General Collaborative Intelligence: Architecting Cognition for Resilient Multi-Agent Ecosystems

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Original abstract

Multi-agent unmanned systems are moving from isolated, ego-centric sensing toward collaborative intelligence, in which distributed agents exchange compact features to overcome a local observation trap that no single agent can escape: occlusions, finite sensor range, and environmental degradation. The field has matured across architectural, communication, embodied, resilience, and trust dimensions, yet existing surveys examine these dimensions in isolation and rarely expose their dependencies. This review offers a unified synthesis through two complementary lenses. The first is a five-dimensional taxonomy spanning collaboration stage, communication paradigm, fusion architecture, learning strategy, and application domain. The second is three cognitive synergy conditions, Semantic Disambiguation, Pragmatic Information Exchange, and Proactive Informational Foraging, that turn cognitive synergy into operational criteria. Across these lenses we survey collaboration architectures and topologies, neural-communication co-design that treats the channel as a differentiable pipeline component, embodied action-perception loops via multi-agent reinforcement learning, and resilience mechanisms for synchronization, uncertainty quantification, and label-efficient learning. We then map these advances onto four operational domains, V2X, unmanned aerial, industrial logistics, and smart cities, and onto the safety-privacy-utility triad. To counter benchmark saturation and evaluation fragmentation, we propose GCI-Bench, a five-pillar scoring protocol with a maturity model that makes the trade-offs of collaborative methods comparable across studies. A critical reflection on reproducibility, the sim-to-real gulf, and conditions under which collaboration degrades performance identifies open challenges and charts directions toward general collaborative intelligence under real-world uncertainty.

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