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Multi-agent path finding (MAPF) is the problem of finding collision-free paths for a team of agents to reach their goal locations. State-of-the-art classical MAPF solvers typically employ heuristic search to find solutions for hundreds of…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-04-01 Rishi Veerapaneni , Qian Wang , Kevin Ren , Arthur Jakobsson , Jiaoyang Li , Maxim Likhachev

Large language models, employed as multiple agents that interact and collaborate with each other, have excelled at solving complex tasks. The agents are programmed with prompts that declare their functionality, along with the topologies…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Han Zhou , Xingchen Wan , Ruoxi Sun , Hamid Palangi , Shariq Iqbal , Ivan Vulić , Anna Korhonen , Sercan Ö. Arık

In multi-agent informative path planning (MAIPP), agents must collectively construct a global belief map of an underlying distribution of interest (e.g., gas concentration, light intensity, or pollution levels) over a given domain, based on…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-25 Tianze Yang , Yuhong Cao , Guillaume Sartoretti

This paper investigates the task-driven exploration of unknown environments with mobile sensors communicating compressed measurements. The sensors explore the area and transmit their compressed data to another robot, assisting it to reach…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Evangelos Psomiadis , Dipankar Maity , Panagiotis Tsiotras

While Large Language Models (LLM) enable non-experts to specify open-world multi-robot tasks, the generated plans often lack kinematic feasibility and are not efficient, especially in long-horizon scenarios. Formal methods like Linear…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Shuyuan Hu , Tao Lin , Kai Ye , Yang Yang , Tianwei Zhang

The Multi-Agent Path Finding (MAPF) problem involves planning collision-free paths for multiple agents in a shared environment. The majority of MAPF solvers rely on the assumption that an agent can arrive at a specific location at a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Yifan Su , Rishi Veerapaneni , Jiaoyang Li

Large language model(LLM)-driven multi-agent systems(MAS) coordinate specialized agents through predefined interaction topologies and have shown promise for complex tasks such as competition-level code generation. Recent studies demonstrate…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Siyu Wang , Ruotian Lu , Zhihao Yang , Yuchao Wang , Yanzhou Zhang , Lei Xu , Qimin Xu , Guojun Yin , Cailian Chen , Xinping Guan

Humans are expert explorers. Understanding the computational cognitive mechanisms that support this efficiency can advance the study of the human mind and enable more efficient exploration algorithms. We hypothesize that humans explore new…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-21 Sugandha Sharma , Aidan Curtis , Marta Kryven , Josh Tenenbaum , Ila Fiete

Visual robot navigation within large-scale, semi-structured environments deals with various challenges such as computation intensive path planning algorithms or insufficient knowledge about traversable spaces. Moreover, many…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-03-12 Fabian Blöchliger , Marius Fehr , Marcin Dymczyk , Thomas Schneider , Roland Siegwart

We address planning and navigation in challenging 3D video games featuring maps with disconnected regions reachable by agents using special actions. In this setting, classical symbolic planners are not applicable or difficult to adapt. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-23 Edward Beeching , Maxim Peter , Philippe Marcotte , Jilles Debangoye , Olivier Simonin , Joshua Romoff , Christian Wolf

Task and Motion Planning (TAMP) integrates high-level task planning with low-level motion feasibility, but existing methods are costly in long-horizon problems due to excessive motion sampling. While LLMs provide commonsense priors, they…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Minseo Kwon , Young J. Kim

We address the multi-agent motion planning problem where interactions, collisions, and congestion co-exist. Conventional game-theoretic planners capture interactions among agents but often converge to conservative, congested equilibria.…

Theory of Mind (ToM) -- the ability to understand that others can have differing knowledge and goals -- enables agents to reason about others' beliefs while planning their own actions. We present a novel approach to multi-agent cooperation…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Riddhi J. Pitliya , Ozan Çatal , Toon Van de Maele , Corrado Pezzato , Tim Verbelen

Multi-Agent Path Finding (MAPF) is essential to large-scale robotic systems. Recent methods have applied reinforcement learning (RL) to learn decentralized polices in partially observable environments. A fundamental challenge of obtaining…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-06-23 Ziyuan Ma , Yudong Luo , Hang Ma

Autonomous driving system aims for safe and social-consistent driving through the behavioral integration among interactive agents. However, challenges remain due to multi-agent scene uncertainty and heterogeneous interaction. Current dense…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Haochen Liu , Li Chen , Yu Qiao , Chen Lv , Hongyang Li

The potential of automatic task-solving through Large Language Model (LLM)-based multi-agent collaboration has recently garnered widespread attention from both the research community and industry. While utilizing natural language to…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-04-19 Bo Pan , Jiaying Lu , Ke Wang , Li Zheng , Zhen Wen , Yingchaojie Feng , Minfeng Zhu , Wei Chen

This paper addresses the challenge of navigation in large, visually complex environments with sparse rewards. We propose a method that uses object-oriented macro actions grounded in a topological map, allowing a simple Deep Q-Network (DQN)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-28 Simon Hakenes , Tobias Glasmachers

Recent studies have highlighted their proficiency in some simple tasks like writing and coding through various reasoning strategies. However, LLM agents still struggle with tasks that require comprehensive planning, a process that…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Chengxing Xie , Difan Zou

Efficient robotic extraterrestrial exploration requires robots with diverse capabilities, ranging from scientific measurement tools to advanced locomotion. A robotic team enables the distribution of tasks over multiple specialized…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Matthias Rubio , Julia Richter , Hendrik Kolvenbach , Marco Hutter

Robotic manipulation in complex, constrained spaces is vital for widespread applications but challenging, particularly when navigating narrow passages with elongated objects. Existing planning methods often fail in these low-clearance…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Zihao Li , Yiming Zhu , Zhe Zhong , Qinyuan Ren , Yijiang Huang