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In this paper, we investigate an accurate synchronization between a physical network and its digital network twin (DNT), which serves as a virtual representation of the physical network. The considered network includes a set of base…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-02-10 Hanzhi Yu , Yuchen Liu , Zhaohui Yang , Haijian Sun , Mingzhe Chen

We show here that Common View Synchronization is valid to synchronize distant clocks. We describe the relativistic physics, noting that a prerequisite for synchronization is the existence of a space-time with a stationary metric. The…

Classical Physics · Physics 2012-03-19 Eric L. Michelsen

In this paper, a gradient-free distributed algorithm is introduced to solve a set constrained optimization problem under a directed communication network. Specifically, at each time-step, the agents locally compute a so-called…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-09-06 Yipeng Pang , Guoqiang Hu

Clock synchronization is a very fundamental task in distributed system. It thus makes sense to require an underlying clock synchronization mechanism to be highly fault-tolerant. A self-stabilizing algorithm seeks to attain synchronization…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Ariel Daliot , Danny Dolev , Hanna Parnas

We study a distributed method called SAB-TV, which employs gradient tracking to collaboratively minimize the sum of smooth and strongly-convex local cost functions for networked agents communicating over a time-varying directed graph. Each…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-10-31 Duong Thuy Anh Nguyen , Duong Tung Nguyen , Angelia Nedich

Gradient control plays an important role in feed-forward networks applied to various computer vision tasks. Previous work has shown that Recurrent Highway Networks minimize the problem of vanishing or exploding gradients. They achieve this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-09-28 Chi Zhang , Thang Nguyen , Shagan Sah , Raymond Ptucha , Alexander Loui , Carl Salvaggio

This paper studies the problem of recursively estimating the weighted adjacency matrix of a network out of a temporal sequence of binary-valued observations. The observation sequence is generated from nonlinear networked dynamics in which…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-06 Yu Xing , Xingkang He , Haitao Fang , Karl Henrik Johansson

The ability to measure, hold and distribute time with high precision and accuracy is a foundational capability for scientific exploration. Beyond fundamental science, time synchronization is an indispensable feature of public and private…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-03 James Troupe , Stav Haldar , Ivan Agullo , Paul Kwiat

The goal of the ranking problem in networks is to rank nodes from best to worst, according to a chosen criterion. In this work, we focus on ranking the nodes according to their quality. The problem of ranking the nodes in bipartite networks…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-12-02 Hao Liao , Jiao Wu , Mingyang Zhou , Alexandre Vidmer

With the recent proliferation of large-scale learning problems,there have been a lot of interest on distributed machine learning algorithms, particularly those that are based on stochastic gradient descent (SGD) and its variants. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-12-07 Ruiliang Zhang , Shuai Zheng , James T. Kwok

The success of graph embeddings or node representation learning in a variety of downstream tasks, such as node classification, link prediction, and recommendation systems, has led to their popularity in recent years. Representation learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-09-07 Saba A. Al-Sayouri , Danai Koutra , Evangelos E. Papalexakis , Sarah S. Lam

Consensus-based decentralized stochastic gradient descent (D-SGD) is a widely adopted algorithm for decentralized training of machine learning models across networked agents. A crucial part of D-SGD is the consensus-based model averaging,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Daniel Pérez Herrera , Zheng Chen , Erik G. Larsson

We present a synchronization algorithm to let nodes in a sensor network simultaneously execute a task at a given point in time. In contrast to other time synchronization algorithms we do not provide a global time basis that is shared on all…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2010-09-30 Tobias Baumgartner , Sandor P. Fekete , Winfried Hellmann , Alexander Kroeller

Existing work has linked properties of a function's gradient to the difficulty of function approximation. Motivated by these insights, we study how gradient information can be leveraged to improve neural network's ability to approximate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Yangchen Pan , Qizhen Ying , Philip Torr , Bo Liu

Decentralized methods to solve finite-sum minimization problems are important in many signal processing and machine learning tasks where the data is distributed over a network of nodes and raw data sharing is not permitted due to privacy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-14 Ran Xin , Soummya Kar , Usman A. Khan

We propose a satellite-based scheme to perform clock synchronization between ground stations spread across the globe using quantum resources. We refer to this as a quantum clock synchronization (QCS) network. Through detailed numerical…

Belief propagation and its variants are popular methods for approximate inference, but their running time and even their convergence depend greatly on the schedule used to send the messages. Recently, dynamic update schedules have been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-06-26 Charles Sutton , Andrew McCallum

As TESLA-enabled GNSS for authenticated positioning reaches ubiquity, receivers must use an onboard, GNSS-independent clock and carefully constructed time synchronization algorithms to assert the authenticity afforded. This work provides…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Jason Anderson , Sherman Lo , Todd Walter

We consider a consensus algorithm in which every node in a sequence of undirected, B-connected graphs assigns equal weight to each of its neighbors. Under the assumption that the degree of each node is fixed (except for times when the node…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-11-09 Alex Olshevsky , John Tsitsiklis

Computing the gradient of a function provides fundamental information about its behavior. This information is essential for several applications and algorithms across various fields. One common application that require gradients are…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-06-09 Esmail Abdul Fattah , Janet Van Niekerk , Haavard Rue