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In this paper, we derive team and person-by-person optimality conditions for distributed differential decision systems with different or decentralized information structures. The necessary conditions of optimality are given in terms of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-05-21 Charalambos D. Charalambous , Themistoklis Charalambous , Christoforos N. Hadjicostis

Despite the significant progress in multiagent teamwork, existing research does not address the optimality of its prescriptions nor the complexity of the teamwork problem. Without a characterization of the optimality-complexity tradeoffs,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2011-06-24 D. V. Pynadath , M. Tambe

Autonomous agents are limited in their ability to observe the world state. Partially observable Markov decision processes (POMDPs) formally model the problem of planning under world state uncertainty, but POMDPs with continuous actions and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-07-08 Dicong Qiu , Yibiao Zhao , Chris L. Baker

In this article, we introduce decentralized Kalman filters for linear quadratic deep structured teams. The agents in deep structured teams are coupled in dynamics, costs and measurements through a set of linear regressions of the states and…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Jalal Arabneydi , Amir G. Aghdam

The problem of controlling multi-agent systems under different models of information sharing among agents has received significant attention in the recent literature. In this paper, we consider a setup where rather than committing to a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-04-23 Sagar Sudhakara , Dhruva Kartik , Rahul Jain , Ashutosh Nayyar

We describe a probabilistic framework for synthesizing control policies for general multi-robot systems, given environment and sensor models and a cost function. Decentralized, partially observable Markov decision processes (Dec-POMDPs) are…

A recent theory shows that a multi-player decentralized partially observable Markov decision process can be transformed into an equivalent single-player game, enabling the application of \citeauthor{bellman}'s principle of optimality to…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Johan Peralez , Aurélien Delage , Olivier Buffet , Jilles S. Dibangoye

This paper introduces a differentially private (DP) mechanism to protect the information exchanged during the coordination of sequential and interdependent markets. This coordination represents a classic Stackelberg game and relies on the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-04-20 Ferdinando Fioretto , Lesia Mitridati , Pascal Van Hentenryck

We introduce an expressive framework and algorithms for the semi-decentralized control of cooperative agents in environments with communication uncertainty. Whereas semi-Markov control admits a distribution over time for agent actions,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Mahdi Al-Husseini , Mykel J. Kochenderfer , Kyle H. Wray

Consider a multi-agent system in a dynamic and uncertain environment. Each agent's local decision problem is modeled as a Markov decision process (MDP) and agents must coordinate on a joint action in each period, which provides a reward to…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2012-07-02 Ruggiero Cavallo , David C. Parkes , Satinder Singh

We study a class of stochastic exchangeable teams with a finite number of decision makers (DMs) as well as their mean-field limits with infinitely many DMs. In the finite population regime, we study exchangeable teams under the centralized…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-26 Sina Sanjari , Naci Saldi , Serdar Yüksel

In this paper we generalized static team theory to dynamic team theory, in the context of stochastic differential decision system with decentralized noiseless feedback information structures. We apply Girsanov's theorem to transformed the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-10-08 Charalambos D. Charalambous

This paper studies convex stochastic dynamic team problems with finite and infinite time horizons under decentralized information structures. First, we introduce two notions called exchangeable teams and symmetric information structures. We…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-11-25 Sina Sanjari , Serdar Yüksel

We consider a team game reward, and we derive a stochastic Pontryagin's maximum principle for distributed stochastic differential systems with decentralized noisy information structures. Our methodology utilizes the semi martingale…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-04-12 Charalambos D. Charalambous , N. U. Ahmed

A general model of decentralized stochastic control called partial history sharing information structure is presented. In this model, at each step the controllers share part of their observation and control history with each other. This…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2012-09-11 Ashutosh Nayyar , Aditya Mahajan , Demosthenis Teneketzis

The synthesis problem for partially observable Markov decision processes (POMDPs) is to compute a policy that satisfies a given specification. Such policies have to take the full execution history of a POMDP into account, rendering the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-07-20 Leonore Winterer , Ralf Wimmer , Nils Jansen , Bernd Becker

We study the problem of decentralized constrained POMDPs in a team-setting where the multiple non-strategic agents have asymmetric information. Strong duality is established for the setting of infinite-horizon expected total discounted…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-08-01 Nouman Khan , Vijay Subramanian

Multi-agent planning under stochastic dynamics is usually formalised using decentralized (partially observable) Markov decision processes ( MDPs) and reachability or expected reward specifications. In this paper, we propose a different…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-02-20 Francesco Pontiggia , Filip Macák , Roman Andriushchenko , Michele Chiari , Milan Češka

We study a class of stochastic exchangeable teams comprising a finite number of decision makers (DMs) as well as their mean-field limits involving infinite numbers of DMs. In the finite population regime, we study exchangeable teams under…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-26 Sina Sanjari , Naci Saldi , Serdar Yüksel

We study planning problems where autonomous agents operate inside environments that are subject to uncertainties and not fully observable. Partially observable Markov decision processes (POMDPs) are a natural formal model to capture such…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-02-28 Steven Carr , Nils Jansen , Ralf Wimmer , Jie Fu , Ufuk Topcu