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With the recent development of natural language generation models - termed as large language models (LLMs) - a potential use case has opened up to improve the way that humans interact with robot assistants. These LLMs should be able to…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-11-27 Mitchell Rosser , Marc. G Carmichael

Effective collaboration in multi-agent systems requires communicating goals and intentions between agents. Current agent frameworks often suffer from dependencies on single-agent execution and lack robust inter-module communication,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Xihe Qiu , Haoyu Wang , Xiaoyu Tan , Chao Qu , Yujie Xiong , Yuan Cheng , Yinghui Xu , Wei Chu , Yuan Qi

Despite significant progress on multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) in recent years, coordination in complex domains remains a challenge. Work in MARL often focuses on solving tasks where agents interact with all other agents and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Shariq Iqbal , Robby Costales , Fei Sha

In most multiagent applications, communication is essential among agents to coordinate their actions, and thus achieve their goal. However, communication often has a related cost that affects overall system performance. In this paper, we…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Abeer Alshehri , Tim Miller , Liz Sonenberg

Coordinating multiple autonomous agents in shared environments under decentralized conditions is a long-standing challenge in robotics and artificial intelligence. This work addresses the problem of decentralized goal assignment for…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Murad Ismayilov , Edwin Meriaux , Shuo Wen , Gregory Dudek

In this paper, we investigate the problem of embodied multi-agent cooperation, where decentralized agents must cooperate given only egocentric views of the world. To effectively plan in this setting, in contrast to learning world dynamics…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-17 Hongxin Zhang , Zeyuan Wang , Qiushi Lyu , Zheyuan Zhang , Sunli Chen , Tianmin Shu , Behzad Dariush , Kwonjoon Lee , Yilun Du , Chuang Gan

We introduce a framework for cooperative manipulation, applied on an underactuated manipulation problem. Two stationary robotic manipulators are required to cooperate in order to reposition an object within their shared work space. Control…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-02-23 Sander De Witte , Tom Lefebvre , Thijs Van Hauwermeiren , Guillaume Crevecoeur

The rapid advancement of chat-based language models has led to remarkable progress in complex task-solving. However, their success heavily relies on human input to guide the conversation, which can be challenging and time-consuming. This…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-11-03 Guohao Li , Hasan Abed Al Kader Hammoud , Hani Itani , Dmitrii Khizbullin , Bernard Ghanem

Several Multi-Agent System (MAS) metamodels and languages have been proposed in the literature to support the development of agent-based applications. MAS metamodels are used to capture a collection of concepts the relevant entities and…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2021-11-29 Marx Viana , Paulo Alencar , Carlos Lucena

Most of the grand challenges of humanity today involve complex agent-based systems, such as epidemiology, economics or ecology. However, remains as a pending task the challenge of identifying the general principles underlying their…

General Finance · Quantitative Finance 2020-10-19 Martin Jaraiz

Large Language Models (LLMs) have increasingly demonstrated the ability to facilitate the development of multi-agent systems that allow the interpretation of thoughts and actions generated by each individual. Promising advancements have…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Asher Sprigler , Alexander Drobek , Keagan Weinstock , Wendpanga Tapsoba , Gavin Childress , Andy Dao , Lucas Gral

This work views the multi-agent system and its surrounding environment as a co-evolving system, where the behavior of one affects the other. The goal is to take both agent actions and environment configurations as decision variables, and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Zhan Gao , Guang Yang , Amanda Prorok

This paper presents a novel approach to Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL) that combines cooperative task decomposition with the learning of reward machines (RMs) encoding the structure of the sub-tasks. The proposed method helps…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-02-17 Leo Ardon , Daniel Furelos-Blanco , Alessandra Russo

Large language model (LLM)-based multi-agent systems have demonstrated remarkable promise for tackling complex tasks by breaking them down into subtasks that are iteratively planned, executed, observed, and refined. Despite their…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Enhao Zhang , Erkang Zhu , Gagan Bansal , Adam Fourney , Hussein Mozannar , Jack Gerrits

Open large language models (LLMs) have significantly advanced the field of natural language processing, showcasing impressive performance across various tasks.Despite the significant advancements in LLMs, their effective operation still…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Xuechen Liang , Yangfan He , Meiling Tao , Yinghui Xia , Jianhui Wang , Tianyu Shi , Jun Wang , JingSong Yang

AI agents are increasingly used to solve complex, multi-step tasks, but existing multi-agent frameworks remain brittle as workflows grow in scale and depth. Small errors at intermediate stages can propagate through agent interactions, while…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Andy Xu , Yu-Wing Tai

In collaborative robotic cells, a human operator and a robot share the workspace in order to execute a common job, consisting of a set of tasks. A proper allocation and scheduling of the tasks for the human and for the robot is crucial for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-04-30 Andrea Pupa , Chiara Talignani Landi , Mattia Bertolani , Cristian Secchi

This paper studies fully decentralized cooperative multi-agent reinforcement learning, where each agent solely observes the states, its local actions, and the shared rewards. The inability to access other agents' actions often leads to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Chao Li , Bingkun Bao , Yang Gao

Large language model-based multi-agent systems have recently gained significant attention due to their potential for complex, collaborative, and intelligent problem-solving capabilities. Existing surveys typically categorize LLM-based…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Bingyu Yan , Zhibo Zhou , Litian Zhang , Lian Zhang , Ziyi Zhou , Dezhuang Miao , Zhoujun Li , Chaozhuo Li , Xiaoming Zhang

Recent breakthroughs in large language model-driven autonomous agents have revealed that multi-agent collaboration often surpasses each individual through collective reasoning. Inspired by the neural scaling law--increasing neurons enhances…

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