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  1. Pay to Learn, Share to Earn: Incentivized Federated Multi-Player Bandits

    Oct 5, 2026Pavamana K J, Chandramani SinghStochastic Multi-Armed BanditsFederated Learning

    Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, India

  2. Flowing Faster to Coordinate: One-Step Online Multi-Agent Flow Policies

    Oct 1, 2026Zhuoran Li, Yunzhan Li, Xun Wang +2Multi-Agent Reinforcement LearningFlow Policies

    Institute for Interdisciplinary Information Sciences, Tsinghua University · Engineering Systems and Design Pillar, Singapore University of Technology and Design

  3. After Cooperation Is Learned: Gradient Routing and Optimizer-Dependent Maintenance in Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning

    Oct 1, 2026Chaoyuan Hao, Wentao Yue, Tianyou Lai +4Multi-Agent Reinforcement LearningCooperation

  4. MASkillBlender: Decentralized Whole-Body Coordination for Multi-Humanoid Loco-Manipulation via Skill Blending

    Oct 1, 2026Yifan Hu, Luhang Hong, Mingkang Long +5Full-Body Humanoid ControlHumanoid Loco-Manipulation

    Nanyang Technological University · Southeast University · Purple Mountain Laboratories

  5. Meta-Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Fast Adaptation of Interactive Policies with Applications to Autonomous Driving

    Sep 30, 2026Huiwen Yan, Kyriakos G. Vamvoudakis, Mushuang LiuMulti-Agent Reinforcement LearningMean Field Games

    Department of Mechanical Engineering, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061, USA · Daniel Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA 30332, USA

  6. PowerMarketJax: A JAX Benchmark Suite for Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning in Power Markets

    Sep 29, 2026Zhanhua Pan, Xin Qin, Xiao Liu +3Multi-Agent Reinforcement LearningDistributed Energy Resources

    Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. · Cornell University, USA. · University of Bristol, UK.

  7. Fully Decentralized and Safety-Aware Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Control on Networks

    Sep 28, 2026Theodore Rogalski, Shirantha WelikalaMulti-Agent Reinforcement LearningOffline Reinforcement Learning

    Electrical & Computer Engineering Department Stevens Institute of Technology Hoboken, USA

  8. Coordinated Lane-Level Variable Speed Limits and Ramp Metering for Successive Weaving Segments Considering Merging/Diverging Risks: A Hybrid Model Predictive Control and Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning Approach

    Sep 28, 2026Guodong Ma, Baofeng Sun, Wenyu Yang +1Standard Traffic Speed BenchmarksTraffic

    School of Transportation, Jilin University, Changchun 130022, China · School of Transportation and Logistics, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu 610031, China

  9. Escaping Local Views: Discovering Latent Concepts for Interpretable Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning

    Sep 28, 2026Yijie Sun, Sanquan Sun, Yanda Zhu +3Multi-Agent Reinforcement LearningUnsupervised

    Nanjing University · Hong Kong Polytechnic University · Shenzhen University

  10. Emergence, Not Bandwidth: Physical Coupling and the Limits of Learned Multi-Agent Communication

    Sep 28, 2026Mihir Chauhan, Aniket BeraMulti-Agent Reinforcement LearningMulti-Agent Communication

    IDEAS Lab, Department of Computer Science Purdue University

  11. Hierarchical Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning for Warehouse Robot Coordination under Communication Loss

    Sep 27, 2026Weihao Sun, Gehui Xu, Andreas A. MalikopoulosMulti-Robot SystemsMulti-Agent Reinforcement Learning

    Systems Engineering Program, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14850 USA · Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, UK · Applied Mathematics, Systems Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical & Computer Engineering, and School of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA

  12. MA-JEPA: Joint-Embedding World Models for Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning

    Sep 27, 2026Brandon Gary Kaplowitz, Osaze James Obahor, Christian Schroeder de WittMulti-Agent Reinforcement LearningWorld Models

    Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford

  13. Federated Multi-Modal Human Activity Recognition using Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning

    Sep 27, 2026Debasmita Dey, Tanmay Sen, Himel MallickMultimodal FusionHuman Activity Recognition

    SQC & OR Unit Indian Statistical Institute Kolkata Kolkata, India · Department of Population Health Sciences Cornell University 425 E 61st Street New York

  14. Graph-Based Inference and Topology-Aware Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Large-Scale Railway Network Management

    Sep 24, 2026Giacomo Arcieri, Gregory Duthé, Christophe Muller +3Multi-Agent Reinforcement LearningGraph Representation Learning

    Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering, ETH Zürich, Zürich, 8093, Switzerland · Department of Statistics, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom · Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, 16802, USA +1

  15. REAT: A Reflective Experience-Augmented Tutoring Framework for Multi-turn Mathematical Instruction

    Sep 24, 2026Jianheng Zhou, Chaoli Zhang, Xingjun Wei +6TutorsPedagogical Frameworks

    School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University · Zhejiang Normal University · Telfer School of Management, University of Ottawa +5

  16. FairTest: Search-Based Fairness Testing for Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning Systems

    Sep 23, 2026Xiaotong Wang, Xuan XieMulti-Agent Reinforcement LearningAlgorithmic Fairness

    School of Computer Science and Engineering, Macau University of Science and Technology, Macao SAR, China

  17. Resource-Efficient Distributed Recursive Gaussian Processes

    Sep 22, 2026Josephine King, Ali Emre Balci, Raj Thilak RajanGaussian ProcessMulti-Agent Reinforcement Learning

    Signal Processing Systems, Faculty of EEMCS, Delft University of Technology, Mekelweg 4, 2628CD, Delft, The Netherlands

  18. MATES: Learning Multi-Agent Interactions by Transforming Observations for Frozen Single-Agent Policies

    Sep 22, 2026Elie Abboud, Oren GalMulti-Agent Reinforcement LearningMulti-Agent Communication

    department of Marine Technologies, University of Haifa, Israel · Department of Marine Technologies, University of Haifa, Israel

  19. Fully Byzantine-Resilient Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning

    Sep 22, 2026Haejoon Lee, Dimitra PanagouMulti-Agent Reinforcement LearningByzantine Attacks

    Robotics Department, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

  20. HOTICE: Whole-Body Humanoid Object Transportation in Cluttered Environments

    Sep 21, 2026Toan Nguyen, Weiduo Yuan, Siheng Zhao +2Full-Body Humanoid ControlAction Space

    University of Southern California

  21. VISTA: An Attention-Based Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning Architecture for Space Situational Awareness Sensor Tasking

    Sep 20, 2026Miguel Leiva-Vélez, Adalberto Claudio Quiros, Nicolas Gaston Rozado +2Situational AwarenessSpacecraft

    ETSIAE-School of Aeronautics, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain · Indra Sistemas S.A., Spain · Department of Computer Systems Engineering, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain

  22. Agentic AI Networking for Heterogeneous Unmanned Aerial Systems in Low-Altitude Wireless Networks

    Sep 17, 2026Nguyen Duc Minh Quang, Chang Liu, Shuangyang Li +1Multi-Agent Reinforcement LearningWireless Communications

    School of Computing, Engineering, and Mathematical Sciences, La Trobe University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia · Chair of Communications and Information Theory, Technical University of Berlin, 10623 Berlin, Germany · School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia

  23. CoRe-MARL: Cooperative Redistribution Under Unknown Dynamics Using Recurrent Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning

    Sep 16, 2026Naimur Rahman Chowdhury, Shatabdi Sen Prapti, Md. Salehin Seyam +1Multi-Agent Reinforcement LearningDecentralized Learning

    Industrial and Systems Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, United States · Department of Industrial and Production Engineering, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Dhaka, 1000, Bangladesh

  24. DualSQL: Text-to-SQL with Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning

    Sep 16, 2026Shijie Chen, Yu Gan, Yeounoh Chung +6Text-To-SqlSql

    The Ohio State University · Google LLC

  25. Composite-Gradient Learning for Shared Control Authority Between Deep Reinforcement Learning and Model Predictive Control

    Sep 15, 2026Giray Önür, Azita Dabiri, Bart De SchutterModel Predictive ControlMulti-Agent Reinforcement Learning

    Delft Center for Systems and Control, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands

  26. Assembling the CREW: A Collaborative Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning Framework for Automated Related Work Generation

    Sep 14, 2026Hai-Dang Dang, Bao-Yen Pham, Bao Nguyen +2Data Generation PipelinesMulti-Agent Large Language Model Systems

    Hanoi University of Science and Technology · The Chinese University of Hong Kong · Hanoi University of Industry

  27. Robust and Efficient Communication for Multi-Agent Learning

    Sep 14, 2026Rafael Pina, Varuna De Silva, Corentin ArtaudMulti-Agent Reinforcement LearningArtificial Intelligence Agents

    Institute for Digital Technologies · Loughborough University London, United Kingdom

  28. Curriculum-Based Adversarial Heterogeneous Agent Reinforcement Learning for Autonomous Quad-Copter Landing in Maritime Settings

    Sep 14, 2026Allan Minh-Tam Nguyen, Sree Showrya Kotala, Stefan Banioi-Crijman +2Reinforcement Learning ControlUnmanned Aerial Vehicles

    Department of Advanced Computing Sciences, Maastricht University, Minderbroedersberg 4-6, 6211 LK Maastricht, Netherlands

  29. Forty Shades of Blue: Quality-Diversity Alignment via Mode-Conditioned Reinforcement Learning

    Sep 14, 2026Jiayi Yuan, Hangoo Kang, James Jihao Liu +4Large Language Model AlignmentMulti-Agent Reinforcement Learning

    University of Washington · 2Stanford University

  30. DRG-MAPPO: Hierarchical Dynamic Role-Graph Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Cooperative Air Combat

    Sep 12, 2026Junlin Liu, Chengwei Li, Yang Gao +4Multi-Agent Reinforcement LearningCooperative Air Combat

    Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences · The Key Laboratory of Cognition and Decision Intelligence for Complex Systems, CASIA · School of Artificial Intelligence, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences

  31. Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Autonomous UAV Exploration in Wildfire Response

    Sep 9, 2026Caden Chandra, Jerry NgWildfire DetectionWildfire

  32. Graph-Based Safe Reinforcement Learning for Multi-Agent Systems with Time-Varying Topology

    Sep 8, 2026Xiao Sizhe, Dong Lijing, Bai Rui +1Multi-Agent Reinforcement LearningSafety Constraints

    School of Mechanical, Electronic and Control Engineering, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing, China

  33. Decentralized Safe Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning via Predictive Shielding

    Sep 7, 2026Yacine El Yamani, Hanna Krasowski, Elena VanneauxMulti-Agent Reinforcement LearningMulti-Robot Systems

    ENSTA, IP Paris, Palaiseau, France · UC Berkeley, USA

  34. SMaRT-Tug: Structured Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Physics-Based Tugboat-Barge Collaborative Manipulation

    Sep 7, 2026Junkai Lu, Jiadong Zhao, Jiacheng Zhang +8Multi-Agent Reinforcement LearningCollaboration

    National University of Singapore Singapore, Singapore · ST Engineering Unmanned & Integrated Systems Pte. Ltd. Singapore, Singapore

  35. Out-of-Distribution Generalisation with Sequence Models in Offline Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning

    Sep 3, 2026Oussama Hidaoui, Omer Ebead, Ulrich Armel Mbou Sob +14Multi-Agent Reinforcement LearningOut-Of-Distribution

    InstaDeep · AIMS · Stellenbosch University

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

    Sep 3, 2026Vincenzo Norman Vitale, Mohammad Solki, Antonia Maria Tulino +2Bringing Network CodingLearning-Based Control

    DIETI, University of Naples Federico II, Via Claudio 21, Naples, 80125, Italy · New York University, 6 MetroTech Center, Brooklyn, New York, 11201, USA · University of Southern California, 3740 McClintock Ave., Los Angeles, 90089, California, USA +2

  37. Independent Reinforcement Learning in Discounted Markov Games

    Sep 1, 2026Asrin Efe Yorulmaz, Ugur Aydin, Tamer BasarMean Field GamesMulti-Agent Reinforcement Learning

    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, 61801, USA

  38. Provably Efficient Federated Reinforcement Learning with Linear Function Approximation and Logarithmic Communication Cost

    Aug 31, 2026Zihang Liang, Haochen Zhang, Lingzhou XueFederated LearningMulti-Agent Reinforcement Learning

    Department of Statistics, The Pennsylvania State University

  39. OGR-MARL: Option-Guided Residual Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Heterogeneous USV Cooperative Pursuit in Constrained Port Waterways

    Aug 13, 2026Mao Jiayang, Wang Lanfeng, Peng Zhao-HanAutonomous Underwater VehiclesMulti-Agent Reinforcement Learning

    College of Information Engineering Sichuan Agricultural University Yaan, China · Shenzhen International Graduate School Tsinghua University Shenzhen, China

  40. Decentralized Multi-Player Q-Learning in Episodic Markov Decision Processes with Information Asymmetry

    Aug 13, 2026Larissa Xu, King Bi, William ChangQ-LearningMulti-Agent Reinforcement Learning

    Department of Mathematics University of California, Los Angeles Los Angeles, USA · Department of Computer Science University of California, Los Angeles Los Angeles, USA

  41. One Frozen Simulator Is Not Enough: Simulator Collapse in Multi-Agent RL

    Aug 12, 2026Simon Yu, Nicholas Tomlin, Marwa Abdulhai +7Multi-Agent SimulationsSimulation-Based Reinforcement Learning

    1Northeastern University · 2New York University · 3UC Berkeley +2

  42. Multi-AUV Ad-hoc network-based Target Tracking: A Value Gradient Guidance Multi-Agent Diffusion Reinforcement Learning Approach

    Aug 12, 2026Jiaao Ma, Chuan Lin, Guangjie Han +4Multi-Agent Reinforcement LearningMulti-Uav

    Software College, Northeastern University, Shenyang, China · Key Laboratory of Maritime Intelligent Network Information Technology, Ministry of Education, Hohai University, Changzhou, China · College of Computer Science and Software Engineering, Hohai University, Nanjing, 210013, China

  43. Is Per-Agent Policy Composition Safe? Rethinking Successor-Feature Transfer in Cooperative Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning

    Aug 12, 2026Zijian Zhao, Sen LiMulti-Agent Reinforcement LearningSuccessor Representations

    1The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology · 2The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)

  44. Robust Multi-Agent Bandits with Heavy-Tailed Rewards and Information Asymmetry

    Aug 11, 2026Daphne Feng, Ricardo Parada, Lily Jiang +2Stochastic Multi-Armed BanditsMulti-Agent Reinforcement Learning

    Department of Mathematics, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA · Department of Mathematics, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA, USA

  45. Competitive mediator games and urban CAV routing markets

    Aug 10, 2026Grzegorz JamrózGame TheoryNash Equilibrium

    Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland

  46. Task-Oriented Formation Decision via Reinforcement Learning: Herding an Attacking Swarm

    Aug 10, 2026Zhaozong Wang, Guibin Sun, Jinyong Chen +1Multi-Robot SystemsMulti-Agent Reinforcement Learning

    School of Automation Science and Electrical Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, China

  47. MARA: Flow-Matching-Guided Multi-Agent Resource Allocation for Computational Resource Efficient Learning

    Aug 10, 2026Hanye Zhao, Muning Wen, Yong Yu +1SchedulersMulti-Agent Reinforcement Learning

    Shanghai Jiao Tong University

  48. Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning via Agent-Specific Preference

    Aug 9, 2026Ni Mu, Yao Luan, Yiqin Yang +1Multi-Agent Reinforcement LearningPreference Alignment Learning

    CFINS, Department of Automation, BNRist, Beijing Key Laboratory of Embodied Intelligence Systems, Institute for Embodied Intelligence and Robotics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China · Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China

  49. Per-Shipment Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Intermodal Freight Routing Under Hurricane Disruption

    Aug 7, 2026Aliza Sharmin, Xudong Wang, Mustafa Can Camur +1LogisticsMulti-Agent Reinforcement Learning

    Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering University of Tennessee Knoxville, TN 37996

  50. Why Study Emergent Behavior When You Can Regulate It? Aligning Multi-Agent Systems with Reward Prediction

    Aug 7, 2026Assaf Caftory, Almog Zemach, Moshe Butman +1Multi-Agent Reinforcement LearningEmergence

    EfiArazi School of Computer Science, Reichman University, Herzliya, Israel · Faculty of Computer Science, The College of Management Academic Studies, Rishon LeZion, Israel · School of Communication, Reichman University, Herzliya, Israel

  51. A MARL Centered Reference Architecture for Large Language Model Augmentation in Smart Manufacturing

    Aug 7, 2026Fouad Bahrpeyma, Dirk ReicheltMulti-Agent Reinforcement LearningLarge Language Model Reinforcement Learning

    Smart Production Systems, HTW Dresden, Saxony, Germany

  52. Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Online Traffic Scheduling in Time-Sensitive Application

    Aug 5, 2026Marcos Carvalho, Fatih Temiz, Shavbo Salehi +2SchedulersMulti-Agent Reinforcement Learning

    Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil · School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada

  53. Multi-Agent Transformer for Queue-Level XR Traffic Scheduling in TSN Networks

    Aug 5, 2026Marcos Carvalho, Fatih Temiz, Shavbo Salehi +2Multi-Agent Reinforcement LearningEdge Devices

    Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil · School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada

  54. Calibrating Artificial Guilt: Neurally Grounded Reward Shaping for Prosocial Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning

    Aug 5, 2026Aaditya Mehta, Arya ShahPotential-Based Reward ShapingMulti-Agent Reinforcement Learning

    Mahatma Gandhi International School, Ahmedabad, India · Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar, India

  55. Structured LLM Reasoning for Zero-Shot Human--Robot Coordination Under Hidden Goals

    Aug 5, 2026Dong Hae Mangalindan, Anand Gokhale, Francesco Bullo +1Human-Robot CollaborationTheory-Of-Mind Reasoning

    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824 · Center for Control, Dynamical Systems, and Computation, UC Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 93106 USA

  56. FedCritic-MIMO: Communication-Efficient Serverless Federated Critic Learning for Massive-MIMO Resource Control in Open and Disaggregated 6G RANs

    Aug 4, 2026Amin Farajzadeh, Melike Erol-KantarciOrthogonal Frequency-Division MultiplexingMulti-Agent Reinforcement Learning

    School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON K1N 6N5, Canada · with the NETCORE Lab

  57. History Matters: Meta-policy Delegation with Heterogeneous Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning

    Aug 4, 2026Ziqing Lu, Avinash Reddy Mudireddy, Sarra Alqahtani +1Multi-Agent Reinforcement LearningMulti-Agent Communication

    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Iowa · Department of Computer Science Wake Forest University

  58. Is Inter-Seed Cross-Play Enough? Evaluating the Robustness of Zero-Shot Coordination Algorithms to Implementation Details

    Aug 4, 2026Maksymilian Wolski, Nicholas Hoernle, Johannes Forkel +1Multi-Agent CoordinationMulti-Agent Reinforcement Learning

    ProrokLab University of Cambridge United Kingdom · QuantCo · BOLD† University of Oxford United Kingdom

  59. Heterogeneous Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Radio Resource Management under Coupled Finite-Horizon Constraints

    Aug 3, 2026Yeonseo Jeong, Wonhyeok Ko, Sungweon Hong +1Power AllocationOpen Radio Access Networks

    Department of Electronic Engineering, Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea · Department of AI-Semiconductor, Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea

  60. Training Small LLMs as Spatial Multi-Agent Policies

    Aug 2, 2026Yi Mao, Andrew PerraultMulti-Agent Reinforcement LearningLarge Language Model Training

    Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The Ohio State University