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This paper considers the problem of adaptively searching for an unknown target using multiple agents connected through a time-varying network topology. Agents are equipped with sensors capable of fast information processing, and we propose…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Theodoros Tsiligkaridis

Direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation is an important task in microphone array processing and many downstream applications. The steered response power with phase transform (SRP-PHAT) method has been widely adopted for DOA estimation in…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-29 Ming Huang , Shuting Xu , Leying Yang , Huanzhang Hu , Yujie Zhang , Jiang Wang , Yu Liu , Hao Zhao , He Kong

Label assignment is a crucial process in object detection, which significantly influences the detection performance by determining positive or negative samples during training process. However, existing label assignment strategies barely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-18 Jian Guan , Mingjie Xie , Youtian Lin , Guangjun He , Pengming Feng

The deployment of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) on edge devices is hindered by the substantial gap between performance requirements and available processing power. While recent research has made significant strides in developing pruning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Hamid Mousavi , Mohammad Loni , Mina Alibeigi , Masoud Daneshtalab

In this paper, we study the target tracking problem in wireless sensor networks (WSNs) using quantized sensor measurements under limited bandwidth availability. At each time step of tracking, the available bandwidth $R$ needs to be…

Applications · Statistics 2015-05-30 Engin Masazade , Ruixin Niu , Pramod K. Varshney

This paper focuses on an online version of the emerging distributed constrained aggregative optimization framework, which is particularly suited for applications arising in cooperative robotics. Agents in a network want to minimize the sum…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-09-13 Guido Carnevale , Andrea Camisa , Giuseppe Notarstefano

In this paper we are interested in the task of searching and tracking multiple moving targets in a bounded surveillance area with a group of autonomous mobile agents. More specifically, we assume that targets can appear and disappear at…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-02 Savvas Papaioannou , Panayiotis Kolios , Theocharis Theocharides , Christos G. Panayiotou , Marios M. Polycarpou

Motivated by distributed machine learning settings such as Federated Learning, we consider the problem of fitting a statistical model across a distributed collection of heterogeneous data sets whose similarity structure is encoded by a…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-11-30 Dominic Richards , Sahand N. Negahban , Patrick Rebeschini

We proposed a novel dense line spectrum super-resolution algorithm, the DMRA, that leverages dynamical multi-resolution of atoms technique to address the limitation of traditional compressed sensing methods when handling dense point-source…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-04 Mingguang Han , Yi Zeng , Xiaoguang Li , Tiejun Li

Differentiable ARchiTecture Search (DARTS) has attracted much attention due to its simplicity and significant improvement in efficiency. However, the excessive accumulation of the skip connection, when training epochs become large, makes it…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Chao Li , Jia Ning , Han Hu , Kun He

This paper proposes two nonlinear dynamics to solve constrained distributed optimization problem for resource allocation over a multi-agent network. In this setup, coupling constraint refers to resource-demand balance which is preserved at…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-30 Mohammadreza Doostmohammadian , Alireza Aghasi , Maria Vrakopoulou , Hamid R. Rabiee , Usman A. Khan , Themistoklis Charalambou

Massive random access of devices in the emerging Open Radio Access Network (O-RAN) brings great challenge to the access control and management. Exploiting the bursting nature of the access requests, sparse active user detection (SAUD) is an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Xiao Tang , Sicong Liu , Xiaojiang Du , Mohsen Guizani

In various scientific and engineering domains, where data acquisition is costly--such as in medical imaging, environmental monitoring, or remote sensing--strategic sampling from unobserved regions, guided by prior observations, is essential…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Anindya Sarkar , Binglin Ji , Yevgeniy Vorobeychik

This article proposes a Model Reference Adaptive Control (MRAC) strategy to achieve fixed-time convergence of parameter estimation and tracking errors for unknown linear time-invariant systems, without relying on the persistence of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-23 Chayan Kumar Paul , Krishanu Nath , Indra Narayan Kar , Denis Efimov , Rosane Ushirobira

Reinforcement learning algorithms rely on exploration to discover new behaviors, which is typically achieved by following a stochastic policy. In continuous control tasks, policies with a Gaussian distribution have been widely adopted.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-28 Dmytro Korenkevych , A. Rupam Mahmood , Gautham Vasan , James Bergstra

Motivated by the Internet-of-things and sensor networks for cyberphysical systems, the problem of dynamic sensor activation for the centralized tracking of an i.i.d. time-varying process is examined. The tradeoff is between energy…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-04-12 Arpan Chattopadhyay , Urbashi Mitra

Robot person following (RPF) is a core capability in human-robot interaction, enabling robots to assist users in daily activities, collaborative work, and other service scenarios. However, achieving practical RPF remains challenging due to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Weixi Situ , Hanjing Ye , Jianwei Peng , Yu Zhan , Hong Zhang

In tracking of time-varying low-rank models of time-varying matrices, we present a method robust to both uniformly-distributed measurement noise and arbitrarily-distributed ``sparse'' noise. In theory, we bound the tracking error. In…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-02-05 Albert Akhriev , Jakub Marecek , Andrea Simonetto

The Dynamic Task Assignment Problem (DTAP) concerns matching resources to tasks in real time while minimizing some objectives, like resource costs or task cycle time. In this work, we consider a DTAP variant where every task is a case…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Riccardo Lo Bianco , Willem van Jaarsveld , Jeroen Middelhuis , Luca Begnardi , Remco Dijkman

Persistent monitoring of dynamic targets is essential in real-world applications such as disaster response, environmental sensing, and wildlife conservation, where mobile agents must continuously gather information under uncertainty. We…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Xingjian Zhang , Yizhuo Wang , Guillaume Sartoretti