PEAR dynamically reconfigures agent roles to prevent persistent biases in multi-agent debates.
problem Persistent positional biases and sensitivity to role assignments in fixed topologies.
method Dynamic reconfiguration of agent roles and sparse topologies based on evolving agent states.
result Significantly improves average accuracy over debate baselines across multiple reasoning benchmarks.
Proposes a graph neural network for efficient multi-agent routing.
problem Routing multiple agents in complex, sparsely connected graphs with dynamic traffic.
method Value Iteration Network based on graph neural networks for online coordination.
result Significantly outperforms traditional methods in terms of cost and runtime.
A decentralized routing framework for lunar exploration robots.
problem Routing data in intermittent connectivity lunar networks.
method Graph Attention-based Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (GAT-MARL).
result Higher delivery rates, no duplications, fewer packet losses.
Equity-Transformer solves NP-hard min-max routing problems efficiently.
problem Min-max routing problems with multiple agents and large-scale applications.
method Sequential planning approach with Transformer and equitable workload distribution inductive biases.
result Significant runtime and cost reductions in min-max mTSP and min-max mPDP tasks.
Novel ML approach solves complex warehouse routing problem.
problem Efficiently routing pickers in mixed-shelves warehouses.
method Hierarchical and parallel multi-agent reinforcement learning.
result State-of-the-art performance in solution quality and inference speed.
AgensFlow learns multi-agent coordination policies from experience.
problem Difficult coordination choices in multi-agent systems built on LLMs.
method Online policy learning from repeated trajectories, treating decisions as learnable.
result Learned routing improves coordination-heavy workflows over static wiring.
A novel framework for adaptive multi-agent communication in reinforcement learning.
problem Manual specification of communication structures in multi-agent reinforcement learning.
method Learning Structured Communication (LSC) framework using hierarchical graph neural networks.
result Adaptive hierarchical formations and efficient message propagation among agents.
A new Python-C++ framework for agent-based simulation.
problem Understanding market dynamics and effects of delays.
method User-friendly Python API with efficient C++ implementation, message-driven architecture.
result Investigated the role of order processing delay in financial markets.
Modelling and exploiting teammates' policies in cooperative multi-agent systems have long been an interest and also a big challenge for the reinforcement learning (RL) community. The interest lies in the fact that if the agent knows the teammates' policies, it can adjust its own policy accordingly to arrive at proper c…
MarketSenseAI system outperforms passive benchmarks by 25.2% on S&P 500, adding value over random selection.
problem Identifying alpha in stock recommendations from multi-agent LLM systems.
method Deployed multi-agent LLM equity system generating live signals, combining four specialist agents into a synthesis agent.
result Strong-buy equal-weight portfolio on S&P 500 earns +2.18%/month, significantly outperforming passive benchmarks.
Air traffic control is a real-time safety-critical decision making process in highly dynamic and stochastic environments. In today's aviation practice, a human air traffic controller monitors and directs many aircraft flying through its designated airspace sector. With the fast growing air traffic complexity in traditi…
Pursuit-evasion is a multi-agent sequential decision problem wherein a group of agents known as pursuers coordinate their traversal of a spatial domain to locate an agent trying to evade them. Pursuit evasion problems arise in a number of import application domains including defense and route planning. Learning to opti…
Capsule networks improve performance on image classification tasks with fewer parameters.
problem Improving performance of capsule networks with fewer parameters.
method Inverted dot-product attention routing, Layer Normalization, concurrent iterative routing.
result Improves performance on benchmark datasets CIFAR-10 and CIFAR-100, and performs at-par with ResNet-18.
Route Choice Models predict the route choices of travelers traversing an urban area. Most of the route choice models link route characteristics of alternative routes to those chosen by the drivers. The models play an important role in prediction of traffic levels on different routes and thus assist in development of ef…
JAMPR learns to solve complex VRP with time windows.
problem Vehicle routing problems with time windows and vehicle capacities.
method Joint attention to construct multiple routes concurrently.
result JAMPR outperforms existing models on different problem sizes.
A large GPS dataset reveals that a single route often covers 60% of travel observations.
problem Limited insights from small GPS datasets on route choice behavior.
method Evaluation of path generation algorithms including link penalty, link elimination, simulation, and via-node methods.
result Modified link penalty method achieves 97% coverage, significantly higher than previous studies.
Global routing has been a historically challenging problem in electronic circuit design, where the challenge is to connect a large and arbitrary number of circuit components with wires without violating the design rules for the printed circuit boards or integrated circuits. Similar routing problems also exist in the de…
We propose and systematically evaluate three strategies for training dynamically-routed artificial neural networks: graphs of learned transformations through which different input signals may take different paths. Though some approaches have advantages over others, the resulting networks are often qualitatively similar…
A new router uses attention-based reinforcement learning to solve detailed routing problems efficiently.
problem Solving detailed routing in integrated circuits while adhering to complex design rules.
method Attention-based reinforcement learning applied to track-assignment detailed routing.
result The attention router achieves over 100x acceleration compared to a genetic router without sacrificing solution quality.
The DEBS Grand Challenge 2018 is set in the context of maritime route prediction. Vessel routes are modeled as streams of Automatic Identification System (AIS) data points selected from real-world tracking data. The challenge requires to correctly estimate the destination ports and arrival times of vessel trips, as ear…
Unified routing and arbitrage with concave continuation.
problem Combining routing and arbitrage in financial markets.
method Extending AMM trade functions to negative inputs via concave continuation.
result Unified approach unifies routing and arbitrage.
A new approach integrates inventory prediction and routing optimization for better supply chain management.
problem Optimizing efficient route selection in supply chain management with uncertain inventory demand.
method Decision-focused learning approach using neural networks to directly integrate inventory prediction and routing optimization.
result Direct integration of inventory prediction and routing optimization leads to better supply chain decisions.
Sparse routing networks with co-training prevent catastrophic forgetting in continual learning.
problem Catastrophic forgetting in neural networks trained on a sequence of tasks.
method Sparse routing networks with co-training to minimize interference between dissimilar tasks.
result Sparse routing networks with co-training outperform densely connected networks on benchmarks.
A recently proposed method in deep learning groups multiple neurons to capsules such that each capsule represents an object or part of an object. Routing algorithms route the output of capsules from lower-level layers to upper-level layers. In this paper, we prove that state-of-the-art routing procedures decrease the e…
Polestar optimizes public transportation routes for efficiency and user satisfaction.
problem Difficulty in finding optimal public transportation routes due to complex networks and dynamic situations.
method Developed a Public Transportation Graph (PTG) and a route search algorithm with station binding and ranking modules.
result Demonstrated superior efficiency and user satisfaction compared to existing systems.
Capsules are the multidimensional analogue to scalar neurons in neural networks, and because they are multidimensional, much more complex routing schemes can be used to pass information forward through the network than what can be used in traditional neural networks. This work treats capsules as collections of neurons …
A new multi-agent learning method improves performance in complex games.
problem Performance gap between MAPG and value-based multi-agent approaches.
method Introduces value function decomposition into multi-agent actor-critic framework for off-policy learning.
result DOP significantly outperforms state-of-the-art multi-agent reinforcement learning algorithms.
Capsule networks improve at detecting changes in compositionality with routing.
problem Capsule networks struggle with detecting changes in compositionality.
method Introduced a loss function based on routing entropy to improve compositionality.
result Capsule networks with the new loss function better detect changes in compositionality.
Optimizes query routing to LLMs under cost and resource constraints.
problem Non-uniform or adversarial batching in per-query routing methods leads to cost inefficiency.
method Batch-level, resource-aware routing framework that jointly optimizes model assignment for each batch.
result Robust routing framework improves accuracy by 1-14% over non-robust methods.
PPO algorithm converges to global optimality in multi-agent reinforcement learning.
problem Designing statistical guarantees for policy optimization methods in multi-agent reinforcement learning.
method Leveraging a multi-agent performance difference lemma, a localized action value function is used as a descent direction for each local policy, leading to a multi-agent PPO algorithm.
result The multi-agent PPO algorithm converges to the globally optimal policy at a sublinear rate under standard regularity conditions.
The paper formalizes and analyzes multi-agent Q-learning with value factorization.
problem Understanding and improving the convergence of multi-agent Q-learning with value factorization.
method Formalized a multi-agent fitted Q-iteration framework for analyzing factorized multi-agent Q-learning.
result Multi-agent Q-learning with linear value factorization can converge under certain conditions.
CARROT optimizes LLM routing by choosing the cheapest and most accurate model.
problem Optimizing query routing to the most cost-effective LLM for a given task.
method CARROT uses cost and performance estimates to select the best LLM for each query.
result CARROT is minimax optimal, selecting the best LLM for any query.
This paper extends off-policy reinforcement learning to the multi-agent case in which a set of networked agents communicating with their neighbors according to a time-varying graph collaboratively evaluates and improves a target policy while following a distinct behavior policy. To this end, the paper develops a multi-…
Enhanced route planning with probabilistic prediction and uncertainty sets.
problem Improving route planning reliability under uncertainty.
method CQR-GAE model integrating conformal prediction and uncertainty sets.
result Significantly outperforms baseline methods in real-world traffic scenarios.
New machine learning pipeline solves dynamic vehicle routing problems efficiently.
problem Efficiently handling same day deliveries in e-commerce logistics.
method Combination of machine learning and combinatorial optimization.
result Ranked first in the EURO Meets NeurIPS Vehicle Routing Competition.
New algorithm for traffic routing in congested conditions.
problem Optimal routing in congested traffic networks.
method Congested Bandits model, UCB algorithm, iterative least squares planner.
result No-regret algorithms for congestion-aware routing.
Optimal crypto asset routing with CFMMs, including fixed costs.
problem Optimizing order execution on a network of CFMMs with fixed costs.
method Convex optimization for no fixed costs, mixed-integer convex for fixed costs, heuristics for approximate solutions.
result Approximate solutions to optimal routing and arbitrage certification problems.
DPDP combines neural heuristics with DP for vehicle routing problems.
problem Vehicle routing problems with large scale.
method Deep Policy Dynamic Programming (DPDP) that uses a neural network policy to prioritize and restrict the DP state space.
result DPDP improves upon classical DP algorithms and outperforms neural approaches for TSP, VRP, and TSPTW.
Framework improves ETF volatility forecasting by adapting to market conditions.
problem Challenges in volatility forecasting due to shifting market conditions and varying model performance.
method Risk-sensitive specialist routing using online risk-sensitive evaluation and state-dependent gating.
result Reduces forecast loss by 24% and underprediction loss by 22% compared to rolling-best baseline.
High-level synthesis (HLS) shortens the development time of hardware designs and enables faster design space exploration at a higher abstraction level. Optimization of complex applications in HLS is challenging due to the effects of implementation issues such as routing congestion. Routing congestion estimation is abse…
World wide road traffic fatality and accident rates are high, and this is true even in technologically advanced countries like the USA. Despite the advances in Intelligent Transportation Systems, safe transportation routing i.e., finding safest routes is largely an overlooked paradigm. In recent years, large amount of …
FACMAC combines deep policy gradients with factored critic for multi-agent reinforcement learning.
problem Cooperative multi-agent reinforcement learning in discrete and continuous action spaces.
method FACMAC uses a centralised but factored critic, combining per-agent utilities into a joint action-value function.
result FACMAC outperforms MADDPG and other baselines on multi-agent particle environments and StarCraft II tasks.
Recently similarity graphs became the leading paradigm for efficient nearest neighbor search, outperforming traditional tree-based and LSH-based methods. Similarity graphs perform the search via greedy routing: a query traverses the graph and in each vertex moves to the adjacent vertex that is the closest to this query…
New system assigns vehicles to routes for cost and energy efficiency.
problem Optimizing vehicle route assignment for cost and energy efficiency.
method Machine learning-based neural network algorithm to estimate energy consumption and provide real-time recommendations.
result Demonstrated efficient vehicle assignment for medium and heavy duty trucks.
New method tackles parcel routing with AI.
problem Routing parcels efficiently through a network of hubs.
method Combines graph neural networks with model-free RL.
result Extracts small feature graphs from the environment state.
Two heuristics solve dynamic multiple travelling salesmen problems.
problem Dynamic routing with unknown customers.
method Balanced dynamic closest vehicle heuristic and balanced dynamic assignment vehicle heuristic.
result Continuous approximation models for strategic dynamic routing.
This work benchmarks MARL algorithms in cooperative tasks.
problem Lack of evaluation tasks and criteria for comparing MARL algorithms.
method Systematic evaluation of three MARL algorithm classes in diverse cooperative tasks.
result Insights into the effectiveness of different learning approaches.
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.