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Multi-agent proximal policy optimization (MAPPO) has recently demonstrated state-of-the-art performance on challenging multi-agent reinforcement learning tasks. However, MAPPO still struggles with the credit assignment problem, wherein the…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-02-10 Aditya Kapoor , Benjamin Freed , Howie Choset , Jeff Schneider

In multi-robot collaborative area search, a key challenge is to dynamically balance the two objectives of exploring unknown areas and covering specific targets to be rescued. Existing methods are often constrained by homogeneous graph…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Lina Zhu , Jiyu Cheng , Yuehu Liu , Wei Zhang

In this paper, we investigate the computational resource allocation problem in a distributed Ad-Hoc vehicular network with no centralized infrastructure support. To support the ever increasing computational needs in such a vehicular…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-08-18 Shilin Xu , Caili Guo , Rose Qingyang Hu , Yi Qian

In this paper we tackle the problem of routing multiple agents in a coordinated manner. This is a complex problem that has a wide range of applications in fleet management to achieve a common goal, such as mapping from a swarm of robots and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-08-18 Quinlan Sykora , Mengye Ren , Raquel Urtasun

Multi-agent pathfinding (MAPF) remains a critical problem in robotics and autonomous systems, where agents must navigate shared spaces efficiently while avoiding conflicts. Traditional centralized algorithms with global information provide…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Bharath Muppasani , Ritirupa Dey , Biplav Srivastava , Vignesh Narayanan

In this work we aim to solve a large collection of tasks using a single reinforcement learning agent with a single set of parameters. A key challenge is to handle the increased amount of data and extended training time. We have developed a…

Learning robot navigation strategies among pedestrian is crucial for domain based applications. Combining perception, planning and prediction allows us to model the interactions between robots and pedestrians, resulting in impressive…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-02-01 Erwan Escudie , Laetitia Matignon , Jacques Saraydaryan

In this work we consider a generalization of the well-known multivehicle routing problem: given a network, a set of agents occupying a subset of its nodes, and a set of tasks, we seek a minimum cost sequence of movements subject to the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Jamison W. Weber , Dhanush R. Giriyan , Devendra R. Parkar , Dimitri P. Bertsekas , Andréa W. Richa

This paper proposes FMAP (Forward Multi-Agent Planning), a fully-distributed multi-agent planning method that integrates planning and coordination. Although FMAP is specifically aimed at solving problems that require cooperation among…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2015-01-30 Alejandro Torreño , Eva Onaindia , Óscar Sapena

We propose a decentralized reinforcement learning solution for multi-agent shepherding of non-cohesive targets using policy-gradient methods. Our architecture integrates target-selection with target-driving through Proximal Policy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-04 Stefano Covone , Italo Napolitano , Francesco De Lellis , Mario di Bernardo

We address the challenge of coordinating multiple robots in narrow and confined environments, where congestion and interference often hinder collective task performance. Drawing inspiration from insect colonies, which achieve robust…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Kehinde O. Aina , Sehoon Ha

Offloading time-sensitive, computationally intensive tasks-such as advanced learning algorithms for autonomous driving-from vehicles to nearby edge servers, vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) systems, or other collaborating vehicles via…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-08-08 Nazish Tahir , Ramviyas Parasuraman , Haijian Sun

The necessity for cooperation among intelligent machines has popularised cooperative multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) in AI research. However, many research endeavours heavily rely on parameter sharing among agents, which confines…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Yifan Zhong , Jakub Grudzien Kuba , Xidong Feng , Siyi Hu , Jiaming Ji , Yaodong Yang

Coordinating large populations of grid-edge devices requires learning methods that remain fully decentralised in deployment while still respecting three-phase AC distribution-network physics. This paper proposes gradient-based multi-agent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Yihong Zhou , Hongtai Zeng , Thomas Morstyn

Unsupervised attributed graph representation learning is challenging since both structural and feature information are required to be represented in the latent space. Existing methods concentrate on learning latent representation via…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-28 Zelin Zang , Siyuan Li , Di Wu , Jianzhu Guo , Yongjie Xu , Stan Z. Li

Designing and optimizing multi-agent systems (MAS) is a complex, labor-intensive process of "Agent Engineering." Existing automatic optimization methods, primarily focused on flat prompt tuning, lack the structural awareness to debug the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Shan He , Runze Wang , Zhuoyun Du , Huiyu Bai , Zouying Cao , Yu Cheng , Bo Zheng

Large sequence model (SM) such as GPT series and BERT has displayed outstanding performance and generalization capabilities on vision, language, and recently reinforcement learning tasks. A natural follow-up question is how to abstract…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2022-10-31 Muning Wen , Jakub Grudzien Kuba , Runji Lin , Weinan Zhang , Ying Wen , Jun Wang , Yaodong Yang

Same-Day Delivery services are becoming increasingly popular in recent years. These have been usually modelled by previous studies as a certain class of Dynamic Vehicle Routing Problem (DVRP) where goods must be delivered from a depot to a…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2022-03-23 Elvin Ngu , Leandro Parada , Jose Javier Escribano Macias , Panagiotis Angeloudis

Coordination graph is a promising approach to model agent collaboration in multi-agent reinforcement learning. It conducts a graph-based value factorization and induces explicit coordination among agents to complete complicated tasks.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Qianlan Yang , Weijun Dong , Zhizhou Ren , Jianhao Wang , Tonghan Wang , Chongjie Zhang

Integrated sensing, communication, and computation (ISCC) is emerging as a unified design paradigm for future vehicular networks that require joint environment perception, safety-critical information exchange, and latency-sensitive task…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Indulekha K. P. , T. G. Venkatesh