Acting on the Unseen: Communication-Free Collaborative Filtering for Decentralized Multi-Robot Task Allocation

ArXi:2605.25584v1 Announce Type: cross Multi-robot task allocation usually assumes some combination of communication, known task models, or a coordinator. We study the opposite extreme, a regime common in practice but overlooked in theory, which we name Zero-Knowledge MRTA (ZK-MRTA): a robot team with no prior knowledge (no task models, not even the latent rank), no communication (no messages, no parameter sharing, no coordinator), and only a partial and privately-noisy view of a public stream of teammates' outcomes.