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The rapid advancement of large language models (LLMs) has enabled the development of multi-agent systems where multiple LLM-based agents collaborate on complex tasks. However, existing systems often rely on centralized coordination, leading…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Yingxuan Yang , Huacan Chai , Shuai Shao , Yuanyi Song , Siyuan Qi , Renting Rui , Weinan Zhang

Decentralized multi-agent systems have shown promise in enabling autonomous collaboration among LLM-based agents. While AgentNet demonstrated the feasibility of fully decentralized coordination through dynamic DAG topologies, several…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Goutham Nalagatla

Neural networks (NNs) have been shown to learn complex control laws successfully, often with performance advantages or decreased computational cost compared to alternative methods. Neural network controllers (NNCs) are, however, highly…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-08 Oliver Gates , Matthew Newton , Konstantinos Gatsis

This paper presents a distributed adaptive control strategy for multi-agent systems with heterogeneous dynamics and collision avoidance. We propose an adaptive control strategy designed to ensure leader-following formation consensus while…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-14 Armel Koulong , Ali Pakniyat

We introduce a distributed control architecture for a class of heterogeneous, nonlinear dynamical agents moving in the "string" formation, while guaranteeing trajectory tracking, collision avoidance and the preservation of the formation's…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-06-19 Serban Sabau , Irinel-Constantin Morarescu , Lucian Busoniu , Ali Jadbabaie

This paper focuses on the optimal coverage problem (OCP) for multi-agent systems with a decentralized optimization mechanism. A game based distributed decision-making method for the multi-agent OCP is proposed to address the high…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-08 Zixin Feng , Wenchao Xue , Yifen Mu , Ming Wei , Bin Meng , Wei Cui

Achieving joint objectives by teams of cooperative planning agents requires significant coordination and communication efforts. For a single-agent system facing a plan failure in a dynamic environment, arguably, attempts to repair the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2012-02-14 Antonín Komenda , Peter Novák , Michal Pěchouček

This article deals with the problem of distributed machine learning, in which agents update their models based on their local datasets, and aggregate the updated models collaboratively and in a fully decentralized manner. In this paper, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Tamara Alshammari , Sumudu Samarakoon , Anis Elgabli , Mehdi Bennis

This paper addresses the problem of distributed detection in multi-agent networks. Agents receive private signals about an unknown state of the world. The underlying state is globally identifiable, yet informative signals may be dispersed…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-10-01 Shahin Shahrampour , Alexander Rakhlin , Ali Jadbabaie

Many real-world problems require the coordination of multiple autonomous agents. Recent work has shown the promise of Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) to learn explicit communication strategies that enable complex multi-agent coordination.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-11-05 Jan Blumenkamp , Amanda Prorok

Identifying super-spreaders can be framed as a subtask of the influence maximisation problem. It seeks to pinpoint agents within a network that, if selected as single diffusion seeds, disseminate information most effectively. Multilayer…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Michał Czuba , Mateusz Stolarski , Adam Piróg , Piotr Bielak , Piotr Bródka

A decomposition-based coverage control scheme is proposed for multi-agent, persistent surveillance missions operating in a communication-constrained, dynamic environment. The proposed approach decouples high-level task assignment from…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2017-02-16 Jeffrey R. Peters , Sean J. Wang , Amit Surana , Francesco Bullo

Multi-agent systems play a central role in area coverage tasks across search-and-rescue, environmental monitoring, and precision agriculture. Achieving non-uniform coverage, where spatial priorities vary across the domain, requires…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-11 Kooktae Lee , Ethan Brook

Individualized products and shorter product life cycles have driven companies to rethink traditional mass production. New concepts like Industry 4.0 foster the advent of decentralized production control and distribution of information. A…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2022-05-13 Felix Gehlhoff , Alexander Fay

Challenges in real-world robotic applications often stem from managing multiple, dynamically varying entities such as neighboring robots, manipulable objects, and navigation goals. Existing multi-agent control strategies face scalability…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-02-29 Tianxu An , Joonho Lee , Marko Bjelonic , Flavio De Vincenti , Marco Hutter

This paper studies Dictionary Learning problems wherein the learning task is distributed over a multi-agent network, modeled as a time-varying directed graph. This formulation is relevant, for instance, in Big Data scenarios where massive…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-03-06 Amir Daneshmand , Ying Sun , Gesualdo Scutari , Francisco Facchinei , Brian M. Sadler

In this work we study a multi-agent coordination problem in which agents are only able to communicate with each other intermittently through a cloud server. To reduce the amount of required communication, we develop a self-triggered…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-04-07 Sean L. Bowman , Cameron Nowzari , George J. Pappas

We study nonconvex distributed optimization in multiagent networks where the communications between nodes is modeled as a time-varying sequence of arbitrary digraphs. We introduce a novel broadcast-based distributed algorithmic framework…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-12-16 Ying Sun , Gesualdo Scutari , Daniel Palomar

This paper considers the leader-follower control problem for a linear multi-agent system with directed communication topology and linear nonidentical uncertain coupling subject to integral quadratic constraints (IQCs). A consensus-type…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2013-09-03 Yi Cheng , V. Ugrinovskii , Guanghui Wen

This paper introduces a novel decentralized implementation of a continuification-based strategy to control the density of large-scale multi-agent systems on the unit circle. While continuification methods effectively address micro-to-macro…

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