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In this paper, we introduce a high-level controller synthesis framework that enables teams of heterogeneous agents to assist each other in resolving environmental conflicts that appear at runtime. This conflict resolution method is built…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-09-02 Michael Enqi Cao , Jonas Warnke , Yunhai Han , Xinpei Ni , Ye Zhao , Samuel Coogan

Cooperative multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) has made substantial strides in addressing the distributed decision-making challenges. However, as multi-agent systems grow in complexity, gaining a comprehensive understanding of their…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-12-15 Wiem Khlifi , Siddarth Singh , Omayma Mahjoub , Ruan de Kock , Abidine Vall , Rihab Gorsane , Arnu Pretorius

When are multi-agent LLM systems merely a collection of individual agents versus an integrated collective with higher-order structure? We introduce an information-theoretic framework to test -- in a purely data-driven way -- whether…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Christoph Riedl

Recent advancements in large language models (LLMs) have enabled LLM-based agents to successfully tackle interactive planning tasks. However, despite their successes, existing approaches often suffer from planning hallucinations and require…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Weimin Xiong , Yifan Song , Qingxiu Dong , Bingchan Zhao , Feifan Song , Xun Wang , Sujian Li

Autonomous agents empowered by Large Language Models (LLMs) have undergone significant improvements, enabling them to generalize across a broad spectrum of tasks. However, in real-world scenarios, cooperation among individuals is often…

One important challenge for a set of agents to achieve more efficient collaboration is for these agents to maintain proper models of each other. An important aspect of these models of other agents is that they are often partial and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-11-06 Yu Zhang , Subbarao Kambhampati

This paper develops a stochastic programming framework for multi-agent systems where task decomposition, assignment, and scheduling problems are simultaneously optimized. The framework can be applied to heterogeneous mobile robot teams with…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Bo Fu , William Smith , Denise Rizzo , Matthew Castanier , Maani Ghaffari , Kira Barton

Recent advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs) have led to significant breakthroughs in various natural language processing tasks. However, generating factually consistent responses in knowledge-intensive scenarios remains a challenge…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Shengbin Yue , Siyuan Wang , Wei Chen , Xuanjing Huang , Zhongyu Wei

In operations of multi-agent teams ranging from homogeneous robot swarms to heterogeneous human-autonomy teams, unexpected events might occur. While efficiency of operation for multi-agent task allocation problems is the primary objective,…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Haochen Wu , Amin Ghadami , Alparslan Emrah Bayrak , Jonathon M. Smereka , Bogdan I. Epureanu

Decentralized combinatorial optimization in evolving multi-agent systems poses significant challenges, requiring agents to balance long-term decision-making, short-term optimized collective outcomes, while preserving autonomy of interactive…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Chuhao Qin , Evangelos Pournaras

Test-time scaling (TTS) enhances the performance of large language models (LLMs) by allocating additional compute resources during inference. However, existing research primarily investigates TTS in single-stage tasks; while many real-world…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Fali Wang , Hui Liu , Zhenwei Dai , Jingying Zeng , Zhiwei Zhang , Zongyu Wu , Chen Luo , Zhen Li , Xianfeng Tang , Qi He , Suhang Wang

Leveraging multiple large language models (LLMs) to build collaborative multi-agentic workflows has demonstrated significant potential. However, most previous studies focus on prompting the out-of-the-box LLMs, relying on their innate…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Chanwoo Park , Seungju Han , Xingzhi Guo , Asuman Ozdaglar , Kaiqing Zhang , Joo-Kyung Kim

LLM-based multi-agent systems (MAS) show promise on complex tasks but remain prone to coordination failures such as goal drift, error cascades, and misaligned behaviors. We propose Explicit Trait Inference (ETI), a psychologically grounded…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Suhaib Abdurahman , Etsuko Ishii , Katerina Margatina , Divya Bhargavi , Monica Sunkara , Yi Zhang

Agentic systems solve complex tasks by coordinating multiple agents that iteratively reason, invoke tools, and exchange intermediate results. To improve robustness and solution quality, recent approaches deploy multiple agent teams running…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Joseph Fioresi , Parth Parag Kulkarni , Ashmal Vayani , Song Wang , Mubarak Shah

In this paper, we study the problem of learning to satisfy temporal logic specifications with a group of agents in an unknown environment, which may exhibit probabilistic behaviour. From a learning perspective these specifications provide a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-02-10 Lewis Hammond , Alessandro Abate , Julian Gutierrez , Michael Wooldridge

Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL) problems often require cooperation among agents in order to solve a task. Centralization and decentralization are two approaches used for cooperation in MARL. While fully decentralized methods are…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Bengisu Guresti , Nazim Kemal Ure

Multi-agent embodied tasks have recently been studied in complex indoor visual environments. Collaboration among multiple agents can improve work efficiency and has significant practical value. However, most of the existing research focuses…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-28 Xinzhu Liu , Di Guo , Huaping Liu

Recent progress on long-horizon agentic tasks has been driven largely by scaling up individual agents through stronger models, better tools, and more effective scaffolding. In contrast, much less is understood about scaling out: whether…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Yuyang Hu , Hongjin Qian , Shuting Wang , Jiongnan Liu , Tong Zhao , Xiaoxi Li , Zheng Liu , Zhicheng Dou

Alternating-time temporal logic (ATL) allows to specify requirements on abilities that different agents should (or should not) possess in a multi-agent system. However, model checking ATL specifications in realistic systems is…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2016-08-31 Wojciech Jamroga , Michał Knapik , Damian Kurpiewski

Many complex tasks require extended effort, diverse capabilities, or coordinated actions beyond what a single agent can provide. However, simply adding more agents does not guarantee better performance, as effective cooperation depends on…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Hanqing Yang , Narjes Nourzad , Shiyu Chen , Marie Siew , Jingdi Chen , Carlee Joe-Wong