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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

Adaptation is the cornerstone of effective collaboration among heterogeneous team members. In human-agent teams, artificial agents need to adapt to their human partners in real time, as individuals often have unique preferences and policies…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Benjamin Li , Shuyang Shi , Lucia Romero , Huao Li , Yaqi Xie , Woojun Kim , Stefanos Nikolaidis , Michael Lewis , Katia Sycara , Simon Stepputtis

We propose a novel formulation of the "effectiveness problem" in communications, put forth by Shannon and Weaver in their seminal work [2], by considering multiple agents communicating over a noisy channel in order to achieve better…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-02 Tze-Yang Tung , Szymon Kobus , Joan Roig Pujol , Deniz Gunduz

Visual navigation tasks are critical for household service robots. As these tasks become increasingly complex, effective communication and collaboration among multiple robots become imperative to ensure successful completion. In recent…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Pengying Wu , Yao Mu , Kangjie Zhou , Ji Ma , Junting Chen , Chang Liu

Collaborative perception among multiple connected and autonomous vehicles can greatly enhance perceptive capabilities by allowing vehicles to exchange supplementary information via communications. Despite advances in previous approaches,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-11-25 Senkang Hu , Zhengru Fang , Haonan An , Guowen Xu , Yuan Zhou , Xianhao Chen , Yuguang Fang

Cooperative multi-agent methods for embodied AI are almost universally evaluated under idealized communication: zero latency, no packet loss, and unlimited bandwidth. Real-world deployment on robots with wireless links, autonomous vehicles…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Aayam Bansal , Ishaan Gangwani

Creating meaningful visual narratives through human-AI collaboration requires understanding how text-image intertextuality emerges when textual intentions meet AI-generated visuals. We conducted a three-phase qualitative study with 15…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Mengyao Guo , Kexin Nie , Ze Gao , Black Sun , Xueyang Wang , Jinda Han , Xingting Wu

Multiagent systems can use commitments as the core of a general coordination infrastructure, supporting both cooperative and non-cooperative interactions. Agents whose objectives are aligned, and where one agent can help another achieve…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Qi Zhang , Edmund H. Durfee , Satinder Singh

This work presents an overarching perspective on the role that machine intelligence can play in enhancing human abilities, especially those that have been diminished due to injury or illness. As a primary contribution, we develop the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-11-13 Patrick M. Pilarski , Richard S. Sutton , Kory W. Mathewson , Craig Sherstan , Adam S. R. Parker , Ann L. Edwards

This work presents a novel semantic transmission framework in wireless networks, leveraging the joint processing technique. Our framework enables multiple cooperating base stations to efficiently transmit semantic information to multiple…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-03 Xumin Pu , Tiantian Lei , Wanli Wen , Qianbin Chen

We propose an improved algorithm by identifying and encouraging cooperative behavior in multi-agent environments. First, we analyze the shortcomings of existing algorithms in addressing multi-agent reinforcement learning problems. Then,…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Junjie Qi , Siqi Mao , Tianyi Tan

The objective of the collaborative vehicle-to-everything perception task is to enhance the individual vehicle's perception capability through message communication among neighboring traffic agents. Previous methods focus on achieving…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Si Liu , Zihan Ding , Jiahui Fu , Hongyu Li , Siheng Chen , Shifeng Zhang , Xu Zhou

Communication protocol design is a central challenge in large language model-based multi-agent systems. Existing single-channel approaches face an inherent communication trilemma: text-based methods are interpretable but verbose, while…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Xinyi Mou , Siyuan Wang , Zejun Li , Yulan He , Zhongyu Wei

This paper considers a distributed reinforcement learning problem in which a network of multiple agents aim to cooperatively maximize the globally averaged return through communication with only local neighbors. A randomized…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-09 Yixuan Lin , Kaiqing Zhang , Zhuoran Yang , Zhaoran Wang , Tamer Başar , Romeil Sandhu , Ji Liu

In decentralized multi-robot navigation, ensuring safe and efficient movement with limited environmental awareness remains a challenge. While robots traditionally navigate based on local observations, this approach falters in complex…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-06-27 Senthil Hariharan Arul , Amrit Singh Bedi , Dinesh Manocha

Perception of the driving environment is critical for collision avoidance and route planning to ensure driving safety. Cooperative perception has been widely studied as an effective approach to addressing the shortcomings of single-vehicle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Chenguang Liu , Jianjun Chen , Yunfei Chen , Ryan Payton , Michael Riley , Shuang-Hua Yang

The confluence of the advancement of Autonomous Vehicles (AVs) and the maturity of Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X) communication has enabled the capability of cooperative connected and automated vehicles (CAVs). Building on top of cooperative…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Zehao Wang , Yuping Wang , Zhuoyuan Wu , Hengbo Ma , Zhaowei Li , Hang Qiu , Jiachen Li

The increasing complexity and scale of modern telecommunications networks demand intelligent automation to enhance efficiency, adaptability, and resilience. Agentic AI has emerged as a key paradigm for intelligent communications and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Ruichen Zhang , Shunpu Tang , Yinqiu Liu , Dusit Niyato , Zehui Xiong , Sumei Sun , Shiwen Mao , Zhu Han

Efficient multi-agent 3D mapping is essential for robotic teams operating in unknown environments, but dense representations hinder real-time exchange over constrained communication links. In multi-agent Simultaneous Localization and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Monica M. Q. Li , Pierre-Yves Lajoie , Jialiang Liu , Giovanni Beltrame

Multi-agent systems built on language models have shown strong performance on collaborative reasoning tasks. However, existing evaluations focus only on the correctness of the final output, overlooking how inefficient communication and poor…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Jisoo Lee , Raeyoung Chang , Dongwook Kwon , Harmanpreet Singh , Nikhil Verma