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Cooperative multi-agent planning requires agents to make joint decisions with partial information and limited communication. Coordination at the trajectory level often fails, as small deviations in timing or movement cascade into conflicts.…

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In multi-agent systems, agents possess only local observations of the environment. Communication between teammates becomes crucial for enhancing coordination. Past research has primarily focused on encoding local information into embedding…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-11-09 Peihong Yu , Bhoram Lee , Aswin Raghavan , Supun Samarasekara , Pratap Tokekar , James Zachary Hare

In this article, we propose a centralized Multi-Agent Learning framework for learning a policy that models the simultaneous behavior of multiple agents that need to coordinate to solve a certain task. Centralized approaches often suffer…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Ángel Aso-Mollar , Eva Onaindia

In this article, we work towards the goal of developing agents that can learn to act in complex worlds. We develop a probabilistic, relational planning rule representation that compactly models noisy, nondeterministic action effects, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2011-10-12 L. P. Kaelbling , H. M. Pasula , L. S. Zettlemoyer

A complex system is made up of many components with many interactions. So the design of systems such as simulation systems, cooperative systems or assistance systems includes a very accurate modelling of interactional and communicational…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2012-01-19 Alain-Jérôme Fougères

Embodied multi-agent systems (EMAS) have attracted growing attention for their potential to address complex, real-world challenges in areas such as logistics and robotics. Recent advances in foundation models pave the way for generative…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Di Wu , Xian Wei , Guang Chen , Hao Shen , Xiangfeng Wang , Wenhao Li , Bo Jin

Formation strategy is one of the most important parts of many multi-agent systems with many applications in real world problems. In this paper, a framework for learning this task in a limited domain (restricted environment) is proposed. In…

We examine the problem of learning to cooperate in the context of wireless communication. In our setting, two agents must learn modulation schemes that enable them to communicate across a power-constrained additive white Gaussian noise…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-03 Anant Sahai , Joshua Sanz , Vignesh Subramanian , Caryn Tran , Kailas Vodrahalli

Human action is naturally compositional: humans can easily recognize and perform actions with objects that are different from those used in training demonstrations. In this paper, we study the compositionality of action by looking into the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Joanna Materzynska , Tete Xiao , Roei Herzig , Huijuan Xu , Xiaolong Wang , Trevor Darrell

Although LLMs demonstrate proficiency in several text-based reasoning and planning tasks, their implementation in robotics control is constrained by significant deficiencies: (1) LLM agents are designed to work mainly with textual inputs…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Shuang Ao , Flora D. Salim , Simon Khan

Embodiment is an important characteristic for all intelligent agents (creatures and robots), while existing scene description tasks mainly focus on analyzing images passively and the semantic understanding of the scenario is separated from…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-05-08 Sinan Tan , Huaping Liu , Di Guo , Xinyu Zhang , Fuchun Sun

Robotic agents performing domestic chores by natural language directives are required to master the complex job of navigating environment and interacting with objects in the environments. The tasks given to the agents are often composite…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-14 Suvaansh Bhambri , Byeonghwi Kim , Jonghyun Choi

World models have emerged as a powerful paradigm for building interactive simulation environments, with recent video-based approaches demonstrating impressive progress in generating visually plausible dynamics. However, because these models…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Hongyu Wang , Jingquan Wang , Bocheng Zou , Radu Serban , Dan Negrut

Video world models have achieved strong visual realism, but this does not ensure that their dynamics are truly governed by actions. In this work, we argue that action faithfulness should be understood through the compositional structure of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Zijie Wang , Wei Zhang , Weiming Zhang , Fanqi Zhang , Xiao Tan , Yipeng Qin , Guanbin Li

Collaborative decision making in multi-agent systems typically requires a predefined communication protocol among agents. Usually, agent-level observations are locally processed and information is exchanged using the predefined protocol,…

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We present the Multi-Agent Transformer World Model (MATWM), a novel transformer-based world model designed for multi-agent reinforcement learning in both vector- and image-based environments. MATWM combines a decentralized imagination…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Azad Deihim , Eduardo Alonso , Dimitra Apostolopoulou

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

Data-driven simulation has become a favorable way to train and test autonomous driving algorithms. The idea of replacing the actual environment with a learned simulator has also been explored in model-based reinforcement learning in the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-09-29 Zhejun Zhang , Alexander Liniger , Dengxin Dai , Fisher Yu , Luc Van Gool

Conditional image editing aims to modify a source image according to textual prompts and optional reference guidance. Such editing is crucial in scenarios requiring strict structural control (i.e., anomaly insertion in driving scenes and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Yuhan Pu , Hao Zheng , Ziqian Mo , Hill Zhang , Tianyi Fan , Shuhong Wu , Jiaheng Wei

We propose a distributed model predictive control (MPC) framework for coordinating heterogeneous, nonlinear multi-agent systems under individual and coupling constraints. The cooperative task is encoded as a shared objective function…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-11 Matthias Köhler , Matthias A. Müller , Frank Allgöwer