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Multi-agent systems have demonstrated exceptional performance in downstream tasks beyond diverse single agent baselines. A growing body of work has explored ways to improve their reasoning and collaboration, from vote, debate, to complex…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Yu Yao , Jiayi Dong , Yang Yang , Ju Li , Yilun Du

LLM-based agents act through sequences of executable decisions, but their trajectories provide little evidence of which agent or policy produced them, making provenance, ownership, and unauthorized reuse difficult to establish from observed…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Hyeseon An , Shinwoo Park , Dongsu Kim , Yo-Sub Han

This work presents and experimentally test the framework used by our context-aware, distributed team of small Unmanned Aerial Systems (SUAS) capable of operating in real-time, in an autonomous fashion, and under constrained communications.…

Coordination between organizations on strategic, tactical and operation levels leads to more effective and efficient supply chains. Supply chain management is increasing day by day in modern enterprises. The environment is becoming…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2009-11-05 Ritu Sindhu , Abdul Wahid , G. N. Purohit

In cooperative multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL), well-designed communication protocols can effectively facilitate consensus among agents, thereby enhancing task performance. Moreover, in large-scale multi-agent systems commonly…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Xinran Li , Xiaolu Wang , Chenjia Bai , Jun Zhang

Communication lays the foundation for human cooperation. It is also crucial for multi-agent cooperation. However, existing work focuses on broadcast communication, which is not only impractical but also leads to information redundancy that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-30 Ziluo Ding , Tiejun Huang , Zongqing Lu

Multi-agent systems using large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated impressive capabilities across various domains. However, current agent communication suffers from verbose output that overload context and increase computational…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Danqing Wang , Da Yin , Ruta Desai , Lei Li , Asli Celikyilmaz , Ansong Ni

Centralized multimodal learning commonly compresses language, acoustic, and visual signals into a single fused representation for prediction. While effective, this paradigm suffers from two limitations: modality dominance, where…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Chunlei Meng , Pengbin Feng , Rong Fu , Hoi Leong Lee , Xiaojing Du , Zhaolu Kang , Zeyu Zhang , Weilin Zhou , Chun Ouyang , Zhongxue Gan

We introduce a novel large language model (LLM)-driven agent framework, which iteratively refines queries and filters contextual evidence by leveraging dynamically evolving knowledge. A defining feature of the system is its decoupling of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Seyoung Song

Cooperative multi-agent planning requires agents to make joint decisions with partial information and limited communication. Coordination at the trajectory level often fails, as small deviations in timing or movement cascade into conflicts.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Narjes Nourzad , Hanqing Yang , Shiyu Chen , Carlee Joe-Wong

It is well-known that acting in an individually rational manner, according to the principles of classical game theory, may lead to sub-optimal solutions in a class of problems named social dilemmas. In contrast, humans generally do not have…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2014-01-16 Steven de Jong , Simon Uyttendaele , Karl Tuyls

Recent advancements in LLM-based multi-agent (LLM-MA) systems have shown promise, yet significant challenges remain in managing communication and refinement when agents collaborate on complex tasks. In this paper, we propose \textit{Talk…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Zhao Wang , Sota Moriyama , Wei-Yao Wang , Briti Gangopadhyay , Shingo Takamatsu

Long-term multi-agent systems inevitably generate vast amounts of trajectories and historical interactions, which makes efficient memory management essential for both performance and scalability. Existing methods typically depend on vector…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Haoran Xu , Jiacong Hu , Ke Zhang , Lei Yu , Yuxin Tang , Xinyuan Song , Yiqun Duan , Lynn Ai , Bill Shi

In open systems, i.e. systems operating in an environment that they cannot control and with components that may join or leave, behaviors can arise as side effects of intensive components interaction. Finding ways to understand and design…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-02-19 Yehia Abd Alrahman , Rocco De Nicola , Michele Loreti

We present a multi-agent learning algorithm, ALMA-Learning, for efficient and fair allocations in large-scale systems. We circumvent the traditional pitfalls of multi-agent learning (e.g., the moving target problem, the curse of…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Panayiotis Danassis , Florian Wiedemair , Boi Faltings

We present a method for combining multi-agent communication and traditional data-driven approaches to natural language learning, with an end goal of teaching agents to communicate with humans in natural language. Our starting point is a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-15 Angeliki Lazaridou , Anna Potapenko , Olivier Tieleman

This paper presents a multiagent approach as a paradigm for scheduling parallel jobs in a parallel system. Scheduling parallel jobs is performed as a means to balance the load of a system in order to improve the performance of a parallel…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-06-29 Jaderick P. Pabico

Supply Chain coordination has become a critical success factor for Supply Chain management (SCM) and effectively improving the performance of organizations in various industries. Companies are increasingly located at the intersection of one…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2012-10-15 Benaissa Ezzeddine , Benabdelhafid Abdellatif , Benaissa Mounir

Multi-agent reinforcement learning shines as the pinnacle of multi-agent systems, conquering intricate real-world challenges, fostering collaboration and coordination among agents, and unleashing the potential for intelligent…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Jiawei Wang , Jian Zhao , Zhengtao Cao , Ruili Feng , Rongjun Qin , Yang Yu

This paper studies how to design a platform to optimally control constrained multi-agent systems with a single coordinator and multiple strategic agents. In our setting, the agents cannot apply control inputs and only the coordinator…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-03-19 Pedro Hespanhol , Anil Aswani