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Variational inequality problems are recognized for their broad applications across various fields including machine learning and operations research. First-order methods have emerged as the standard approach for solving these problems due…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-24 Liang Zhang , Niao He , Michael Muehlebach

This paper studies the distributed optimization problem when the objective functions might be nondifferentiable and subject to heterogeneous set constraints. Unlike existing subgradient methods, we focus on the case when the exact…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-11-23 Kui Zhu , Yutao Tang

Competitive non-cooperative online decision-making agents whose actions increase congestion of scarce resources constitute a model for widespread modern large-scale applications. To ensure sustainable resource behavior, we introduce a novel…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-10-22 Ezra Tampubolon , Holger Boche

By exploiting double-penalty terms for the primal subproblem, we develop a novel relaxed augmented Lagrangian method for solving a family of convex optimization problems subject to equality or inequality constraints. The method is then…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-16 Jianchao Bai , Linyuan Jia , Zheng Peng

Multiagent reinforcement learning (MARL) has attracted considerable attention due to its potential in addressing complex cooperative tasks. However, existing MARL approaches often rely on frequent exchanges of action or state information…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Zhenglong Luo , Zhiyong Chen , Aoxiang Liu , Ke Pan

A central problem in the theory of multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) is to understand what structural conditions and algorithmic principles lead to sample-efficient learning guarantees, and how these considerations change as we move…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Dylan J. Foster , Dean P. Foster , Noah Golowich , Alexander Rakhlin

Recent renewed interest in multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) has generated an impressive array of techniques that leverage deep reinforcement learning, primarily actor-critic architectures, and can be applied to a limited range of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-21 Keyang He , Prashant Doshi , Bikramjit Banerjee

Existing distributed cooperative multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) frameworks usually assume undirected coordination graphs and communication graphs while estimating a global reward via consensus algorithms for policy evaluation.…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2022-01-14 Gangshan Jing , He Bai , Jemin George , Aranya Chakrabortty , Piyush. K. Sharma

Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL) algorithms show amazing performance in simulation in recent years, but placing MARL in real-world applications may suffer safety problems. MARL with centralized shields was proposed and verified in…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2021-03-24 Zhiyuan Cai , Huanhui Cao , Wenjie Lu , Lin Zhang , Hao Xiong

This paper presents the network load balancing problem, a challenging real-world task for multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) methods. Traditional heuristic solutions like Weighted-Cost Multi-Path (WCMP) and Local Shortest Queue (LSQ)…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Zhiyuan Yao , Zihan Ding , Thomas Clausen

We study the problem of minimizing a sum of local objective convex functions over a network of processors/agents. This problem naturally calls for distributed optimization algorithms, in which the agents cooperatively solve the problem…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-04-01 Fatemeh Mansoori , Ermin Wei

This work studies the application of Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL) to decentralized control of unmanned aerial vehicles to relay a critical data package to a known position. For this purpose, a family of deterministic games is…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-11 Mika Persson , Jonas Lidman , Jacob Ljungberg , Samuel Sandelius , Adam Andersson

Recent work has shown how information theory extends conventional full-rationality game theory to allow bounded rational agents. The associated mathematical framework can be used to solve constrained optimization problems. This is done by…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2008-11-07 William Macready , David Wolpert

Mapping deep neural networks (DNNs) to hardware is critical for optimizing latency, energy consumption, and resource utilization, making it a cornerstone of high-performance accelerator design. Due to the vast and complex mapping space,…

Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL) algorithms are widely adopted in tackling complex tasks that require collaboration and competition among agents in dynamic Multi-Agent Systems (MAS). However, learning such tasks from scratch is…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-02-14 Ayesha Siddika Nipu , Siming Liu , Anthony Harris

Cooperative multi-agent reinforcement learning is a powerful tool to solve many real-world cooperative tasks, but restrictions of real-world applications may require training the agents in a fully decentralized manner. Due to the lack of…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-01-11 Jiechuan Jiang , Kefan Su , Zongqing Lu

This paper aims to address distributed optimization problems over directed and time-varying networks, where the global objective function consists of a sum of locally accessible convex objective functions subject to a feasible set…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-07-14 Xiuxian Li , Gang Feng , Lihua Xie

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

The purpose of this paper is to introduce two new classes of accelerated distributed proximal conjugate gradient algorithms for multi-agent constrained optimization problems; given as minimization of a function decomposed as a sum of M…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-06-21 Anteneh Getachew Gebrie

We study Byzantine-resilient distributed multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL), where agents must collaboratively learn optimal value functions over a compromised communication network. Existing resilient MARL approaches typically…

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