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The emerging concern about data privacy and security has motivated the proposal of federated learning, which allows nodes to only synchronize the locally-trained models instead their own original data. Conventional federated learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-22 Chenghao Hu , Jingyan Jiang , Zhi Wang

Inspired and underpinned by the idea of integral feedback, a distributed constant gain algorithm is proposed for multi-agent networks to solve convex optimization problems with local linear constraints. Assuming agent interactions are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-11-19 Xuan Wang , Shaoshuai Mou , Brian. D. O. Anderson

As agentic platforms scale, agents are evolving beyond static roles and fixed toolchains, creating a growing need for flexible, decentralized coordination. Today's structured communication protocols (e.g., direct agent-to-agent messaging)…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Mansura Habiba , Nafiul I. Khan

Multi-simulator training has contributed to the recent success of Deep Reinforcement Learning by stabilizing learning and allowing for higher training throughputs. We propose Gossip-based Actor-Learner Architectures (GALA) where several…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-23 Mahmoud Assran , Joshua Romoff , Nicolas Ballas , Joelle Pineau , Michael Rabbat

Gossip protocols are popular methods for average consensus problems in distributed computing. We prove new convergence guarantees for a variety of such protocols, including path, clique, and synchronous pairwise gossip. These arise by…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-10-28 Jamie Haddock , Benjamin Jarman , Chen Yap

We consider a gossip network, consisting of $n$ nodes, which tracks the information at a source. The source updates its information with a Poisson arrival process and also sends updates to the nodes in the network. The nodes themselves can…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Purbesh Mitra , Sennur Ulukus

Gossip and in particular network coded algebraic gossip have recently attracted attention as a fast, bandwidth-efficient, reliable and distributed way to broadcast or multicast multiple messages. While the algorithms are simple, involved…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-06-01 Bernhard Haeupler

Estimating statistical models within sensor networks requires distributed algorithms, in which both data and computation are distributed across the nodes of the network. We propose a general approach for distributed learning based on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-07-03 Qiang Liu , Alexander Ihler

This paper presents a novel deep reinforcement learning-based resource allocation technique for the multi-agent environment presented by a cognitive radio network where the interactions of the agents during learning may lead to a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-30 Ankita Tondwalkar , Andres Kwasinski

We provide a new non-asymptotic analysis of distributed temporal difference learning with linear function approximation. Our approach relies on ``one-shot averaging,'' where $N$ agents run identical local copies of the TD(0) method and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Rui Liu , Alex Olshevsky

This paper describes and analyzes a hierarchical gossip algorithm for solving the distributed average consensus problem in wireless sensor networks. The network is recursively partitioned into subnetworks. Initially, nodes at the finest…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2012-02-29 Konstantinos I. Tsianos , Michael G. Rabbat

This paper presents a novel deep reinforcement learning-based resource allocation technique for the multi-agent environment presented by a cognitive radio network that coexists through underlay dynamic spectrum access (DSA) with a primary…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-03-09 Ankita Tondwalkar , Dr Andres Kwasinski

Gossip algorithms is a common term to describe protocols for unreliable information dissemination in natural networks, which are not optimally designed for efficient communication between network entities. We consider application of gossip…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-11-22 Michael Siomau

In this work we present novel provably accelerated gossip algorithms for solving the average consensus problem. The proposed protocols are inspired from the recently developed accelerated variants of the randomized Kaczmarz method - a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-11-01 Nicolas Loizou , Michael Rabbat , Peter Richtárik

Distributed dynamic gossip is a generalization of the classic telephone problem in which agents communicate to share secrets, with the additional twist that also telephone numbers are exchanged to determine who can call whom. Recent work…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-07-30 Hans van Ditmarsch , Malvin Gattinger , Louwe B. Kuijer , Pere Pardo

This paper considers the problem of detecting impaired and noisy nodes over network. In a distributed algorithm, lots of processing units are incorporating and communicating with each other to reach a global goal. Due to each one's state in…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2019-10-23 Mahdi Shamsi , Alireza Moslemi Haghighi , Farokh Marvasti

We study distributed estimation and learning problems in a networked environment where agents exchange information to estimate unknown statistical properties of random variables from their privately observed samples. The agents can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Marios Papachristou , M. Amin Rahimian

In decentralized networks (of sensors, connected objects, etc.), there is an important need for efficient algorithms to optimize a global cost function, for instance to learn a global model from the local data collected by each computing…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-01-25 Igor Colin , Aurélien Bellet , Joseph Salmon , Stéphan Clémençon

Achieving differential privacy (DP) guarantees in fully decentralized machine learning is challenging due to the absence of a central aggregator and varying trust assumptions among nodes. We present a framework for DP analysis of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Antti Koskela , Tejas Kulkarni

This paper presents a distributed optimization scheme over a network of agents in the presence of cost uncertainties and over switching communication topologies. Inspired by recent advances in distributed convex optimization, we propose a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-11-15 Saghar Hosseini , Airlie Chapman , Mehran Mesbahi