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We study the distributed average consensus problem in multi-agent systems with directed communication links that are subject to quantized information flow. The goal of distributed average consensus is for the nodes, each associated with…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-26 Apostolos I. Rikos , Christoforos N. Hadjicostis

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

We study the distributed average consensus problem in multi-agent systems with directed communication links that are subject to quantized information flow. The goal of distributed average consensus is for the nodes, each associated with…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-01 Apostolos I. Rikos , Christoforos N. Hadjicostis

A proper abstraction of a large-scale linear consensus network with a dense coupling graph is one whose number of coupling links is proportional to its number of subsystems and its performance is comparable to the original network. Optimal…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-09-06 Milad Siami , Nader Motee

In computer networks, participants may cooperate in processing tasks, so that loads are balanced among them. We present local distributed algorithms that (repeatedly) use local imbalance criteria to transfer loads concurrently across the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-10-07 Yefim Dinitz , Shlomi Dolev , Manish Kumar

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

We develop a generic method for bounding the convergence rate of an averaging algorithm running in a multi-agent system with a time-varying network, where the associated stochastic matrices have a time-independent Perron vector. This method…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2020-07-10 Bernadette Charron-Bost

We introduce a simple time-triggered protocol to achieve communication-efficient non-Bayesian learning over a network. Specifically, we consider a scenario where a group of agents interact over a graph with the aim of discerning the true…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-05 Aritra Mitra , John A. Richards , Shreyas Sundaram

We consider the distributed optimization problem, where a group of agents work together to optimize a common objective by communicating with neighboring agents and performing local computations. For a given algorithm, we use tools from…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-09-11 Bryan Van Scoy , Laurent Lessard

The constrained consensus problem considered in this paper, denoted interval consensus, is characterized by the fact that each agent can impose a lower and upper bound on the achievable consensus value. Such constraints can be encoded in…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-02-06 Angela Fontan , Guodong Shi , Xiaoming Hu , Claudio Altafini

Distributed consensus protocols provide a mechanism for spreading information within clustered networks, allowing agents and clusters to make decisions without requiring direct access to the state of the ensemble. In this work, we propose a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-12 Federico M. Zegers , Sean Phillips

This paper addresses the problem of distributed learning of average belief with sequential observations, in which a network of $n>1$ agents aim to reach a consensus on the average value of their beliefs, by exchanging information only with…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2018-11-20 Kaiqing Zhang , Yang Liu , Ji Liu , Mingyan Liu , Tamer Başar

The paper studies distributed static parameter (vector) estimation in sensor networks with nonlinear observation models and noisy inter-sensor communication. It introduces \emph{separably estimable} observation models that generalize the…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2012-05-21 Soummya Kar , Jose M. F. Moura , Kavita Ramanan

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

We study distributed average consensus problems in multi-agent systems with directed communication links that are subject to quantized information flow. The goal of distributed average consensus is for the nodes, each associated with some…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-06-25 Apostolos I. Rikos , Christoforos N. Hadjicostis

Distributed change-point detection has been a fundamental problem when performing real-time monitoring using sensor-networks. We propose a distributed detection algorithm, where each sensor only exchanges CUSUM statistic with their…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-01-09 Qinghua Liu , Rui Zhang , Yao Xie

In this paper, we study the problem of achieving average consensus over a random time-varying sequence of directed graphs by extending the class of so-called push-sum algorithms to such random scenarios. Provided that an ergodicity notion,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-01-01 Pouya Rezaeinia , Bahman Gharesifard , Tamas Linder , Behrouz Touri

Theoretical computer science plays an important role in the understanding of social networks and their properties. We can model information rippling throughout social networks, or the opinions of social media users for example, using graph…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Timothy Horscroft

We study convergence properties of a randomized consensus algorithm over a graph with both attractive and repulsive links. At each time instant, a node is randomly selected to interact with a random neighbor. Depending on if the link…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2013-09-11 Guodong Shi , Alexandre Proutiere , Mikael Johansson , Karl H. Johansson

Generalized from the concept of consensus, this paper considers a group of edge agreements, i.e. constraints defined for neighboring agents, in which each pair of neighboring agents is required to satisfy one edge agreement constraint. Edge…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-12-04 Zehui Lu , Shaoshuai Mou