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Symbolic task planning for robots is computationally challenging due to the combinatorial complexity of the possible action space. This fact is amplified if there are several sub-goals to be achieved due to the increased length of the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Kai Pfeiffer , Leonardo Edgar , Quang-Cuong Pham

Our goal is to solve both problems of adverse selection and moral hazard for multi-agent projects. In our model, each selected agent can work according to his private "capability tree". This means a process involving hidden actions, hidden…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-01-11 Endre Csóka

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 language models (LLMs) face persistent challenges when handling long-context tasks, most notably the lost in the middle issue, where information located in the middle of a long input tends to be underutilized. Some existing methods…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Song Yu , Xiaofei Xu , Ke Deng , Li Li , Lin Tian

Conflict-Based Search is one of the most popular methods for multi-agent path finding. Though it is complete and optimal, it does not scale well. Recent works have been proposed to accelerate it by introducing various heuristics. However,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-01-23 Chenning Yu , Qingbiao Li , Sicun Gao , Amanda Prorok

Enhancing the reasoning capabilities of large language models (LLMs) is crucial for enabling them to tackle complex, multi-step problems. Multi-agent frameworks have shown great potential in enhancing LLMs' reasoning capabilities. However,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Danqing Wang , Zhuorui Ye , Fei Fang , Lei Li

Large Language Models demonstrate strong reasoning and generation abilities, yet their behavior in multi-turn tasks often lacks reliability and verifiability. We present a task completion framework that enables LLM-based agents to act under…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Gonca Gürsun

Loop transformations are semantics-preserving optimization techniques, widely used to maximize objectives such as parallelism. Despite decades of research, applying the optimal composition of loop transformations remains challenging due to…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Yijie Zhi , Yayu Cao , Jianhua Dai , Xiaoyang Han , Jingwen Pu , Qingran Wu , Sheng Cheng , Ming Cai

We tackle the problem of goal-directed graph construction: given a starting graph, a budget of modifications, and a global objective function, the aim is to find a set of edges whose addition to the graph achieves the maximum improvement in…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-02-17 Victor-Alexandru Darvariu , Stephen Hailes , Mirco Musolesi

Energy systems optimization problems are complex due to strongly non-linear system behavior and multiple competing objectives, e.g. economic gain vs. environmental impact. Moreover, a large number of input variables and different variable…

Optimization problems in process engineering, including design and operation, can often pose challenges to many solvers: multi-modal, non-smooth, and discontinuous models often with large computational requirements. In such cases, the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-17 Eric S. Fraga , Veerawat Udomvorakulchai , Miguel Pineda , Lazaros G. Papageorgiou

Hard optimisation problems such as Boolean Satisfiability typically have long solving times and can usually be solved by many algorithms, although the performance can vary widely in practice. Research has shown that no single algorithm…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Riccardo Volpato , Guangyan Song

Exploring sparse reward multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) environments with traps in a collaborative manner is a complex task. Agents typically fail to reach the goal state and fall into traps, which affects the overall performance…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Xuechen Mu , Hankz Hankui Zhuo , Chen Chen , Kai Zhang , Chao Yu , Jianye Hao

The large-scale multiobjective optimization problem (LSMOP) is characterized by simultaneously optimizing multiple conflicting objectives and involving hundreds of decision variables. Many real-world applications in engineering fields can…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-04-17 Haokai Hong , Min Jiang , Gary G. Yen

Many modern software systems are built as a set of autonomous software components (also called agents) that collaborate with each other and are situated in an environment. To keep these multiagent systems operational under abnormal…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-04-19 João Faccin , Ingrid Nunes , Abdelwahab Hamou-Lhadj

Language model (LM)-based agents have demonstrated promising capabilities in automating complex tasks from natural language instructions, yet they continue to struggle with long-horizon planning and reasoning. To address this, we propose an…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Wenyi Wu , Sibo Zhu , Kun Zhou , Biwei Huang

Designing agents that are able to achieve different play-styles while maintaining a competitive level of play is a difficult task, especially for games for which the research community has not found super-human performance yet, like…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Diego Perez-Liebana , Cristina Guerrero-Romero , Alexander Dockhorn , Linjie Xu , Jorge Hurtado , Dominik Jeurissen

We study the problem of designing an optimal sequence of incentives that a principal should offer to an agent so that the agent's optimal behavior under the incentives realizes the principal's objective expressed as a temporal logic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-03-20 Yagiz Savas , Vijay Gupta , Melkior Ornik , Lillian J. Ratliff , Ufuk Topcu

Scientific progress depends on the continual generation of innovative re-search ideas. However, the rapid growth of scientific literature has greatly increased the cost of knowledge filtering, making it harder for researchers to identify…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Shuai Chen , Chengzhi Zhang

Algorithms are the engine for reproducible problem-solving. We present a framework automating algorithm discovery by conceptualizing them as sequences of operations, represented as tokens. These computational tokens are chained using a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Theo Bourdais , Abeynaya Gnanasekaran , Houman Owhadi , Tuhin Sahai