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We consider the problem where $M$ agents interact with $M$ identical and independent environments with $S$ states and $A$ actions using reinforcement learning for $T$ rounds. The agents share their data with a central server to minimize…

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In a cooperative multiagent system, a collection of agents executes a joint policy in order to achieve some common objective. The successful deployment of such systems hinges on the availability of reliable inter-agent communication.…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Mustafa O. Karabag , Cyrus Neary , Ufuk Topcu

In this work, we introduce a novel perspective, i.e., dimensional analysis, to address the challenge of communication efficiency in Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL). Our findings reveal that simply optimizing the content and timing…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Chuxiong Sun , Peng He , Rui Wang , Changwen Zheng

This work considers multiple agents traversing a network from a source node to the goal node. The cost to an agent for traveling a link has a private as well as a congestion component. The agent's objective is to find a path to the goal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-24 Prashant Trivedi , Nandyala Hemachandra

Collaborative perception allows each agent to enhance its perceptual abilities by exchanging messages with others. It inherently results in a trade-off between perception ability and communication costs. Previous works transmit complete…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-24 Yue Hu , Xianghe Pang , Xiaoqi Qin , Yonina C. Eldar , Siheng Chen , Ping Zhang , Wenjun Zhang

Emergent communication enables partially observant Autonomous Mobile Robots (AMRs) to coordinate effectively in decentralized multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) settings. However, existing approaches often struggle with unstable…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Mahmoud Abouelyazid , Eman Hammad

The paper considers independent reinforcement learning (IRL) for multi-agent collaborative decision-making in the paradigm of federated learning (FL). However, FL generates excessive communication overheads between agents and a remote…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Xing Xu , Rongpeng Li , Zhifeng Zhao , Honggang Zhang

Recent studies in multi-agent communicative reinforcement learning (MACRL) have demonstrated that multi-agent coordination can be greatly improved by allowing communication between agents. Meanwhile, adversarial machine learning (ML) has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-27 Wanqi Xue , Wei Qiu , Bo An , Zinovi Rabinovich , Svetlana Obraztsova , Chai Kiat Yeo

This paper introduces a decentralized multi-agent reinforcement learning framework enabling structurally heterogeneous teams of agents to jointly discover and acquire randomly located targets in environments characterized by partial…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Gabriele Calzolari , Vidya Sumathy , Christoforos Kanellakis , George Nikolakopoulos

Communication is one of the effective means to improve the learning of cooperative policy in multi-agent systems. However, in most real-world scenarios, lossy communication is a prevalent issue. Existing multi-agent reinforcement learning…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Guang Yang , Tianpei Yang , Jingwen Qiao , Yanqing Wu , Jing Huo , Xingguo Chen , Yang Gao

Communication is a key component in multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) for mitigating partial observability, yet prior approaches often rely on inefficient information exchange or fail to transmit sufficient state information. To…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Sangjun Bae , Yisak Park , Sanghyeon Lee , Seungyul Han

Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown remarkable reasoning capabilities in mathematical and scientific tasks. To enhance complex reasoning, multi-agent systems have been proposed to harness the collective intelligence of LLM agents.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Zhenyu Bi , Meng Lu , Yang Li , Swastik Roy , Weijie Guan , Morteza Ziyadi , Xuan Wang

We introduce a reduced-communication distributed optimization scheme based on estimating the solution to a proximal minimization problem. Our proposed setup involves a group of agents coordinated by a central entity, altogether operating in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-07-10 Giorgos Stathopoulos , Colin N. Jones

Communication is a important factor that enables agents work cooperatively in multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL). Most previous work uses continuous message communication whose high representational capacity comes at the expense of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-26 Sheng Li , Yutai Zhou , Ross Allen , Mykel J. Kochenderfer

Communication is an important factor for the big multi-agent world to stay organized and productive. Recently, the AI community has applied the Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) to learn the communication strategy and the control policy for…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2019-03-14 Hangyu Mao , Zhibo Gong , Zhengchao Zhang , Zhen Xiao , Yan Ni

Accurate remote state estimation is a fundamental component of many autonomous and networked dynamical systems, where multiple decision-making agents interact and communicate over shared, bandwidth-constrained channels. These communication…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-02 Shubham Aggarwal , Dipankar Maity , Tamer Başar

This paper studies a distributed policy gradient in collaborative multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL), where agents over a communication network aim to find the optimal policy to maximize the average of all agents' local returns. Due…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Xiaoxiao Zhao , Jinlong Lei , Li Li , Jie Chen

Multi-agent reinforcement learning is a promising research area that extends established reinforcement learning approaches to problems formulated as multi-agent systems. Recently, a multitude of communication methods have been introduced to…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Christoph Wittner

In this paper, we propose a new mutual information framework for multi-agent reinforcement learning to enable multiple agents to learn coordinated behaviors by regularizing the accumulated return with the simultaneous mutual information…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-03-02 Woojun Kim , Whiyoung Jung , Myungsik Cho , Youngchul Sung

Recent advances have witnessed that value decomposed-based multi-agent reinforcement learning methods make an efficient performance in coordination tasks. Most current methods assume that agents can make communication to assist decisions,…

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