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Distributed online convex optimization (D-OCO) is a powerful paradigm for modeling distributed scenarios with streaming data. However, the communication cost between local learners and the central server is substantial in large-scale…

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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

We study distributed optimization algorithms for minimizing the average of convex functions. The applications include empirical risk minimization problems in statistical machine learning where the datasets are large and have to be stored on…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-01-07 Jason D. Lee , Qihang Lin , Tengyu Ma , Tianbao Yang

This paper studies the application of the blended dynamics approach towards distributed optimization problem where the global cost function is given by a sum of local cost functions. The benefits include (i) individual cost function need…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-02-26 Seungjoon Lee , Hyungbo Shim

In Distributed optimization and Learning, and even more in the modern framework of federated learning, communication, which is slow and costly, is critical. We introduce LoCoDL, a communication-efficient algorithm that leverages the two…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-03 Laurent Condat , Artavazd Maranjyan , Peter Richtárik

In this paper, we propose the primal-dual method of multipliers (PDMM) for distributed optimization over a graph. In particular, we optimize a sum of convex functions defined over a graph, where every edge in the graph carries a linear…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-02-06 G. Zhang , R. Heusdens

In this paper we consider distributed optimization problems in which the cost function is separable, i.e., a sum of possibly non-smooth functions all sharing a common variable, and can be split into a strongly convex term and a convex one.…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-06-27 Ivano Notarnicola , Giuseppe Notarstefano

Distributed optimization has gained significant attention in recent years, primarily fueled by the availability of a large amount of data and privacy-preserving requirements. This paper presents a fixed-time convergent optimization…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2022-05-30 Kunal Garg , Mayank Baranwal

We consider distributed nonconvex optimization over an undirected network, where each node privately possesses its local objective and communicates exclusively with its neighboring nodes, striving to collectively achieve a common optimal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-11 Zichong Ou , Jie Lu

We present a new class of decentralized first-order methods for nonsmooth and stochastic optimization problems defined over multiagent networks. Considering that communication is a major bottleneck in decentralized optimization, our main…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-02-07 Guanghui Lan , Soomin Lee , Yi Zhou

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

In this paper, a centralized two-block separable optimization is considered for which a fully parallel primal-dual discrete-time algorithm with fixed step size is derived based on monotone operator splitting method. In this algorithm, the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-09-30 S. Sh. Alaviani , A. G. Kelkar

This paper investigates the distributed online optimization problem over a multi-agent network subject to local set constraints and coupled inequality constraints, which has a lot of applications in many areas, such as wireless sensor…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-07-14 Xiuxian Li , Xinlei Yi , Lihua Xie

We introduce primal and dual stochastic gradient oracle methods for decentralized convex optimization problems. Both for primal and dual oracles, the proposed methods are optimal in terms of the number of communication steps. However, for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-02-12 Darina Dvinskikh , Alexander Gasnikov

Distributed computing is a standard way to scale up machine learning and data science algorithms to process large amounts of data. In such settings, avoiding communication amongst machines is paramount for achieving high performance. Rather…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-05-04 Vasileios Charisopoulos , Austin R. Benson , Anil Damle

This study develops an algorithm for distributed computing of linear programming problems of huge-scales. Global consensus with single common variable, multiblocks, and augmented Lagrangian are adopted. The consensus is used to partition…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-07 Luoyi Tao

Distributed learning methods have gained substantial momentum in recent years, with communication overhead often emerging as a critical bottleneck. Gradient compression techniques alleviate communication costs but involve an inherent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Ze'ev Zukerman , Bassel Hamoud , Kfir Y. Levy

Previous studies on stochastic primal-dual algorithms for solving min-max problems with faster convergence heavily rely on the bilinear structure of the problem, which restricts their applicability to a narrowed range of problems. The main…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-20 Yan Yan , Yi Xu , Qihang Lin , Lijun Zhang , Tianbao Yang

Collaborative learning enhances the performance and adaptability of multi-robot systems in complex tasks but faces significant challenges due to high communication overhead and data heterogeneity inherent in multi-robot tasks. To this end,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Jiaxi Huang , Yan Huang , Yixian Zhao , Wenchao Meng , Jinming Xu

This paper investigates the stochastic distributed nonconvex optimization problem of minimizing a global cost function formed by the summation of $n$ local cost functions. We solve such a problem by involving zeroth-order (ZO) information…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-10-15 Shengjun Zhang , Yunlong Dong , Dong Xie , Lisha Yao , Colleen P. Bailey , Shengli Fu