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Communication networks form the backbone of our society. Topology control algorithms optimize the topology of such communication networks. Due to the importance of communication networks, a topology control algorithm should guarantee…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-05-10 Roland Kluge , Michael Stein , Gergely Varró , Andy Schürr , Matthias Hollick , Max Mühlhäuser

We study the problem of inferring communication structures that can solve cooperative multi-agent planning problems while minimizing the amount of communication. We quantify the amount of communication as the maximum degree of the…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2021-11-03 Jeevana Priya Inala , Yichen Yang , James Paulos , Yewen Pu , Osbert Bastani , Vijay Kumar , Martin Rinard , Armando Solar-Lezama

This paper is the second in a series of studies on developing efficient artificial intelligence-based approaches to pathfinding on extremely large graphs (e.g. $10^{70}$ nodes) with a focus on Cayley graphs and mathematical applications.…

Decentralized optimization is an emerging paradigm in distributed learning in which agents achieve network-wide solutions by peer-to-peer communication without the central server. Since communication tends to be slower than computation,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-03-14 Zhuoqing Song , Weijian Li , Kexin Jin , Lei Shi , Ming Yan , Wotao Yin , Kun Yuan

Large Language Model (LLM) based multi-agent systems have shown remarkable performance in various tasks, especially when enhanced through collaborative communication. However, current methods often rely on a fixed number of agents and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Boyi Li , Zhonghan Zhao , Der-Horng Lee , Gaoang Wang

With an ever-growing zoo of LLMs and benchmarks, the need to orchestrate multiple models for improved task performance has never been more pressing. While frameworks like Mixture-of-Agents (MoA) attempt to coordinate LLMs, they often fall…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Sukwon Yun , Jie Peng , Pingzhi Li , Wendong Fan , Jie Chen , James Zou , Guohao Li , Tianlong Chen

The communication topology in large language model-based multi-agent systems fundamentally governs inter-agent collaboration patterns, critically shaping both the efficiency and effectiveness of collective decision-making. While recent…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Xu Shen , Yixin Liu , Yiwei Dai , Yili Wang , Rui Miao , Yue Tan , Shirui Pan , Xin Wang

This article deals with the problem of distributed machine learning, in which agents update their models based on their local datasets, and aggregate the updated models collaboratively and in a fully decentralized manner. In this paper, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Tamara Alshammari , Sumudu Samarakoon , Anis Elgabli , Mehdi Bennis

Graph-based environments pose unique challenges to multi-agent reinforcement learning. In decentralized approaches, agents operate within a given graph and make decisions based on partial or outdated observations. The size of the observed…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Jannis Weil , Zhenghua Bao , Osama Abboud , Tobias Meuser

Chain-of-thought prompting has popularized step-by-step reasoning in large language models, yet model performance still degrades as problem complexity and context length grow. By decomposing difficult tasks with long contexts into shorter,…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Michael Rizvi-Martel , Satwik Bhattamishra , Neil Rathi , Guillaume Rabusseau , Michael Hahn

Composite systems are large complex systems con- sisting of interconnected agents (subsystems). Agents in a com- posite system interact with each other towards performing an in- tended goal. Controllability is essential to achieve desired…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-10-18 Shana Moothedath , Prasanna Chaporkar , Aishwary Joshi

In this paper, the communication effort required in a multi-agent system (MAS) is minimized via an explicit optimization formulation. The paper considers a MAS of single-integrator agents with bounded inputs and a time-invariant…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-05 Vishal Sawant , Debraj Chakraborty , Debasattam Pal

We currently witness the emergence of interesting new network topologies optimized towards the traffic matrices they serve, such as demand-aware datacenter interconnects (e.g., ProjecToR) and demand-aware overlay networks (e.g., SplayNets).…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-05-23 Chen Avin , Alexandr Hercules , Andreas Loukas , Stefan Schmid

Conflict-Based Search is one of the most popular methods for multi-agent path finding. Though it is complete and optimal, it does not scale well. Recent works have been proposed to accelerate it by introducing various heuristics. However,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-01-23 Chenning Yu , Qingbiao Li , Sicun Gao , Amanda Prorok

Communication is one of the core components for cooperative multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL). The communication bandwidth, in many real applications, is always subject to certain constraints. To improve communication efficiency, in…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-01-02 Qi Tian , Kun Kuang , Baoxiang Wang , Furui Liu , Fei Wu

Multiagent systems consist of agents that locally exchange information through a physical network subject to a graph topology. Current control methods for networked multiagent systems assume the knowledge of graph topologies in order to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-01-15 Tansel Yucelen , John Daniel Peterson , Kevin L. Moore

Multi-agent networks are often modeled as interaction graphs, where the nodes represent the agents and the edges denote some direct interactions. The robustness of a multi-agent network to perturbations such as failures, noise, or malicious…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2016-02-01 A. Yasin Yazicioglu , Magnus Egerstedt , Jeff S. Shamma

Motivated by the increasing need for fast processing of large-scale graphs, we study a number of fundamental graph problems in a message-passing model for distributed computing, called $k$-machine model, where we have $k$ machines that…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-02-10 Khalid Hourani , Hartmut Klauck , William K. Moses , Danupon Nanongkai , Gopal Pandurangan , Peter Robinson , Michele Scquizzato

Motivated by the increasing appeal of robots in information-gathering missions, we study multi-agent path planning problems in which the agents must remain interconnected. We model an area by a topological graph specifying the movement and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-03-12 Tristan Charrier , Arthur Queffelec , Ocan Sankur , François Schwarzentruber

The results of computer searches for large graphs with given (small) degree and diameter are presented. The new graphs are Cayley graphs of semidirect products of cyclic groups and related groups. One fundamental use of our ``dense graphs''…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2008-02-03 Michael J. Dinneen , Paul R. Hafner