arXiv AI

Bandwidth-Efficient Multi-Agent Communication through Information Bottleneck and Vector Quantization

arXiv:2602. 02035v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Multi-agent reinforcement learning systems deployed in real-world robotics applications face severe communication constraints that significantly impact coordination effectiveness.

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Jun 17

Formal Verification of Learned Multi-Agent Communication Policies via Decision Tree Distillation

Multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) enables agents to develop coordination strategies through emergent communication, but neural policies lack the formal safety guarantees required for safety-critical robotic deployment in drone swarms and autonomous vehicle fleets. We present the first end-to-end framework for safety verification of learned multi-agent communication policies through policy abstraction: neural policies are distilled into interpretable decision trees, then formally verified, with empirical validation confirming that verified safety properties transfer to original networks.

arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 7

Communication-Aware Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Decentralized Cooperative UAV Deployment

arXiv:2603. 16141v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) swarms are increasingly used as rapidly deployable aerial relays and sensing platforms, yet practical deployments must operate under partial observability and intermittent peer-to-peer connectivity.

By Enguang Fan, Yifan Chen, Zihan Shan, Klara Nahrstedt, Matthew Caesar, Jae Kim
arXiv AI
Jun 19

Formal Verification of Learned Multi-Agent Communication Policies via Decision Tree Distillation

arXiv:2606. 19632v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) enables agents to develop coordination strategies through emergent communication, but neural policies lack the formal safety guarantees required for safety-critical robotic deployment in drone swarms and autonomous vehicle fleets.

By Ahmad Farooq, Kamran Iqbal
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 28

TRUAV: Distributed Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Trajectory Planning and Routing Enhancement in UAV-Aided IoT-Enabled VANETs

arXiv:2607. 23734v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have emerged as a key enabler of next-generation Internet of Things (IoT) ecosystems, offering flexible aerial relaying to extend connectivity across dynamic vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs) in smart city environments.

By Muhammad Umar Farooq Qaisar, Lin Zhang, Zhen Chen, Wajdy Othman, Shehzad Ashraf Chaudhry, Chang Liu
arXiv AI
Jul 13

Communication-Efficient Digital-Twin Coordination for Heterogeneous LLM Embodied Agents over Computing Power Networks

arXiv:2607. 09330v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Embodied agent teams powered by heterogeneous large language models (LLMs) are being widely deployed in physical artificial intelligence such as smart factories, warehouses, and service robotics.

By Nuocheng Yang, Sihua Wang, Zihan Chen, Tony Q. S. Quek, Changchuan Yin
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 21

Value-Aware Prediction for Robust Multi-Agent Coordination Under Communication Loss

arXiv:2607. 17914v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Robust multi-agent coordination relies heavily on inter-agent communication, which is frequently disrupted by physical and environmental constraints in real-world deployments.

By Kemal Devrim Kafadar, Eren \"Ozaltun, Mahmud Efnan \c{S}anl{\i}, Feyza Orak, Emirhan Gazi, Kubilay Ka\u{g}an K\"om\"urc\"u, Naz{\i}m Kemal \"Ure
arXiv AI
Jun 2

Coordination Graphs for Constrained Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2606. 02337v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Constrained Multi-agent reinforcement learning (CMARL) faces two intertwined challenges: the joint action space grows exponentially with the number of agents, and additional requirements couple agents in ways that reward structure alone does not capture.

By Santiago Amaya-Corredor, Miguel Calvo-Fullana, Anders Jonsson
arXiv AI
Jul 13

Heterogeneous Information-Bottleneck Coordination Graphs for Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2605. 17393v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Coordination graphs are a central abstraction in cooperative multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL), yet existing sparse-graph learners lack a theoretically grounded mechanism to decide which edges should exist and how much information each edge should carry.

By Wei Duan, Junyu Xuan, En Yu, Xiaoyu Yang, Jie Lu