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Particle dynamics and multi-agent systems provide accurate dynamical models for studying and forecasting the behavior of complex interacting systems. They often take the form of a high-dimensional system of differential equations…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-09 Yuxuan Liu , Scott G. McCalla , Hayden Schaeffer

In order for robots and other artificial agents to efficiently learn to perform useful tasks defined by an end user, they must understand not only the goals of those tasks, but also the structure and dynamics of that user's environment.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-07-22 Robert Loftin , Bei Peng , Matthew E. Taylor , Michael L. Littman , David L. Roberts

In order to enable high-quality decision making and motion planning of intelligent systems such as robotics and autonomous vehicles, accurate probabilistic predictions for surrounding interactive objects is a crucial prerequisite. Although…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-04-05 Jiachen Li , Hengbo Ma , Masayoshi Tomizuka

Existing approaches in reinforcement learning train an agent to learn desired optimal behavior in an environment with rule based surrounding agents. In safety critical applications such as autonomous driving it is crucial that the rule…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Arjun Srinivasan , Anubhav Paras , Aniket Bera

This paper describes a formalization of agent-based models (ABMs) as random walks on regular graphs and relates the symmetry group of those graphs to a coarse-graining of the ABM that is still Markovian. An ABM in which $N$ agents can be in…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2014-10-24 Sven Banisch

Effectively capturing the joint distribution of all agents in a scene is relevant for predicting the true evolution of the scene and in turn providing more accurate information to the decision processes of autonomous vehicles. While new…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Anna Mészáros , Javier Alonso-Mora , Jens Kober

In large-scale multi-agent systems, the large number of agents and complex game relationship cause great difficulty for policy learning. Therefore, simplifying the learning process is an important research issue. In many multi-agent…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-11-26 Yong Liu , Weixun Wang , Yujing Hu , Jianye Hao , Xingguo Chen , Yang Gao

Agent-Based Models (ABMs) are gaining great popularity in economics and social science because of their strong flexibility to describe the realistic and heterogeneous decisions and interaction rules between individual agents. In this work,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Junyao Zhang , Jinglai Li , Junqi Tang

We present a machine learning (ML)-assisted framework bridging manifold learning, neural networks, Gaussian processes, and Equation-Free multiscale modeling, for (a) detecting tipping points in the emergent behavior of complex systems, and…

While many diffusion models perform well when controlling particular aspects such as style, character, and interaction, they struggle with fine-grained control due to dataset limitations and intricate model architecture design. This paper…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Conghan Yue , Zhengwei Peng , Shiyan Du , Zhi Ji , Chuangjian Cai , Le Wan , Dongyu Zhang

Intelligent agents offer a new and exciting way of understanding the world of work. Agent-Based Simulation (ABS), one way of using intelligent agents, carries great potential for progressing our understanding of management practices and how…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2010-07-05 Peer-Olaf Siebers , Uwe Aickelin , Helen Celia , Chris Clegg

This paper proposes a novel problem: vision-based perception to learn and predict the collective dynamics of multi-agent systems, specifically focusing on interaction strength and convergence time. Multi-agent systems are defined as…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Minah Lee , Uday Kamal , Saibal Mukhopadhyay

Multi-agent systems often operate under feedback, adaptation, and non-stationarity, yet many simulation studies retain static decision rules and fixed control parameters. This paper introduces a general adaptive multi-agent learning…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Roberto Garrone

This note presents an Agent-Based Model (ABM) with Monte Carlo sampling, designed to simulate the behaviour of a population of objects over time. The model incorporates damage functions with the risk parameters of the ABC framework to…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Josep Grau-Bové , Miriam Andrews

The collaboration between agents has gradually become an important topic in multi-agent systems. The key is how to efficiently solve the credit assignment problems. This paper introduces MGAN for collaborative multi-agent reinforcement…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2021-05-14 Zhiwei Xu , Bin Zhang , Yunpeng Bai , Dapeng Li , Guoliang Fan

The premise of this working paper is based around agent-based simulation models and how to go about creating them from given incomplete information. Agent-based simulations are stochastic simulations that revolve around groups of agents…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2019-02-06 Daniel Stroud , Christian Wagner , Peer-Olaf Siebers

Modeling the complex interactions of systems of particles or agents is a fundamental scientific and mathematical problem that is studied in diverse fields, ranging from physics and biology, to economics and machine learning. In this work,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-10-09 Jason Miller , Sui Tang , Ming Zhong , Mauro Maggioni

Modeling agent behavior is central to understanding the emergence of complex phenomena in multiagent systems. Prior work in agent modeling has largely been task-specific and driven by hand-engineering domain-specific prior knowledge. We…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2018-08-02 Aditya Grover , Maruan Al-Shedivat , Jayesh K. Gupta , Yura Burda , Harrison Edwards

In model-based learning, an agent's model is commonly defined over transitions between consecutive states of an environment even though planning often requires reasoning over multi-step timescales, with intermediate states either…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Alexey Zakharov , Matthew Crosby , Zafeirios Fountas

Agent-based models (ABMs) are valuable for modelling complex, potentially out-of-equilibria scenarios. However, ABMs have long suffered from the Lucas critique, stating that agent behaviour should adapt to environmental changes.…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-01-17 Benjamin Patrick Evans , Sihan Zeng , Sumitra Ganesh , Leo Ardon