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Long-context LLM agents often struggle with growing token, memory, and latency costs, making efficient context compression essential for practical deployment. Existing LLM-as-a-compressor methods remain noticeably inferior to using the full…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Jiangnan Ye , Hanqi Yan , Zhenyi Shen , Heng Chang , Ye Mao , Yulan He

Several recent works have found the emergence of grounded compositional language in the communication protocols developed by mostly cooperative multi-agent systems when learned end-to-end to maximize performance on a downstream task.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-07-17 Paul Pu Liang , Jeffrey Chen , Ruslan Salakhutdinov , Louis-Philippe Morency , Satwik Kottur

Human action is naturally compositional: humans can easily recognize and perform actions with objects that are different from those used in training demonstrations. In this paper, we study the compositionality of action by looking into the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Joanna Materzynska , Tete Xiao , Roei Herzig , Huijuan Xu , Xiaolong Wang , Trevor Darrell

Multi-agent collaboration enhances the perception capabilities of individual agents through information sharing. However, in real-world applications, differences in sensors and models across heterogeneous agents inevitably lead to domain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Junfei Zhou , Penglin Dai , Quanmin Wei , Bingyi Liu , Xiao Wu , Jianping Wang

Multi-agent collaborative perception could significantly upgrade the perception performance by enabling agents to share complementary information with each other through communication. It inevitably results in a fundamental trade-off…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Yue Hu , Shaoheng Fang , Zixing Lei , Yiqi Zhong , Siheng Chen

Active soft bodies can affect their shape through an internal actuation mechanism that induces a deformation. Similar to recent work, this paper utilizes a differentiable, quasi-static, and physics-based simulation layer to optimize for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-29 Lingchen Yang , Byungsoo Kim , Gaspard Zoss , Baran Gözcü , Markus Gross , Barbara Solenthaler

This paper explores a novel approach to achieving emergent compositional communication in multi-agent systems. We propose a training regime implementing template transfer, the idea of carrying over learned biases across contexts. In our…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-15 Tomasz Korbak , Julian Zubek , Łukasz Kuciński , Piotr Miłoś , Joanna Rączaszek-Leonardi

Recognizing visual entities in a natural language sentence and arranging them in a 2D spatial layout require a compositional understanding of language and space. This task of layout prediction is valuable in text-to-image synthesis as it…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Wolf Nuyts , Ruben Cartuyvels , Marie-Francine Moens

In previous work, artificial agents were shown to achieve almost perfect accuracy in referential games where they have to communicate to identify images. Nevertheless, the resulting communication protocols rarely display salient features of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-14 Diana Rodríguez Luna , Edoardo Maria Ponti , Dieuwke Hupkes , Elia Bruni

Many real-world reinforcement learning tasks require multiple agents to make sequential decisions under the agents' interaction, where well-coordinated actions among the agents are crucial to achieve the target goal better at these tasks.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-02-06 Daewoo Kim , Sangwoo Moon , David Hostallero , Wan Ju Kang , Taeyoung Lee , Kyunghwan Son , Yung Yi

Unpredictable behavior is often taken as evidence of control, yet stochastic dispersion and structured action control need not coincide. This paper tests whether stochastic sampling can substitute for structured mechanisms that couple…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Xiao Jia

Text-to-image generative models have achieved remarkable visual quality but still struggle with compositionality$-$accurately capturing object relationships, attribute bindings, and fine-grained details in prompts. A key limitation is that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Arman Zarei , Jiacheng Pan , Matthew Gwilliam , Soheil Feizi , Zhenheng Yang

Consensus formation is pivotal in multi-agent systems (MAS), balancing collective coherence with individual diversity. Conventional LLM-based MAS primarily rely on explicit coordination, e.g., prompts or voting, risking premature…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Zengqing Wu , Takayuki Ito

While LLM-based agents excel at planning and executing long action sequences, their execution often remains inconsistent across trials, limiting reliability. Consolidating agent consistency requires distilling trial-error trajectories into…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Zihan Huang , Junda Wu , Tong Yu , Qianqi Yan , Rohan Surana , Uttaran Bhattacharya , Lina Yao , Xin Eric Wang , Julian McAuley

Diffusion models excel at short-horizon robot planning, yet scaling them to long-horizon tasks remains challenging due to computational constraints and limited training data. Existing compositional approaches stitch together short segments…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Yixin Zhang , Yunhao Luo , Utkarsh Aashu Mishra , Woo Chul Shin , Yongxin Chen , Danfei Xu

We present a feedforward graph architecture in which heterogeneous frozen large language models serve as computational nodes, communicating through a shared continuous latent space via learned linear projections. Building on recent work…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Marcus Armstrong , Navid Ayoobi , Arjun Mukherjee

Information encoded in networks of stationary, interacting spin-1/2 particles is central for many applications ranging from quantum spintronics to quantum information processing. Without control, however, information transfer through such…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-07-31 Sophie G Schirmer , Edmond Jonckheere , Frank C Langbein

Cooperative perception among autonomous agents overcomes the limitations of single-agent sensing, but bandwidth constraints in vehicle-to-everything (V2X) networks require efficient communication policies. Existing approaches rely on…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Aayam Bansal , Ishaan Gangwani

Generating coherent long-form video sequences from discrete text prompts remains challenging due to difficulties in maintaining temporal coherence, semantic consistency, and scene-action continuity across segments. We propose a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Taewon Kang , Divya Kothandaraman , Ming C. Lin

This work studies the operation of multi-agent networks engaged in binary decision tasks, and derives performance expressions and performance operating curves under challenging conditions with some revealing insights. One of the main…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2019-05-31 Stefano Marano , Ali H. Sayed