English
Related papers

Related papers: Scaling and Trade-offs in Multi-agent Autonomous S…

200 papers

We study the problem of resource provisioning under stringent reliability or service level requirements, which arise in applications such as power distribution, emergency response, cloud server provisioning, and regulatory risk management.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-11 Anand Deo , Karthyek Murthy

The performance of embodied agents has been shown to improve by increasing model parameters, dataset size, and compute. This has been demonstrated in domains from robotics to video games, when generative learning objectives on offline…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-19 Tim Pearce , Tabish Rashid , Dave Bignell , Raluca Georgescu , Sam Devlin , Katja Hofmann

We present a scalable pipeline for automatically generating high-quality training data for web agents. In particular, a major challenge in identifying high-quality training instances is trajectory evaluation - quantifying how much progress…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Lajanugen Logeswaran , Jaekyeom Kim , Sungryull Sohn , Creighton Glasscock , Honglak Lee

Dynamically changing environments, unreliable state estimation, and operation under severe resource constraints are fundamental challenges that limit the deployment of small autonomous drones. We address these challenges in the context of…

We propose an optimal solution to a deterministic dynamic assignment problem by leveraging connections to the theory of discrete optimal transport to convert the combinatorial assignment problem into a tractable linear program. We seek to…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2019-10-25 Koray G. Kachar , Alex A. Gorodetsky

Leveraging planning during learning and decision-making is central to the long-term development of intelligent agents. Recent works have successfully combined tree-based search methods and self-play learning mechanisms to this end. However,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Matthew V Macfarlane , Edan Toledo , Donal Byrne , Paul Duckworth , Alexandre Laterre

Agent-based modeling plays an essential role in gaining insights into biology, sociology, economics, and other fields. However, many existing agent-based simulation platforms are not suitable for large-scale studies due to the low…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Lukas Breitwieser , Ahmad Hesam , Fons Rademakers , Juan Gómez Luna , Onur Mutlu

In recent years, individual-based/agent-based modeling has been applied to study a wide range of applications, ranging from engineering problems to phenomena in sociology, economics and biology. Simulating such agent-based models over…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-04-30 Ping Liu , Giovanni Samaey , C. William Gear , Ioannis G. Kevrekidis

Data-driven simulation has become a favorable way to train and test autonomous driving algorithms. The idea of replacing the actual environment with a learned simulator has also been explored in model-based reinforcement learning in the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-09-29 Zhejun Zhang , Alexander Liniger , Dengxin Dai , Fisher Yu , Luc Van Gool

This paper summarizes in depth the state of the art of aerial swarms, covering both classical and new reinforcement-learning-based approaches for their management. Then, it proposes a hybrid AI system, integrating deep reinforcement…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-01-16 Raúl Arranz , David Carramiñana , Gonzalo de Miguel , Juan A. Besada , Ana M. Bernardos

Handling the problem of scalability is one of the essential issues for multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) algorithms to be applied to real-world problems typically involving massively many agents. For this, parameter sharing across…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-03-03 Woojun Kim , Youngchul Sung

Many new methodologies for the control of large-scale multi-agent systems are based on macroscopic representations of the emerging system dynamics, in the form of continuum approximations of large ensembles. These techniques, that are…

We consider optimal swarm control problems where two different classes of agents are present. Continuum idealizations of large-scale swarms are used where the dynamics describe the evolution of the spatially-distributed densities of each…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-14 Max Emerick , Stacy Patterson , Bassam Bamieh

Evolutionary algorithms provide gradient-free optimisation which is beneficial for models that have difficulty in obtaining gradients; for instance, geoscientific landscape evolution models. However, such models are at times computationally…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-06-28 Rohitash Chandra , Yash Vardhan Sharma

Adaptive teaming-the capability of agents to effectively collaborate with unfamiliar teammates without prior coordination-is widely explored in virtual video games but overlooked in real-world multi-robot contexts. Yet, such adaptive…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-05 Yang Li , Junfan Chen , Feng Xue , Jiabin Qiu , Wenbin Li , Qingrui Zhang , Ying Wen , Wei Pan

From autonomous driving to package delivery, ensuring safe yet efficient multi-agent interaction is challenging as the interaction dynamics are influenced by hard-to-model factors such as social norms and contextual cues. Understanding…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-11 Isaac Remy , David Fridovich-Keil , Karen Leung

Autonomous drone racing is becoming an excellent platform to challenge quadrotors' autonomy techniques including planning, navigation and control technologies. However, most research on this topic mainly focuses on single drone scenarios.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-03 Yuyang Shen , Jinming Xu , Jin Zhou , Danzhe Xu , Fangguo Zhao , Jiming Chen , Shuo Li

Digital agents require diverse, large-scale UI trajectories to generalize across real-world tasks, yet collecting such data is prohibitively expensive in both human annotation, infra and engineering perspectives. To this end, we introduce…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Yiming Wang , Da Yin , Yuedong Cui , Ruichen Zheng , Zhiqian Li , Zongyu Lin , Di Wu , Xueqing Wu , Chenchen Ye , Yu Zhou , Kai-Wei Chang

The collective performance or capacity of collaborative autonomous systems such as a swarm of robots is jointly influenced by the morphology and the behavior of individual systems in that collective. In that context, this paper explores how…

Scale has been a major driving force in improving machine learning performance, and understanding scaling laws is essential for strategic planning for a sustainable model quality performance growth, long-term resource planning and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-08-19 Newsha Ardalani , Carole-Jean Wu , Zeliang Chen , Bhargav Bhushanam , Adnan Aziz