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Heterogeneous and complex networks represent intertwined interactions between real-world elements or agents. Determining the multi-scale mesoscopic organization of clusters and intertwined structures is still a fundamental and open problem…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-01-20 Pablo Villegas , Andrea Gabrielli , Anna Poggialini , Tommaso Gili

We address the synchronization problem in open multi-agent systems (OMAS) containing both cooperative and antagonistic interactions. In these systems, agents can join or leave the network over time, and the interaction structure may evolve…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-26 Pelin Sekercioglu , Angela Fontan , Dimos V. Dimarogonas

Capturing complex high-order interactions among data is an important task in many scenarios. A common way to model high-order interactions is to use hypergraphs whose topology can be mathematically represented by tensors. Existing methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-22 Ruyuan Qu , Jiaqi He , Hui Feng , Chongbin Xu , Bo Hu

The work done in this paper, proposes a complex Laplacian-based distributed control scheme for convergence in the multi-agent network. The proposed scheme has been designated as cascade formulation. The proposed technique exploits the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-11-21 Aniket Deshpande , Pushpak Jagtap , Prashant Bansode , Arun Mahindrakar , Navadeep Singh

This paper considers the controllability problem for multi-agent systems. In particular, the structural controllability of multi-agent systems under switching topologies is investigated. The structural controllability of multi-agent systems…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2012-03-27 Xiaomeng Liu , Hai Lin , Ben M. Chen

Extracting the rules of real-world multi-agent behaviors is a current challenge in various scientific and engineering fields. Biological agents independently have limited observation and mechanical constraints; however, most of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-04 Keisuke Fujii , Naoya Takeishi , Yoshinobu Kawahara , Kazuya Takeda

This work explores the edge agreement problem of second-order multi-agent system with dynamic quantization under directed communication. To begin with, by virtue of the directed edge laplacian, we derive a model reduction representation of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-01-25 Zhiwen Zeng , Xiangke Wang , Zhiqiang Zheng , Lina Zhao

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

Constrained multi-agent reinforcement learning offers the framework to design scalable and almost surely feasible solutions for teams of agents operating in dynamic environments to carry out conflicting tasks. We address the challenges of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-03 Leopoldo Agorio , Sean Van Alen , Santiago Paternain , Miguel Calvo-Fullana , Juan Andres Bazerque

Revealing physical interactions in complex systems from observed collective dynamics constitutes a fundamental inverse problem in science. Current reconstruction methods require access to a system's model or dynamical data at a level of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-01-18 Mor Nitzan , Jose Casadiego , Marc Timme

We present a comprehensive examination of learning methodologies employed for the structural identification of dynamical systems. These techniques are designed to elucidate emergent phenomena within intricate systems of interacting agents.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-08 Jinchao Feng , Ming Zhong

Modeling multi-agent systems requires understanding how agents interact. Such systems are often difficult to model because they can involve a variety of types of interactions that layer together to drive rich social behavioral dynamics.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-26 Fan-Yun Sun , Isaac Kauvar , Ruohan Zhang , Jiachen Li , Mykel Kochenderfer , Jiajun Wu , Nick Haber

Inspired by recent advances in agent communication with graph neural networks, this work proposes the representation of multi-agent communication capabilities as a directed labeled heterogeneous agent graph, in which node labels denote…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-03-11 Douglas De Rizzo Meneghetti , Reinaldo Augusto da Costa Bianchi

This paper extends off-policy reinforcement learning to the multi-agent case in which a set of networked agents communicating with their neighbors according to a time-varying graph collaboratively evaluates and improves a target policy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-20 Wesley Suttle , Zhuoran Yang , Kaiqing Zhang , Zhaoran Wang , Tamer Basar , Ji Liu

Collections of interacting AI agents can form coalitions, creating emergent group-level organization that is critical for AI safety and alignment. However, observing agent behavior alone is often insufficient to distinguish genuine…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Cameron Berg , Susan L. Schneider , Mark M. Bailey

In many areas such as computational biology, finance or social sciences, knowledge of an underlying graph explaining the interactions between agents is of paramount importance but still challenging. Considering that these interactions may…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-29 Mircea Moscu , Ricardo A. Borsoi , Cédric Richard , José-Carlos M. Bermudez

This paper investigates a pattern formation control problem for a multi-agent system modeled with given interaction topology, in which $m$ of the $n$ agents are chosen as leaders and consequently a control signal is added to each of the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-05 Tianhao Li , Yibei Li , Zhixin Liu , Xiaoming Hu

This paper introduces a novel data-driven hierarchical control scheme for managing a fleet of nonlinear, capacity-constrained autonomous agents in an iterative environment. We propose a control framework consisting of a high-level dynamic…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-12 Charlott Vallon , Alessandro Pinto , Bartolomeo Stellato , Francesco Borrelli

Geometric pattern formation is an important emergent behavior in many applications involving large-scale multi-agent systems, such as sensor networks deployment and collective transportation. Attraction/repulsion virtual forces are the most…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-04 Andrea Giusti , Marco Coraggio , Mario di Bernardo

Finding feasible and collision-free paths for multiple nonlinear agents is challenging in the decentralized scenarios due to limited available information of other agents and complex dynamics constraints. In this paper, we propose a fast…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-03-04 Hao Li , Bowen Weng , Abhishek Gupta , Jia Pan , Wei Zhang