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A common failure mode of density models trained as variational autoencoders is to model the data without relying on their latent variables, rendering these variables useless. Two contributing factors, the underspecification of the model and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-05-10 Gábor Melis , András György , Phil Blunsom

New architectures and algorithms are needed to reflect the mixture of local and global information that is available as multi-agent systems connect over the cloud. We present a novel architecture for multi-agent coordination where the cloud…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-09-24 Matthew Hale , Magnus Egerstedt

To ensure stability of learning, state-of-the-art generalized policy iteration algorithms augment the policy improvement step with a trust region constraint bounding the information loss. The size of the trust region is commonly determined…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-04-05 Boris Belousov , Jan Peters

Planning under motion and observation uncertainties requires solution of a stochastic control problem in the space of feedback policies. In this paper, we reduce the general (n^2+n)-dimensional belief space planning problem to an…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-08-12 Mohammadhussein Rafieisakhaei , Suman Chakravorty , P. R. Kumar

We consider the problem of multi-agent navigation and collision avoidance when observations are limited to the local neighborhood of each agent. We propose InforMARL, a novel architecture for multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) which…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-05-17 Siddharth Nayak , Kenneth Choi , Wenqi Ding , Sydney Dolan , Karthik Gopalakrishnan , Hamsa Balakrishnan

Multi-agent navigation in unknown and cluttered environments has broad applications, yet remains fundamentally challenging. In particular, dense agent-agent and agent-obstacle reactive interactions can exacerbate the inherent competition…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-14 Fenglan Wang , Xinguo Shu , Lei He , Lin Zhao

Tracking multiple targets in dynamic environments using distributed sensor networks is a challenging problem for situational awareness in connected autonomous vehicles (CAVs). In such scenarios, the network of mobile sensors must coordinate…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-05 Aidan Blair , Amirali Khodadadian Gostar , Alireza Bab-Hadiashar , Xiaodong Li , Reza Hoseinnezhad

Robust coordination is critical for effective decision-making in multi-agent systems, especially under partial observability. A central question in Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL) is whether to engineer communication protocols or…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Brennen A. Hill , Mant Koh En Wei , Thangavel Jishnuanandh

How can we train agents to navigate uncertainty over long horizons? In this work, we propose {\Delta}Belief-RL, which leverages a language model's own intrinsic beliefs to reward intermediate progress. Our method utilizes the change in the…

In offline reinforcement learning, it is necessary to manage out-of-distribution actions to prevent overestimation of value functions. One class of methods, the policy-regularized method, addresses this problem by constraining the target…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-26 Linjiajie Fang , Ruoxue Liu , Jing Zhang , Wenjia Wang , Bing-Yi Jing

Regret analysis is challenging in Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL) primarily due to the dynamical environments and the decentralized information among agents. We attempt to solve this challenge in the context of decentralized…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-29 Seyed Mohammad Asghari , Yi Ouyang , Ashutosh Nayyar

This work studies the problem of ad hoc teamwork in teams composed of agents with differing computational capabilities. We consider cooperative multi-player games in which each agent's policy is constrained by a private capability…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-04-28 Charles Jin , Zhang-Wei Hong , Farid Arthaud , Idan Orzech , Martin Rinard

Sampling-based model predictive control (MPC) has the potential for use in a wide variety of robotic systems. However, its unstable updates and poor convergence render it unsuitable for real-time control of robotic systems. This study…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Taisuke Kobayashi , Kota Fukumoto

The integration of artificial intelligence (AI) and mobile networks is regarded as one of the most important scenarios for 6G. In 6G, a major objective is to realize the efficient transmission of task-relevant data. Then a key problem…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-01 Jingchen Peng , Boxiang Ren , Lu Yang , Chenghui Peng , Panpan Niu , Hao Wu

This paper investigates integrated localization and communication in a multi-cell system and proposes a coordinated beamforming algorithm to enhance target localization accuracy while preserving communication performance. Within this…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-26 Meidong Xia , Wei Xu , Jindan Xu , Zhenyao He , Zhaohui Yang , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng

This paper considers the problem of detecting and tracking multiple maneuvering targets, which suffers from the intractable inference of high-dimensional latent variables that include target kinematic state, target visibility state, motion…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-19 Hua Lan , Jirong Ma , Zengfu Wang , Quan Pan , Xiong Xu

Autonomous vehicles need precise knowledge on dynamic objects in their surroundings. Especially in urban areas with many objects and possible occlusions, an infrastructure system based on a multi-sensor setup can provide the required…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-11-12 Martin Herrmann , Aldi Piroli , Jan Strohbeck , Johannes Müller , Michael Buchholz

Multi-agent exploration of a bounded 3D environment with unknown initial positions of agents is a challenging problem. It requires quickly exploring the environments as well as robustly merging the sub-maps built by the agents. We take the…

Knowledge Tracing (KT) aims to model a student's learning trajectory and predict performance on the next question. A key challenge is how to better represent the relationships among students, questions, and knowledge concepts (KCs).…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Chi Yu , Hongyu Yuan , Zhiyi Duan

In autonomous driving, recent research has increasingly focused on collaborative perception based on deep learning to overcome the limitations of individual perception systems. Although these methods achieve high accuracy, they rely on high…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Maryem Fadili , Mohamed Anis Ghaoui , Louis Lecrosnier , Steve Pechberti , Redouane Khemmar