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Multi-agent active perception is a task where a team of agents cooperatively gathers observations to compute a joint estimate of a hidden variable. The task is decentralized and the joint estimate can only be computed after the task ends by…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-10-24 Mikko Lauri , Frans A. Oliehoek

Coordination of distributed agents is required for problems arising in many areas, including multi-robot systems, networking and e-commerce. As a formal framework for such problems, we use the decentralized partially observable Markov…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-01-16 Daniel S. Bernstein , Christopher Amato , Eric A. Hansen , Shlomo Zilberstein

One of the most challenging problems in Opportunistic Spectrum Access (OSA) is to design channel sensing-based protocol in multi secondary users (SUs) network. Quality of Service (QoS) requirements for SUs have significant implications on…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2010-10-18 Saber Salehkaleybar , Seyyed Arash Majd , Mohammad Reza Pakravan

Decentralized partially observable Markov decision processes with communication (Dec-POMDP-Com) provide a framework for multiagent decision making under uncertainty, but the NEXP-complete complexity for finite-horizon problems renders…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Dylan M. Asmar , Mykel J. Kochenderfer

We study a general class of dynamic multi-agent decision problems with asymmetric information and non-strategic agents, which includes dynamic teams as a special case. When agents are non-strategic, an agent's strategy is known to the other…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2018-12-05 Hamidreza Tavafoghi , Yi Ouyang , Demosthenis Teneketzis

This paper studies the synthesis of a joint control and active perception policy for a stochastic system modeled as a partially observable Markov decision process (POMDP), subject to temporal logic specifications. The POMDP actions…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-21 Chongyang Shi , Michael R. Dorothy , Jie Fu

Decentralized policies for information gathering are required when multiple autonomous agents are deployed to collect data about a phenomenon of interest without the ability to communicate. Decentralized partially observable Markov decision…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-02-27 Mikko Lauri , Joni Pajarinen , Jan Peters

A crucial challenge in decentralized systems is state estimation in the presence of unknown inputs, particularly within heterogeneous sensor networks with dynamic topologies. While numerous consensus algorithms have been introduced, they…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-13 Zida Wu , Ankur Mehta

Multi-agent decision-making under uncertainty is fundamental for effective and safe autonomous operation. In many real-world scenarios, each agent maintains its own belief over the environment and must plan actions accordingly. However,…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-12-25 Moshe Rafaeli Shimron , Vadim Indelman

We study the policy synthesis problem in contextual partially observable Markov decision processes (CPOMDPs), where the environment is governed by an unknown latent context that induces distinct POMDP dynamics. Our goal is to design a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-05 Chongyang Shi , Michael Dorothy , Jie Fu

This paper presents a data-driven approach for multi-robot coordination in partially-observable domains based on Decentralized Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes (Dec-POMDPs) and macro-actions (MAs). Dec-POMDPs provide a general…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2017-08-21 Miao Liu , Kavinayan Sivakumar , Shayegan Omidshafiei , Christopher Amato , Jonathan P. How

Interactive partially observable Markov decision processes (I-POMDP) provide a formal framework for planning for a self-interested agent in multiagent settings. An agent operating in a multiagent environment must deliberate about the…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2015-04-06 Ekhlas Sonu , Yingke Chen , Prashant Doshi

Cooperative multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) is typically framed as a decentralised partially observable Markov decision process (Dec-POMDP), a setting whose hardness stems from two key challenges: partial observability and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Kale-ab Tessera , Leonard Hinckeldey , Riccardo Zamboni , David Abel , Amos Storkey

Multi-agent systems built on language models have shown strong performance on collaborative reasoning tasks. However, existing evaluations focus only on the correctness of the final output, overlooking how inefficient communication and poor…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Jisoo Lee , Raeyoung Chang , Dongwook Kwon , Harmanpreet Singh , Nikhil Verma

The LiDAR-based multi-agent and single-agent perception has shown promising performance in environmental understanding for robots and automated vehicles. However, there is no existing method that simultaneously solves both multi-agent and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Haochen Yang , Baolu Li , Lei Li , Delin Ren , Jiacheng Guo , Minghai Qin , Tianyun Zhang , Hongkai Yu

This paper addresses a fundamental question of multi-agent knowledge distribution: what information should be sent to whom and when, with the limited resources available to each agent? Communication requirements for multi-agent systems can…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2019-03-08 Michael C. Fowler , T. Charles Clancy , Ryan K. Williams

Partially observable Markov decision processes (POMDPs) are widely used in probabilistic planning problems in which an agent interacts with an environment using noisy and imprecise sensors. We study a setting in which the sensors are only…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-10-03 Krishnendu Chatterjee , Martin Chmelik , Ufuk Topcu

In active perception tasks, an agent aims to select sensory actions that reduce its uncertainty about one or more hidden variables. While partially observable Markov decision processes (POMDPs) provide a natural model for such problems,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-09-22 Yash Satsangi , Shimon Whiteson , Frans A. Oliehoek , Matthijs T. J. Spaan

We consider the online planning problem for a team of agents to discover and track an unknown and time-varying number of moving objects from onboard sensor measurements with uncertain measurement-object origins. Since the onboard sensors…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Hoa Van Nguyen , Ba-Ngu Vo , Ba-Tuong Vo , Hamid Rezatofighi , Damith C. Ranasinghe

We consider the problem of interactive partially observable Markov decision processes (I-POMDPs), where the agents are located at the nodes of a communication network. Specifically, we assume a certain message type for all messages.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-11-11 Yitao Chen , Deepanshu Vasal
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