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Recently, self-learning methods based on user satisfaction metrics and contextual bandits have shown promising results to enable consistent improvements in conversational AI systems. However, directly targeting such metrics by off-policy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Mohammad Kachuee , Sungjin Lee

This paper tackles a multi-agent bandit setting where $M$ agents cooperate together to solve the same instance of a $K$-armed stochastic bandit problem. The agents are \textit{heterogeneous}: each agent has limited access to a local subset…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-18 Lin Yang , Yu-zhen Janice Chen , Mohammad Hajiesmaili , John CS Lui , Don Towsley

We study the regret in stochastic Multi-Armed Bandits (MAB) with multiple agents that communicate over an arbitrary connected communication graph. We analyzed a variant of Cooperative Successive Elimination algorithm, COOP-SE, and show an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Idan Barnea , Tal Lancewicki , Yishay Mansour

This paper investigates distributed zeroth-order feedback optimization in multi-agent systems with coupled constraints, where each agent operates its local action vector and observes only zeroth-order information to minimize a global cost…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-17 Yingpeng Duan , Yujie Tang

In cooperative multi-agent robotic systems, coordination is necessary in order to complete a given task. Important examples include search and rescue, operations in hazardous environments, and environmental monitoring. Coordination, in…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Andrea Carron , Danilo Saccani , Lorenzo Fagiano , Melanie N. Zeilinger

In this paper, we consider the problem of optimal scalable video delivery to mobile users in wireless networks given arbitrary Quality Adaptation (QA) mechanisms. In current practical systems, QA and scheduling are performed independently…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-08-28 S. Amir Hosseini , Shivendra S. Panwar

We consider a wireless distributed computing system, in which multiple mobile users, connected wirelessly through an access point, collaborate to perform a computation task. In particular, users communicate with each other via the access…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-09 Songze Li , Qian Yu , Mohammad Ali Maddah-Ali , A. Salman Avestimehr

Collaborative perception is vital for autonomous driving yet remains constrained by tight communication budgets. Earlier work reduced bandwidth by compressing full feature maps with fixed-rate encoders, which adapts poorly to a changing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Gong Chen , Chaokun Zhang , Xinyan Zhao

Stochastic linear bandits are a fundamental model for sequential decision making, where an agent selects a vector-valued action and receives a noisy reward with expected value given by an unknown linear function. Although well studied in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Bruce Huang , Ruida Zhou , Lin F. Yang , Suhas Diggavi

Communication can improve coordination in partially observed multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL), but learning \emph{when} and \emph{who} to communicate with requires choosing among many possible sender-recipient pairs, and the effect…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Manav Vora , Gokul Puthumanaillam , Hiroyasu Tsukamoto , Melkior Ornik

This paper studies the optimal resource allocation problem within a multi-agent network composed of both autonomous agents and humans. The main challenge lies in the globally coupled constraints that link the decisions of autonomous agents…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-04 Yichen Yao , Ryan Mbagna Nanko , Yue Wang , Xuan Wang

Communication bandwidth is an important consideration in multi-robot exploration, where information exchange among robots is critical. While existing methods typically aim to reduce communication throughput, they either require significant…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Yixiao Ma , Jingsong Liang , Yuhong Cao , Derek Ming Siang Tan , Guillaume Sartoretti

Federated optimization, wherein several agents in a network collaborate with a central server to achieve optimal social cost over the network with no requirement for exchanging information among agents, has attracted significant interest…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-10-23 Syed Eqbal Alam , Dhirendra Shukla , Shrisha Rao

Large language models are increasingly deployed in multi-agent systems to overcome context limitations by distributing information across agents. Yet whether agents can reliably compute with distributed information, rather than merely…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Yuzhe Zhang , Feiran Liu , Yi Shan , Xinyi Huang , Xin Yang , Yueqi Zhu , Xuxin Cheng , Cao Liu , Ke Zeng , Terry Jingchen Zhang , Wenyuan Jiang

We investigate the problem of monitoring multiple targets using a single mobile sensor, with the goal of minimizing the maximum estimation error among all the targets over long time horizons. The sensor can move in a network-constrained…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-25 Samuel C. Pinto , Sean B. Andersson , Julien M. Hendrickx , Christos G. Cassandras

This paper addresses the problem of collaboratively satisfying long-term spatial constraints in multi-agent systems. Each agent is subject to spatial constraints, expressed as inequalities, which may depend on the positions of other agents…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-23 Farhad Mehdifar , Mani H. Dhullipalla , Charalampos P. Bechlioulis , Dimos V. Dimarogonas

In this work, it is presented the development of a novel distributed algorithm performing robotic coverage, clustering and dispatch around an event in static-obstacle structured environments without relying on metric information.…

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

Distributed agents in real-world settings frequently must coordinate under uncertainty with only partial observations. Coordination is necessary to share beliefs to aid in task completion, but communication costs bandwidth, introduces…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-05-11 David Farr , Iain Cruickshank , Kate Starbird , Jevin West

The study of collaborative multi-agent bandits has attracted significant attention recently. In light of this, we initiate the study of a new collaborative setting, consisting of $N$ agents such that each agent is learning one of $M$…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-04 Ronshee Chawla , Daniel Vial , Sanjay Shakkottai , R. Srikant

Min-max problems are important in multi-agent sequential decision-making because they improve the performance of the worst-performing agent in the network. However, solving the multi-agent min-max problem is challenging. We propose a…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-05-31 Alexandros E. Tzikas , Jinkyoo Park , Mykel J. Kochenderfer , Ross E. Allen