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In this work we address the problem of distributed optimization of the sum of convex cost functions in the context of multi-agent systems over lossy communication networks. Building upon operator theory, first, we derive an ADMM-like…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-05-07 Nicola Bastianello , Marco Todescato , Ruggero Carli , Luca Schenato

We present distributed algorithms that can be used by multiple agents to align their estimates with a particular value over a network with time-varying connectivity. Our framework is general in that this value can represent a consensus…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2010-04-20 Angelia Nedić , Asuman Ozdaglar , Pablo A. Parrilo

This paper studies a class of distributed online convex optimization problems for heterogeneous linear multi-agent systems. Agents in a network, knowing only their own outputs, need to minimize the time-varying costs through neighboring…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-07-04 Yang Yu , Xiuxian Li , Li Li , Lihua Xie

We consider the setting of agents cooperatively minimizing the sum of local objectives plus a regularizer on a graph. This paper proposes a primal-dual method in consideration of three distinctive attributes of real-life multi-agent…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-12-11 Ziyi Yu , Nikolaos M. Freris

In this paper, we consider the problem of distributed online convex optimization, where a network of local agents aim to jointly optimize a convex function over a period of multiple time steps. The agents do not have any information about…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-11-13 Yan Zhang , Robert J. Ravier , Michael M. Zavlanos , Vahid Tarokh

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

In this paper, we consider distributed optimization problems where $n$ agents, each possessing a local cost function, collaboratively minimize the average of the local cost functions over a connected network. To solve the problem, we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-03-24 Kun Huang , Xiao Li , Andre Milzarek , Shi Pu , Junwen Qiu

In this paper we consider a distributed optimization scenario in which a set of processors aims at minimizing the maximum of a collection of "separable convex functions" subject to local constraints. This set-up is motivated by peak-demand…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-03-27 Ivano Notarnicola , Mauro Franceschelli , Giuseppe Notarstefano

We study distributed optimization in a cooperative multi-agent setting, where agents have to agree on the usage of shared resources and can communicate via a time-varying network to this purpose. Each agent has its own decision variables…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-04-20 Alessandro Falsone , Kostas Margellos , Simone Garatti , Maria Prandini

Motivated by applications in machine learning and statistics, we study distributed optimization problems over a network of processors, where the goal is to optimize a global objective composed of a sum of local functions. In these problems,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-05-14 Thinh T. Doan , Carolyn L. Beck , R. Srikant

In this work, we consider solving a distributed optimization problem (DOP) in a multi-agent network with multiple agent clusters. In each cluster, the agents manage separable cost functions composed of possibly non-smooth components and aim…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-09-15 Jianzheng Wang , Guoqiang Hu

This paper presents a distributed continuous-time optimization framework aimed at overcoming the challenges posed by time-varying cost functions and constraints in multi-agent systems, particularly those subject to disturbances. By…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-10 Zeinab Ebrahimi , Mohammad Deghat

In this paper we consider a distributed convex optimization problem over time-varying networks. We propose a dual method that converges R-linearly to the optimal point given that the agents' objective functions are strongly convex and have…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-04-23 Marie Maros , Joakim Jaldén

Recently a distributed algorithm has been proposed for multi-agent networks to solve a system of linear algebraic equations, by assuming each agent only knows part of the system and is able to communicate with nearest neighbors to update…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-03-15 Hong-Tai Cao , Travis E. Gibson , Shaoshuai Mou , Yang-Yu Liu

Distributed optimization algorithms are used in a wide variety of problems involving complex network systems where the goal is for a set of agents in the network to solve a network-wide optimization problem via distributed update rules. In…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-23 Liam Hallinan , Ioannis Lestas

In this paper, the distributed resource allocation optimization problem is investigated. The allocation decisions are made to minimize the sum of all the agents' local objective functions while satisfying both the global network resource…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-04-11 Peng Yi , Yiguang Hong , Feng Liu

This paper considers optimization problems over networks where agents have individual objectives to meet, or individual parameter vectors to estimate, subject to subspace constraints that require the objectives across the network to lie in…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2020-04-22 Roula Nassif , Stefan Vlaski , Ali H. Sayed

We consider the distributed optimization problem for the sum of convex functions where the underlying communications network connecting agents at each time is drawn at random from a collection of directed graphs. Building on an earlier work…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-09-16 Pouya Rezaeinia , Bahman Gharesifard

In this letter, we study distributed optimization, where a network of agents, abstracted as a directed graph, collaborates to minimize the average of locally-known convex functions. Most of the existing approaches over directed graphs are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-06-08 Ran Xin , Usman A. Khan

This paper designs a distributed stochastic annealing algorithm for non-convex cooperative aggregative games, whose agents' cost functions not only depend on agents' own decision variables but also rely on the sum of agents' decision…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-04-05 Yinghui Wang , Xiaoxue Geng , Guanpu Chen , Wenxiao Zhao