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most citedThe Hive Mind is a Single Reinforcement Learning Agent

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cs.RO2026

Split over resource sharing problem: Are fewer capable agents better than many simpler ones?

Karthik Soma, Mohamed S. Talamali, Genki Miyauchi +3

In multi-agent systems, should limited resources be concentrated into a few capable agents or distributed among many simpler ones? This work formulates the split over resource…

cs.RO2026

Can Vision Foundation Models Navigate? Zero-Shot Real-World Evaluation and Lessons Learned

Maeva Guerrier, Karthik Soma, Jana Pavlasek +1

Visual Navigation Models (VNMs) promise generalizable, robot navigation by learning from large-scale visual demonstrations. Despite growing real-world deployment, existing evaluati…

cs.RO2025

Guided by Guardrails: Control Barrier Functions as Safety Instructors for Robotic Learning

Maeva Guerrier, Karthik Soma, Hassan Fouad +1

Safety stands as the primary obstacle preventing the widespread adoption of learning-based robotic systems in our daily lives. While reinforcement learning (RL) shows promise as an…

cs.MA2024★ 1 cited

The Hive Mind is a Single Reinforcement Learning Agent

Karthik Soma, Yann Bouteiller, Heiko Hamann +1

Decision-making is an essential attribute of any intelligent agent or group. Natural systems are known to converge to effective strategies through at least two distinct mechanisms:…

cs.LG2024

Evolution of Societies via Reinforcement Learning

Yann Bouteiller, Karthik Soma, Giovanni Beltrame

The universe involves many independent co-learning agents as an ever-evolving part of our observed environment. Yet, in practice, Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL) applicat…