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The basic goal of quantization for probability distribution is to reduce the number of values, which is typically uncountable, describing a probability distribution to some finite set and thus approximation of a continuous probability…

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In this paper we study the distributed average consensus problem in multi-agent systems with directed communication links that are subject to quantized information flow. Specifically, we present and analyze a distributed averaging algorithm…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-10 Apostolos I. Rikos , Christoforos N. Hadjicostis , Karl H. Johansson

Feedback optimization is an increasingly popular control paradigm to optimize dynamical systems, accounting for control objectives that concern the system operation at steady-state. Existing feedback optimization techniques heavily rely on…

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This paper develops distributed synchronous and asynchronous algorithms for the large-scale semi-definite programming with diagonal constraints, which has wide applications in combination optimization, image processing and community…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-04-02 Xia Jiang , Xianlin Zeng , Jian Sun , Jie Chen

In this paper, we study the optimal convergence rate for distributed convex optimization problems in networks. We model the communication restrictions imposed by the network as a set of affine constraints and provide optimal complexity…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-11-16 César A. Uribe , Soomin Lee , Alexander Gasnikov , Angelia Nedić

The limitations of centralized optimization methods in managing power distribution systems operations motivate distributed control and optimization algorithms. However, the existing distributed optimization algorithms are inefficient in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-09-06 Rabayet Sadnan , Tom Asaki , Anamika Dubey

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

Quantum simulation is a promising pathway toward practical quantum advantage by simulating large-scale quantum systems. In this work, we propose communication-efficient distributed quantum simulation protocols by exploring three quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-06 Tianfeng Feng , Jue Xu , Wenjun Yu , Zekun Ye , Penghui Yao , Qi Zhao

We study efficient distributed algorithms for the fundamental problem of principal component analysis and leading eigenvector computation on the sphere, when the data are randomly distributed among a set of computational nodes. We propose a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-10-28 Foivos Alimisis , Peter Davies , Bart Vandereycken , Dan Alistarh

We consider the problem of distributed average consensus in a sensor network where sensors exchange quantized information with their neighbors. We propose a novel quantization scheme that exploits the increasing correlation between the…

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This thesis focuses on the intersection of mathematical and computational optimization and quantum information. Main contributions are open-source software code: A hybrid approach mixing "traditional" nonconvex and convex methods can make…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-19 Benjamin Desef

Most existing work uses dual decomposition and subgradient methods to solve Network Utility Maximization (NUM) problems in a distributed manner, which suffer from slow rate of convergence properties. This work develops an alternative…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-03-17 Ermin Wei , Asuman Ozdaglar , Ali Jadbabaie

Various distributed optimization methods have been developed for solving problems which have simple local constraint sets and whose objective function is the sum of local cost functions of distributed agents in a network. Motivated by…

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We consider distributed optimization methods for problems where forming the Hessian is computationally challenging and communication is a significant bottleneck. We leverage randomized sketches for reducing the problem dimensions as well as…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-03-21 Burak Bartan , Mert Pilanci

Although deep neural networks are highly effective, their high computational and memory costs severely challenge their applications on portable devices. As a consequence, low-bit quantization, which converts a full-precision neural network…

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Quantum communication networks are emerging as a promising technology that could constitute a key building block in future communication networks in the 6G era and beyond. These networks have an inherent feature of parallelism that allows…

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Decentralized optimization is typically studied under the assumption of noise-free transmission. However, real-world scenarios often involve the presence of noise due to factors such as additive white Gaussian noise channels or…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-07-28 Suhail M. Shah , Raghu Bollapragada

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

Distributed optimization and learning algorithms are designed to operate over large scale networks enabling processing of vast amounts of data effectively and efficiently. One of the main challenges for ensuring a smooth learning process in…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-21 Apostolos I. Rikos , Nicola Bastianello , Themistoklis Charalambous , Karl H. Johansson

We study first-order optimization algorithms under the constraint that the descent direction is quantized using a pre-specified budget of $R$-bits per dimension, where $R \in (0 ,\infty)$. We propose computationally efficient optimization…

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