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Distributed proximal gradient algorithm for non-smooth non-convex optimization over time-varying networks

Optimization and Control 2021-03-04 v1

Abstract

This note studies the distributed non-convex optimization problem with non-smooth regularization, which has wide applications in decentralized learning, estimation and control. The objective function is the sum of different local objective functions, which consist of differentiable (possibly non-convex) cost functions and non-smooth convex functions. This paper presents a distributed proximal gradient algorithm for the non-smooth non-convex optimization problem over time-varying multi-agent networks. Each agent updates local variable estimate by the multi-step consensus operator and the proximal operator. We prove that the generated local variables achieve consensus and converge to the set of critical points with convergence rate O(1/T)O(1/T). Finally, we verify the efficacy of proposed algorithm by numerical simulations.

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@article{arxiv.2103.02271,
  title  = {Distributed proximal gradient algorithm for non-smooth non-convex optimization over time-varying networks},
  author = {Xia Jiang and Xianlin Zeng and Jian Sun and Jie Chen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2103.02271},
  year   = {2021}
}
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