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Selection as Power argued that upstream selection authority, rather than internal objective misalignment, constitutes a primary source of risk in high-stakes agentic systems. However, the original framework was static: governance…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Jose Manuel de la Chica Rodriguez , Juan Manuel Vera Díaz

Agentic systems, AI architectures that autonomously execute multi-step workflows to achieve complex goals, are often built using repeated large language model (LLM) calls for closed-set decision tasks such as routing, shortlisting, gating,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Ido Levy , Eilam Shapira , Yinon Goldshtein , Avi Yaeli , Nir Mashkif , Segev Shlomov

This work examines adaptive distributed learning strategies designed to operate under communication constraints. We consider a network of agents that must solve an online optimization problem from continual observation of streaming data.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-25 Marco Carpentiero , Vincenzo Matta , Ali H. Sayed

Autonomous web agents are increasingly deployed for long-horizon tasks, yet their ability to adhere to real-world policies remains critically underexplored compared to standard safety objectives. To address this gap, we introduce…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Xiaofei Wen , Wenjie Jacky Mo , Yanan Xie , Peng Qi , Muhao Chen

In this work, we consider the problem of computing optimal actions for Reinforcement Learning (RL) agents in a co-operative setting, where the objective is to optimize a common goal. However, in many real-life applications, in addition to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-01-08 P. Parnika , Raghuram Bharadwaj Diddigi , Sai Koti Reddy Danda , Shalabh Bhatnagar

A predictive triggering (PT) framework for the distributed control of resource constrained multi-agent systems is proposed. By predicting future communication demands and deriving a probabilistic priority measure, the PT framework is able…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-30 José Mario Mastrangelo , Dominik Baumann , Sebastian Trimpe

In this paper we consider non-smooth convex optimization problems with (possibly) infinite intersection of constraints. In contrast to the classical approach, where the constraints are usually represented as intersection of simple sets,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-11 Angelia Nedich , Ion Necoara

Sequential user behavior modeling is pivotal for Click-Through Rate (CTR) prediction yet is hindered by three intrinsic bottlenecks: (1) the "Attention Sink" phenomenon, where standard Softmax compels the model to allocate probability mass…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Shenqiang Ke , Jianxiong Wei , Qingsong Hua

We present AutoOptimization, a novel multi-objective optimization framework for adapting user interfaces. From a user's verbal preferences for changing a UI, our framework guides a prioritization-based Pareto frontier search over candidate…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Zhipeng Li , Christoph Gebhardt , Yi-Chi Liao , Christian Holz

Multi-agent systems (MAS) increasingly solve complex tasks by orchestrating agents and tools selected from rapidly growing marketplaces. As these marketplaces expand, many candidates become functionally overlapping, making selection not…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Xinyuan Song , Liang Zhao

Human decision-making often involves constrained optimization. As LLM agents are deployed to assist with real-world tasks like travel planning, shopping, and scheduling, they must mirror this capability. We introduce COMPASS, a benchmark…

Recent works have validated the possibility of improving energy efficiency in radio access networks (RANs), achieved by dynamically turning on/off some base stations (BSs). In this paper, we extend the research over BS switching operations,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2014-04-07 Rongpeng Li , Zhifeng Zhao , Xianfu Chen , Jacques Palicot , Honggang Zhang

Large language models (LLMs) excel in open domains but struggle in specialized settings with limited data and evolving knowledge. Existing domain adaptation practices rely heavily on manual trial-and-error processes, incur significant…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Sidharth Sinha , Anson Bastos , Xuchao Zhang , Akshay Nambi , Chetan Bansal , Saravan Rajmohan

Recommendation systems (RS) aim to retrieve the top-K items most relevant to users, with metrics such as Precision@K and Recall@K commonly used to assess effectiveness. The architecture of an RS model acts as an inductive bias, shaping the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Sirui Chen , Jiawei Chen , Canghong Jin , Sheng Zhou , Jingbang Chen , Wujie Sun , Can Wang

Successfully addressing a wide variety of tasks is a core ability of autonomous agents, requiring flexibly adapting the underlying decision-making strategies and, as we argue in this work, also adapting the perception modules. An analogical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Pierre Marza , Laetitia Matignon , Olivier Simonin , Christian Wolf

In cooperative stochastic games multiple agents work towards learning joint optimal actions in an unknown environment to achieve a common goal. In many real-world applications, however, constraints are often imposed on the actions that can…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2020-07-14 Raghuram Bharadwaj Diddigi , Sai Koti Reddy Danda , Prabuchandran K. J. , Shalabh Bhatnagar

Parallel trajectory optimization via the Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers (ADMM) has emerged as a scalable approach to long-horizon motion planning. However, existing frameworks typically decompose the problem into parallel…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Jiajun Yu , Guodong Liu , Li Wang , Pengxiang Zhou , Wentao Liu , Yin He , Chao Xu , Fei Gao , Yanjun Cao

Realistic recommender systems are often required to adapt to ever-changing data and tasks or to explore different models systematically. To address the need, we present AutoRec, an open-source automated machine learning (AutoML) platform…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-07-15 Ting-Hsiang Wang , Qingquan Song , Xiaotian Han , Zirui Liu , Haifeng Jin , Xia Hu

Traditional approaches in offline reinforcement learning aim to learn the optimal policy that maximizes the cumulative reward, also known as return. It is increasingly important to adjust the performance of AI agents to meet human…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Tsunehiko Tanaka , Kenshi Abe , Kaito Ariu , Tetsuro Morimura , Edgar Simo-Serra

In this paper, we consider groups of agents in a network that select actions in order to satisfy a set of constraints that vary arbitrarily over time and minimize a time-varying function of which they have only local observations. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-07-15 Santiago Paternain , Soomin Lee , Michael M. Zavlanos , Alejandro Ribeiro