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The problem of multi-agent formation control for target tracking is considered in this paper. The target is an irregular dynamic shape approximated by a circle with moving centre and varying radius. It is assumed that there are n agents and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-09-25 Joana Fonseca , Jieqiang Wei , Karl H. Johansson , Tor Arne Johansen

Current end-to-end autonomous driving methods typically learn only from expert planning data collected from a single ego vehicle, severely limiting the diversity of learnable driving policies and scenarios. However, a critical yet…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Lin Liu , Caiyan Jia , Ziying Song , Hongyu Pan , Bencheng Liao , Wenchao Sun , Yongchang Zhang , Lei Yang , Yandan Luo

Multi-agent path finding (MAPF) is an indispensable component of large-scale robot deployments in numerous domains ranging from airport management to warehouse automation. In particular, this work addresses lifelong MAPF (LMAPF) - an online…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-03-05 Mehul Damani , Zhiyao Luo , Emerson Wenzel , Guillaume Sartoretti

In ultra-dense unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) networks, it is challenging to coordinate the resource allocation and interference management among large-scale UAVs, for providing flexible and efficient service coverage to the ground users…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-22 Fei Song , Zhe Wang , Jun Li , Long Shi , Wen Chen , Shi Jin

We propose STEAM (Spatial, Temporal, and Emergent congestion Awareness for MAPF), a training-free test-time enhancement framework for learning-based decentralized Multi-Agent Path Finding (MAPF) in discrete environments. Given a pretrained…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Mingyang Feng , Mengnuo Zhang , Shaoyuan Li , Xiang Yin

Centralized training with decentralized execution has become an important paradigm in multi-agent learning. Though practical, current methods rely on restrictive assumptions to decompose the centralized value function across agents for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-11 Yaodong Yang , Ying Wen , Liheng Chen , Jun Wang , Kun Shao , David Mguni , Weinan Zhang

Methods like multi-agent reinforcement learning struggle to scale with growing population size. Mean-field games (MFGs) are a game-theoretic approach that can circumvent this by finding a solution for an abstract infinite population, which…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Patrick Benjamin , Alessandro Abate

We study problems of federated control in Markov Decision Processes. To solve an MDP with large state space, multiple learning agents are introduced to collaboratively learn its optimal policy without communication of locally collected…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-05-08 Hao Jin , Yang Peng , Liangyu Zhang , Zhihua Zhang

Accurate tumor segmentation in PET/CT images is crucial for computer-aided cancer diagnosis and treatment. The primary challenge lies in effectively integrating the complementary information from PET and CT images. In clinical settings, the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-03 Yuxuan Qi , Li Lin , Jiajun Wang , Bin Zhang , Jingya Zhang

This manuscript considers the problem of ensuring stability and safety during formation control with distributed multi-agent systems in the presence of parametric uncertainty in the dynamics and limited communication. We propose an…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-24 Jose A. Solano-Castellanos , Peter A. Fisher , Anuradha Annaswamy

This paper considers a formation shape control problem for point agents in a two-dimensional ambient space, where the control is distributed, is based on achieving desired distances between nominated agent pairs, and avoids the possibility…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-08-02 Toshiharu Sugie , Brian D. O. Anderson , Zhiyong Sun , Huichao Dong

Existing unified image segmentation models either employ a unified architecture across multiple tasks but use separate weights tailored to each dataset, or apply a single set of weights to multiple datasets but are limited to a single task.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Pei Wang , Zhaowei Cai , Hao Yang , Ashwin Swaminathan , R. Manmatha , Stefano Soatto

This paper studies the problem of safe and optimal continuum deformation of a large-scale multi-agent system (MAS). We present a novel approach for MAS continuum deformation coordination that aims to achieve safe and efficient agent…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-04-17 Harshvardhan Uppaluru , Hossein Rastgoftar

Lane change is a crucial vehicle maneuver which needs coordination with surrounding vehicles. Automated lane changing functions built on rule-based models may perform well under pre-defined operating conditions, but they may be prone to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-04-24 Pin Wang , Ching-Yao Chan , Arnaud de La Fortelle

We explore deep reinforcement learning methods for multi-agent domains. We begin by analyzing the difficulty of traditional algorithms in the multi-agent case: Q-learning is challenged by an inherent non-stationarity of the environment,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-17 Ryan Lowe , Yi Wu , Aviv Tamar , Jean Harb , Pieter Abbeel , Igor Mordatch

In this study, we address vision-language-guided multi-robot cooperative transport, where each robot grounds natural-language instructions from onboard camera observations. A key challenge in this decentralized setting is perceptual…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Joachim Yann Despature , Kazuki Shibata , Takamitsu Matsubara

Multi-Agent Path Finding (MAPF), which focuses on finding collision-free paths for multiple robots, is crucial for applications ranging from aerial swarms to warehouse automation. Solving MAPF is NP-hard so learning-based approaches for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Yimin Tang , Xiao Xiong , Jingyi Xi , Jiaoyang Li , Erdem Bıyık , Sven Koenig

Effective human-agent interaction (HAI) relies on accurate and adaptive perception of human emotional states. While multimodal deep learning models - leveraging facial expressions, speech, and textual cues - offer high accuracy in emotion…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Matvey Nepomnyaschiy , Oleg Pereziabov , Anvar Tliamov , Stanislav Mikhailov , Ilya Afanasyev

In this paper, we address the resource provisioning problem for service function chaining (SFC) in terms of the placement and chaining of virtual network functions (VNFs) within a multi-access edge computing (MEC) infrastructure to reduce…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-01-31 Amine Abouaomar , Soumaya Cherkaoui , Zoubeir Mlika , Abdellatif Kobbane

This paper makes the first attempt to show how information exchange rules represented by a network having multiple layers (multiplex information networks) can be designed for enabling spatially evolving multiagent formations. Toward this…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-07-21 Dzung Tran , Tansel Yucelen