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This paper is concerned with the distributed linear quadratic optimal control problem. In particular, we consider a suboptimal version of the distributed optimal control problem for undirected multi-agent networks. Given a multi-agent…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-03-08 Junjie Jiao , Harry L. Trentelman , M. Kanat Camlibel

A central challenge in quantum computing is to identify more computational problems for which utilization of quantum resources can offer significant speedup. Here, we propose a hybrid quantum-classical scheme to tackle the quantum optimal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-04-19 Jun Li , Xiaodong Yang , Xinhua Peng , Chang-Pu Sun

Cooperatively optimizing a vast number of agents that are connected over a large-scale network brings unprecedented scalability challenges. This paper revolves around problems optimizing coupled objective functions under coupled…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-10-14 Xiang Huo , Mingxi Liu

Many present day quantum optics experiments, particularly in optical quantum information processing, rely on number-resolving photo-detection as a basic building block. In this paper we demonstrate that a simple classical optimisation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-07-15 Peter P. Rohde

Intelligent physical systems as embodied cognitive systems must perform high-level reasoning while concurrently managing an underlying control architecture. The link between cognition and control must manage the problem of converting…

Common knowledge indicates that the process of constructing image datasets usually depends on the time-intensive and inefficient method of manual collection and annotation. Large models offer a solution via data generation. Nonetheless,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Haoran Sun , Haoyu Bian , Shaoning Zeng , Yunbo Rao , Xu Xu , Lin Mei , Jianping Gou

This paper investigates the collision-free control problem for multi-agent systems. For such multi-agent systems, it is the typical situation where conventional methods using either the usual centralized model predictive control (MPC), or…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-02-07 Zilong Cheng , Jun Ma , Wenxin Wang , Zicheng Zhu , Clarence W. de Silva , Tong Heng Lee

Robust reinforcement learning agents using high-dimensional observations must be able to identify relevant state features amidst many exogeneous distractors. A representation that captures controllability identifies these state elements by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Max Rudolph , Caleb Chuck , Kevin Black , Misha Lvovsky , Scott Niekum , Amy Zhang

Many complex systems can be modeled as multiagent systems in which the constituent entities (agents) interact with each other. The global dynamics of such a system is determined by the nature of the local interactions among the agents.…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2011-11-10 Reinhard Laubenbacher , Abdul S. Jarrah , Henning Mortveit , S. S. Ravi

In this paper, we propose a novel distributed algorithm to optimize the emergent macroscopic behavior of large-scale multi-agent systems via microscopic actions. We cast this task as a bilevel optimization problem, where the upper level…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-14 Riccardo Brumali , Guido Carnevale , Sonia Martínez , Giuseppe Notarstefano

A standard ML model is commonly generated by a single method that specifies aspects such as architecture, initialization, training data and hyperparameters configuration. The presented work introduces a novel methodology allowing to define…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Andrea Gesmundo

Agent-based modelling is a valuable approach for systems whose behaviour is driven by the interactions between distinct entities. They have shown particular promise as a means of modelling crowds of people in streets, public transport…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2020-04-30 Nick Malleson , Kevin Minors , Le-Minh Kieu , Jonathan A. Ward , Andrew A. West , Alison Heppenstall

The simulation of quantum dynamics on a digital quantum computer with parameterized circuits has widespread applications in fundamental and applied physics and chemistry. In this context, using the hybrid quantum-classical algorithm,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-19 Tangyou Huang , Yongcheng Ding , Léonce Dupays , Yue Ban , Man-Hong Yung , Adolfo del Campo , Xi Chen

Semantic image segmentation is an important computer vision task that is difficult because it consists of both recognition and segmentation. The task is often cast as a structured output problem on an exponentially large output-space, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-07 Payman Yadollahpour

We address the issue of identifying conditions under which the centralized solution to the optimal multi-agent persistent monitoring problem can be recovered in a decentralized event-driven manner. In this problem, multiple agents interact…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-08-23 Nan Zhou , Christos G. Cassandras , Xi Yu , Sean B. Andersson

This paper considers the optimal distributed control problem for a linear stochastic multi-agent system (MAS). Due to the distributed nature of MAS network, the information available to an individual agent is limited to its vicinity. From…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-15 Hojin Lee , Cheolhyeon Kwon

This paper introduces a novel decentralized implementation of a continuification-based strategy to control the density of large-scale multi-agent systems on the unit circle. While continuification methods effectively address micro-to-macro…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-27 Beniamino Di Lorenzo , Gian Carlo Maffettone , Mario di Bernardo

Optimal control and sequential decision making are widely used in many complex tasks. Optimal control over a sequence of natural images is a first step towards understanding the role of vision in control. Here, we formalize this problem as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Peter N. Loxley

This study highlights the potential of image-based reinforcement learning methods for addressing swarm-related tasks. In multi-agent reinforcement learning, effective policy learning depends on how agents sense, interpret, and process…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Yigal Koifman , Eran Iceland , Erez Koifman , Ariel Barel , Alfred M. Bruckstein

In this paper we present a layered approach for multi-agent control problem, decomposed into three stages, each building upon the results of the previous one. First, a high-level plan for a coarse abstraction of the system is computed,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-07-14 Emily Clement , Nicolas Perrin-Gilbert , Philipp Schlehuber-Caissier