arXiv Machine Learning

Grounding Large Language Models as Generalizable Policies in Network Control

arXiv:2512. 11839v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Designing generalizable control policies that operate reliably under changing conditions is essential for robust network services in modern digital infrastructure.

arXiv AI
Sep 4

From Prior-Guided Heuristics to Deployable Agents: Accelerating Demonstration-Driven Reinforcement Learning for Deadline-Constrained Network Control

The paper proposes a deployment‑focused framework for deadline‑constrained network control, introducing the Effective Congestion (EC) metric family and Uniform Path Grouping (UPG) heuristic to better capture traffic urgency and balance load. It integrates these with a Multi‑Agent Deep Reinforcement Learning architecture (MADRL EC (p*)) that combines a distributed scheduler and a centralized RL router. A unified training objective merges live‑reward, pre‑collected‑reward, and policy‑imitation terms, leading to the Model‑Guided Annealed Reinforcement Learning (MGA‑RL) protocol built on DDPG, which generalizes offline‑to‑online learning for demonstration‑driven training.

By Vincenzo Norman Vitale, Mohammad Solki, Antonia Maria Tulino, Andreas F. Molisch, Jaime Llorca
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 27

Multi-Turn Reasoning LLMs for Task Offloading in Mobile Edge Computing

The paper introduces COMLLM, a generative framework that combines Group Relative Policy Optimization with a Look‑Ahead Collaborative Simulation to enable multi‑turn reasoning for task offloading in Mobile Edge Computing. By performing multi‑step Monte Carlo rollouts that jointly model server queue dynamics, COMLLM incorporates long‑term system evolution into its reward design, achieving near‑optimal latency and improved load‑balancing fairness. The framework demonstrates zero‑shot scalability to larger network topologies, outperforming supervised fine‑tuning, deep reinforcement learning, and heuristic baselines without requiring retraining.

By Ning Yang, Chuangxin Cheng, Haijun Zhang
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 17

OmniPlan: An Adaptive Framework for Timely and Near-Optimal Network Planning Optimization

arXiv:2606. 18105v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Network planning optimization is a fundamental problem across diverse domains, including transportation systems, communication networks, and power grids.

By Longlong Zhu, Jiashuo Yu, Zedi Chen, Yuhan Wu, Zhifan Jiang, Yuchen Xian, Yimeng Liu, Jiajie Su, Shaopeng Zhou, Xingyuan Li, Hongyan Liu, Xuan Liu, Dong Zhang, Chunming Wu, Xiang Chen
arXiv AI
Sep 16

Large Language Models in the Loop: A Stability- and Network-Aware Survey in Networked Control, Cyber-Physical, and Multi-Agent Systems

The article surveys how large language models (LLMs) can be incorporated into networked control systems, cyber‑physical systems, and multi‑agent networks without violating stability and safety guarantees. It proposes treating the LLM as a slow supervisor that sets high‑level goals, while a fast, certified inner loop preserves physical stability. The survey maps LLM characteristics—such as inference latency, API failures, tokenization, and hallucinations—to classical control challenges and highlights the growing gap between model capability and formal safety assurances, calling for future research on stability proofs.

By Haiping Du, Linping Chan
arXiv AI
Jun 29

End-to-End Dynamic Sparsity for Resource-Adaptive LLM Inference

arXiv:2606. 27743v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) inference is typically deployed under a static resource assumption, where models execute a fixed computational graph regardless of the runtime environment.

By Yuhang Chen, Jinhao Duan, Ruichen Zhang, Mingfu Liang, Xiaohan Wei, Yunchen Pu, Fei Tian, Chonglin Sun, Parish Aggarwal, Frank Shyu, Luke Simon, Sandeep Pandey, Tianlong Chen, Xi Liu