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Recently, graph-based planning algorithms have gained much attention to solve goal-conditioned reinforcement learning (RL) tasks: they provide a sequence of subgoals to reach the target-goal, and the agents learn to execute…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Junsu Kim , Younggyo Seo , Sungsoo Ahn , Kyunghwan Son , Jinwoo Shin

Effective communication is key to successful, decentralized, multi-robot path planning. Yet, it is far from obvious what information is crucial to the task at hand, and how and when it must be shared among robots. To side-step these issues…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-07-15 Qingbiao Li , Fernando Gama , Alejandro Ribeiro , Amanda Prorok

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have been attracting increasing popularity due to their simplicity and effectiveness in a variety of fields. However, a large number of labeled data is generally required to train these networks, which could be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-26 Shengding Hu , Zheng Xiong , Meng Qu , Xingdi Yuan , Marc-Alexandre Côté , Zhiyuan Liu , Jian Tang

Game-theoretic resource allocation on graphs (GRAG) involves two players competing over multiple steps to control nodes of interest on a graph, a problem modeled as a multi-step Colonel Blotto Game (MCBG). Finding optimal strategies is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Zijian An , Lifeng Zhou

The aim of this work is to develop a fully-distributed algorithmic framework for training graph convolutional networks (GCNs). The proposed method is able to exploit the meaningful relational structure of the input data, which are collected…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-21 Simone Scardapane , Indro Spinelli , Paolo Di Lorenzo

In multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL), it is challenging for a collection of agents to learn complex temporally extended tasks. The difficulties lie in computational complexity and how to learn the high-level ideas behind reward…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2021-10-04 Jueming Hu , Zhe Xu , Weichang Wang , Guannan Qu , Yutian Pang , Yongming Liu

Unlabeled motion planning involves assigning a set of robots to target locations while ensuring collision avoidance, aiming to minimize the total distance traveled. The problem forms an essential building block for multi-robot systems in…

We present a decentralized minimum-time trajectory optimization scheme based on learning model predictive control for multi-agent systems with nonlinear decoupled dynamics and coupled state constraints. By performing the same task…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-21 Edward L. Zhu , Yvonne R. Stürz , Ugo Rosolia , Francesco Borrelli

Autonomous mobility-on-demand (AMoD) systems represent a rapidly developing mode of transportation wherein travel requests are dynamically handled by a coordinated fleet of robotic, self-driving vehicles. Given a graph representation of the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-17 Daniele Gammelli , Kaidi Yang , James Harrison , Filipe Rodrigues , Francisco C. Pereira , Marco Pavone

We consider the problem of finding decentralized strategies for multi-agent perimeter defense games. In this work, we design a graph neural network-based learning framework to learn a mapping from defenders' local perceptions and the…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2022-11-04 Elijah S. Lee , Lifeng Zhou , Alejandro Ribeiro , Vijay Kumar

Graph neural networks (GNNs) model representations from networked data and allow for decentralized inference through localized communications. Existing GNN architectures often assume ideal communications and ignore potential channel…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-22 Zhan Gao , Deniz Gunduz

Wireless local area networks (WLANs) manage multiple access points (APs) and assign scarce radio frequency resources to APs for satisfying traffic demands of associated user devices. This paper considers the channel allocation problem in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Zhan Gao , Yulin Shao , Deniz Gunduz , Amanda Prorok

In this work, we study the problem of decentralized multi-agent perimeter defense that asks for computing actions for defenders with local perceptions and communications to maximize the capture of intruders. One major challenge for…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-01-25 Elijah S. Lee , Lifeng Zhou , Alejandro Ribeiro , Vijay Kumar

This paper studies a policy optimization problem arising from collaborative multi-agent reinforcement learning in a decentralized setting where agents communicate with their neighbors over an undirected graph to maximize the sum of their…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-09-07 Jinchi Chen , Jie Feng , Weiguo Gao , Ke Wei

Minimizing transmission delay in wireless multi-hop networks is a fundamental yet challenging task due to the complex coupling among interference, queue dynamics, and distributed control. Traditional scheduling algorithms, such as…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-10 Boxuan Wen , Junyu Luo

In reinforcement learning, agents often learn policies for specific tasks without the ability to generalize this knowledge to related tasks. This paper introduces an algorithm that attempts to address this limitation by decomposing neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-16 Mahdi Alikhasi , Levi H. S. Lelis

For a multi-agent system state estimation resting upon noisy measurements constitutes a problem related to several application scenarios. Adopting the standard least-squares approach, in this work we derive both the (centralized) analytic…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-22 Marco Fabris , Giulia Michieletto , Angelo Cenedese

We consider the problem of finding distributed controllers for large networks of mobile robots with interacting dynamics and sparsely available communications. Our approach is to learn local controllers that require only local information…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-03-29 Ekaterina Tolstaya , Fernando Gama , James Paulos , George Pappas , Vijay Kumar , Alejandro Ribeiro

This paper considers a distributed reinforcement learning problem in which a network of multiple agents aim to cooperatively maximize the globally averaged return through communication with only local neighbors. A randomized…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-09 Yixuan Lin , Kaiqing Zhang , Zhuoran Yang , Zhaoran Wang , Tamer Başar , Romeil Sandhu , Ji Liu

We propose a novel approach to optimize fleet management by combining multi-agent reinforcement learning with graph neural network. To provide ride-hailing service, one needs to optimize dynamic resources and demands over spatial domain.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-09 Juhyeon Kim , Kihyun Kim