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Knowing the causal structure of a system is of fundamental interest in many areas of science and can aid the design of prediction algorithms that work well under manipulations to the system. The causal structure becomes identifiable from…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-03-30 Martin Emil Jakobsen , Rajen D. Shah , Peter Bühlmann , Jonas Peters

Maze-like environments, such as cave and pipe networks, pose unique challenges for multiple robots to coordinate, including communication constraints and congestion. To address these challenges, we propose a distributed multi-agent maze…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Jahir Argote-Gerald , Genki Miyauchi , Julian Rau , Paul Trodden , Roderich Gross

Achieving safety is a critical aspect of attaining autonomy in a platoon of autonomous vehicles. In this paper, we propose a distributionally robust risk framework to investigate cascading failures in platoons. To examine the impact of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-12 Vivek Pandey , Guangyi Liu , Arash Amini , Nader Motee

In this paper, we study information cascades on graphs. In this setting, each node in the graph represents a person. One after another, each person has to take a decision based on a private signal as well as the decisions made by earlier…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-05-03 Jun Wan , Yu Xia , Liang Li , Thomas Moscibroda

Graph anomaly detection (GAD) is crucial in applications like fraud detection and cybersecurity. Despite recent advancements using graph neural networks (GNNs), two major challenges persist. At the model level, most methods adopt a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Chunyu Wei , Siyuan He , Yu Wang , Yueguo Chen , Yunhai Wang , Bing Bai , Yidong Zhang , Yong Xie , Shunming Zhang , Fei Wang

Large Language Model-based Multi-Agent Systems (LLM-MAS) are increasingly applied to complex collaborative scenarios. However, their collaborative mechanisms may cause minor inaccuracies to gradually solidify into system-level false…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Yizhe Xie , Congcong Zhu , Xinyue Zhang , Tianqing Zhu , Dayong Ye , Minfeng Qi , Huajie Chen , Wanlei Zhou

As Neural Cellular Automata (NCAs) are increasingly applied outside of the toy models in Artificial Life, there is a pressing need to understand how they behave and to build appropriate routes to interpret what they have learnt. By their…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-14 James Stovold , Mia-Katrin Kvalsund , Harald Michael Ludwig , Varun Sharma , Alexander Mordvintsev

We consider the problem of autonomous channel access (AutoCA), where a group of terminals tries to discover a communication strategy with an access point (AP) via a common wireless channel in a distributed fashion. Due to the irregular…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Yulin Shao , Yucheng Cai , Taotao Wang , Ziyang Guo , Peng Liu , Jiajun Luo , Deniz Gunduz

Cooperative multi-robot missions often require teams of robots to traverse environments where traversal risk evolves due to adversary patrols or shifting hazards with stochastic dynamics. While support coordination--where robots assist…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Manshi Limbu , Xuan Wang , Gregory J. Stein , Daigo Shishika , Xuesu Xiao

Robotic-assisted percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) is constrained by the inherent limitations of 2D Digital Subtraction Angiography (DSA). Unlike physicians, who can directly manipulate guidewires and integrate tactile feedback with…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Jiyuan Zhao , Zhengyu Shi , Wentong Tian , Tianliang Yao , Dong Liu , Tao Liu , Yizhe Wu , Peng Qi

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) aims to find efficient models for multiple tasks. Beyond seeking solutions for a single task, there are surging interests in transferring network design knowledge across multiple tasks. In this line of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-13 Minbin Huang , Zhijian Huang , Changlin Li , Xin Chen , Hang Xu , Zhenguo Li , Xiaodan Liang

Sequential recommendation models, models that learn from chronological user-item interactions, outperform traditional recommendation models in many settings. Despite the success of sequential recommendation models, their robustness has…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Juntao Tan , Shelby Heinecke , Zhiwei Liu , Yongjun Chen , Yongfeng Zhang , Huan Wang

Modern machine learning systems operating in dynamic environments often face \textit{sequential covariate shift} (SCS), where input distributions evolve over time while the conditional distribution remains stable. We introduce FADE…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Behraj Khan , Tahir Qasim Syed , Nouman Muhammad Durrani

Lane segment topology reasoning constructs a comprehensive road network by capturing the topological relationships between lane segments and their semantic types. This enables end-to-end autonomous driving systems to perform road-dependent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Yiming Yang , Yueru Luo , Bingkun He , Hongbin Lin , Suzhong Fu , Chao Zheng , Zhipeng Cao , Erlong Li , Chao Yan , Shuguang Cui , Zhen Li

Robust and efficient design of networks on a realistic geographical space is one of the important issues for the realization of dependable communication systems. In this paper, based on a percolation theory and a geometric graph property,…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2011-11-04 Yukio Hayashi

Diffusion through tubular networks with variable radius arises in a wide range of biological, engineering, and physical applications. The Fick-Jacobs equation is the standard one-dimensional reduction of this problem, briefly derived nearly…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-16 Zachary M. Miksis , Gillian Queisser

Recently, the method that learns networks layer by layer has attracted increasing interest for its ease of analysis. For the method, the main challenge lies in deriving an optimization target for each layer by inversely propagating the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Weizhi Lu , Mingrui Chen , Kai Guo , Weiyu Li

Diffusion-based planners have shown strong potential for autonomous driving by capturing multi-modal driving behaviors. A key challenge is how to effectively guide these models for safe and reactive planning in closed-loop settings, where…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Shu Liu , Wenlin Chen , Weihao Li , Zheng Wang , Lijin Yang , Jianing Huang , Yipin Zhang , Zhongzhan Huang , Ze Cheng , Hao Yang

Accurate and reliable prediction has profound implications to a wide range of applications. In this study, we focus on an instance of spatio-temporal learning problem--traffic prediction--to demonstrate an advanced deep learning model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Pingping Dong , Xiao-Lin Wang , Indranil Bose , Kam K. H. Ng , Xiaoning Zhang , Xiaoge Zhang

Auto-encoders have emerged as a successful framework for unsupervised learning. However, conventional auto-encoders are incapable of utilizing explicit relations in structured data. To take advantage of relations in graph-structured data,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-28 Amin Salehi , Hasan Davulcu