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Multi-Agent Path Finding (MAPF) seeks collision-free paths for multiple agents from their respective starting locations to their respective goal locations while minimizing path costs. Although many MAPF algorithms were developed and can…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Shuai Zhou , Shizhe Zhao , Zhongqiang Ren

Path-planning algorithms are an important part of a wide variety of robotic applications, such as mobile robot navigation and robot arm manipulation. However, in large search spaces in which local traps may exist, it remains challenging to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-12 Yuka Ariki , Takuya Narihira

Multi-agent path planning is a critical challenge in robotics, requiring agents to navigate complex environments while avoiding collisions and optimizing travel efficiency. This work addresses the limitations of existing approaches by…

Automated planning is one of the foundational areas of AI. Since no single planner can work well for all tasks and domains, portfolio-based techniques have become increasingly popular in recent years. In particular, deep learning emerges as…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-11-21 Tengfei Ma , Patrick Ferber , Siyu Huo , Jie Chen , Michael Katz

We address planning and navigation in challenging 3D video games featuring maps with disconnected regions reachable by agents using special actions. In this setting, classical symbolic planners are not applicable or difficult to adapt. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-23 Edward Beeching , Maxim Peter , Philippe Marcotte , Jilles Debangoye , Olivier Simonin , Joshua Romoff , Christian Wolf

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs), developed by the graph learning community, have been adopted and shown to be highly effective in multi-robot and multi-agent learning. Inspired by this successful cross-pollination, we investigate and…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-02-17 Siva Kailas , Shalin Jain , Harish Ravichandar

This paper solves a path planning problem for a group of gliders. The gliders are tasked with visiting a set of interest points. The gliders have limited range but are able to increase their range by visiting special points called thermals.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-07-06 Muhammad Aneeq uz Zaman , Aamer Iqbal Bhatti

We demonstrate that a single training trajectory can transform a graph neural network into an unsupervised heuristic for combinatorial optimization. Focusing on the Travelling Salesman Problem, we show that encoding global structural…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Yimeng Min , Carla P. Gomes

Connected automated driving has the potential to significantly improve urban traffic efficiency, e.g., by alleviating issues due to occlusion. Cooperative behavior planning can be employed to jointly optimize the motion of multiple…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-07-31 Marvin Klimke , Benjamin Völz , Michael Buchholz

Domain-independent planning is one of the foundational areas in the field of Artificial Intelligence. A description of a planning task consists of an initial world state, a goal, and a set of actions for modifying the world state. The…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-01-24 Carmel Domshlak , Erez Karpas , Shaul Markovitch

Various human-designed prompt engineering techniques have been proposed to improve problem solvers based on Large Language Models (LLMs), yielding many disparate code bases. We unify these approaches by describing LLM-based agents as…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-08-23 Mingchen Zhuge , Wenyi Wang , Louis Kirsch , Francesco Faccio , Dmitrii Khizbullin , Jürgen Schmidhuber

Multi-robot path finding in dynamic environments is a highly challenging classic problem. In the movement process, robots need to avoid collisions with other moving robots while minimizing their travel distance. Previous methods for this…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Shaoming Peng

LLM routing has achieved promising results in integrating the strengths of diverse models while balancing efficiency and performance. However, to support more realistic and challenging applications, routing must extend into agentic LLM…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Tao Feng , Haozhen Zhang , Zijie Lei , Peixuan Han , Jiaxuan You

In this work we study a well-known and challenging problem of Multi-agent Pathfinding, when a set of agents is confined to a graph, each agent is assigned a unique start and goal vertices and the task is to find a set of collision-free…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-07-26 Yelisey Pitanov , Alexey Skrynnik , Anton Andreychuk , Konstantin Yakovlev , Aleksandr Panov

Recent research has explored the use of Large Language Models (LLMs) for tackling complex graph reasoning tasks. However, due to the intricacies of graph structures and the inherent limitations of LLMs in handling long text, current…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Yuwei Hu , Runlin Lei , Xinyi Huang , Zhewei Wei , Yongchao Liu

The performance of search algorithms for grid-based pathfinding, e.g. A*, critically depends on the heuristic function that is used to focus the search. Recent studies have shown that informed heuristics that take the positions/shapes of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Aleksandr Ananikian , Daniil Drozdov , Konstantin Yakovlev

We consider a problem where multiple agents must learn an action profile that maximises the sum of their utilities in a distributed manner. The agents are assumed to have no knowledge of either the utility functions or the actions and…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-03-31 Chithrupa Ramesh , Marius Schmitt , John Lygeros

The multi-agent pathfinding (MAPF) problem seeks collision-free paths for a team of agents from their current positions to their pre-set goals in a known environment, and is an essential problem found at the core of many logistics,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-13 Chengyang He , Tianze Yang , Tanishq Duhan , Yutong Wang , Guillaume Sartoretti

Multi-Agent Path Finding (MAPF) poses a significant and challenging problem critical for applications in robotics and logistics, particularly due to its combinatorial complexity and the partial observability inherent in realistic…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Merve Atasever , Matthew Hong , Mihir Nitin Kulkarni , Qingpei Li , Jyotirmoy V. Deshmukh

Multi-agent planning (MAP) approaches have been typically conceived for independent or loosely-coupled problems to enhance the benefits of distributed planning between autonomous agents as solving this type of problems require less…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2015-01-30 Alejandro Torreño , Eva Onaindia , Óscar Sapena