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A challenge in reinforcement learning (RL) is minimizing the cost of sampling associated with exploration. Distributed exploration reduces sampling complexity in multi-agent RL (MARL). We investigate the benefits to performance in MARL when…

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Distributed AI systems face critical memory management challenges across computation, communication, and deployment layers. RRAM based in memory computing suffers from scalability limitations due to device non idealities and fixed array…

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We investigate the behavioral patterns of a population of agents, each controlled by a simple biologically motivated neural network model, when they are set in competition against each other in the Minority Model of Challet and Zhang. We…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2007-05-23 Joseph Wakeling , Per Bak

The exploration of whether agents can align with their environment without relying on human-labeled data presents an intriguing research topic. Drawing inspiration from the alignment process observed in intelligent organisms, where…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-06 Bo Wang , Tianxiang Sun , Hang Yan , Siyin Wang , Qingyuan Cheng , Xipeng Qiu

Multi-agent neural implicit mapping allows robots to collaboratively capture and reconstruct complex environments with high fidelity. However, existing approaches often rely on synchronous communication, which is impractical in real-world…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Hongrui Zhao , Boris Ivanovic , Negar Mehr

In this work, we use a simple multi-agent-based model (MABM), implementing selfish algorithm (SA) agents, to create an adaptive environment and show, using modified diffusion entropy analysis (MDEA), that the mutual-adaptive interaction…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2023-11-21 Korosh Mahmoodi1 , Scott E. Kerick , Piotr J. Franaszczuk1 , Thomas D. Parsons , Paolo Grigolini , Bruce J. West

Humans excel at remembering concrete experiences along spatiotemporal contexts and performing reasoning across those events, i.e., the capacity for episodic memory. In contrast, memory in language agents remains mainly semantic, and current…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Yiheng Shu , Saisri Padmaja Jonnalagedda , Xiang Gao , Bernal Jiménez Gutiérrez , Weijian Qi , Kamalika Das , Huan Sun , Yu Su

Modern applications of AI involve training and deploying machine learning models across heterogeneous and potentially massive environments. Emerging diversity of data not only brings about new possibilities to advance AI systems, but also…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Krikamol Muandet

Learning by experience in Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) is a difficult and exciting task, due to the lack of stationarity of the environment, whose dynamics evolves as the population learns. In order to design scalable algorithms for systems…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-02-24 Romuald Elie , Julien Pérolat , Mathieu Laurière , Matthieu Geist , Olivier Pietquin

Decentralized and lifelong-adaptive multi-agent collaborative learning aims to enhance collaboration among multiple agents without a central server, with each agent solving varied tasks over time. To achieve efficient collaboration, agents…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Shuo Tang , Rui Ye , Chenxin Xu , Xiaowen Dong , Siheng Chen , Yanfeng Wang

Episodic control, inspired by the role of episodic memory in the human brain, has been shown to improve the sample inefficiency of model-free reinforcement learning by reusing high-return past experiences. However, the memory growth of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-24 Mukul Chodhary , Kevin Octavian , SooJean Han

Decentralized learning enables a group of collaborative agents to learn models using a distributed dataset without the need for a central parameter server. Recently, decentralized learning algorithms have demonstrated state-of-the-art…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-30 Yasaman Esfandiari , Sin Yong Tan , Zhanhong Jiang , Aditya Balu , Ethan Herron , Chinmay Hegde , Soumik Sarkar

Multi-agent systems composed of large generative models are rapidly moving from laboratory prototypes to real-world deployments, where they jointly plan, negotiate, and allocate shared resources to solve complex tasks. While such systems…

The study of flocking in biological systems has identified conditions for self-organized collective behavior, inspiring the development of decentralized strategies to coordinate the dynamics of swarms of drones and other autonomous…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-11-05 Arthur N. Montanari , Ana Elisa D. Barioni , Chao Duan , Adilson E. Motter

Static "human data" faces inherent limitations: it is expensive to scale and bounded by the knowledge of its creators. Continuous learning from "experience data" - interactions between agents and their environments - promises to transcend…

We study the emergence of cooperative behaviors in reinforcement learning agents by introducing a challenging competitive multi-agent soccer environment with continuous simulated physics. We demonstrate that decentralized, population-based…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-05-21 Siqi Liu , Guy Lever , Josh Merel , Saran Tunyasuvunakool , Nicolas Heess , Thore Graepel

Collective animal movement fascinates children and scientists alike. One of the most commonly given explanations for collective animal movement is improved foraging. Animals are hypothesized to gain from searching for food in groups. Here,…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2019-04-08 Ravid Cohen , Yossi Yovel , Dan Halperin

Enterprise AI systems increasingly deploy multiple intelligent agents across mission-critical workflows that must satisfy hard policy constraints, bounded risk exposure, and comprehensive auditability (SOX, HIPAA, GDPR). Existing…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Vinil Pasupuleti , Shyalendar Reddy Allala , Siva Rama Krishna Varma Bayyavarapu , Shrey Tyagi

Multi-agent systems (MAS) are increasingly capable of tackling complex real-world tasks, yet their reliance on inter-agent coordination, tool use, and long-horizon reasoning makes error recognition particularly challenging. Minor errors can…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Yifan Yu , Moyan Li , Shaoyuan Xu , Jinmiao Fu , Xinhai Hou , Fan Lai , Bryan Wang

Current artificial intelligence systems show near-human-level capabilities when deployed in isolation. Systems of a few collaborating intelligent agents are being engineered to perform tasks collectively. This raises the question of whether…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-10-08 Onurcan Bektas , Adolfo Alsina , Steffen Rulands