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The paper presents higher dimension consensus (HDC) for large-scale networks. HDC generalizes the well-known average-consensus algorithm. It divides the nodes of the large-scale network into anchors and sensors. Anchors are nodes whose…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-12-19 Usman A. Khan , Soummya Kar , Jose M. F. Moura

This paper studies the consensus problem of heterogeneous multi-agent systems by the feedforward control and linear quadratic (LQ) optimal control theory. Different from the existing consensus control algorithms, which require to design an…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-19 Liping Zhang , Huanshui Zhang

This paper considers a general data-fitting problem over a networked system, in which many computing nodes are connected by an undirected graph. This kind of problem can find many real-world applications and has been studied extensively in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-04-14 Ying Zhang

Federated Clustering (FC) is an emerging and promising solution in exploring data distribution patterns from distributed and privacy-protected data in an unsupervised manner. Existing FC methods implicitly rely on the assumption that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Yue Zhang , Chuanlong Qiu , Xinfa Liao , Yiqun Zhang

Algorithms for community detection are usually stochastic, leading to different partitions for different choices of random seeds. Consensus clustering has proven to be an effective technique to derive more stable and accurate partitions…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-04-23 Aditya Tandon , Aiiad Albeshri , Vijey Thayananthan , Wadee Alhalabi , Santo Fortunato

In this paper, the average consensus problem has been considered for directed unbalanced networks under finite bit-rate communication. We propose the Push-Pull Average Consensus algorithm with Dynamic Compression (PP-ACDC) algorithm, a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-12 Evagoras Makridis , Gabriele Oliva , Apostolos I. Rikos , Themistoklis Charalambous

Many community detection algorithms are inherently stochastic, leading to variations in their output depending on input parameters and random seeds. This variability makes the results of a single run of these algorithms less reliable.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Yasamin Tabatabaee , Eleanor Wedell , Minhyuk Park , Tandy Warnow

Consensus conditions and convergence speeds are crucial for distributed consensus algorithms of networked systems. Based on a basic first-order average-consensus protocol with time-varying topologies and additive noises, this paper first…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-04-26 Ge Chen , Le Yi Wang , Chen Chen , George Yin

In this note, we discuss the problem of consensus finding in communication networks of agents with dynamically switching topologies. In particular, we consider the case of directed networks with unbalanced matrices of communication rates.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-05-06 Jan Haskovec

There has been an increasing necessity for scalable optimization methods, especially due to the explosion in the size of datasets and model complexity in modern machine learning applications. Scalable solvers often distribute the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-09-08 Guilherme França , José Bento

In this paper, we introduce a Fast and Scalable Semi-supervised Multi-view Subspace Clustering (FSSMSC) method, a novel solution to the high computational complexity commonly found in existing approaches. FSSMSC features linear…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Huaming Ling , Chenglong Bao , Jiebo Song , Zuoqiang Shi

Aiming at solving large-scale learning problems, this paper studies distributed optimization methods based on the alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM). By formulating the learning problem as a consensus problem, the ADMM can…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-05-04 Tsung-Hui Chang , Mingyi Hong , Wei-Cheng Liao , Xiangfeng Wang

In this paper, we tackle decision fusion for distributed detection in a randomly-deployed clustered wireless sensor networks (WSNs) operating over a non-ideal multiple access channels (MACs), i.e. considering Rayleigh fading, pathloss and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-29 Sami Aldalahmeh , Domenico Ciuonzo

In average consensus protocols, nodes in a network perform an iterative weighted average of their estimates and those of their neighbors. The protocol converges to the average of initial estimates of all nodes found in the network. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-07-21 Mahmoud El Chamie , Giovanni Neglia , Konstantin Avrachenkov

By integrating certain optimization solvers with deep neural network, deep unfolding network (DUN) has attracted much attention in recent years for image compressed sensing (CS). However, there still exist several issues in existing DUNs:…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-04 Wenxue Cui , Shaohui Liu , Debin Zhao

The design of sensor networks capable of reaching a consensus on a globally optimal decision test, without the need for a fusion center, is a problem that has received considerable attention in the last years. Many consensus algorithms have…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2009-11-13 Gesualdo Scutari , Sergio Barbarossa

Distributed averaging is among the most relevant cooperative control problems, with applications in sensor and robotic networks, distributed signal processing, data fusion, and load balancing. Consensus and gossip algorithms have been…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-06 Christel Sirocchi , Alessandro Bogliolo

Diffusion models (DMs) have been adopted across diverse fields with its remarkable abilities in capturing intricate data distributions. In this paper, we propose a Fast Diffusion Model (FDM) to significantly speed up DMs from a stochastic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-05 Zike Wu , Pan Zhou , Kenji Kawaguchi , Hanwang Zhang

This paper discusses distributed approaches for the solution of random convex programs (RCP). RCPs are convex optimization problems with a (usually large) number N of randomly extracted constraints; they arise in several applicative areas,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-07-27 Luca Carlone , Vaibhav Srivastava , Francesco Bullo , Giuseppe Calafiore

In a sensor network, in practice, the communication among sensors is subject to:(1) errors or failures at random times; (3) costs; and(2) constraints since sensors and networks operate under scarce resources, such as power, data rate, or…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-11-13 Soummya Kar , Jose M. F. Moura