Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL) holds great potential for robot swarms, but the black-box nature of neural policies complicates strategic analysis, limiting multi-robot applications. Furthermore, complex swarm behaviors can surprisingly emerge from simple rewards without explicit aggregation incentives.
arXiv:2606. 24958v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Collective behavior arises when locally interacting units produce coordinated global organization, from synchronization in dynamical systems to task-relevant information flow on graphs.
By Ji Chen, Song Chen, Chengzhang Gong, Li Fan, Chao Xu
arXiv:2606. 11274v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Rendezvous is a critical task for multi-agent systems, requiring agents to coordinate to meet at an unspecified location.
By Bocheng Li, Jingran Qiu, Lihao Zhao
arXiv:2607. 04972v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Deploying robot teams in the real world requires simultaneous adaptation to unseen environments, unknown partners, and varying team sizes, yet existing approaches often address these challenges in isolation under the closed-world assumption of fixed teammates.
By Yang Li, Feng Xue, Fan Mo, Yunhao Liu, Jianhong Wang, Ying Wen, Qingrui Zhang, Shaoshuai Mou, Wei Pan
arXiv:2606. 09610v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Cooperative object transportation is essential in numerous domains, including industrial to domestic services.
By Mohamed Sayed, Wolfram Burgard, Tanja Katharina Kaiser
arXiv:2607. 14093v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper presents a novel three level hierarchical learning architecture for autonomous UAV swarms performing search and rescue operations.
By Oleksii Bychkov
arXiv:2606. 12352v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multi-robot collaboration allows robots to efficiently take on a wide range of tasks, from moving a couch through a doorway to assembling structures on a construction site.
By Ria Doshi, Tian Gao, Annie Chen, Chelsea Finn, Jeannette Bohg
arXiv:2607. 21488v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Coordinating autonomous vehicles at unsignalized intersections remains a critical challenge for multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) systems, which typically struggle with combinatorial action spaces, reliance on privileged information, or rigid agent designs.
By Gil Lifshits, Igal Bilik, Gilad Katz
arXiv:2509. 10656v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: For groups of autonomous agents to achieve a particular goal, they must engage in coordination and long-horizon reasoning.
By Chirayu Nimonkar, Shlok Shah, Catherine Ji, Benjamin Eysenbach
arXiv:2601. 17454v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Centralized value learning underlies a broad class of multi-agent reinforcement learning methods, but its claimed advantage is typically evaluated in settings that confound coordination structure with function approximation and partial observability.
By Muhammad Ahmed Atif, Nehal Naeem Haji, Mohammad Shahid Shaikh, Muhammad Ebad Atif
arXiv:2608. 01425v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Training LLM-based multi-agent systems with multi-agent reinforcement learning is rapidly gaining traction, and a parallel line of work argues that such systems should be judged by their behavior, not only their reward.
By Yi Mao, Andrew Perrault
arXiv:2606. 11891v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multi-objective reinforcement learning for humanoid robots must coordinate locomotion and manipulation within a single policy.
By Mehmet Turan Yard{\i}mc{\i}