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Distributed stochastic non-convex optimization problems have recently received attention due to the growing interest of signal processing, computer vision, and natural language processing communities in applications deployed over…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-14 Yiyue Chen , Abolfazl Hashemi , Haris Vikalo

This paper studies a distributed online constrained optimization problem over time-varying unbalanced digraphs without explicit subgradients. In sharp contrast to the existing algorithms, we design a novel consensus-based distributed online…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-08-26 Yongyang Xiong , Xiang Li , Keyou You , Ligang Wu

This paper aims at distributed multi-agent convex optimization where the communications network among the agents are presented by a random sequence of possibly state-dependent weighted graphs. This is the first work to consider both random…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-31 Seyyed Shaho Alaviani , Atul Kelkar

In multi-agent systems, strong connectivity of the communication network is often crucial for establishing consensus protocols, which underpin numerous applications in decision-making and distributed optimization. However, this connectivity…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-11-12 Guilherme Ramos , Diogo Poças , Sérgio Pequito

We consider a decentralized optimization problem, in which $n$ nodes collaborate to optimize a global objective function using local communications only. While many decentralized algorithms focus on \emph{gossip} communications (pairwise…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-05-31 Hadrien Hendrikx

We consider decentralized stochastic optimization with the objective function (e.g. data samples for machine learning task) being distributed over $n$ machines that can only communicate to their neighbors on a fixed communication graph. To…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-04 Anastasia Koloskova , Sebastian U. Stich , Martin Jaggi

Distributed linear algebraic equation over networks, where nodes hold a part of problem data and cooperatively solve the equation via node-to-node communications, is a basic distributed computation task receiving an increasing research…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-04-28 Peng Yi , Jinlong Lei , Yiguang Hong , Jie Chen , Guodong Shi

Results for estimating the convergence rate of non-stationary distributed consensus algorithms are provided, on the basis of qualitative (mainly topological) as well as basic quantitative information (lower-bounds on the matrix entries).…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2007-12-22 David Angeli , Pierre-Alexandre Bliman

This paper considers a distributed optimization problem over a multi-agent network, in which the objective function is a sum of individual cost functions at the agents. We focus on the case when communication between the agents is described…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-11-01 Chenguang Xi , Van Sy Mai , Ran Xin , Eyad H. Abed , Usman A. Khan

We present and analyze a stochastic distributed method (S-NEAR-DGD) that can tolerate inexact computation and inaccurate information exchange to alleviate the problems of costly gradient evaluations and bandwidth-limited communication in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-02-02 Charikleia Iakovidou , Ermin Wei

We study distributed computation in synchronous dynamic networks where an omniscient adversary controls the unidirectional communication links. Its behavior is modeled as a sequence of directed graphs representing the active (i.e. timely)…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-03-20 Martin Biely , Peter Robinson , Ulrich Schmid

Weight-balanced and doubly stochastic digraphs are two classes of digraphs that play an essential role in a variety of cooperative control problems, including formation control, distributed averaging, and optimization. We refer to a digraph…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2011-10-19 Bahman Gharesifard , Jorge Cortes

Many large-scale constrained optimization problems can be formulated as bilevel distributed optimization tasks over undirected networks, where agents collaborate to minimize a global cost function while adhering to constraints, relying only…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-25 Ajay Tak , Mayank Baranwal

Consensus strategies find a variety of applications in distributed coordination and decision making in multi-agent systems. In particular, average consensus plays a key role in a number of applications and is closely associated with two…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2012-10-17 Themistoklis Charalambous , Christoforos N. Hadjicostis

A distributed adaptive algorithm to estimate a time-varying signal, measured by a wireless sensor network, is designed and analyzed. One of the major features of the algorithm is that no central coordination among the nodes needs to be…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2008-10-22 Carlo Fischione , Alberto Speranzon , Karl H. Johansson , Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli

As decentralized AI and edge intelligence become increasingly prevalent, ensuring robustness and trustworthiness in such distributed settings has become a critical issue-especially in the presence of corrupted or adversarial data.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-09-12 Anna Van Elst , Igor Colin , Stephan Clémençon

This work studies nonconvex distributed constrained optimization over stochastic communication networks. We revisit the distributed dual averaging algorithm, which is known to converge for convex problems. We start from the centralized…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-11-15 Changxin Liu , Xuyang Wu , Xinlei Yi , Yang Shi , Karl H. Johansson

We study diffusion and consensus based optimization of a sum of unknown convex objective functions over distributed networks. The only access to these functions is through stochastic gradient oracles, each of which is only available at a…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2015-09-01 N. Denizcan Vanli , Muhammed O. Sayin , Suleyman S. Kozat

This paper addresses a resilient exponential distributed convex optimization problem for a heterogeneous linear multi-agent system under Denial-of-Service (DoS) attacks over random digraphs. The random digraphs are caused by unreliable…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-05-07 Zhi Feng , Guoqiang Hu

The stochastic subgradient method is a widely-used algorithm for solving large-scale optimization problems arising in machine learning. Often these problems are neither smooth nor convex. Recently, Davis et al. [1-2] characterized the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-02-25 Shixiang Chen , Alfredo Garcia , Shahin Shahrampour