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Scalable Multi-Robot Collaboration with Large Language Models: Centralized or Decentralized Systems?

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This is experimental HTML to improve accessibility. We invite you to report rendering errors. Use Alt+Y to toggle on accessible reporting links and Alt+Shift+Y to toggle off. Learn more about this project and help improve conversions. A flurry of recent work has demonstrated that pre-trained large language models (LLMs) can be effective task planners for a variety of single-robot tasks. The planning performance of LLMs is significantly improved via prompting techniques, such as in-context learning or re-prompting with state feedback, placing new importance on the token budget for the context window. An under-explored but natural next direction is to investigate LLMs as multi-robot task planners. However, long-horizon, heterogeneous multi-robot planning introduces new challenges of coordination while also pushing up against the limits of context window length. It is therefore critical to find token-efficient LLM planning frameworks that are also able to reason about the complexities of

Scalable Multi-Robot Collaboration with Large Language Models: Centralized or Decentralized Systems? Yongchao Chen 1 , 2 1 2 {}^{1,2} start_FLOATSUPERSCRIPT 1 , 2 end_FLOATSUPERSCRIPT , Jacob Arkin 1 1 {}^{1} start_FLOATSUPERSCRIPT 1 end_FLOATSUPERSCRIPT , Yang Zhang 3 3 {}^{3} start_FLOATSUPERSCRIPT 3 end_FLOATSUPERSCRIPT , Nicholas Roy 1 1 {}^{1} start_FLOATSUPERSCRIPT 1 end_FLOATSUPERSCRIPT , and Chuchu Fan 1 1 {}^{1} start_FLOATSUPERSCRIPT 1 end_FLOATSUPERSCRIPT 1 1 {}^{1} start_FLOATSUPERSCRIPT 1 end_FLOATSUPERSCRIPT Massachusetts Institute of Technology. jarkin@mit.edu, nickroy@csail.mit

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