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In this paper, we study the problem of robust cooperative multi-agent reinforcement learning (RL) where a large number of cooperative agents with distributed information aim to learn policies in the presence of \emph{stochastic} and…

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A crucial challenge in decentralized systems is state estimation in the presence of unknown inputs, particularly within heterogeneous sensor networks with dynamic topologies. While numerous consensus algorithms have been introduced, they…

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Multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) has long been a significant and everlasting research topic in both machine learning and control. With the recent development of (single-agent) deep RL, there is a resurgence of interests in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-10 Kaiqing Zhang , Zhuoran Yang , Tamer Başar

Federated continual learning (FCL) has garnered increasing attention for its ability to support distributed computation in environments with evolving data distributions. However, the emergence of new tasks introduces both temporal and…

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In typical multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) problems, communication is important for agents to share information and make the right decisions. However, due to the complexity of training multi-agent communication, existing methods…

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In this paper, a class of convex feasibility problems (CFPs) are studied for multi-agent systems through local interactions. The objective is to search a feasible solution to the convex inequalities with some set constraints in a…

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Decentralized federated learning (DFL) is an emerging paradigm to enable edge devices collaboratively training a learning model using a device-to-device (D2D) communication manner without the coordination of a parameter server (PS).…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-06 Zhiyuan Zhai , Xiaojun Yuan , Xin Wang , Geoffrey Ye Li

Federated Learning (FL) trains a shared model using data and computation power on distributed agents coordinated by a central server. Decentralized FL (DFL) utilizes local model exchange and aggregation between agents to reduce the…

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Coordinating large populations of autonomous agents, such as UAV swarms or satellite constellations, poses significant computational challenges for traditional multi-agent control methods. This paper introduces a new optimization framework…

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Multi-agents systems communication is a technology, which provides a way for multiple interacting intelligent agents to communicate with each other and with environment. Multiple-agent systems are used to solve problems that are difficult…

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Federated learning (FL) is a distributed machine learning paradigm in which a large number of clients coordinate with a central server to learn a model without sharing their own training data. One central server is not enough, due to…

In artificial multi-agent systems, the ability to learn collaborative policies is predicated upon the agents' communication skills: they must be able to encode the information received from the environment and learn how to share it with…

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Multi-Agent Path Finding (MAPF) in crowded environments presents a challenging problem in motion planning, aiming to find collision-free paths for all agents in the system. MAPF finds a wide range of applications in various domains,…

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Federated learning (FL) emerges as a promising approach to empower vehicular networks, composed by intelligent connected vehicles equipped with advanced sensing, computing, and communication capabilities. While previous studies have…

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Federated learning (FL) is a promising paradigm to enable privacy-preserving deep learning from distributed data. Most previous works are based on federated average (FedAvg), which, however, faces several critical issues, including a high…

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Control Barrier Functions (CBFs) are an effective methodology to ensure safety and performative efficacy in real-time control applications such as power systems, resource allocation, autonomous vehicles, robotics, etc. This approach ensures…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-09-30 Samy Wu Fung , Levon Nurbekyan

Semi-decentralized federated learning blends the conventional device to-server (D2S) interaction structure of federated model training with localized device-to-device (D2D) communications. We study this architecture over practical edge…

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We study a decentralized version of Moving Agents in Formation (MAiF), a variant of Multi-Agent Path Finding aiming to plan collision-free paths for multiple agents with the dual objectives of reaching their goals quickly while maintaining…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-17 Qiushi Lin , Hang Ma

Decentralized learning is an efficient emerging paradigm for boosting the computing capability of multiple bounded computing agents. In the big data era, performing inference within the distributed and federated learning (DL and FL)…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2022-05-11 Mohamed Ridha Znaidi , Gaurav Gupta , Paul Bogdan