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In this work, we consider a connected network of finitely many agents working cooperatively to solve a min-max problem with convex-concave structure. We propose a decentralised first-order algorithm which can be viewed as a non-trivial…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-21 Yura Malitsky , Matthew K. Tam

The ability to differentiate through optimization problems has unlocked numerous applications, from optimization-based layers in machine learning models to complex design problems formulated as bilevel programs. It has been shown that…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-05 Lucas Fuentes Valenzuela , Robin Brown , Marco Pavone

Gradient Descent (GD) is a ubiquitous algorithm for finding the optimal solution to an optimization problem. For reduced computational complexity, the optimal solution $\mathrm{x^*}$ of the optimization problem must be attained in a minimum…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-06-01 Revati Gunjal , Sushama Wagh , Syed Shadab Nayyer , Alex Stankovic , Navdeep M. Singh

The purpose of this paper is to introduce two new classes of accelerated distributed proximal conjugate gradient algorithms for multi-agent constrained optimization problems; given as minimization of a function decomposed as a sum of M…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-06-21 Anteneh Getachew Gebrie

In this paper it is established that any jointly controllable, jointly observable, multi-channel, discrete or continuous time linear system with a strongly connected neighbor (communication) graph can be exponentially stabilized with any…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-02 Fengjiao Liu , Lili Wang , Daniel Fullmer , A. Stephen Morse

We develop a distributed stochastic gradient descent algorithm for solving non-convex optimization problems under the assumption that the local objective functions are twice continuously differentiable with Lipschitz continuous gradients…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-08-20 Jemin George , Tao Yang , He Bai , Prudhvi Gurram

In decentralized optimization, the choice of stepsize plays a critical role in algorithm performance. A common approach is to use a shared stepsize across all agents to ensure convergence. However, selecting an optimal stepsize often…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-07 Diyako Ghaderyan , Stefan Werner

We consider minimizing a sum of agent-specific nondifferentiable merely convex functions over the solution set of a variational inequality (VI) problem in that each agent is associated with a local monotone mapping. This problem finds an…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-12-13 Harshal D. Kaushik , Sepideh Samadi , Farzad Yousefian

This paper describes a novel algorithmic framework to minimize a finite-sum of functions available over a network of nodes. The proposed framework, that we call~\GTVR, is stochastic and decentralized, and thus is particularly suitable for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-12-02 Ran Xin , Usman A. Khan , Soummya Kar

We study a generic class of decentralized algorithms in which $N$ agents jointly optimize the non-convex objective $f(u):=1/N\sum_{i=1}^{N}f_i(u)$, while only communicating with their neighbors. This class of problems has become popular in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-06-23 Mingyi Hong , Siliang Zeng , Junyu Zhang , Haoran Sun

In this paper, we present a sharp analysis for a class of alternating projected gradient descent algorithms which are used to solve the covariate adjusted precision matrix estimation problem in the high-dimensional setting. We demonstrate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-13 Xiao Lv , Wei Cui , Yulong Liu

We study sparse linear regression over a network of agents, modeled as an undirected graph and no server node. The estimation of the $s$-sparse parameter is formulated as a constrained LASSO problem wherein each agent owns a subset of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Marie Maros , Gesualdo Scutari , Ying Sun , Guang Cheng

Decentralized learning enables a group of collaborative agents to learn models using a distributed dataset without the need for a central parameter server. Recently, decentralized learning algorithms have demonstrated state-of-the-art…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-30 Yasaman Esfandiari , Sin Yong Tan , Zhanhong Jiang , Aditya Balu , Ethan Herron , Chinmay Hegde , Soumik Sarkar

In this work, we propose a novel discrete-time distributed algorithm for finding least-squares solutions of linear algebraic equations with a scheduling protocol to further enhance its scalability. Each agent in the network is assumed to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-24 Shenyu Liu

Many modern large-scale machine learning problems benefit from decentralized and stochastic optimization. Recent works have shown that utilizing both decentralized computing and local stochastic gradient estimates can outperform…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-11-06 Haoran Sun , Songtao Lu , Mingyi Hong

This paper proposes a prediction-based gradient compression method for distributed learning with event-triggered communication. Our goal is to reduce the amount of information transmitted from the distributed agents to the parameter server…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-04 Adrian Edin , Zheng Chen , Michel Kieffer , Mikael Johansson

This paper studies an infinite horizon optimal control problem for discrete-time linear system and quadratic criteria, both with random parameters which are independent and identically distributed with respect to time. In this general…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-04 Deyue Li

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 introduces a novel method for eigenvalue computation using a distributed cooperative neural network framework. Unlike traditional techniques that face scalability challenges in large systems, our decentralized algorithm enables…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-20 Ronald Katende

The aim of this work is to develop a fully-distributed algorithmic framework for training graph convolutional networks (GCNs). The proposed method is able to exploit the meaningful relational structure of the input data, which are collected…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-21 Simone Scardapane , Indro Spinelli , Paolo Di Lorenzo