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Generating competitive strategies and performing continuous motion planning simultaneously in an adversarial setting is a challenging problem. In addition, understanding the intent of other agents is crucial to deploying autonomous systems…

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Deception is helpful for agents masking their intentions from an observer. We consider a team of agents deceiving their supervisor. The supervisor defines nominal behavior for the agents via reference policies, but the agents share an…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-28 Caleb Probine , Mustafa O. Karabag , Ufuk Topcu

In multi-agent planning, agents jointly compute a plan that achieves mutual goals, keeping certain information private to the individual agents. Agents' coordination is achieved through the transmission of messages. These messages can be a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-06-20 Alfonso E. Gerevini , Nir Lipovetzky , Nico Peli , Francesco Percassi , Alessandro Saetti , Ivan Serina

We consider the problem of communication-constrained collaborative personalized mean estimation under a privacy constraint in an environment of several agents continuously receiving data according to arbitrary unknown agent-specific…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Yauhen Yakimenka , Hsuan-Yin Lin , Eirik Rosnes , Jörg Kliewer

Multi-agent coordination problems often require agents to exchange state information in order to reach some collective goal, such as agreement on a final state value. In some cases, it is feasible that opportunistic agents may deceptively…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-11-09 M. T. Hale , M. Egerstedt

This article introduces a generalized framework for Decentralized Learning formulated as a Multi-Objective Optimization problem, in which both distributed agents and a central coordinator contribute independent, potentially conflicting…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-21 Roberto Morales , Umberto Biccari

Designing autonomous aerial robot team systems remains a grand challenge in robotics. Existing works in this field can be categorized as centralized and decentralized. Centralized methods suffer from scale dilemmas, while decentralized ones…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-10-20 Jialiang Hou , Xin Zhou , Zhongxue Gan , Fei Gao

We present and analyze a computational hybrid architecture for performing multi-agent optimization. The optimization problems under consideration have convex objective and constraint functions with mild smoothness conditions imposed on…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-08-26 Matthew T. Hale , Angelia Nedic , Magnus Egerstedt

We consider cooperative multi-agent consensus optimization problems over both static and time-varying communication networks, where only local communications are allowed. The objective is to minimize the sum of agent-specific possibly…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-06-27 Erfan Yazdandoost Hamedani , Necdet Serhat Aybat

This paper studies the optimal resource allocation problem within a multi-agent network composed of both autonomous agents and humans. The main challenge lies in the globally coupled constraints that link the decisions of autonomous agents…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-04 Yichen Yao , Ryan Mbagna Nanko , Yue Wang , Xuan Wang

The coordination of autonomous agents is a critical issue for decentralized communication networks. Instead of transmitting information, the agents interact in a coordinated manner in order to optimize a general objective function. A target…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Maël Le Treust

Decentralized optimization is gaining increased traction due to its widespread applications in large-scale machine learning and multi-agent systems. The same mechanism that enables its success, i.e., information sharing among participating…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-02-07 Yongqiang Wang , Angelia Nedic

Robust coordination skills enable agents to operate cohesively in shared environments, together towards a common goal and, ideally, individually without hindering each other's progress. To this end, this paper presents Coordinated QMIX…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-25 Giovanni Minelli , Mirco Musolesi

Multi-agent pathfinding (MAPF) remains a critical problem in robotics and autonomous systems, where agents must navigate shared spaces efficiently while avoiding conflicts. Traditional centralized algorithms with global information provide…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Bharath Muppasani , Ritirupa Dey , Biplav Srivastava , Vignesh Narayanan

Distributed model predictive control (MPC) has been proven a successful method in regulating the operation of large-scale networks of constrained dynamical systems. This paper is concerned with cooperative distributed MPC in which the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-29 Georgios Darivianakis , Angelos Georghiou , John Lygeros

The practical utility of agent-based models in decision-making relies on their capacity to accurately replicate populations while seamlessly integrating real-world data streams. Yet, the incorporation of such data poses significant…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-04-22 Ayush Chopra , Arnau Quera-Bofarull , Nurullah Giray-Kuru , Michael Wooldridge , Ramesh Raskar

We propose a multi-agent system that enables groups of agents to collaborate and work autonomously to execute tasks. Groups can work in a decentralized manner and can adapt to dynamic changes in the environment. Groups of agents solve…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Karishma , Shrisha Rao

We consider a finite-horizon discrete-time dynamic system jointly controlled by a designer and one or more agents, where the designer can influence the agents' actions through selective information disclosure. At each time step, the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-04 Renyan Sun , Ashutosh Nayyar

Real-time data-driven optimization and control problems over networks may require sensitive information of participating users to calculate solutions and decision variables, such as in traffic or energy systems. Adversaries with access to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-05-25 Roel Dobbe , Ye Pu , Jingge Zhu , Kannan Ramchandran , Claire Tomlin

Although multi-agent reinforcement learning can tackle systems of strategically interacting entities, it currently fails in scalability and lacks rigorous convergence guarantees. Crucially, learning in multi-agent systems can become…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2018-03-15 David Mguni , Joel Jennings , Enrique Munoz de Cote