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Trajectory-aware multi-agent cooperative task offloading method for vehicular edge computing
Chenyang WANG, Xiaoyu SHI, Jie GAN, Mingsheng SHANG
Journal of Computer Applications    2026, 46 (9): 2910-2919.   DOI: 10.11772/j.issn.1001-9081.2025080966
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In Vehicular Edge Computing (VEC) environments, the high mobility and uneven distribution of vehicles often lead to cross-domain task offloading failures and load imbalance of RoadSide Units (RSUs), thereby degrading system performance significantly. The existing studies mainly focus on load balance or single-step offloading decisions, while failing to address the communication uncertainties caused by vehicle mobility and the requirement for flexible task scheduling across RSUs, which limits offloading efficiency. Therefore, a Trajectory-Aware Collaborative Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (TAC-MARL) method was proposed. First, foresighted mobility awareness for task scheduling was realized through introducing a Patch Time Series Transformer (PatchTST) -based multi-step vehicle trajectory prediction module to guide task scheduling. Second, a vehicle-edge-cloud collaborative task offloading framework was constructed, in which vehicles and RSUs were modeled as agent groups, cooperative decision-making was performed by the employment of a reinforcement learning paradigm — Centralized Training and Decentralized Execution (CTDE), and a partially reward-decoupled multi-agent policy optimization method was designed to improve cooperation efficiency and system stability. Simulations under varying task densities, latency constraints, and network topologies were conducted. The proposed method consistently outperforms baseline algorithms such as Independent Proximal Policy Optimization (IPPO), Multi-Agent Deep Deterministic Policy Gradient (MADDPG), and Multi-Agent Proximal Policy Optimization (MAPPO) in task completion rate and task completion latency, verifying the efficiency, robustness, and practical potential of the proposed method in dynamic and complex VEC environments.

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Fair recommendation framework for large language models with sensitive attribute absence
Zhenhui GONG, Xiaoyu SHI, Yun LU, Yangcheng LIU, Mingsheng SHANG
Journal of Computer Applications    2026, 46 (9): 2838-2846.   DOI: 10.11772/j.issn.1001-9081.2025080969
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Large Language Models (LLMs) bring enhanced semantic understanding and personalized recommendation capabilities to recommender systems, however, they face significant challenges in user fairness in practical applications. The existing methods for LLM-based fair recommendation often rely on explicit sensitive attributes for constraints or reweighting, making them difficult to apply in scenarios where such attributes are unavailable due to privacy protection or inaccessibility. To address this issue, an FAIR recommendation framework for large language models with Sensitive Attribute Absence (FAIR-SAA) was proposed. In this framework, recommendation fairness was enhanced without accessing sensitive attributes through dynamic prompt optimization and adversarial reweighting. Specifically, in the first stage, a dynamic prompt optimization strategy was adopted to identify high-loss samples during the fine-tuning process, and these samples were utilized as contextual examples to mitigate stereotypical patterns; in the second stage, an adversarial reweighting mechanism was introduced to focus on underperforming regions of the model dynamically, thereby increasing the impact of underrepresented samples on model updates. Experimental results on three public datasets such as MovieLens-1M show that FAIR-SAA reduces the gender group Normalized Discounted Cumulative Gain NDCG@10 and Hit Ratio HR@10 by 74.47% and 61.76%, averagely, with a recommendation accuracy maintained comparable to baseline recommendation accuracy of the BI-step Grounding Paradigm for Recommendation (BIGRec). When BIGRec is used as the base recommendation model, even when compared with Fairness-Aware Conformal Thresholding and Prompt EngineeRing (FACTER) framework, a fair recommendation method with full access to sensitive attributes, FAIR-SAA is competitive with 58.33% fairness metric. It can be seen that FAIR-SAA provides an effective solution to recommendation fairness problem in real-world privacy-preserving scenarios.

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