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Agent memory systems accumulate experience but currently lack a principled operational metric for memory quality governance -- deciding which memories to trust, suppress, or deprecate as the agent's task distribution shifts. Write-time…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Baris Simsek

Byzantine fault-tolerant (BFT) web services provide critical integrity guarantees for distributed applications but face significant latency challenges that hinder interactive user experiences. We propose a novel two-layer architecture that…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Ahmad Zaki Akmal , Azkario Rizky Pratama , Guntur Dharma Putra

Instance segmentation is an important task for biomedical and biological image analysis. Due to the complicated background components, the high variability of object appearances, numerous overlapping objects, and ambiguous object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-24 Dongnan Liu , Donghao Zhang , Yang Song , Heng Huang , Weidong Cai

We present the extension of the Remember and Forget for Experience Replay (ReF-ER) algorithm to Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL). ReF-ER was shown to outperform state of the art algorithms for continuous control in problems ranging…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-05 Pascal Weber , Daniel Wälchli , Mustafa Zeqiri , Petros Koumoutsakos

Segmentation is a fundamental task in computer vision, with prompt-driven methods gaining prominence due to their flexibility. The Segment Anything Model (SAM) excels at point-prompted segmentation, while text-based models, often leveraging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Suzhe Xu , Jialin Peng , Chengyuan Zhang

The incorporation of macro-actions (temporally extended actions) into multi-agent decision problems has the potential to address the curse of dimensionality associated with such decision problems. Since macro-actions last for stochastic…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-05-30 Kunal Menda , Yi-Chun Chen , Justin Grana , James W. Bono , Brendan D. Tracey , Mykel J. Kochenderfer , David Wolpert

The widespread adoption of large-scale machine learning models in recent years highlights the need for distributed computing for efficiency and scalability. This work introduces a novel distributed machine learning paradigm --…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Horia Magureanu , Naïri Usher

Procedural memory enables large language model (LLM) agents to internalize "how-to" knowledge, theoretically reducing redundant trial-and-error. However, existing frameworks predominantly suffer from a "passive accumulation" paradigm,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Zouying Cao , Jiaji Deng , Li Yu , Weikang Zhou , Zhaoyang Liu , Bolin Ding , Hai Zhao

In this paper, we consider the resilient multi-dimensional consensus and distributed optimization problems of multi-agent systems (MASs) in the presence of both agent-based and denial-of-service (DoS) attacks. The considered agent-based…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-19 Hongjian Chen , Changyun Wen , Xiaolei Li

Multi-agent systems (MAS) powered by large language models (LLMs) have emerged as a powerful paradigm for complex problem solving, where performance critically depends on the underlying inter-agent communication topology. However, existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Xuefei Wang , Jialu Wang , Fengbo Zhang , Yihan Hu , Di Zhang , Yutong Ye , Yikun Ban , Jun Han , Ruijie Wang

Multi-agent systems built on Large Language Models (LLMs) show exceptional promise for complex collaborative problem-solving, yet they face fundamental challenges stemming from context window limitations that impair memory consistency, role…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Sizhe Yuen , Francisco Gomez Medina , Ting Su , Yali Du , Adam J. Sobey

Long-term multi-agent systems inevitably generate vast amounts of trajectories and historical interactions, which makes efficient memory management essential for both performance and scalability. Existing methods typically depend on vector…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Haoran Xu , Jiacong Hu , Ke Zhang , Lei Yu , Yuxin Tang , Xinyuan Song , Yiqun Duan , Lynn Ai , Bill Shi

Vote-based blockchains construct a state machine replication (SMR) system among participating nodes, using Byzantine Fault Tolerance (BFT) consensus protocols to transition from one state to another. Currently, they rely on either…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-12-25 Yibin Xu , Jianhua Shao , Tijs Slaats , Boris Düdder , Yongluan Zhou

Self-evolving multi-agent systems (MAS) have emerged as a promising route to LLM agents that continually improve from experience, with persistent memory at their foundation. However, existing designs almost exclusively adopt a centralized…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Guangya Hao , Yunbo Long , Zhuokai Zhao

Artificial learning systems aspire to mimic human intelligence by continually learning from a stream of tasks without forgetting past knowledge. One way to enable such learning is to store past experiences in the form of input examples in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-13 Gobinda Saha , Kaushik Roy

This paper considers the problem of Byzantine fault tolerance in distributed linear regression in a multi-agent system. However, the proposed algorithms are given for a more general class of distributed optimization problems, of which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-05 Nirupam Gupta , Nitin H. Vaidya

Knowledge workers face an ever increasing flood of information in their daily lives. To counter this and provide better support for information management and knowledge work in general, we have been investigating solutions inspired by human…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2019-05-14 Christian Jilek , Jessica Chwalek , Sven Schwarz , Markus Schröder , Heiko Maus , Andreas Dengel

Large language models based Multi Agent Systems (MAS) have demonstrated promising performance for enhancing the efficiency and accuracy of code generation tasks. However,most existing methods follow a conventional sequence of planning,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-02-03 Yanlong Li , Jindong Li , Qi Wang , Menglin Yang , He Kong , Shengsheng Wang

In a practical Byzantine fault tolerance (PBFT) blockchain network, the voting nodes may always leave the network while some new nodes can also enter the network, thus the number of voting nodes is constantly changing. Such a new PBFT with…

Performance · Computer Science 2022-10-26 Yan-Xia Chang , Quan-Lin Li , Qing Wang , Xing-Shuo Song

Majority voting is the standard for aggregating multi-agent responses into a final decision. However, traditional methods typically require all agents to complete their reasoning before aggregation begins, leading to significant…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Yiqing Liu , Hantao Yao , Wu Liu , Yongdong Zhang