SPIN Framework Enables Efficient Decentralized Swarm Control on Resource-Constrained Devices
Researchers introduced SPIN (Swarm Policy Interference Network), a framework that reduces computational complexity for coordinating multi-agent swarms on edge devices by modeling swarm topologies as compressed tensor networks. The approach uses Matrix Product State chains to reduce complexity from exponential O(n^m) to linear O(m·n·χ²), combined with a hybrid neuro-symbolic control pipeline. This advancement addresses a fundamental bottleneck in decentralized swarm coordination, enabling practical deployment on resource-limited platforms.
The SPIN framework tackles the challenge of coordinating multiple autonomous agents in swarms while operating on computationally limited edge devices. Traditional approaches struggle with exponential scaling of joint action spaces and communication latency. The paper proposes modeling swarm topologies as tensor networks and factorizing joint policy tensors into Matrix Product State chains, achieving linear computational complexity. The system combines offline-trained neural networks as coordination encoders with a zero-shot importance-reweighting filter using the Radon-Nikodym derivative, eliminating the need for power-intensive online training. Validation in simulation demonstrates stable performance across tracking, decentralized dispersion, area coverage, and multi-goal coordination tasks, suggesting practical viability for low-power swarm intelligence applications.
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The paper presents simulation-only validation results. Real-world deployment results, comparison with existing decentralized swarm coordination methods, and analysis of scalability limits (e.g., maximum swarm size, communication bandwidth requirements) are not discussed in the abstract.
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- arXiv cs.LGCenter
SPIN: Decentralized Swarm Control via Tensorized Policy Coordination
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