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The centralized training for decentralized execution paradigm emerged as the state-of-the-art approach to $\epsilon$-optimally solving decentralized partially observable Markov decision processes. However, scalability remains a significant…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Johan Peralez , Aurèlien Delage , Jacopo Castellini , Rafael F. Cunha , Jilles S. Dibangoye

Generalized Polynomial Chaos (gPC) theory has been widely used for representing parametric uncertainty in a system, thanks to its ability to propagate uncertainty evolution. In an optimal control context, gPC can be combined with several…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-10-05 Yuichiro Aoyama , Augustinos D. Saravanos , Evangelos A. Theodorou

A wide range of system models in modern robotics and avionics applications admit natural symmetries. Such systems are termed equivariant and the structure provided by the symmetry is a powerful tool in the design of observers. Significant…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-01 Robert Mahony , Tarek Hamel , Jochen Trumpf

Despite the recent successes of multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) algorithms, efficiently adapting to co-players in mixed-motive environments remains a significant challenge. One feasible approach is to hierarchically model…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-07-15 Yizhe Huang , Anji Liu , Fanqi Kong , Yaodong Yang , Song-Chun Zhu , Xue Feng

In this study, we explore the robustness of cooperative multi-agent reinforcement learning (c-MARL) against Byzantine failures, where any agent can enact arbitrary, worst-case actions due to malfunction or adversarial attack. To address the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Simin Li , Jun Guo , Jingqiao Xiu , Ruixiao Xu , Xin Yu , Jiakai Wang , Aishan Liu , Yaodong Yang , Xianglong Liu

This paper looks at solving collaborative planning problems formalized as Decentralized POMDPs (Dec-POMDPs) by searching for Nash equilibria, i.e., situations where each agent's policy is a best response to the other agents' (fixed)…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Yang You , Vincent Thomas , Francis Colas , Olivier Buffet

The main goal in task planning is to build a sequence of actions that takes an agent from an initial state to a goal state. In robotics, this is particularly difficult because actions usually have several possible results, and sensors are…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-04-12 Sergio A. Serrano , Elizabeth Santiago , Jose Martinez-Carranza , Eduardo Morales , L. Enrique Sucar

Uncertainties in dynamic road environments pose significant challenges for behavior and trajectory planning in autonomous driving. This paper introduces Hi-Drive, a hierarchical planning algorithm addressing uncertainties at both behavior…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Xuanjin Jin , Chendong Zeng , Shengfa Zhu , Chunxiao Liu , Panpan Cai

Incorporating inductive biases is a promising approach for tackling challenging robot learning domains with sample-efficient solutions. This paper identifies partially observable domains where symmetries can be a useful inductive bias for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Hai Nguyen , Andrea Baisero , David Klee , Dian Wang , Robert Platt , Christopher Amato

This paper presents a novel method of global adaptive dynamic programming (ADP) for the adaptive optimal control of nonlinear polynomial systems. The strategy consists of relaxing the problem of solving the Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB)…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2017-01-11 Yu Jiang , Zhong-Ping Jiang

In this paper, we discuss distributed adaptive algorithms for synchronization of complex networks, consensus of multi-agents with or without pinning controller. The dynamics of individual node is governed by generalized QUAD condition. We…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2020-07-30 Wenlian Lu , Xiwei Liu , Tianping Chen

In this article, we are interested in planning problems where the agent is aware of the presence of an observer, and where this observer is in a partial observability situation. The agent has to choose its strategy so as to optimize the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Salomé Lepers , Vincent Thomas , Olivier Buffet

Current deep reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms are still highly task-specific and lack the ability to generalize to new environments. Lifelong learning (LLL), however, aims at solving multiple tasks sequentially by efficiently…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Hadi Nekoei , Akilesh Badrinaaraayanan , Aaron Courville , Sarath Chandar

Dynamic programming and heuristic search are at the core of state-of-the-art solvers for sequential decision-making problems. In partially observable or collaborative settings (\eg, POMDPs and Dec-POMDPs), this requires introducing an…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-16 Aurélien Delage , Olivier Buffet , Jilles Dibangoye

In this work we assess the role played by the dynamical adaptation of the interactions network, among agents playing Coordination Games, in reaching global coordination and in the equilibrium selection. Specifically, we analyze a…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-02-20 Miguel A. González Casado , Angel Sánchez , Maxi San Miguel

To plan safely in uncertain environments, agents must balance utility with safety constraints. Safe planning problems can be modeled as a chance-constrained partially observable Markov decision process (CC-POMDP) and solutions often use…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-05-02 Robert J. Moss , Arec Jamgochian , Johannes Fischer , Anthony Corso , Mykel J. Kochenderfer

We present decentralized rollout sampling policy iteration (DecRSPI) - a new algorithm for multi-agent decision problems formalized as DEC-POMDPs. DecRSPI is designed to improve scalability and tackle problems that lack an explicit model.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2012-03-19 Feng Wu , Shlomo Zilberstein , Xiaoping Chen

We study how group symmetry helps improve data efficiency and generalization for end-to-end differentiable planning algorithms when symmetry appears in decision-making tasks. Motivated by equivariant convolution networks, we treat the path…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Linfeng Zhao , Xupeng Zhu , Lingzhi Kong , Robin Walters , Lawson L. S. Wong

Designing decentralized policies for wireless communication networks is a crucial problem, which has only been partially solved in the literature so far. In this paper, we propose the Decentralized Markov Decision Process (Dec-MDP)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-10 Alessandro Biason , Subhrakanti Dey , Michele Zorzi

Multi-hop uncrewed aerial vehicle (UAV) networks are promising to extend the terrestrial network coverage. Existing multi-hop UAV networks employ a single routing path by selecting the next-hop forwarding node in a hop-by-hop manner, which…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Zhenyu Zhao , Tiankui Zhang , Xiaoxia Xu , Junjie Li , Yuanwei Liu , Wenjuan Xing