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Multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) often relies on \emph{parameter sharing (PS)} to scale efficiently. However, purely shared policies can stifle each agent's unique specialization, reducing overall performance in heterogeneous…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Beining Zhang , Aditya Kapoor , Mingfei Sun

We study information design in multi-agent systems (MAS) with binary actions and strategic complementarities, where an external designer influences behavior only through signals. Agents play the smallest-equilibrium of the induced Bayesian…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Farzaneh Farhadi , Maria Chli

Coupling frequently enhances noise-induced coherence and synchronization in interacting nonlinear systems, but it does so separately. In principle collective stochastic coherence and synchronizability are incompatible phenomena, since…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2015-06-17 Pablo Balenzuela , Pau Rué , Stefano Boccaletti , Jordi García-Ojalvo

Multi-agent systems (MAS) increasingly solve complex tasks by orchestrating agents and tools selected from rapidly growing marketplaces. As these marketplaces expand, many candidates become functionally overlapping, making selection not…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Xinyuan Song , Liang Zhao

This paper introduces a novel domain adaptation technique for time series data, called Mixing model Stiefel Adaptation (MSA), specifically addressing the challenge of limited labeled signals in the target dataset. Leveraging a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-07 Antoine Collas , Rémi Flamary , Alexandre Gramfort

Recently, a scalable approach to system analysis and controller synthesis for homogeneous multi-agent systems with Bernoulli distributed packet loss has been proposed. As a key result of that line of work, it was shown how to obtain upper…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-28 Christian Hespe , Herbert Werner

Multi-agent systems (MAS) solve complex problems through coordinated autonomous entities with individual decision-making capabilities. While Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL) enables these agents to learn intelligent strategies, it…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Xinren Zhang , Sixi Cheng , Zixin Zhong , Jiadong Yu

This paper studies the synchronization problem of second-order nonlinear multi-agent systems with intermittent communication in the presence of irregular communication delays and possible information loss. The control objective is to steer…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-05-07 Abdelkader Abdessameud , Ilia G. Polushin , Abdelhamid Tayebi

This paper proposes a novel approach to addressing the output synchronization problem in unknown heterogeneous multi-agent systems (MASs) using noisy data. Unlike existing studies that focus on noiseless data, we introduce a distributed…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-17 Yifei Li , Wenjie Liu , Jian Sun , Gang Wang , Lihua Xie , Jie Chen

Agent-based modelling constitutes a versatile approach to representing and simulating complex systems. Studying large-scale systems is challenging because of the computational time required for the simulation runs: scaling is at least…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-04-05 Alexandru-Ionuţ Băbeanu , Tatiana Filatova , Jan H. Kwakkel , Neil Yorke-Smith

This letter shows that the flexible association of possibly multiple base stations (BSs) to each user over multiple frequency bands, along with the joint optimization of BS transmit power that encourages the turning-off of the BSs at…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-10-11 Kaiming Shen , Ya-Feng Liu , David Yiwei Ding , Wei Yu

Large Language Model-based Multi-Agent Systems (MASs) have emerged as a powerful paradigm for tackling complex tasks through collaborative intelligence. However, the topology of these systems--how agents in MASs should be configured,…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Jiaxi Yang , Mengqi Zhang , Yiqiao Jin , Hao Chen , Qingsong Wen , Lu Lin , Yi He , Srijan Kumar , Weijie Xu , James Evans , Jindong Wang

This paper deals with the H2 suboptimal output synchronization problem for heterogeneous linear multi-agent systems. Given a multi-agent system with possibly distinct agents and an associated H2 cost functional, the aim is to design output…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-06-17 Junjie Jiao , Harry L. Trentelman , M. Kanat Camlibel

Multi-agent systems (MAS) built on large language models (LLMs) offer a promising path toward solving complex, real-world tasks that single-agent systems often struggle to manage. While recent advancements in test-time scaling (TTS) have…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Can Jin , Hongwu Peng , Qixin Zhang , Yujin Tang , Dimitris N. Metaxas , Tong Che

The largest strength of contention-based MAC protocols is simultaneously the largest weakness of their scheduled counterparts: the ability to adapt to changes in network conditions. For scheduling to be competitive in mobile wireless…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Jonathan Lutz , Charles J. Colbourn , Violet R. Syrotiuk

This paper is concerned with evaluating different multiagent learning (MAL) algorithms in problems where individual agents may be heterogenous, in the sense of utilizing different learning strategies, without the opportunity for prior…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2019-07-23 Stefano V. Albrecht , Subramanian Ramamoorthy

Mobile Agents (MAs) represent a distributed computing technology that promises to address the scalability problems of centralized network management. A critical issue that will affect the wider adoption of MA paradigm in management…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2011-09-20 Damianos Gavalas

The rise of Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) in Artificial Intelligence (AI), especially integrated with Large Language Models (LLMs), has greatly facilitated the resolution of complex tasks. However, current systems are still facing challenges of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Callie C. Liao , Duoduo Liao , Sai Surya Gadiraju

In this technical note we consider a class of multi-agent network systems that we refer to as Open Multi-Agent Systems (OMAS): in these multi-agent systems, an indefinite number of agents may join or leave the network at any time. Focusing…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-23 Mauro Franceschelli , Paolo Frasca

Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) are adopted and tested with many complex and critical industrial applications, which are required to be adaptive, scalable, context-aware, and include real-time constraints. Industrial Control Networks (ICN) are…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2015-06-18 Hosny A. Abbas , Samir I. Shaheen , Mohammed H. Amin