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Various mobile applications that comprise dependent tasks are gaining widespread popularity and are increasingly complex. These applications often have low-latency requirements, resulting in a significant surge in demand for computing…

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Multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) algorithms have accomplished remarkable breakthroughs in solving large-scale decision-making tasks. Nonetheless, most existing MARL algorithms are model-free, limiting sample efficiency and…

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Multi-task multi-agent reinforcement learning (MT-MARL) has recently gained attention for its potential to enhance MARL's adaptability across multiple tasks. However, it is challenging for existing multi-task learning methods to handle…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Guobin Zhu , Rui Zhou , Wenkang Ji , Hongyin Zhang , Donglin Wang , Shiyu Zhao

Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL) has become a powerful framework for numerous real-world applications, modeling distributed decision-making and learning from interactions with complex environments. Resource Allocation Optimization…

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We propose integrating the edge-computing paradigm into the multi-robot collaborative scheduling to maximize resource utilization for complex collaborative tasks, which many robots must perform together. Examples include collaborative…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-11-20 Nazish Tahir , Ramviyas Parasuraman

Cloud providers must assign heterogeneous compute resources to workflow DAGs while balancing competing objectives such as completion time, cost, and energy consumption. In this work, we study a single-workflow, queue-free scheduling setting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Anas Hattay , Fred Ngole Mboula , Eric Gascard , Zakaria Yahoun

With the continuous increase of IoT applications, their effective scheduling in edge and cloud computing has become a critical challenge. The inherent dynamism and stochastic characteristics of edge and cloud computing, along with IoT…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Zhiyu Wang , Mohammad Goudarzi , Rajkumar Buyya

Cloud computing is a reliable solution to provide distributed computation power. However, real-time response is still challenging regarding the enormous amount of data generated by the IoT devices in 5G and 6G networks. Thus, multi-access…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-11-03 Anahita Mazloomi , Hani Sami , Jamal Bentahar , Hadi Otrok , Azzam Mourad

The disaggregated and hierarchical architecture of advanced RAN presents significant challenges in efficiently placing baseband functions and user plane functions in conjunction with Multi-Access Edge Computing (MEC) to accommodate diverse…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-12-09 Haiyuan Li , Peizheng Li , Karcius Day Assis , Adnan Aijaz , Sen Shen , Reza Nejabati , Shuangyi Yan , Dimitra Simeonidou

Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) techniques have been successfully applied for solving complex decision-making and control tasks in multiple fields including robotics, autonomous driving, healthcare and natural language processing. The…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-08-07 Amanda Jayanetti , Saman Halgamuge , Rajkumar Buyya

Recent foundation models are capable of handling multiple tasks and multiple data modalities with the unified base model structure and several specialized model components. However, efficient training of such multi-task (MT) multi-modal…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Yujie Wang , Shenhan Zhu , Fangcheng Fu , Xupeng Miao , Jie Zhang , Juan Zhu , Fan Hong , Yong Li , Bin Cui

One of the challenges for multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) is designing efficient learning algorithms for a large system in which each agent has only limited or partial information of the entire system. While exciting progress has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Haotian Gu , Xin Guo , Xiaoli Wei , Renyuan Xu

Federated Learning (FL) provides a privacy-preserving framework for training machine learning models on mobile edge devices. Traditional FL algorithms, e.g., FedAvg, impose a heavy communication workload on these devices. To mitigate this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Zhidong Gao , Yu Zhang , Yanmin Gong , Yuanxiong Guo

A rising research challenge is running costly machine learning (ML) networks locally on resource-constrained edge devices. ML networks with large convolutional layers can easily exceed available memory, increasing latency due to excessive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-20 Jackson Farley , Andreas Gerstlauer

Deep Neural Network (DNN)-based video analytics significantly improves recognition accuracy in computer vision applications. Deploying DNN models at edge nodes, closer to end users, reduces inference delay and minimizes bandwidth costs.…

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Robotics can help address the growing worker shortage challenge of the manufacturing industry. As such, machine tending is a task collaborative robots can tackle that can also highly boost productivity. Nevertheless, existing robotics…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Abdalwhab Abdalwhab , Giovanni Beltrame , Samira Ebrahimi Kahou , David St-Onge

This paper extends the paradigm of "mobile edge learning (MEL)" by designing an optimal task allocation scheme for training a machine learning model in an asynchronous manner across mutiple edge nodes or learners connected via a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-07 Umair Mohammad , Sameh Sorour , Mohamed Hefeida

Large language models (LLMs) have achieved remarkable success in various tasks, such as decision-making, reasoning, and question answering. They have been widely used in edge devices. However, fine-tuning LLMs to specific tasks at the edge…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Senkang Hu , Yanan Ma , Yihang Tao , Zhengru Fang , Zihan Fang , Yiqin Deng , Sam Kwong , Yuguang Fang

The paper presents an efficient real-time scheduling algorithm for intelligent real-time edge services, defined as those that perform machine intelligence tasks, such as voice recognition, LIDAR processing, or machine vision, on behalf of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Shuochao Yao , Yifan Hao , Yiran Zhao , Huajie Shao , Dongxin Liu , Shengzhong Liu , Tianshi Wang , Jinyang Li , Tarek Abdelzaher

Flocking control is essential for multi-robot systems in diverse applications, yet achieving efficient flocking in congested environments poses challenges regarding computation burdens, performance optimality, and motion safety. This paper…

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