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In this paper, the problem of maximization of the minimum equivalent rate in a unmanned-aerial-vehicle (UAV)-based multi-user semantic communication system is investigated. In the considered model, a multi-antenna UAV employs semantic…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-09 Liang Siyun , Chen Zhu , Zhaohui Yang , Changsheng You , Dusit Niyato , Kai-Kit Wong , Zhaoyang Zhang

We consider the coordinated downlink beamforming problem in a cellular network with the base stations (BSs) equipped with multiple antennas, and with each user equipped with a single antenna. The BSs cooperate in sharing their local…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-11-29 Mingyi Hong , Alfredo Garcia , J. Joaquin Escudero Garzas , Ana Garcia-Armada

We propose an algorithm to maximize the instantaneous sum data rate transmitted by a base station in the downlink of a multiuser multiple-input, multiple-output system. The transmitter and the receivers may each be equipped with multiple…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2008-01-03 Adam J. Tenenbaum , Raviraj S. Adve

This paper proposes $\mathbf{C}$ommunication efficient $\mathbf{RE}$cursive $\mathbf{D}$istributed estimati$\mathbf{O}$n algorithm, $\mathcal{CREDO}$, for networked multi-worker setups without a central master node. $\mathcal{CREDO}$ is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-01-15 Anit Kumar Sahu , Dusan Jakovetic , Soummya Kar

Clustered cell-free networking has emerged as a promising architecture to balance the high performance of cell-free massive MIMO and the scalability of traditional cellular systems. However, achieving fairness across subnetworks remains a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Chaowen Deng , Jie Fan , Boxiang Ren , Ziyuan Lyu , Jingchen Peng , Hao Wu , Junyuan Wang

We study the mean estimation problem under communication and local differential privacy constraints. While previous work has proposed \emph{order}-optimal algorithms for the same problem (i.e., asymptotically optimal as we spend more bits),…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Berivan Isik , Wei-Ning Chen , Ayfer Ozgur , Tsachy Weissman , Albert No

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…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-17 Rajarshi Saha , Mert Pilanci , Andrea J. Goldsmith

We consider the communication complexity of some fundamental convex optimization problems in the point-to-point (coordinator) and blackboard communication models. We strengthen known bounds for approximately solving linear regression,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-03-29 Mehrdad Ghadiri , Yin Tat Lee , Swati Padmanabhan , William Swartworth , David Woodruff , Guanghao Ye

In this work, we expand the cooperative multi-task semantic communication framework (CMT-SemCom) introduced in [1], which divides the semantic encoder on the transmitter side into a common unit (CU) and multiple specific units (SUs), to a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-27 Ahmad Halimi Razlighi , Carsten Bockelmann , Armin Dekorsy

This paper considers max-min fairness for wireless energy transfer in a downlink multiuser communication system. Our resource allocation design maximizes the minimum harvested energy among multiple multiple-antenna energy harvesting…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-04-08 Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Robert Schober

In the coordinator model of communication with $s$ servers, given an arbitrary non-negative function $f$, we study the problem of approximating the sum $\sum_{i \in [n]}f(x_i)$ up to a $1 \pm \varepsilon$ factor. Here the vector $x \in R^n$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-04-01 Hossein Esfandiari , Praneeth Kacham , Vahab Mirrokni , David P. Woodruff , Peilin Zhong

We study a unified framework for optimization problems defined on dual-modular instances, where the input comprises a finite ground set $V$ and two set functions: a monotone supermodular reward function $\f$ and a strictly monotone…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-05-27 T-H. Hubert Chan , Shinuo Ma

We prove lower bounds on complexity measures, such as the approximate degree of a Boolean function and the approximate rank of a Boolean matrix, using quantum arguments. We prove these lower bounds using a quantum query algorithm for the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-07-18 Shalev Ben-David , Adam Bouland , Ankit Garg , Robin Kothari

We consider the problem of multiple description scalar quantizers and describing the achievable rate-distortion tuples in that setting. We formulate it as a combinatorial optimization problem of arranging numbers in a matrix to minimize the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Tanya Y. Berger-Wolf , Edward M. Reingold

We initiate the study of the communication complexity of fair division with indivisible goods. We focus on some of the most well-studied fairness notions (envy-freeness, proportionality, and approximations thereof) and valuation classes…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-03-25 Benjamin Plaut , Tim Roughgarden

In a grid constrained transactive distribution system market, distribution locational marginal pricing DLMP is influenced by the distance from the substation to an energy user, thereby causing households that are further away from the…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2019-06-11 Ahmad Khaled Zarabie , Sanjoy Das

Deep AUC (area under the ROC curve) Maximization (DAM) has attracted much attention recently due to its great potential for imbalanced data classification. However, the research on Federated Deep AUC Maximization (FDAM) is still limited.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Zhuoning Yuan , Zhishuai Guo , Yi Xu , Yiming Ying , Tianbao Yang

We consider the system-wide utility maximization problem in the downlink of a cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system whereby a very large number of access points (APs) simultaneously serve a group of users.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-22 Muhammad Farooq , Hien Quoc Ngo , Een-Kee Hong , Le-Nam Tran

In this paper, we propose a beamforming design that jointly considers two conflicting performance metrics, namely the sum rate and fairness, for a multiple-input single-output non-orthogonal multiple access system. Unlike the conventional…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-02-18 Haitham Al-Obiedollah , Kanapathippillai Cumanan , Jeyarajan Thiyagalingam , Alister G. Burr , Zhiguo Ding , Octavia A. Dobre

We take a new perspective on the weighted sum-rate maximization in multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) interference networks, by formulating an equivalent max-min problem. This seemingly trivial reformulation has significant implications:…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-09-17 Lijun Chen , Seungil You