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Big data, including applications with high security requirements, are often collected and stored on multiple heterogeneous devices, such as mobile devices, drones and vehicles. Due to the limitations of communication costs and security…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-10-05 Hao Chen , Yu Ye , Ming Xiao , Mikael Skoglund , H. Vincent Poor

Communication could potentially be an effective way for multi-agent cooperation. However, information sharing among all agents or in predefined communication architectures that existing methods adopt can be problematic. When there is a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-11-26 Jiechuan Jiang , Zongqing Lu

This paper focuses on a multi-agent zeroth-order online optimization problem in a federated learning setting for target tracking. The agents only sense their current distances to their targets and aim to maintain a minimum safe distance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-12 Ege C. Kaya , M. Berk Sahin , Abolfazl Hashemi

Communication is essential for coordination in \emph{cooperative} multi-agent reinforcement learning under partial observability, yet \emph{cross-timestep} delays cause messages to arrive multiple timesteps after generation, inducing…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Zihong Gao , Hongjian Liang , Lei Hao , Liangjun Ke

We present conservative distributed multi-task learning in stochastic linear contextual bandits with heterogeneous agents. This extends conservative linear bandits to a distributed setting where M agents tackle different but related tasks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Jiabin Lin , Shana Moothedath

We study a novel setting in offline reinforcement learning (RL) where a number of distributed machines jointly cooperate to solve the problem but only one single round of communication is allowed and there is a budget constraint on the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-02-11 Juliusz Krysztof Ziomek , Jun Wang , Yaodong Yang

In this work, we propose a novel memory-based multi-agent meta-learning architecture and learning procedure that allows for learning of a shared communication policy that enables the emergence of rapid adaptation to new and unseen…

We study the distributed multi-agent multi-armed bandit problem with heterogeneous rewards over random communication graphs. Uniquely, at each time step $t$ agents communicate over a time-varying random graph $G_t$ generated by applying the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Jingyuan Liu , Hao Qiu , Lin Yang , Mengfan Xu

Multi-dueling bandits, where a learner selects $m \geq 2$ arms per round and observes only the winner, arise naturally in many applications including ranking and recommendation systems, yet a fundamental question has remained open: can a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-19 S Akash , Pratik Gajane , Jawar Singh

We study the regret in stochastic Multi-Armed Bandits (MAB) with multiple agents that communicate over an arbitrary connected communication graph. We analyzed a variant of Cooperative Successive Elimination algorithm, COOP-SE, and show an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Idan Barnea , Tal Lancewicki , Yishay Mansour

We study the multi-armed bandit (MAB) problem with composite and anonymous feedback. In this model, the reward of pulling an arm spreads over a period of time (we call this period as reward interval) and the player receives partial rewards…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-16 Siwei Wang , Haoyun Wang , Longbo Huang

We investigate the benefits of heterogeneity in multi-agent explore-exploit decision making where the goal of the agents is to maximize cumulative group reward. To do so we study a class of distributed stochastic bandit problems in which…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-12-03 Udari Madhushani , Naomi Leonard

In several smart city applications, multiple resources must be allocated among competing agents that are coupled through such shared resources and are constrained --- either through limitations of communication infrastructure or privacy…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2023-10-19 Syed Eqbal Alam , Robert Shorten , Fabian Wirth , Jia Yuan Yu

This paper considers the distributed consensus problem of multi-agent systems with general continuous-time linear dynamics. Two distributed adaptive dynamic consensus protocols are proposed, based on the relative output information of…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2015-01-20 Zhongkui Li , Xiangdong Liu , Wei Ren , Lihua Xie

In the edge computing paradigm, mobile devices offload the computational tasks to an edge server by routing the required data over the wireless network. The full potential of edge computing becomes realized only if a smart device selects…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-25 Saeed Ghoorchian , Setareh Maghsudi

This paper investigates online distributed aggregative games with time-varying cost functions, where agents are interconnected through an unbalanced communication graph. Due to the distributed and noncooperative nature of the game, some…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Olusola Odeyomi , Tokunbo Ogunfunmi , Adjovi Laba

We study the $K$-armed dueling bandit problem, a variation of the traditional multi-armed bandit problem in which feedback is obtained in the form of pairwise comparisons. Previous learning algorithms have focused on the $\textit{fully…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Arpit Agarwal , Rohan Ghuge , Viswanath Nagarajan

Multi-player multi-armed bandit is an increasingly relevant decision-making problem, motivated by applications to cognitive radio systems. Most research for this problem focuses exclusively on the settings that players have \textit{full…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-14 Guojun Xiong , Jian Li

We consider the classical multi-armed bandit problem, but with strategic arms. In this context, each arm is characterized by a bounded support reward distribution and strategically aims to maximize its own utility by potentially retaining a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Ahmed Ben Yahmed , Clément Calauzènes , Vianney Perchet

We consider distributed linear bandits where $M$ agents learn collaboratively to minimize the overall cumulative regret incurred by all agents. Information exchange is facilitated by a central server, and both the uplink and downlink…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Sudeep Salgia , Qing Zhao