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By enabling agents to communicate, recent cooperative multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) methods have demonstrated better task performance and more coordinated behavior. Most existing approaches facilitate inter-agent communication…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Yat Long Lo , Christian Schroeder de Witt , Samuel Sokota , Jakob Nicolaus Foerster , Shimon Whiteson

As multi-agent systems (MAS) become increasingly prevalent in autonomous systems, distributed control, and edge intelligence, efficient communication under resource constraints has emerged as a critical challenge. Traditional communication…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Themistoklis Charalambous , Nikolaos Pappas , Nikolaos Nomikos , Risto Wichman

Multi-agent sequential decision-making powers many real-world systems, from autonomous vehicles and robotics to collaborative AI assistants. In dynamic, partially observable environments, communication is often what reduces uncertainty and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Jingdi Chen , Hanqing Yang , Zongjun Liu , Carlee Joe-Wong

The traditional communication model based on chain of multiple independent processing blocks is constraint to efficiency and introduces artificial barriers. Thus, each individually optimized block does not guarantee end-to-end performance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-11 Ijaz Ahmad , Seokjoo Shin

Communication in multi-agent reinforcement learning has been drawing attention recently for its significant role in cooperation. However, multi-agent systems may suffer from limitations on communication resources and thus need efficient…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-02-13 Lebin Yu , Yunbo Qiu , Qiexiang Wang , Xudong Zhang , Jian Wang

We consider multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) for cooperative communication and coordination tasks. MARL agents can be brittle because they can overfit their training partners' policies. This overfitting can produce agents that…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Tessa van der Heiden , Herke van Hoof , Efstratios Gavves , Christoph Salge

The rapid evolution of forthcoming sixth-generation (6G) wireless networks necessitates the seamless integration of artificial intelligence (AI) with wireless communications to support emerging intelligent applications that demand both…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-25 Wei Xu , Zhaohui Yang , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Robert Schober , H. Vincent Poor , Zhaoyang Zhang , Xiaohu You

Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL) is an increasingly important research field that can model and control multiple large-scale autonomous systems. Despite its achievements, existing multi-agent learning methods typically involve…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Kailash Gogineni , Peng Wei , Tian Lan , Guru Venkataramani

Order execution is a fundamental task in quantitative finance, aiming at finishing acquisition or liquidation for a number of trading orders of the specific assets. Recent advance in model-free reinforcement learning (RL) provides a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-07-07 Yuchen Fang , Zhenggang Tang , Kan Ren , Weiqing Liu , Li Zhao , Jiang Bian , Dongsheng Li , Weinan Zhang , Yong Yu , Tie-Yan Liu

In Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning, communication is critical to encourage cooperation among agents. Communication in realistic wireless networks can be highly unreliable due to network conditions varying with agents' mobility, and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-09-16 Diyi Hu , Chi Zhang , Viktor Prasanna , Bhaskar Krishnamachari

Existing communication methods for multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) in cooperative multi-robot problems are almost exclusively task-specific, training new communication strategies for each unique task. We address this inefficiency…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Dulhan Jayalath , Steven Morad , Amanda Prorok

Communication is one of the effective means to improve the learning of cooperative policy in multi-agent systems. However, in most real-world scenarios, lossy communication is a prevalent issue. Existing multi-agent reinforcement learning…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Guang Yang , Tianpei Yang , Jingwen Qiao , Yanqing Wu , Jing Huo , Xingguo Chen , Yang Gao

We consider the issue of multiple agents learning to communicate through reinforcement learning within partially observable environments, with a focus on information asymmetry in the second part of our work. We provide a review of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-14 Mohamed Salah Zaïem , Etienne Bennequin

Machine learning (ML) is a promising enabler for the fifth generation (5G) communication systems and beyond. By imbuing intelligence into the network edge, edge nodes can proactively carry out decision-making, and thereby react to local…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-07 Jihong Park , Sumudu Samarakoon , Anis Elgabli , Joongheon Kim , Mehdi Bennis , Seong-Lyun Kim , Mérouane Debbah

Recent advances in Federated Learning (FL) have paved the way towards the design of novel strategies for solving multiple learning tasks simultaneously, by leveraging cooperation among networked devices. Multi-Task Learning (MTL) exploits…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-23 Stefano Savazzi , Vittorio Rampa , Sanaz Kianoush , Mehdi Bennis

Safety and scalability are two critical challenges faced by practical Multi-Agent Systems (MAS). However, existing Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL) algorithms that rely solely on reward shaping are ineffective in ensuring safety,…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Haikuo Du , Fandi Gou , Yunze Cai

LLM-powered Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) have emerged as an effective approach towards collaborative intelligence, and have attracted wide research interests. Among them, ``self-evolving'' MAS, treated as a more flexible and powerful technical…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Xingjian Wu , Xvyuan Liu , Junkai Lu , Siyuan Wang , Xiangfei Qiu , Yang Shu , Jilin Hu , Chenjuan Guo , Bin Yang

LLM-based Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in solving complex tasks. Central to MAS is the communication topology which governs how agents exchange information internally. Consequently, the security of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Yongxuan Wu , Xixun Lin , He Zhang , Nan Sun , Kun Wang , Chuan Zhou , Shirui Pan , Yanan Cao

Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL) methods have shown promise in enabling agents to learn a shared communication protocol from scratch and accomplish challenging team tasks. However, the learned language is usually not interpretable…

Effective communication in multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) is critical for success but constrained by bandwidth, yet past approaches have been limited to complex gating mechanisms that only decide \textit{whether} to communicate,…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Aditya Kapoor , Yash Bhisikar , Benjamin Freed , Jan Peters , Mingfei Sun
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