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We are concerned with a distributed approach to solve multi-cluster games arising in multi-agent systems. In such games, agents are separated into distinct clusters. The agents belonging to the same cluster cooperate with each other to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-14 Jan Zimmermann , Tatiana Tatarenko , Volker Willert , Jürgen Adamy

In this article, we propose a centralized Multi-Agent Learning framework for learning a policy that models the simultaneous behavior of multiple agents that need to coordinate to solve a certain task. Centralized approaches often suffer…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Ángel Aso-Mollar , Eva Onaindia

Learning when to communicate and doing that effectively is essential in multi-agent tasks. Recent works show that continuous communication allows efficient training with back-propagation in multi-agent scenarios, but have been restricted to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-27 Amanpreet Singh , Tushar Jain , Sainbayar Sukhbaatar

Risk management resulting from the actions and states of the different elements making up a operating room is a major concern during a surgical procedure. Agent-based simulation shows an interest through its interaction concepts,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-07-23 Bruno Perez , Julien Henriet , Christophe Lang , Laurent Philippe

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 believe that agents for automated incident response based on machine learning need to handle changes in network structure. Computer networks are dynamic, and can naturally change in structure over time. Retraining agents for small…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Jakob Nyberg , Pontus Johnson

Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown great promise in tool-making, yet existing frameworks often struggle to efficiently construct reliable toolsets and are limited to single-task settings. To address these challenges, we propose GATE…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-21 Jianwen Luo , Yiming Huang , Jinxiang Meng , Fangyu Lei , Shizhu He , Xiao Liu , Shanshan Jiang , Bin Dong , Jun Zhao , Kang Liu

Collusion among autonomous agents poses a critical security threat in embodied multi-agent systems (MAS), where coordinated behaviors can deviate from global objectives and lead to real-world consequences. Existing defenses, primarily based…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Qi Liu , Xiaohui Chen , Zhihui Zhao , Yaowen Zheng , Dan Yu , Zehua Zhang , Limin Sun , Yongle Chen

When performing complex tasks, humans naturally reason at multiple temporal and spatial resolutions simultaneously. We contend that for an artificially intelligent agent to effectively model human teammates, i.e., demonstrate computational…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Liang Zhang , Justin Lieffers , Adarsh Pyarelal

Multi-level optimization has gained increasing attention in recent years, as it provides a powerful framework for solving complex optimization problems that arise in many fields, such as meta-learning, multi-player games, reinforcement…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Shuoguang Yang , Xuezhou Zhang , Mengdi Wang

In recent years, the role of artificially intelligent (AI) agents has evolved from being basic tools to socially intelligent agents working alongside humans towards common goals. In such scenarios, the ability to predict future behavior by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-17 Chinmai Basavaraj , Adarsh Pyarelal , Evan Carter

Cooperative multi-agent reinforcement learning agents that act on partial local observations face a fundamental information bottleneck: the knowledge needed to select jointly optimal actions is scattered across the team, yet each agent must…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Nikunj Gupta , James Zachary Hare , Jesse Milzman , Rajgopal Kannan , Viktor Prasanna

The central result of this paper is the analysis of an optimization problem which allows one to assess the limiting performance of a team of two agents who coordinate their actions. One agent is fully informed about the past and future…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-09-08 Benjamin Larrousse , Achal Agrawal , Samson Lasaulce

Communication stands as a potent mechanism to harmonize the behaviors of multiple agents. However, existing works primarily concentrate on broadcast communication, which not only lacks practicality, but also leads to information redundancy.…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Chuxiong Sun , Zehua Zang , Jiabao Li , Jiangmeng Li , Xiao Xu , Rui Wang , Changwen Zheng

For effective multi-agent trajectory planning, it is important to consider lightweight communication and its potential asynchrony. This paper presents a distributed trajectory planning algorithm for a quadrotor swarm that operates…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Yunwoo Lee , Jungwon Park

Microservice is a popular software architecture that relies on decentralized teams and clear service ownership to support modularity and scalability. However, in practice, developers frequently contribute across multiple services, creating…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Xiaozhou Li

Ad hoc architectures have emerged as a valuable alternative to centralized participatory sensing systems due to their infrastructureless nature, which ensures good availability, easy maintenance and direct user communication. As a result,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-12-18 Fátima Castro-Jul , Rebeca Díaz Redondo , Ana Fernández-Vilas

Centralized training with decentralized execution (CTDE) is a widely-used learning paradigm that has achieved significant success in complex tasks. However, partial observability issues and the absence of effectively shared signals between…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-05-01 Dapeng Li , Zhiwei Xu , Bin Zhang , Guoliang Fan

Self-organization is a process where a stable pattern is formed by the cooperative behavior between parts of an initially disordered system without external control or influence. It has been introduced to multi-agent systems as an internal…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-05-27 Jieting Luo , Beishui Liao , John-Jules Meyer

The emergence of large language models has enabled sophisticated multi-agent systems, yet coordinating their reasoning capabilities through prompt engineering remains challenging. We present a theoretically-grounded framework for dynamic…

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