Managing Context and Communication in Distributed Agentic UAV Swarms
Quick summary
arXiv:2610.01569v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) swarms increasingly rely on language-model agents to provide adaptive mission-level reasoning in uncertain environments. Fully distributed control, in which each UAV hosts an independent Small Language Model (SLM), removes reliance on a centralized coordinator but introduces an information-management problem: long-running interaction histories can degrade the reasoning context, while indiscriminate information dissemination increases communication and inference overhead. We address these challenges with a distribut
Key takeaways
- arXiv:2610.01569v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) swarms increasingly rely on language-model agents to provide adaptive mission-level reasoning in uncertain environments.
- Fully distributed control, in which each UAV hosts an independent Small Language Model (SLM), removes reliance on a centralized coordinator but introduces an information-management problem: long-running interaction histories can degrade the reasoning context, while indiscriminate information dissemination increases communication and inference overhead.
- We address these challenges with a distribut
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