Bhagat , Andrzej Pelc

The Neural Architecture Search (NAS) problem is typically formulated as a graph search problem where the goal is to learn the optimal operations over edges in order to maximise a graph-level global objective. Due to the large architecture…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-13 Vasco Lopes , Fabio Maria Carlucci , Pedro M Esperança , Marco Singh , Victor Gabillon , Antoine Yang , Hang Xu , Zewei Chen , Jun Wang

We identify and investigate a computational model arising in molecular computing, social computing and sensor network. The model is made of of multiple agents who are computationally limited and posses no global information. The agents may…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2013-06-19 Elchanan Mossel , Anupam Prakash , Gregory Valiant

We consider the following problem - a group of mobile agents perform some task on a terrain modeled as a graph. In a given moment of time an adversary gets an access to the graph and positions of the agents. Shortly before adversary's…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Karol Gotfryd , Marek Klonowski , Dominik Pająk

The problem of locally routing on geometric networks using limited memory is extensively studied in computational geometry. We consider one particular graph, the ordered $\Theta$-graph, which is significantly harder to route on than the…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-06-23 André van Renssen , Shuei Sakaguchi

In the graph exploration problem, a team of mobile computational entities, called agents, arbitrarily positioned at some nodes of a graph, must cooperate so that each node is eventually visited by at least one agent. In the literature, the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-05-21 Giuseppe Antonio Di Luna , Stefan Dobrev , Paola Flocchini , Nicola Santoro

We study the dispersion problem in anonymous port-labeled graphs: $k \leq n$ mobile agents, each with a unique ID and initially located arbitrarily on the nodes of an $n$-node graph with maximum degree $\Delta$, must autonomously relocate…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Debasish Pattanayak , Ajay D. Kshemkalyani , Manish Kumar , Anisur Rahaman Molla , Gokarna Sharma

Schemas are knowledge structures that can enable rapid learning. Rodent one-shot learning in a multiple paired association navigation task has been postulated to be schema-dependent. We still only poorly understand how schemas,…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-09-11 M Ganesh Kumar , Cheston Tan , Camilo Libedinsky , Shih-Cheng Yen , Andrew Yong-Yi Tan

In this paper we investigate the computational complexity of motivating time-inconsistent agents to complete long term projects. We resort to an elegant graph-theoretic model, introduced by Kleinberg and Oren, which consists of a task graph…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2016-01-05 Susanne Albers , Dennis Kraft

We establish a classification of decision problems that are to be solved by mobile agents operating in unlabeled graphs, using a deterministic protocol. The classification is with respect to the ability of a team of agents to solve the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2010-11-12 Pierre Fraigniaud , Andrzej Pelc

We consider the task of graph exploration. An $n$-node graph has unlabeled nodes, and all ports at any node of degree $d$ are arbitrarily numbered $0,\dots, d-1$. A mobile agent has to visit all nodes and stop. The exploration time is the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Barun Gorain , Andrzej Pelc

This paper explores the application of quantum non-locality, a renowned and unique phenomenon acknowledged as a valuable resource. Focusing on a novel application, we demonstrate its quantum advantage for mobile agents engaged in specific…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-16 Giuseppe Viola , Piotr Mironowicz

Graph exploration is one of the fundamental tasks performed by a mobile agent in a graph. An $n$-node graph has unlabeled nodes, and all ports at any node of degree $d$ are arbitrarily numbered $0,\dots, d-1$. A mobile agent, initially…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Andrzej Pelc

A mobile agent, starting from a node $s$ of a simple undirected connected graph $G=(V,E)$, has to explore all nodes and edges of $G$ using the minimum number of edge traversals. To do so, the agent uses a deterministic algorithm that allows…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-10-18 Stéphane Devismes , Yoann Dieudonné , Arnaud Labourel

Constrained submodular set function maximization problems often appear in multi-agent decision-making problems with a discrete feasible set. A prominent example is the problem of multi-agent mobile sensor placement over a discrete domain.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-12-01 Navid Rezazadeh , Solmaz S. Kia

In this paper we consider a variant of the well-known Achlioptas process for graphs adapted to monotone Boolean functions. Fix a number of choices $r\in \mathbb N$ and a sequence of increasing functions $(f_n)_{n\ge 1}$ such that, for every…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-09-28 Nicolas Fraiman , Lyuben Lichev , Dieter Mitsche

LLM-based agentic systems are rapidly evolving to perform complex autonomous tasks through dynamic tool invocation, stateful memory management, and multi-agent collaboration. However, this semantics-driven execution paradigm creates a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Chaofan Li , Lyuye Zhang , Jintao Zhai , Siyue Feng , Xichun Yang , Huahao Wang , Shihan Dou , Yu Ji , Yutao Hu , Yueming Wu , Yang Liu , Deqing Zou

At the intersection of computation and cognitive science, graph theory is utilized as a formalized description of complex relationships and structures. Traditional graph models are often static, lacking dynamic and autonomous behavioral…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2024-06-11 Hui Wei , Chenyue Feng , Jianning Zhang