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This note studies the distributed non-convex optimization problem with non-smooth regularization, which has wide applications in decentralized learning, estimation and control. The objective function is the sum of different local objective…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-03-04 Xia Jiang , Xianlin Zeng , Jian Sun , Jie Chen

We provide a unifying framework for distributed convex optimization over time-varying networks, in the presence of constraints and uncertainty, features that are typically treated separately in the literature. We adopt a proximal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-05-24 Kostas Margellos , Alessandro Falsone , Simone Garatti , Maria Prandini

We study non-convex distributed optimization problems where a set of agents collaboratively solve a separable optimization problem that is distributed over a time-varying network. The existing methods to solve these problems rely on (at…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-04-26 Hadi Reisizadeh , Behrouz Touri , Soheil Mohajer

In this paper, a distributed subgradient-based algorithm is proposed for continuous-time multi-agent systems to search a feasible solution to convex inequalities. The algorithm involves each agent achieving a state constrained by its own…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-06-13 Kaihong Lu , Gangshan Jing , Long Wang

In this two-part work, we propose an algorithmic framework for solving non-convex problems whose objective function is the sum of a number of smooth component functions plus a convex (possibly non-smooth) or/and smooth (possibly non-convex)…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-07-24 Sandeep Kumar , Ketan Rajawat , Daniel P. Palomar

This papers studies multi-agent (convex and \emph{nonconvex}) optimization over static digraphs. We propose a general distributed \emph{asynchronous} algorithmic framework whereby i) agents can update their local variables as well as…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-09-12 Ye Tian , Ying Sun , Gesualdo Scutari

We present a distributed solution to optimizing a convex function composed of several non-convex functions. Each non-convex function is privately stored with an agent while the agents communicate with neighbors to form a network. We show…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-08-19 Shripad Gade , Nitin H. Vaidya

We study distributed multi-agent large-scale optimization problems, wherein the cost function is composed of a smooth possibly nonconvex sum-utility plus a DC (Difference-of-Convex) regularizer. We consider the scenario where the dimension…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-05-29 Ivano Notarnicola , Ying Sun , Gesualdo Scutari , Giuseppe Notarstefano

Distributed optimization has many applications, in communication networks, sensor networks, signal processing, machine learning, and artificial intelligence. Methods for distributed convex optimization are widely investigated, while those…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-22 Hsu Kao , Vijay Subramanian

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 propose a novel decomposition framework for the distributed optimization of Difference Convex (DC)-type nonseparable sum-utility functions subject to coupling convex constraints. A major contribution of the paper is to develop for the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-09-23 Alberth Alvarado , Gesualdo Scutari , Jong-Shi Pang

We introduce a new framework for the convergence analysis of a class of distributed constrained non-convex optimization algorithms in multi-agent systems. The aim is to search for local minimizers of a non-convex objective function which is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-12-03 Pascal Bianchi , Jérémie Jakubowicz

We consider the consensual distributed optimization problem in the Riemannian context. Specifically, the minimization of a sum of functions form is studied where each individual function in the sum is located at the node of a network. An…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-09-08 Suhail M. Shah

In this paper, we consider the problem of minimizing the sum of nonconvex and possibly nonsmooth functions over a connected multi-agent network, where the agents have partial knowledge about the global cost function and can only access the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-04-10 Davood Hajinezhad , Michael Zavlanos

Inspired and underpinned by the idea of integral feedback, a distributed constant gain algorithm is proposed for multi-agent networks to solve convex optimization problems with local linear constraints. Assuming agent interactions are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-11-19 Xuan Wang , Shaoshuai Mou , Brian. D. O. Anderson

We study decentralized asynchronous multiagent optimization over networks, modeled as static (possibly directed) graphs. The optimization problem consists of minimizing a (possibly nonconvex) smooth function--the sum of the agents' local…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-02-03 Ye Tian , Ying Sun , Gesualdo Scutari

Distributed consensus optimization has received considerable attention in recent years; several distributed consensus-based algorithms have been proposed for (nonsmooth) convex and (smooth) nonconvex objective functions. However, the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-11-05 Vyacheslav Kungurtsev

Distributed Optimization is an increasingly important subject area with the rise of multi-agent control and optimization. We consider a decentralized stochastic optimization problem where the agents on a graph aim to asynchronously optimize…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-10-22 Vyacheslav Kungurtsev , Mahdi Morafah , Tara Javidi , Gesualdo Scutari

The distributed non-smooth resource allocation problem over multi-agent networks is studied in this paper, where each agent is subject to globally coupled network resource constraints and local feasibility constraints described in terms of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-03-11 Xiaohong Nian , Fan Li , Dongxin Liu

The non-smooth finite-sum minimization is a fundamental problem in machine learning. This paper develops a distributed stochastic proximal-gradient algorithm with random reshuffling to solve the finite-sum minimization over time-varying…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-10-11 Xia Jiang , Xianlin Zeng , Jian Sun , Jie Chen , Lihua Xie