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Effective coordination is crucial to solve multi-agent collaborative (MAC) problems. While centralized reinforcement learning methods can optimally solve small MAC instances, they do not scale to large problems and they fail to generalize…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-22 Nicolas Carion , Gabriel Synnaeve , Alessandro Lazaric , Nicolas Usunier

Cooperative multi-agent reinforcement learning often assumes a fixed execution team, yet many decentralized systems must operate with varying numbers of active agents during deployment. We study this setting under episodic roster variation:…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Ahmet Onur Akman , Rafał Kucharski

With increasing concerns over data privacy and model copyrights, especially in the context of collaborations between AI service providers and data owners, an innovative SG-ZSL paradigm is proposed in this work. SG-ZSL is designed to foster…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-15 Fan Wan , Xingyu Miao , Haoran Duan , Jingjing Deng , Rui Gao , Yang Long

The goal of object-centric representation learning is to decompose visual scenes into a structured representation that isolates the entities. Recent successes have shown that object-centric representation learning can be scaled to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Aniket Didolkar , Andrii Zadaianchuk , Anirudh Goyal , Mike Mozer , Yoshua Bengio , Georg Martius , Maximilian Seitzer

Achieving seamless coordination in cooperative games is a crucial challenge in artificial intelligence, particularly when players operate under incomplete information. While communication helps, it is not always feasible. In this paper, we…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Shenghui Chen , Shufang Zhu , Giuseppe De Giacomo , Ufuk Topcu

Scene Change Detection is a challenging task in computer vision and robotics that aims to identify differences between two images of the same scene captured at different times. Traditional change detection methods rely on training models…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Shyam Sundar Kannan , Byung-Cheol Min

Haptic shared control (HSC) is effective in teleoperation when full autonomy is limited by uncertainty or sensing constraints. However, autonomous control performance achieved by maximizing HSC strength is limited because the dynamics of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Eito Sato , Takahiro Wada

Zero-Shot Classification (ZSC) equips the learned model with the ability to recognize the visual instances from the novel classes via constructing the interactions between the visual and the semantic modalities. In contrast to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-27 Zhong Ji , Xuejie Yu , Yunlong Yu , Yanwei Pang , Zhongfei Zhang

This paper presents a robust distributed coordination protocol that achieves generation of collision-free trajectories for multiple unicycle agents in the presence of stochastic uncertainties. We build upon our earlier work on…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2021-06-11 Kunal Garg , Dongkun Han , Dimitra Panagou

The recent major developments in information technologies have opened interesting possibilities for the effective management of multi-agent systems. In many cases, the important role of central control nodes can now be undertaken by several…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-30 Filiberto Fele , José M. Maestre , Eduardo F. Camacho

We consider a multi-agent system in which a decentralized team of agents controls a stochastic system in the presence of an adversary. Instead of committing to a fixed information sharing protocol, the agents can strategically decide at…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-09 Dhruva Kartik , Sagar Sudhakara , Rahul Jain , Ashutosh Nayyar

Zero-shot object counting (ZSOC) aims to enumerate objects of arbitrary categories specified by text descriptions without requiring visual exemplars. However, existing methods often treat counting as a coarse retrieval task, suffering from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Da Zhang , Bingyu Li , Feiyu Wang , Zhiyuan Zhao , Junyu Gao

Symmetry is an important inductive bias that can improve model robustness and generalization across many deep learning domains. In multi-agent settings, a priori known symmetries have been shown to address a fundamental coordination failure…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Darius Muglich , Johannes Forkel , Elise van der Pol , Jakob Foerster

We consider the problem of zero-shot coordination - constructing AI agents that can coordinate with novel partners they have not seen before (e.g. humans). Standard Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL) methods typically focus on the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-05-13 Hengyuan Hu , Adam Lerer , Alex Peysakhovich , Jakob Foerster

This paper addresses connectivity preservation in leader-follower multi-agent systems with unknown control-affine dynamics and local state information. We introduce the distributed data-driven zeroing control barrier function (3D-ZCBF)…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-25 Mirhan Urkmez , Maryam Sharifi , Shahab Heshmati-Alamdari

In Emergent Communication (EC) agents learn to communicate with one another, but the protocols that they develop are specialised to their training community. This observation led to research into Zero-Shot Coordination (ZSC) for learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Dylan Cope , Peter McBurney

Symbiotic communication (SC) is known as a new wireless communication paradigm, similar to the natural ecosystem population, and can enable multiple communication systems to cooperate and mutualize through service exchange and resource…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Haoxiang Luo , Gang Sun , Cheng Chi , Hongfang Yu , Mohsen Guizani

Building a single generalist agent with strong zero-shot capability has recently sparked significant advancements. However, extending this capability to multi-agent decision making scenarios presents challenges. Most current works struggle…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-02-26 Jie Liu , Yinmin Zhang , Chuming Li , Chao Yang , Yaodong Yang , Yu Liu , Wanli Ouyang

Modern reinforcement learning (RL) systems capture deep truths about general, human problem-solving. In domains where new data can be simulated cheaply, these systems uncover sequential decision-making policies that far exceed the ability…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Scott Jeen

This paper presents a novel method for controlling teams of unmanned aerial vehicles using Stochastic Optimal Control (SOC) theory. The approach consists of a centralized high-level planner that computes optimal state trajectories as…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-14 Vicenç Gómez , Sep Thijssen , Andrew Symington , Stephen Hailes , Hilbert J. Kappen