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We consider the task of minimizing the sum of convex functions stored in a decentralized manner across the nodes of a communication network. This problem is relatively well-studied in the scenario when the objective functions are smooth, or…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-05-29 Dmitry Kovalev , Ekaterina Borodich , Alexander Gasnikov , Dmitrii Feoktistov

We consider a real-time communication system with noisy feedback consisting of a Markov source, a forward and a backward discrete memoryless channels, and a receiver with finite memory. The objective is to design an optimal communication…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-09-25 Aditya Mahajan , Demosthenis Teneketzis

Decentralized optimization is typically studied under the assumption of noise-free transmission. However, real-world scenarios often involve the presence of noise due to factors such as additive white Gaussian noise channels or…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-07-28 Suhail M. Shah , Raghu Bollapragada

We consider the task of decentralized minimization of the sum of smooth strongly convex functions stored across the nodes of a network. For this problem, lower bounds on the number of gradient computations and the number of communication…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-11-16 Dmitry Kovalev , Adil Salim , Peter Richtárik

In this paper, we study unconstrained distributed optimization strongly convex problems, in which the exchange of information in the network is captured by a directed graph topology over digital channels that have limited capacity (and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-12 Apostolos I. Rikos , Wei Jiang , Themistoklis Charalambous , Karl H. Johansson

A general method of coding over expansion is proposed,which allows one to reduce the highly non-trivial problems of coding over analog channels and compressing analog sources to a set of much simpler subproblems, coding over discrete…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-05-21 Hongbo Si , O. Ozan Koyluoglu , Kumar Appaiah , Sriram Vishwanath

While existing studies have highlighted the advantages of deep learning (DL)-based joint source-channel coding (JSCC) schemes in enhancing transmission efficiency, they often overlook the crucial aspect of resource management during the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-01 Kaiyi Chi , Qianqian Yang , Yuanchao Shu , Zhaohui Yang , Zhiguo Shi

Decentralized optimization strategies are helpful for various applications, from networked estimation to distributed machine learning. This paper studies finite-sum minimization problems described over a network of nodes and proposes a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-06 Mohammadreza Doostmohammadian , Zulfiya R. Gabidullina , Hamid R. Rabiee

The problem of lossless fixed-rate streaming coding of discrete memoryless sources with side information at the decoder is studied. A random time-varying tree-code is used to sequentially bin strings and a Stack Algorithm with a variable…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Hari Palaiyanur , Anant Sahai

The paper provides global optimization algorithms for two particularly difficult nonconvex problems raised by hybrid system identification: switching linear regression and bounded-error estimation. While most works focus on local…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-11-27 Fabien Lauer

We consider the problem of zero-delay coding of a dynamical system over a discrete noiseless channel under three estimation criteria concerned with the low-distortion regime. For these three criteria, formulated stochastically in terms of a…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2018-04-03 Christoph Kawan , Serdar Yüksel

We propose a new gradient descent algorithm with added stochastic terms for finding the global optimizers of nonconvex optimization problems. A key component in the algorithm is the adaptive tuning of the randomness based on the value of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-16 Björn Engquist , Kui Ren , Yunan Yang

The paper proves convergence to global optima for a class of distributed algorithms for nonconvex optimization in network-based multi-agent settings. Agents are permitted to communicate over a time-varying undirected graph. Each agent is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-03-19 Brian Swenson , Soummya Kar , H. Vincent Poor , Jose' M. F. Moura

Emerging edge computing paradigms enable heterogeneous devices to collaborate on complex computation applications. However, for arbitrary heterogeneous edge networks, delay-optimal forwarding and computation offloading remains an open…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Jinkun Zhang , Yuezhou Liu , Edmund Yeh

Designing high-performance error-correcting codes at short blocklengths is critical for low-latency communication systems, where decoding is governed by finite-length and graph-structural effects rather than asymptotic properties. This…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Atharv Kanchi

Decentralized optimization with time-varying networks is an emerging paradigm in machine learning. It saves remarkable communication overhead in large-scale deep training and is more robust in wireless scenarios especially when nodes are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-02 Xinmeng Huang , Kun Yuan

Decentralized nonconvex optimization has received increasing attention in recent years in machine learning due to its advantages in system robustness, data privacy, and implementation simplicity. However, three fundamental challenges in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-20 Xin Zhang , Jia Liu , Zhengyuan Zhu , Elizabeth S. Bentley

This paper studies a distributed multi-agent convex optimization problem. The system comprises multiple agents in this problem, each with a set of local data points and an associated local cost function. The agents are connected to a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-08-20 Kushal Chakrabarti , Nirupam Gupta , Nikhil Chopra

We consider the Additive White Gaussian Noise channel with Binary Phase Shift Keying modulation. Our aim is to enable an algebraic hard decision Bounded Minimum Distance decoder for a binary block code to exploit soft information obtained…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-05-18 Christian Senger , Vladimir Sidorenko , Victor Zyablov

For a packet erasure broadcast channel with three receivers, we propose a new coding algorithm that makes use of feedback to dynamically adapt the code. Our algorithm is throughput optimal, and we conjecture that it also achieves an…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2008-09-29 Jay Kumar Sundararajan , Devavrat Shah , Muriel Médard