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To alleviate the shortage of computing power faced by clients in training deep neural networks (DNNs) using federated learning (FL), we leverage the edge computing and split learning to propose a model-splitting allowed FL (SFL) framework,…
Finding a set of nodes in a network, whose removal fragments the network below some target size at minimal cost is called network dismantling problem and it belongs to the NP-hard computational class. In this paper, we explore the…
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Hybrid model predictive control with both continuous and discrete variables is widely applicable to robotic control tasks, especially those involving contacts with the environment. Due to combinatorial complexity, the solving speed of…
This paper presents a computational approach to evaluate the resilience of electricity Distribution Networks (DNs) to cyber-physical failures. In our model, we consider an attacker who targets multiple DN components to maximize the loss of…
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Robust optimization is a framework for modeling optimization problems involving data uncertainty and during the last decades has been an area of active research. If we focus on linear programming (LP) problems with i) uncertain data, ii)…
In this paper we deal with a network of agents seeking to solve in a distributed way Mixed-Integer Linear Programs (MILPs) with a coupling constraint (modeling a limited shared resource) and local constraints. MILPs are NP-hard problems and…
We propose to generate Lagrangian cut for two-stage stochastic integer program by batch, in contrast to the existing methods which solve each Lagrangian subproblem at every iteration. We establish two convergence properties of the proposed…