arXiv:2609.15361v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Effective communication is a cornerstone of distributed intelligence in Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL), yet ensuring that generated messag...
By Rafael Pina, Varuna De Silva, Corentin Artaud
arXiv:2508. 13661v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Centralized Training with Decentralized Execution (CTDE) is the dominant paradigm in multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL), enabling agents to act independently at test time while leveraging additional information during training.
By Maciej Wojtala, Bogusz Stefa\'nczyk, Dominik Bogucki, {\L}ukasz Lepak, Pawe{\l} Wawrzy\'nski
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:2606. 29126v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Cooperative multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) often relies on communication to mitigate partial observability, yet most existing protocols treat messages as flat dense vectors detached from the structure of the observations they summarize.
By Runze Zhao, Dongruo Zhou, Sumit Kumar Jha, Nathaniel D. Bastian, Ankit Shah
arXiv:2606. 30966v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Formal specification is a powerful tool to guide the learning process and provides significant advantages over reward shaping: (1) mathematical rigor; (2) expressiveness to specify objectives and constraints, and (3) the ability to define tactics to achieve objectives.
By Arshia Rafieioskouei, Tzu-Han Hsu, Matthew Lucas, Borzoo Bonakdarpour
arXiv:2607. 19809v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL), inter-agent communication is effective for improving performance under partial observability.
By Taisuke Takayama, Naoto Yoshida, Tadahiro Taniguchi
arXiv:2602. 20804v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Cooperative multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) is typically framed as a decentralised partially observable Markov decision process (Dec-POMDP), a setting whose hardness stems from two key challenges: partial observability and decentralised coordination.
By Kale-ab Tessera, Leonard Hinckeldey, Riccardo Zamboni, David Abel, Amos Storkey
arXiv:2507. 23604v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Decentralized Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL) methods allow for learning scalable multi-agent policies, but suffer from partial observability and induced non-stationarity.
By Tommaso Marzi, Cesare Alippi, Andrea Cini
arXiv:2605. 12655v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) in real-world use cases may need to adapt to external natural language instructions that interrupt ongoing behavior and conflict with long-horizon objectives.
By Wo Wei Lin, Ethan Rathbun, Enrico Marchesini, Xiang Zhi Tan
arXiv:2511. 02304v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We study learning multi-task, multi-agent policies for cooperative, temporal objectives, under centralized training, decentralized execution.
By Beyazit Yalcinkaya, Marcell Vazquez-Chanlatte, Ameesh Shah, Hanna Krasowski, Sanjit A. Seshia
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.
By Ahmad Farooq, Kamran Iqbal
The paper presents a decentralized navigation framework for composite heterogeneous robots that integrates a large language model (LLM) policy agent, an Upper Confidence Bound (UCB) bandit, and a Double Deep Q-Network (Double DQN) controller. Each robot independently generates and refines policies at the round level using LLM inference, while the Double DQN handles tick-level action selection based on navigation variables and LLM priors. Across 30 rounds, the full configuration achieved all goals with the lowest median completion time (42 ticks) and a 25–39% improvement over other setups.
By Chongwen Dong, Mithun Paul Saint-Germain, Pinjari Asif, Carlo R. daCunha