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20232026
most citedScaling Lifelong Multi-Agent Path Finding to More Realistic Settings: Research Challenges and Opportunities

20 citations · 51 across the 14 of their papers we have counts for

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16 papers

cs.AI2026

Ideation Arena: Evaluating LLM Generated Research Ideas with Battle-style Human Expert Assessment

Zhiyu Chen, Keyu Zhao, Jigao Fu +8

Evaluating research ideas generated by LLMs is difficult because their scientific value cannot be fully determined by objective criteria, and no single reference answer specifies w…

cs.CL2026

DF-ReAG: Dynamic Decomposition and Filtering for Multi-Hop Reasoning-Augmented Generation

Jiaoyang Li, Junhao Ruan, Shengwei Tang +4

Large language models (LLMs) often generate inaccurate answers due to their reliance on static internal knowledge. Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) addresses this limitation by…

cs.MA2026

Stress-Relief Annealing: Polynomial-Time Simulation-Free Layout Optimization for Automated Warehouses

Xiangjie Luo, Yulun Zhang, Miyuki Koshimura +2

We study the problem of optimizing physical layouts for automated warehouses, where hundreds to thousands of robots are coordinated to transport packages. Previous works have shown…

cs.CY2025

OmniScientist: Toward a Co-evolving Ecosystem of Human and AI Scientists

Chenyang Shao, Dehao Huang, Yu Li +18

With the rapid development of Large Language Models (LLMs), AI agents have demonstrated increasing proficiency in scientific tasks, ranging from hypothesis generation and experimen…

cs.CL2025

SUBQRAG: Sub-Question Driven Dynamic Graph RAG

Jiaoyang Li, Junhao Ruan, Shengwei Tang +5

Graph Retrieval-Augmented Generation (Graph RAG) effectively builds a knowledge graph (KG) to connect disparate facts across a large document corpus. However, this broad-view appro…

cs.RO2025

Destination-to-Chutes Task Mapping Optimization for Multi-Robot Coordination in Robotic Sorting Systems

Yulun Zhang, Alexandre O. G. Barbosa, Federico Pecora +1

We study optimizing a destination-to-chutes task mapping to improve throughput in Robotic Sorting Systems (RSS), where a team of robots sort packages on a sortation floor by transp…

cs.LG2025

MCTS-Judge: Test-Time Scaling in LLM-as-a-Judge for Code Correctness Evaluation

Yutong Wang, Pengliang Ji, Chaoqun Yang +4

The LLM-as-a-Judge paradigm shows promise for evaluating generative content but lacks reliability in reasoning-intensive scenarios, such as programming. Inspired by recent advances…

cs.MA2025

Speedup Techniques for Switchable Temporal Plan Graph Optimization

He Jiang, Muhan Lin, Jiaoyang Li

Multi-Agent Path Finding (MAPF) focuses on planning collision-free paths for multiple agents. However, during the execution of a MAPF plan, agents may encounter unexpected delays,…

cs.MA2024★ 11 cited

Online Guidance Graph Optimization for Lifelong Multi-Agent Path Finding

Hongzhi Zang, Yulun Zhang, He Jiang +4

We study the problem of optimizing a guidance policy capable of dynamically guiding the agents for lifelong Multi-Agent Path Finding based on real-time traffic patterns. Multi-Agen…

cs.MA2024

QD-MAPPER: A Quality Diversity Framework to Automatically Evaluate Multi-Agent Path Finding Algorithms in Diverse Maps

Cheng Qian, Yulun Zhang, Varun Bhatt +3

We use the Quality Diversity (QD) algorithm with Neural Cellular Automata (NCA) to automatically evaluate Multi-Agent Path Finding (MAPF) algorithms by generating diverse maps. Pre…

cs.RO2024

Reevaluation of Large Neighborhood Search for MAPF: Findings and Opportunities

Jiaqi Tan, Yudong Luo, Jiaoyang Li +1

Multi-Agent Path Finding (MAPF) aims to arrange collision-free goal-reaching paths for a group of agents. Anytime MAPF solvers based on large neighborhood search (LNS) have gained…

cs.MA2024★ 20 cited

Scaling Lifelong Multi-Agent Path Finding to More Realistic Settings: Research Challenges and Opportunities

He Jiang, Yulun Zhang, Rishi Veerapaneni +1

Multi-Agent Path Finding (MAPF) is the problem of moving multiple agents from starts to goals without collisions. Lifelong MAPF (LMAPF) extends MAPF by continuously assigning new g…

cs.AI2024★ 2 cited

A Real-Time Rescheduling Algorithm for Multi-robot Plan Execution

Ying Feng, Adittyo Paul, Zhe Chen +1

One area of research in multi-agent path finding is to determine how replanning can be efficiently achieved in the case of agents being delayed during execution. One option is to r…

cs.MA2024★ 11 cited

Guidance Graph Optimization for Lifelong Multi-Agent Path Finding

Yulun Zhang, He Jiang, Varun Bhatt +2

We study how to use guidance to improve the throughput of lifelong Multi-Agent Path Finding (MAPF). Previous studies have demonstrated that, while incorporating guidance, such as h…

cs.AI2024★ 2 cited

Scalable Mechanism Design for Multi-Agent Path Finding

Paul Friedrich, Yulun Zhang, Michael Curry +5

Multi-Agent Path Finding (MAPF) involves determining paths for multiple agents to travel simultaneously and collision-free through a shared area toward given goal locations. This p…

cs.RO2023★ 5 cited

Arbitrarily Scalable Environment Generators via Neural Cellular Automata

Yulun Zhang, Matthew C. Fontaine, Varun Bhatt +2

We study the problem of generating arbitrarily large environments to improve the throughput of multi-robot systems. Prior work proposes Quality Diversity (QD) algorithms as an effe…