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Multi-level optimization has gained increasing attention in recent years, as it provides a powerful framework for solving complex optimization problems that arise in many fields, such as meta-learning, multi-player games, reinforcement…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Shuoguang Yang , Xuezhou Zhang , Mengdi Wang

This work considers the distributed computation of the one-to-one vertex correspondences between two undirected and connected graphs, which is called \textit{graph matching}, over multi-agent networks. Given two \textit{isomorphic} and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-02-21 Quoc Van Tran , Zhiyong Sun , Brian D. O. Anderson , Hyo-Sung Ahn

We introduce and address a novel distributed clustering problem where each participant has a private dataset containing only a subset of all available features, and some features are included in multiple datasets. This scenario occurs in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Alessio Maritan , Luca Schenato

Distributed resource allocation is a central task in network systems such as smart grids, water distribution networks, and urban transportation systems. When solving such problems in practice it is often important to have nonasymptotic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-03-30 Xuyang Wu , Sindri Magnusson , Mikael Johansson

Most recent works on multi-target tracking with multiple cameras focus on centralized systems. In contrast, this paper presents a multi-target tracking approach implemented in a distributed camera network. The advantages of distributed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-19 Sara Casao , Abel Naya , Ana C. Murillo , Eduardo Montijano

In multicenter biomedical research, integrating data from multiple decentralized sites provides more robust and generalizable findings due to its larger sample size and the ability to account for the between-site heterogeneity. However,…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-12-29 Xiaokang Liu , Yuchen Yang , Yifei Sun , Jiang Bian , Yanyuan Ma , Raymond J. Carroll , Yong Chen

In this paper, we revisit the distributed coverage control problem with multiple robots on both metric graphs and in non-convex continuous environments. Traditionally, the solutions provided for this problem converge to a locally optimal…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2020-05-07 Armin Sadeghi , Ahmad Bilal Asghar , Stephen L. Smith

In distributed optimization and machine learning, multiple nodes coordinate to solve large problems. To do this, the nodes need to compress important algorithm information to bits so that it can be communicated over a digital channel. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-12-02 Sindri Magnússon , Hossein Shokri-Ghadikolaei , Na Li

We present a solution to multi-robot distributed semantic mapping of novel and unfamiliar environments. Most state-of-the-art semantic mapping systems are based on supervised learning algorithms that cannot classify novel observations…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Stewart Jamieson , Kaveh Fathian , Kasra Khosoussi , Jonathan P. How , Yogesh Girdhar

This paper develops distributed synchronous and asynchronous algorithms for the large-scale semi-definite programming with diagonal constraints, which has wide applications in combination optimization, image processing and community…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-04-02 Xia Jiang , Xianlin Zeng , Jian Sun , Jie Chen

This work studies the problem of learning under both large datasets and large-dimensional feature space scenarios. The feature information is assumed to be spread across agents in a network, where each agent observes some of the features.…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2020-05-26 Bicheng Ying , Kun Yuan , Ali H. Sayed

In the past few years, the problem of distributed consensus has received a lot of attention, particularly in the framework of ad hoc sensor networks. Most methods proposed in the literature address the consensus averaging problem by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-11-13 Effrosyni Kokiopoulou , Pascal Frossard

This work addresses the distributed estimation problem in a set membership framework. The agents of a network collect measurements which are affected by bounded errors, thus implying that the unknown parameters to be estimated belong to a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-12-11 Francesco Farina , Andrea Garulli , Antonio Giannitrapani

We investigate the problem of distributed sensors' failure detection in networks with a small number of defective sensors, whose measurements differ significantly from neighboring sensor measurements. Defective sensors are represented by…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2011-12-20 Tamara Tosic , Nikolaos Thomos , Pascal Frossard

We propose a new distributed optimization algorithm for solving a class of constrained optimization problems in which (a) the objective function is separable (i.e., the sum of local objective functions of agents), (b) the optimization…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-16 Van Sy Mai , Richard J. La , Tao Zhang , Abdella Battou

A distributed adaptive algorithm is proposed to solve a node-specific parameter estimation problem where nodes are interested in estimating parameters of local interest, parameters of common interest to a subset of nodes and parameters of…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Jorge Plata-Chaves , Nikola Bogdanovic , Kostas Berberidis

This paper studies the optimal resource allocation problem within a multi-agent network composed of both autonomous agents and humans. The main challenge lies in the globally coupled constraints that link the decisions of autonomous agents…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-04 Yichen Yao , Ryan Mbagna Nanko , Yue Wang , Xuan Wang

In this paper we deal with a network of computing agents with local processing and neighboring communication capabilities that aim at solving (without any central unit) a submodular optimization problem. The cost function is the sum of many…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-05-26 Andrea Testa , Francesco Farina , Giuseppe Notarstefano

Distributed parameter estimation for large-scale systems is an active research problem. The goal is to derive a distributed algorithm in which each agent obtains a local estimate of its own subset of the global parameter vector, based on…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2018-06-26 Tianju Sui , Damián Marelli , Minyue Fu , Renquan Lu

We study the problem of tracking multiple moving targets using a team of mobile robots. Each robot has a set of motion primitives to choose from in order to collectively maximize the number of targets tracked or the total quality of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-05-31 Yoonchang Sung , Ashish Kumar Budhiraja , Ryan K. Williams , Pratap Tokekar