Large Language Models (LLMs) have increasingly demonstrated the ability to facilitate the development of multi-agent systems that allow the interpretation of thoughts and actions generated by each individual. Promising advancements have also been made in LLM-based interaction with existing worlds, particularly in interacting with simulated environments. This paper aims to integrate both aforementioned topics (agents & world interaction) into a single simulation where multiple agents can work together to solve a problem, modeling how groups of humans can often solve problems better than individuals. By showing whether LLMs demonstrate the synergy of human collaboration, it could lead to advancements in the applications of LLMs. We implemented two simulations: a physical studio apartment with two roommates, and another where agents collaborate to complete a programming task. We provide a multi-agent framework, discuss the performance of the agents in each simulation, and discuss potential future additions.

The execution of Belief-Desire-Intention (BDI) agents in a Multi-Agent System (MAS) can be practically implemented on top of low-level concurrency mechanisms that impact on efficiency, determinism, and reproducibility. We argue that developers should specify the MAS behaviour independently of the execution model, and choose or configure the concurrency model later on, according to the specific needs of their target domain, leaving the MAS specification unaffected. We identify patterns for mapping the agent execution over the underlying concurrency abstractions, and investigate which concurrency models are supported by some of the most commonly used BDI platforms. Although most frameworks support multiple concurrency models, we find that they mostly hide them under the hood, making them opaque to the developer, and actually limiting the possibility of fine-tuning the MAS.

Adopting the right concurrency model is essential, as it deeply impacts many aspects of the agent programming framework and We provide a taxonomy of concurrency models for BDI frameworks, the dynamics of all MASs leveraging it. In particular, the concurrency elicited by analysing state-of-the-art technologies, and aimed at model affects whether, and to what extent, multiple agents helping both BDI designers and developers in making informed can run at the same time, impacting performance and efficiency decisions.

Awkward Arrays and RDataFrame provide two very different ways of performing calculations at scale. By adding the ability to zero-copy convert between them, users get the best of both. It gives users a better flexibility in mixing different packages and languages in their analysis. In Awkward Array version 2, the ak.to_rdataframe function presents a view of an Awkward Array as an RDataFrame source. This view is generated on demand and the data are not copied. The column readers are generated based on the run-time type of the views. The readers are passed to a generated source derived from ROOT::RDF::RDataSource. The ak.from_rdataframe function converts the selected columns as native Awkward Arrays. The details of the implementation exploiting JIT techniques are discussed. The examples of analysis of data stored in Awkward Arrays via a high-level interface of an RDataFrame are presented. A few examples of the column definition, applying user-defined filters written in C++, and plotting or extracting the columnar data as Awkward Arrays are shown. Current limitations and future plans are discussed.

All of a sudden, your program becomes asynchronous – it can do useful things while it waits for other things, such as I/O operations, to complete. Code written in the async/await style looks like regular synchronous code but works very differently. To understand how it works, one should be familiar with many non-trivial concepts including concurrency, parallelism, event loops, I/O multiplexing, asynchrony, cooperative multitasking and coroutines. Python's implementation of async/await adds even more concepts to this list: generators, generator-based coroutines, native coroutines, yield and yield from. Because of this complexity, many Python programmers that use async/await do not realize how it actually works. I believe that it should not be the case. The async/await pattern can be explained in a simple manner if you start from the ground up. And that's what we're going to do today. Note: In this post I'm referring to CPython 3.9. Some implementation details will certainly change as CPython evolves. I'll try to keep track of important changes and add update notes. Computers execute programs sequentially – one instruction after another. But a typical program performs multiple tasks, and it doesn't always make sense to wait for some task to complete before starting the next one. For example, a chess program that waits for a player to make a move should be able to update the clock in the meantime. Such an ability of a program to deal with multiple things simultaneously is what we call concurrency. Concurrency doesn't mean that multiple tasks must run at the same physical time.

With few exceptions, the field of Machine Learning (ML) research has largely ignored the browser as a computational engine. Beyond an educational resource for ML, the browser has vast potential to not only improve the state-of-the-art in ML research, but also, inexpensively and on a massive scale, to bring sophisticated ML learning and prediction to the public at large. This paper introduces MLitB, a prototype ML framework written entirely in JavaScript, capable of performing large-scale distributed computing with heterogeneous classes of devices. The development of MLitB has been driven by several underlying objectives whose aim is to make ML learning and usage ubiquitous (by using ubiquitous compute devices), cheap and effortlessly distributed, and collaborative. This is achieved by allowing every internet capable device to run training algorithms and predictive models with no software installation and by saving models in universally readable formats. Our prototype library is capable of training deep neural networks with synchronized, distributed stochastic gradient descent. MLitB offers several important opportunities for novel ML research, including: development of distributed learning algorithms, advancement of web GPU algorithms, novel field and mobile applications, privacy preserving computing, and green grid-computing. MLitB is available as open source software.