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In this note we give sufficient conditions for the convergence of the iterative algorithm called weighted-average consensus in directed graphs. We study the discrete-time form of this algorithm. We use standard techniques from matrix theory…

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In this study, we analyzed the problem of accelerating the linear average consensus algorithm for complex networks. We propose a data-driven approach to tuning the weights of temporal (i.e., time-varying) networks using deep learning…

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In the voter model, each node of a graph has an opinion, and in every round each node chooses independently a random neighbour and adopts its opinion. We are interested in the consensus time, which is the first point in time where all nodes…

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We generalize the asymptotic behavior of the graph distance between two uniformly chosen nodes in the configuration model to a wide class of random graphs. Among others, this class contains the Poissonian random graph, the expected degree…

Probability · Mathematics 2008-05-19 Henri van den Esker , Remco van der Hofstad , Gerard Hooghiemstra

We analyze the convergence of decentralized consensus algorithm with delayed gradient information across the network. The nodes in the network privately hold parts of the objective function and collaboratively solve for the consensus…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-01-17 Benjamin Sirb , Xiaojing Ye

We consider the weight design problem for the consensus algorithm under a finite time horizon. We assume that the underlying network is random where the links fail at each iteration with certain probability and the link failures can be…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-09-29 Dusan Jakovetic , Joao Xavier , Jose' M. F. Moura

The recent advancements in graph neural networks (GNNs) have led to state-of-the-art performances in various applications, including chemo-informatics, question-answering systems, and recommender systems. However, scaling up these methods…

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We study information aggregation in networks when agents interact to learn a binary state of the world. Initially each agent privately observes an independent signal which is "correct" with probability $\frac{1}{2}+\delta$ for some $\delta…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Divyarthi Mohan , Pawel Pralat

The present paper is devoted to estimating the speed of convergence towards consensus for a general class of discrete-time multi-agent systems. In the systems considered here, both the topology of the interconnection graph and the weight of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-10-02 David Angeli , Pierre-Alexandre Bliman

In this paper, we consider consensus problems over a network of nodes, where the network is divided into a number of clusters. We are interested in the case where the communication topology within each cluster is dense as compared to the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-27 Thiem V. Pham , Thinh T. Doan , Dinh Hoa Nguyen

Inspired by the recent developments in the fields of quantum distributed computing, quantum systems are analyzed as networks of quantum nodes to reduce the complexity of the analysis. This gives rise to the distributed quantum consensus…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2015-09-22 Saber Jafarizadeh

Consensus is arguably the most studied problem in distributed computing as a whole, and particularly in the distributed message-passing setting. In this latter framework, research on consensus has considered various hypotheses regarding the…

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We consider several problems in the field of distributed optimization and hypothesis testing. We show how to obtain convergence times for these problems that scale linearly with the total number of nodes in the network by using a recent…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-05-24 Alex Olshevsky

Distributed consensus computation over random graph processes is considered. The random graph process is defined as a sequence of random variables which take values from the set of all possible digraphs over the node set. At each time step,…

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We analyze the asynchronous version of the DeGroot dynamics: In a connected graph $G$ with $n$ nodes, each node has an initial opinion in $[0,1]$ and an independent Poisson clock. When a clock at a node $v$ rings, the opinion at $v$ is…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-04-23 Dor Elboim , Yuval Peres , Ron Peretz

We apply large deviations theory to study asymptotic performance of running consensus distributed detection in sensor networks. Running consensus is a stochastic approximation type algorithm, recently proposed. At each time step k, the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-10-26 Dragana Bajovic , Dusan Jakovetic , Joao Xavier , Bruno Sinopoli , Jose M. F. Moura

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…

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In a coalescing random walk, a set of particles make independent random walks on a graph. Whenever one or more particles meet at a vertex, they unite to form a single particle, which then continues the random walk through the graph.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-12-28 Colin Cooper , Robert Elsasser , Hirotaka Ono , Tomasz Radzik

We analyze stability of consensus algorithms in networks of multi-agents with time-varying topologies and delays. The topology and delays are modeled as induced by an adapted process and are rather general, including i.i.d.\ topology…

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