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Diffusion processes are instrumental to describe the movement of a continuous quantity in a generic network of interacting agents. Here, we present a probabilistic framework for diffusion in networks and propose to classify agent…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-08-28 Wai Hong Ronald Chan , Matthias Wildemeersch , Tony Q. S. Quek

In the typical multiagent formation tracking problem centered on consensus, the prevailing assumption in the literature is that the agents' nonlinear models can be approximated by integrator systems, by their feedback-linearized…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-19 Clinton Enwerem , John S. Baras

The Multi-Agent Path Finding (MAPF) problem aims to determine the shortest and collision-free paths for multiple agents in a known, potentially obstacle-ridden environment. It is the core challenge for robotic deployments in large-scale…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Shuhao Liao , Weihang Xia , Yuhong Cao , Weiheng Dai , Chengyang He , Wenjun Wu , Guillaume Sartoretti

Multi-agent path finding (MAPF) is an indispensable component of large-scale robot deployments in numerous domains ranging from airport management to warehouse automation. In particular, this work addresses lifelong MAPF (LMAPF) - an online…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-03-05 Mehul Damani , Zhiyao Luo , Emerson Wenzel , Guillaume Sartoretti

An important problem in the field of bioinformatics is to identify interactive effects among profiled variables for outcome prediction. In this paper, a logistic regression model with pairwise interactions among a set of binary covariates…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-12-30 Easton Li Xu , Xiaoning Qian , Tie Liu , Shuguang Cui

In this paper, we study a model reduction technique for leader-follower networked multi-agent systems defined on weighted, undirected graphs with arbitrary linear multivariable agent dynamics. In the network graph of this network, nodes…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-10-11 Hidde-Jan Jongsma , Petar Mlinarić , Sara Grundel , Peter Benner , Harry L. Trentelman

There is a wealth of applied problems that can be posed as a dynamical system defined on a network with both attractive and repulsive interactions. Some examples include: understanding synchronization properties of nonlinear oscillator;,…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2013-03-05 Jared C. Bronski , Lee DeVille

The graph identification problem consists of discovering the interactions among nodes in a network given their state/feature trajectories. This problem is challenging because the behavior of a node is coupled to all the other nodes by the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-24 Eduardo Sebastian , Thai Duong , Nikolay Atanasov , Eduardo Montijano , Carlos Sagues

This paper investigates agreement protocols over cooperative and cooperative--antagonistic multi-agent networks with coupled continuous-time nonlinear dynamics. To guarantee convergence for such systems, it is common in the literature to…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2015-08-06 Ziyang Meng , Guodong Shi , Karl Henrik Johansson

In artificial multi-agent systems, the ability to learn collaborative policies is predicated upon the agents' communication skills: they must be able to encode the information received from the environment and learn how to share it with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-23 Emanuele Pesce , Giovanni Montana

The aim of this paper is to propose a novel framework to infer the sheaf Laplacian, including the topology of a graph and the restriction maps, from a set of data observed over the nodes of a graph. The proposed method is based on sheaf…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-03 Leonardo Di Nino , Sergio Barbarossa , Paolo Di Lorenzo

In a multi-agent setting, the optimal policy of a single agent is largely dependent on the behavior of other agents. We investigate the problem of multi-agent reinforcement learning, focusing on decentralized learning in non-stationary…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-10-01 Anahita Mohseni-Kabir , David Isele , Kikuo Fujimura

This note studies resilient coordination of networked multiagent systems in the presence of misbehaving agents, i.e., agents that are subject to adversaries modeled as exogenous disturbances. Apart from the existing relevant literature that…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-03-18 Tansel Yucelen , Gerardo De La Torre

This work addresses the edge-based synchronization problem in first-order multi-agent systems containing both cooperative and antagonistic interactions with one or multiple leader groups. The presence of multiple leaders and antagonistic…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-03 Pelin Sekercioglu , Angela Fontan , Dimos V. Dimarogonas

Can latent actions and environment dynamics be recovered from offline trajectories when actions are never observed? We study this question in a setting where trajectories are action-free but tagged with demonstrator identity. We assume that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Felix Schur

Learning accurate, data-driven predictive models for multiple interacting agents following unknown dynamics is crucial in many real-world physical and social systems. In many scenarios, dynamics prediction must be performed under incomplete…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Hemant Kumawat , Biswadeep Chakraborty , Saibal Mukhopadhyay

For many multiagent control problems, neural networks (NNs) have enabled promising new capabilities. However, many of these systems lack formal guarantees (e.g., collision avoidance, robustness), which prevents leveraging these advances in…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-29 Zihao Dong , Shayegan Omidshafiei , Michael Everett

In the context of agent based modeling and network theory, we focus on the problem of recovering behavior-related choice information from origin-destination type data, a topic also known under the name of network tomography. As a basis for…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-08-24 Tiziano Squartini , Enrico Ser-Giacomi , Diego Garlaschelli , George Judge

Existing results on cooperative control of multi-agent systems with unknown control directions require that the underlying topology is either fixed with a strongly connected graph or switching between different strongly connected graphs.…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-05-09 Qingling Wang , Haris E. Psillakis , Changyin Sun

In this paper, we consider a multi-agent system consisting of mobile agents with second-order dynamics. The communication network is determined by the so-called topological interaction rule: agents interact with a fixed number of their…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-11-26 Samuel Martin