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Traffic signal control is a challenging real-world problem aiming to minimize overall travel time by coordinating vehicle movements at road intersections. Existing traffic signal control systems in use still rely heavily on oversimplified…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-08-09 Chi-Chun Chao , Jun-Wei Hsieh , Bor-Shiun Wang

Distributed optimization algorithms are used in a wide variety of problems involving complex network systems where the goal is for a set of agents in the network to solve a network-wide optimization problem via distributed update rules. In…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-23 Liam Hallinan , Ioannis Lestas

New mobility concepts are at the forefront of research and innovation in smart cities. The introduction of connected and autonomous vehicles enables new possibilities in vehicle routing. Specifically, knowing the origin and destination of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-13 Brionna Davis , Grace Jennings , Taylor Pothast , Ilias Gerostathopoulos , Evangelos Pournaras , Raphael E. Stern

We study a networked multi-agent reinforcement learning (NMARL) problem with human feedback in an infinite-horizon setting, where agents interact over an underlying network with localized state dependencies and aim to collaboratively…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Pengcheng Dai , He Wang , Dongming Wang , Jian Qin , Wenwu Yu

Routing is one of the key functions for stable operation of network infrastructure. Nowadays, the rapid growth of network traffic volume and changing of service requirements call for more intelligent routing methods than before. Towards…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-03-30 Jiawei Wu , Jianxue Li , Yang Xiao , Jun Liu

Autonomous agents that drive on roads shared with human drivers must reason about the nuanced interactions among traffic participants. This poses a highly challenging decision making problem since human behavior is influenced by a multitude…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-30 Salar Arbabi , Davide Tavernini , Saber Fallah , Richard Bowden

Efforts in this paper seek to combine graph theory with adaptive dynamic programming (ADP) as a reinforcement learning (RL) framework to determine forward-in-time, real-time, approximate optimal controllers for distributed multi-agent…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-07-25 Rushikesh Kamalapurkar , Huyen Dinh , Patrick Walters , Warren Dixon

We consider a multi-agent setting with agents exchanging information over a possibly time-varying network, aiming at minimising a separable objective function subject to constraints. To achieve this objective we propose a novel subgradient…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-11-20 Licio Romao , Kostas Margellos , Giuseppe Notarstefano , Antonis Papachristodoulou

Offline reinforcement learning methods hold the promise of learning policies from pre-collected datasets without the need to query the environment for new transitions. This setting is particularly well-suited for continuous control robotic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-18 Xi Chen , Ali Ghadirzadeh , Tianhe Yu , Yuan Gao , Jianhao Wang , Wenzhe Li , Bin Liang , Chelsea Finn , Chongjie Zhang

Many real-world applications can be formulated as multi-agent cooperation problems, such as network packet routing and coordination of autonomous vehicles. The emergence of deep reinforcement learning (DRL) provides a promising approach for…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Zhixuan Liang , Jiannong Cao , Shan Jiang , Divya Saxena , Huafeng Xu

Decision-making under uncertainty is a crucial ability for autonomous systems. In its most general form, this problem can be formulated as a Partially Observable Markov Decision Process (POMDP). The solution policy of a POMDP can be…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-04-09 Sung-Kyun Kim , Rohan Thakker , Ali-akbar Agha-mohammadi

In this paper, a distributed optimization problem with general differentiable convex objective functions is studied for single-integrator and double-integrator multi-agent systems. Two distributed adaptive optimization algorithm is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-03-28 Peng Lin , Wei Ren

This paper considers a distributed optimization problem in a multi-agent system where a fraction of the agents act in an adversarial manner. Specifically, the malicious agents steer the network of agents away from the optimal solution by…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-06-07 Iyanuoluwa Emiola , Chinwendu Enyioha

In this paper, we develop a class of decentralized algorithms for solving a convex resource allocation problem in a network of $n$ agents, where the agent objectives are decoupled while the resource constraints are coupled. The agents…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-12-18 Angelia Nedić , Alex Olshevsky , Wei Shi

This paper aims to address distributed optimization problems over directed and time-varying networks, where the global objective function consists of a sum of locally accessible convex objective functions subject to a feasible set…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-07-14 Xiuxian Li , Gang Feng , Lihua Xie

Natural, social, and artificial multi-agent systems usually operate in dynamic environments, where the ability to respond to changing circumstances is a crucial feature. An effective collective response requires suitable information…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2022-09-29 David Mateo , Nikolaj Horsevad , Vahid Hassani , Mohammadreza Chamanbaz , Roland Bouffanais

Federated learning has emerged as an umbrella term for centralized coordination strategies in multi-agent environments. While many federated learning architectures process data in an online manner, and are hence adaptive by nature, most…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-06 Elsa Rizk , Stefan Vlaski , Ali H. Sayed

Resource balancing within complex transportation networks is one of the most important problems in real logistics domain. Traditional solutions on these problems leverage combinatorial optimization with demand and supply forecasting.…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2019-03-05 Xihan Li , Jia Zhang , Jiang Bian , Yunhai Tong , Tie-Yan Liu

We study a multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) problem where the agents interact over a given network. The goal of the agents is to cooperatively maximize the average of their entropy-regularized long-term rewards. To overcome the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-01 Yizhou Zhang , Guannan Qu , Pan Xu , Yiheng Lin , Zaiwei Chen , Adam Wierman

LLM-based multi-agent systems have demonstrated significant capabilities across diverse domains. However, the task performance and efficiency are fundamentally constrained by their collaboration strategies. Prevailing approaches rely on…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Qingwen Yang , Feiyu Qu , Tiezheng Guo , Yanyi Liu , Yingyou Wen
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