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We study the fundamental problem of information spreading (also known as gossip) in dynamic networks. In gossip, or more generally, $k$-gossip, there are $k$ pieces of information (or tokens) that are initially present in some nodes and the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2011-12-05 Chinmoy Dutta , Gopal Pandurangan , Rajmohan Rajaraman , Zhifeng Sun

Two widely considered decentralized learning algorithms are Gossip and random walk-based learning. Gossip algorithms (both synchronous and asynchronous versions) suffer from high communication cost, while random-walk based learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Peyman Gholami , Hulya Seferoglu

We study the stopping times of gossip algorithms for network coding. We analyze algebraic gossip (i.e., random linear coding) and consider three gossip algorithms for information spreading Pull, Push, and Exchange. The stopping time of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-08-28 Michael Borokhovich , Chen Avin , Zvi Lotker

We study networks of gossiping users where a source observing a process sends updates to an underlying graph. Nodes in the graph update their neighbors randomly and nodes always accept packets that have newer information, thus attempting to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-23 Thomas Jacob Maranzatto , Arunabh Srivastava , Sennur Ulukus

Fully distributed learning schemes such as Gossip Learning (GL) are gaining momentum due to their scalability and effectiveness even in dynamic settings. However, they often imply a high utilization of communication and computing resources,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-04-19 Mina Aghaei Dinani , Adrian Holzer , Hung Nguyen , Marco Ajmone Marsan , Gianluca Rizzo

We study a gossip-based algorithm for searching data objects in a multipeer communication network. All of the nodes in the network are able to communicate with each other. There exists an initiator node that starts a round of searches by…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2009-07-16 Eva Jaho , Ioannis Koukoutsidis , Siyu Tang , Ioannis Stavrakakis , Piet Van Mieghem

Broadcasting and gossiping are fundamental communication tasks in networks. In broadcasting,one node of a network has a message that must be learned by all other nodes. In gossiping, every node has a (possibly different) message, and all…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-10-22 Kokouvi Hounkanli , Andrzej Pelc

In instances of online kernel learning where little prior information is available and centralized learning is unfeasible, past research has shown that distributed and online multi-kernel learning provides sub-linear regret as long as every…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Tomas Ortega , Hamid Jafarkhani

The effective resistance between a pair of nodes in a weighted undirected graph is defined as the potential difference induced when a unit current is injected at one node and extracted from the other, treating edge weights as the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-10-19 Bugra Can , Saeed Soori , Necdet Serhat Aybat , Maryam Mehri Dehnavi , Mert Gurbuzbalaban

As agentic platforms scale, agents are moving beyond fixed roles and predefined toolchains, creating an urgent need for flexible and decentralized coordination. Current structured communication protocols such as direct agent-to-agent…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Nafiul I. Khan , Mansura Habiba , Rafflesia Khan

Gossip algorithms are pivotal in the dissemination of information within decentralized systems. Consequently, numerous gossip libraries have been developed and widely utilized especially in blockchain protocols for the propagation of blocks…

Gossip algorithms and their accelerated versions have been studied exclusively in discrete time on graphs. In this work, we take a different approach, and consider the scaling limit of gossip algorithms in both large graphs and large number…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Raphaël Berthier , Mufan Bill Li

Gossip protocols are widely used to disseminate information in massive peer-to-peer networks. These protocols are often claimed to guarantee privacy because of the uncertainty they introduce on the node that started the dissemination. But…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-08-05 Aurélien Bellet , Rachid Guerraoui , Hadrien Hendrikx

We study a simple model of information propagation in social networks, where two quantities are introduced: the spread factor, which measures the average maximal fraction of neighbors of a given node that interchange information among each…

Physics and Society · Physics 2011-03-22 Pedro G. Lind , Luciano R. da Silva , José S. Andrade , Hans J. Herrmann

We revisit the classic problem of spreading a piece of information in a group of $n$ fully connected processors. By suitably adding a small dose of randomness to the protocol of Gasienic and Pelc (1996), we derive for the first time…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-01-06 Benjamin Doerr , Carola Doerr , Shay Moran , Shlomo Moran

The problem of computing functions of values at the nodes in a network in a totally distributed manner, where nodes do not have unique identities and make decisions based only on local information, has applications in sensor, peer-to-peer,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Damon Mosk-Aoyama , Devavrat Shah

We consider the average probability X of being informed on a gossip in a given social network. The network is modeled within the random graph theory of Erdos and Renyi. In this theory, a network is characterized by two parameters: the size…

Physics and Society · Physics 2007-05-23 K. Malarz , Z. Szvetelszky , B. Szekfu , K. Kulakowski

The gossip problem, in which information (known as secrets) must be shared among a certain number of agents using the minimum number of calls, is of interest in the conception of communication networks and protocols. We extend the gossip…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-06-15 Martin C. Cooper , Andreas Herzig , Faustine Maffre , Frédéric Maris , Pierre Régnier

In decentralized optimization, it is common algorithmic practice to have nodes interleave (local) gradient descent iterations with gossip (i.e. averaging over the network) steps. Motivated by the training of large-scale machine learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-24 Abolfazl Hashemi , Anish Acharya , Rudrajit Das , Haris Vikalo , Sujay Sanghavi , Inderjit Dhillon

We study the problem of gossip in dynamic networks controlled by an adversary that can modify the network arbitrarily from one round to another, provided that the network is always connected. In the gossip problem, $n$ tokens are…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-07-20 John Augustine , Chen Avin , Mehraneh Liaee , Gopal Pandurangan , Rajmohan Rajaraman