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Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) with Large Language Model (LLM)-powered agents are gaining attention, yet fewer studies explore their team dynamics. Inspired by human team science, we propose a multi-agent framework to examine core aspects of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Rasika Muralidharan , Haewoon Kwak , Jisun An

Multi-agent learning is a challenging problem in machine learning that has applications in different domains such as distributed control, robotics, and economics. We develop a prescriptive model of multi-agent behavior using Markov games.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-05-27 Jalal Etesami , Christoph-Nikolas Straehle

Understanding agent behaviour in Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) is an important problem in domains such as autonomous driving, disaster response, and sports analytics. Existing MAS problems typically use uniform timesteps with observations for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-14 Gregory Everett , Ryan J. Beal , Tim Matthews , Joseph Early , Timothy J. Norman , Sarvapali D. Ramchurn

We study the asymptotic macroscopic properties of the mixed majority-minority game, modeling a population in which two types of heterogeneous adaptive agents, namely ``fundamentalists'' driven by differentiation and ``trend-followers''…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. De Martino , I. Giardina , G. Mosetti

The parallel minority game (PMG) extends the classical minority game to many choices, with each agent restricted to two predetermined alternatives. In this condition, minimizing the population variance across all choices is a complex…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2026-05-22 Aryan Tyagi , Soumyaditya Das , Soumyajyoti Biswas , Anirban Chakraborti

A major challenge for Multi-Agent Systems is enabling agents to adapt dynamically to diverse environments in which opponents and teammates may continually change. Agents trained using conventional methods tend to excel only within the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Qian Long , Ruoyan Li , Minglu Zhao , Tao Gao , Demetri Terzopoulos

In recent years, a significant research effort has been devoted to the design of distributed protocols for the control of multi-agent systems, as the scale and limited communication bandwidth characteristic of such systems render…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2021-06-09 Rohit Konda , Rahul Chandan , Jason R. Marden

Particle dynamics and multi-agent systems provide accurate dynamical models for studying and forecasting the behavior of complex interacting systems. They often take the form of a high-dimensional system of differential equations…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-09 Yuxuan Liu , Scott G. McCalla , Hayden Schaeffer

In multiagent environments, the capability of learning is important for an agent to behave appropriately in face of unknown opponents and dynamic environment. From the system designer's perspective, it is desirable if the agents can learn…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-03-09 Chengwei Zhang , Xiaohong Li , Jianye Hao , Siqi Chen , Karl Tuyls , Wanli Xue

Designing distributed algorithms for multi-agent problems is vital for many emerging application domains, and game-theoretic approaches are emerging as a useful paradigm to design such algorithms. However, much of the emphasis of the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-03 Rohit Konda , Rahul Chandan , David Grimsman , Jason R. Marden

It is well-known that acting in an individually rational manner, according to the principles of classical game theory, may lead to sub-optimal solutions in a class of problems named social dilemmas. In contrast, humans generally do not have…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2014-01-16 Steven de Jong , Simon Uyttendaele , Karl Tuyls

Through multi-agent competition and the sparse high-level objective of winning a race, we find that both agile flight (e.g., high-speed motion pushing the platform to its physical limits) and strategy (e.g., overtaking or blocking) emerge…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Vineet Pasumarti , Lorenzo Bianchi , Antonio Loquercio

We put forward a new model of congestion games where agents have uncertainty over the routes used by other agents. We take a non-probabilistic approach, assuming that each agent knows that the number of agents using an edge is within a…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-28 Reshef Meir , David Parkes

The majority game, modelling a system of heterogeneous agents trying to behave in a similar way, is introduced and studied using methods of statistical mechanics. The stationary states of the game are given by the (local) minima of a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-04-08 P. Kozlowski , M. Marsili

The dynamics of minority games with agents trading on different time scales is studied via dynamical mean-field theory. We analyze the case where the agents' decision-making process is deterministic and its stochastic generalization with…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-10 Andrea De Martino

This paper presents a consensus algorithm for a multi-agent system where each agent has access to its imperfect own state and neighboring state measurements. The measurements are subject to deterministic disturbances and the proposed…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2014-09-22 Mohammad Zamani , Iman Shames , Valery Ugrinovskii

Turn-taking behaviour is simulated in a coupled agents system. Each agent is modelled as a mobile robot with two wheels. A recurrent neural network is used to produce the motor outputs and to hold the internal dynamics. Agents are developed…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2007-05-23 Hiroyuki Iizuka , Takashi Ikegami

In this paper we study multiagent models with time-varying type change. Assume that there exist a closed system of $N$ agents classified into $r$ types according to their states of an internal system; each agent changes its type by an…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Biao Wu

Collective intelligence emerges across biological, physical, and artificial systems without central coordination, yet a unifying principle governing such behaviour remains elusive. The Free Energy Principle explains how individual agents…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Djamel Bouchaffra , Faycal Ykhlef , Mustapha Lebbah , Hanane Azzag

Groupthink occurs when everyone in a group starts thinking alike, as when people put unlimited faith in a leader. Avoiding this phenomenon is a ubiquitous challenge to problem-solving enterprises and typical countermeasures involve the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-03-07 Paulo F. Gomes , Sandro M. Reia , Francisco A. Rodrigues , José F. Fontanari