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We consider distributed optimization where the objective function is spread among different devices, each sending incremental model updates to a central server. To alleviate the communication bottleneck, recent work proposed various schemes…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-04-11 Samuel Horváth , Dmitry Kovalev , Konstantin Mishchenko , Sebastian Stich , Peter Richtárik

Generative auto-bidding has demonstrated strong performance in online advertising, yet it often suffers from data scarcity in small-scale settings with limited advertiser participation. While cross-task data sharing is a natural remedy to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Yiqin Lv , Zhiyu Mou , Miao Xu , Jinghao Chen , Qi Wang , Yixiu Mao , Yun Qu , Rongquan Bai , Chuan Yu , Jian Xu , Bo Zheng , Xiangyang Ji

The performance of imitation learning policies often hinges on the datasets with which they are trained. Consequently, investment in data collection for robotics has grown across both industrial and academic labs. However, despite the…

We consider a setting where $p$ public resources are to be allocated among $n$ competing and strategic agents so as to maximize social welfare (the objects should be allocated to those who value them the most). This is called allocative…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2018-01-29 P Manisha , C V Jawahar , Sujit Gujar

Federated learning harnesses the power of distributed optimization to train a unified machine learning model across separate clients. However, heterogeneous data distributions and computational workloads can lead to inconsistent updates and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Aayushya Agarwal , Gauri Joshi , Larry Pileggi

From autonomous driving to package delivery, ensuring safe yet efficient multi-agent interaction is challenging as the interaction dynamics are influenced by hard-to-model factors such as social norms and contextual cues. Understanding…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-11 Isaac Remy , David Fridovich-Keil , Karen Leung

We consider a multi-agent setting with agents exchanging information over a possibly time-varying network, aiming at minimising a separable objective function subject to constraints. To achieve this objective we propose a novel subgradient…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-11-20 Licio Romao , Kostas Margellos , Giuseppe Notarstefano , Antonis Papachristodoulou

Training data attribution (TDA) methods aim to quantify the influence of individual training data points on the model predictions, with broad applications in data-centric AI, such as mislabel detection, data selection, and copyright…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Junwei Deng , Ting-Wei Li , Shichang Zhang , Jiaqi Ma

Model Inversion (MI), in which an adversary abuses access to a trained Machine Learning (ML) model attempting to infer sensitive information about its original training data, has attracted increasing research attention. During MI, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-09 Qian Wang , Daniel Kurz

In this paper, we investigate the distributed optimal control problem for a kind of nonlinear multi-agent systems. In particular,both the state and the system dynamic structures of each agent are private and can only be shared among…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-08 Ruixue Li , Wenjing Yang , Zhaorong Zhang , Xun Li , Juanjuan Xu

Offline imitation learning enables learning a policy solely from a set of expert demonstrations, without any environment interaction. To alleviate the issue of distribution shift arising due to the small amount of expert data, recent works…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Udita Ghosh , Dripta S. Raychaudhuri , Jiachen Li , Konstantinos Karydis , Amit K. Roy-Chowdhury

Learning with identical train and test distributions has been extensively investigated both practically and theoretically. Much remains to be understood, however, in statistical learning under distribution shifts. This paper focuses on a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Omar Montasser , Han Shao , Emmanuel Abbe

Distributed learning algorithms aim to leverage distributed and diverse data stored at users' devices to learn a global phenomena by performing training amongst participating devices and periodically aggregating their local models'…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-04 Naram Mhaisen , Alaa Awad , Amr Mohamed , Aiman Erbad , Mohsen Guizani

Learning to perform tasks by leveraging a dataset of expert observations, also known as imitation learning from observations (ILO), is an important paradigm for learning skills without access to the expert reward function or the expert…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Tanmay Gangwani , Yuan Zhou , Jian Peng

In this work we derive the performance achievable by a network of distributed agents that solve, adaptively and in the presence of communication constraints, a regression problem. Agents employ the recently proposed ACTC…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-25 Marco Carpentiero , Vincenzo Matta , Ali H. Sayed

Federated Learning is emerging as a privacy-preserving model training approach in distributed edge applications. As such, most edge deployments are heterogeneous in nature i.e., their sensing capabilities and environments vary across…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-15 Khotso Selialia , Yasra Chandio , Fatima M. Anwar

In this paper, we address the problem of how a network of agents can collaboratively fit a linear model when each agent only ever has an arbitrary summand of the regression data. This problem generalizes previously studied…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-08-06 François D. Côté , Ioannis N. Psaromiligkos , Warren J. Gross

We propose a framework for the derivation and evaluation of distributed iterative algorithms for receiver cooperation in interference-limited wireless systems. Our approach views the processing within and collaboration between receivers as…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-04-18 Mihai-Alin Badiu , Carles Navarro Manchón , Vasile Bota , Bernard Henri Fleury

Fairness,the impartial treatment towards individuals or groups regardless of their inherent or acquired characteristics [20], is a critical challenge for the successful implementation of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in multiple fields like…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Catalina M Jaramillo , Paul Squires , Julian Togelius

This paper is mainly devoted to the distributed second-order multi-agent optimization problem with unbalanced and directed networks. To deal with this problem, a new distributed algorithm is proposed based on the local neighbor information…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-05 Lipo Mo , Haokun Hu , Yongguang Yu , Guojian Ren