Regret analysis is challenging in Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL) primarily due to the dynamical environments and the decentralized information among agents. We attempt to solve this challenge in the context of decentralized learning in multi-agent linear-quadratic (LQ) dynamical systems. We begin with a simp…
This paper presents an analytical treatment of economic systems with an arbitrary number of agents that keeps track of the systems' interactions and agents' complexity. This formalism does not seek to aggregate agents. It rather replaces the standard optimization approach by a probabilistic description of both the enti…
Researchers derive the relation between temperature and volatility in ideal agent systems.
problem Deriving the exact algebraic relation between temperature and volatility in ideal agent systems.
method Analogy with spin systems from statistical physics.
result Derive the exact algebraic relation between temperature and volatility for an ideal agent system.
New learning methods for open systems with variable agents.
problem Learning in open systems with dynamic agent arrivals and departures.
method Formulated a unified open-system bandit problem with general dynamics, introducing new concepts like pre-training degree and stability.
result Certified global-UCB learning methodologies with provable guarantees, revealing dependencies between entry uncertainty, stability, and agent patterns.
We formulate and analyze a multi-agent model for the evolution of individual and systemic risk in which the local agents interact with each other through a central agent who, in turn, is influenced by the mean field of the local agents. The central agent is stabilized by a bistable potential, the only stabilizing force…
NeuroMAS treats multi-agent systems as neural networks for scalable, trainable coordination.
problem Designing multi-agent systems as hand-designed workflows is inefficient and inflexible.
method NeuroMAS treats multi-agent systems as a neural network architecture with reinforcement learning for scalable coordination.
result NeuroMAS improves significantly over multi-agent baselines and can be scaled progressively.
This paper studies the correlations of the average winnings of agents and the volatilities of systems based on mix-game model which is an extension of minority game (MG). In mix-game, there are two groups of agents; group1 plays the majority game, but the group2 plays the minority game. The results show that the correl…
Reduced models derived from agent-based systems using Koopman theory.
problem Time-consuming simulations of large agent-based systems.
method Koopman operator theory applied to simulation data.
result Derived reduced models match known analytical results.
Enhances financial analysis with multi-agent collaboration.
problem Limited use of AI-agent collaboration in financial research.
method Proposes a multi-agent system for financial investment research.
result Multi-agent system outperforms single-agent models.
Develops a framework for analyzing multi-agent and many-body systems with feedback loops.
problem Optimal order of multi-agent and general many-body systems
method Derive macroscopic properties and optimal degree of order
result Optimal degree of order balances productivity, stability, and adaptability
We analyze systems of agents sharing light-tailed risky claims issued by different financial objects. Assuming exponentially distributed claims, we obtain that both agents' and system's losses follow generalized exponential mixture distributions. We show that this leads to qualitatively different results on individual …
Agents learn and control complex mechanical systems through shared memories.
problem Controlling multi-joint dynamical systems.
method Coupled autoregressive active inference agents using Bayesian filtering and minimizing expected free energy.
result Demonstrated learning and control of a double mass-spring-damper system.
Survey examines agentic AI in finance, highlighting its autonomy and challenges.
problem Autonomous AI systems in finance and their implications.
method Systematic review of research, technical architectures, market applications, and governance frameworks.
result Agentic AI offers enhanced market efficiency but introduces new risks.
The behavioral dynamics of multi-agent systems have a rich and orderly structure, which can be leveraged to understand these systems, and to improve how artificial agents learn to operate in them. Here we introduce Relational Forward Models (RFM) for multi-agent learning, networks that can learn to make accurate predic…
Inferring the laws of interaction between particles and agents in complex dynamical systems from observational data is a fundamental challenge in a wide variety of disciplines. We propose a non-parametric statistical learning approach to estimate the governing laws of distance-based interactions, with no reference or a…
The dynamics of many socioeconomic systems is determined by the decision making process of agents. The decision process depends on agent's characteristics, such as preferences, risk aversion, behavioral biases, etc.. In addition, in some systems the size of agents can be highly heterogeneous leading to very different i…
Randomized feature models learn interaction kernels from agent paths.
problem Learning interaction kernels from noisy agent paths.
method Randomized feature algorithm and sparse regression.
result Pruned features reduce overfitting and lower simulation cost.
We present the MagNet, a neural network-based multi-agent interaction model to discover the governing dynamics and predict evolution of a complex multi-agent system from observations. We formulate a multi-agent system as a coupled non-linear network with a generic ordinary differential equation (ODE) based state evolut…
Paper develops framework for AI agents in financial markets.
problem Systemic implications of AI in finance depend on agent architectures.
method Four-layer architecture and AFMM model for analysis.
result AI agents can improve market efficiency and resilience.
INTAGS uses interactive simulation to improve realism in multi-agent systems.
problem Challenges in developing realistic agent-based simulators for multi-agent systems.
method INTAGS introduces a novel metric to evaluate the difference between real and synthetic multi-agent systems, optimizing a stochastic policy in reinforcement learning to adapt to interactive sequential decision-making environments.
result INTAGS generates more realistic market data compared to state-of-the-art approaches.
Multi-agent systems exhibit complex behaviors that emanate from the interactions of multiple agents in a shared environment. In this work, we are interested in controlling one agent in a multi-agent system and successfully learn to interact with the other agents that have fixed policies. Modeling the behavior of other …
MA-COPP predicts multi-agent system outcomes using data from a different policy, with probabilistic guarantees.
problem Predicting outcomes in multi-agent systems using data from a different policy.
method Conformal prediction framework applied to multi-agent systems, avoiding exhaustive search.
result Achieves probabilistic guarantees for multi-agent system predictions.
Paper tackles delays in multi-agent reinforcement learning, improving performance.
problem Challenges in reinforcement learning due to delays in real-world systems.
method Proposes a novel framework for multi-agent reinforcement learning with delays, using Delay-Aware Markov Games and centralized-decentralized training.
result Demonstrates significant improvement in performance with delay-aware multi-agent reinforcement learning.
Market equilibrium price proven in a large-agent model.
problem Proving market equilibrium in a large-agent setting.
method Proved existence of equilibrium price in a complete, continuous time market with infinite agents.
result The equilibrium price dynamics decouple as the number of agents increases.
This paper measures temperature in agent systems using volatility.
problem How to measure temperature in agent systems.
method Examined an agent system with two decision options in a news environment, established the measurement equation, and outlined the concept of temperature measurement.
result Illustrated a strategy for influencing average opinion in competing subsystems.
ContestTrade uses competitive teams to improve LLM trading performance.
problem High sensitivity to market noise in LLM-based trading systems.
method Internal competitive mechanism, data and research teams, real-time evaluation.
result Significantly outperforms other systems across various metrics.
Inferring a person's goal from their behavior is an important problem in applications of AI (e.g. automated assistants, recommender systems). The workhorse model for this task is the rational actor model - this amounts to assuming that people have stable reward functions, discount the future exponentially, and construc…
New modeling approach for self-organizing complex systems.
problem Identifying general principles of self-organizing complex systems.
method Self-deploying system structure and activities for goal-driven agents.
result Self-organization emerges from rational activity algorithm based on goals dependency network.
KVCOMM optimizes multi-agent LLM systems by reusing KV-caches, reducing redundant processing.
problem Substantial overhead from reprocessing overlapping contexts across multi-agent systems.
method KVCOMM reuses KV-caches and adjusts offsets for shared content using a pool of cached examples (anchors).
result Achieves over 70% reuse rate across diverse multi-agent tasks, up to 7.8x speedup.
Incentive-aware recommender system for online platforms.
problem Myopic agents exploit optimal arms, not exploring alternatives.
method Model as multi-agent bandit problem, incentivizes exploration.
result Asymptotically optimal performance with ex-post fairness.
Improved investment performance with fine-grained LLM tasks.
problem Abstract financial trading systems often overlook real-world workflow intricacies, leading to degraded performance.
method Proposes a multi-agent LLM trading framework that decomposes investment analysis into fine-grained tasks.
result Fine-grained task decomposition significantly improves risk-adjusted returns compared to coarse-grained designs.
Paper studies IPG method's robustness in noisy distributed linear regression.
problem Distributed linear regression with noise.
method Iteratively Pre-conditioned Gradient-descent (IPG) method.
result IPG method's robustness against noise compared favorably to state-of-the-art algorithms.
Develops methods to create consistent surrogate models for agent-based simulators.
problem High computational costs and misjudgment of interventions in agent-based models.
method Causal abstractions to learn interventionally consistent surrogate models.
result Surrogates trained for interventional consistency closely mimic the agent-based model's behavior under interventions.
NOHD optimizes multi-agent systems by decomposing dynamics into irrotational and solenoidal components.
problem Non-stationarity and conflicting interests in multi-agent learning problems.
method NOHD (Newton Optimization on Helmholtz Decomposition) decomposes system dynamics into irrotational and solenoidal components.
result NOHD ensures quadratic convergence in purely irrotational and solenoidal systems and attracts to stable fixed points in general multi-agent systems.
MRC improves credit assignment in multi-agent LLM systems, achieving high returns and transparency.
problem Lack of principled credit assignment in multi-agent LLM decision systems, vulnerability to regime shifts, and limited transparency.
method Market Regime Council (MRC) computes exact Shapley credits, uses exponentially weighted performance histories, Bayesian adaptive mixture, and regime-dependent multipliers.
result MRC achieves a Sharpe ratio of 1.51 and a cumulative return of 440.1% over 1,037 trading days, ranking first on CR, SR, and IR.
Extracts intrinsic spatial coordinates for complex agent systems to learn PDEs.
problem Modeling collective dynamics of heterogeneous agents.
method Data-driven extraction of intrinsic spatial coordinates, learning PDEs in emergent space.
result Collective dynamics can be approximated through learned PDEs in emergent coordinates.
Bayesian principles improve agentic AI decision-making.
problem Decision-making under uncertainty in agentic AI systems.
method Bayesian decision theory applied to the orchestration layer of agentic AI.
result Bayesian principles enhance agentic AI's ability to make decisions under uncertainty.
This thesis analyzes MACL systems with low-regret learning algorithms for sequential decision making.
problem Designing efficient learning algorithms for multi-agent cooperative systems to minimize regret.
method Analyzes and develops algorithms for cooperative multi-agent multi-armed bandit problems and online convex optimization in distributed settings.
result Presented regret lower bounds and efficient algorithms for achieving these bounds, providing guidance on communication protocols.
Agent-based modeling is a powerful simulation technique to understand the collective behavior and microscopic interaction in complex financial systems. Recently, the concept for determining the key parameters of the agent-based models from empirical data instead of setting them artificially was suggested. We first revi…
Modeling agent behavior is central to understanding the emergence of complex phenomena in multiagent systems. Prior work in agent modeling has largely been task-specific and driven by hand-engineering domain-specific prior knowledge. We propose a general learning framework for modeling agent behavior in any multiagent …
Researchers derive the chemical potential equation for ideal agent systems.
problem Missing equation of state for chemical potential in ideal agent systems.
method Derived from econophysical model assumptions of ideal agent systems.
result Equation of state for chemical potential derived for ideal agent systems.
A new method for optimizing language-based agentic systems using semantic backpropagation.
problem Lack of proper feedback assignment in optimizing agentic systems.
method Formalization of semantic backpropagation with semantic gradients and semantic gradient descent.
result Our method outperforms existing state-of-the-art methods for solving GASO problems.
Enhanced financial trading system using multi-agent LLMs with layered memory.
problem Inefficient prioritization of tasks in LLMs due to their memory processing.
method Introducing a multi-agent framework with layered memories and inter-agent debate.
result Superior automated trading accuracy and decision robustness.
Paper tackles learning win-win solutions in aggregation systems.
problem Learning approximate equilibrium solutions in aggregation systems to keep suppliers.
method Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL) with variance reduction mechanism.
result Approach reduces value variance and moves joint solution closer to Nash Equilibrium.
A deterministic system of interacting agents is considered as a model for economic dynamics. The dynamics of the system is described by a coupled map lattice with near neighbor interactions. The evolution of each agent results from the competition between two factors: the agent's own tendency to grow and the environmen…
Researchers develop multi-agent systems for quadcopters to collaborate in missions.
problem Enable multiple quadcopters to work together in remote sensing tasks.
method Agent dynamics, network topologies, collective behaviors, agreement protocol, equations of motion for quadcopters.
result Multi-agent systems can successfully collaborate in remote sensing missions.
Decentralized Gaussian processes for multi-agent systems.
problem Scalable and flexible learning solutions for multi-agent systems.
method Asymptotically exact decentralized solution to Gaussian processes, with online Bayesian model averaging for hyperparameter selection.
result Asymptotically exact decentralized Gaussian process approximation and online Bayesian model averaging.
A simple guide to understanding hierarchical causality in complex systems.
problem Understanding hierarchical causality in complex systems.
method Formalizing hierarchical causality in terms of actors and agents, with three key structures.
result The system requires three additional structures: causation classes, aggregation operators, and discrete event-time maps.