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Here we consider the communications tactics appropriate for a group of agents that need to "swarm" together in a highly adversarial environment. Specfically, whilst they need to cooperate by exchanging information with each other about…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-04-07 Paul Kinsler , Sean Holman , Andrew Elliott , Cathryn N. Mitchell , R. Eddie Wilson

Gossip algorithms have recently received significant attention, mainly because they constitute simple and robust message-passing schemes for distributed information processing over networks. However for many topologies that are realistic…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2008-02-20 F. Benezit , A. G. Dimakis , P. Thiran , M. Vetterli

We study gossip algorithms for the rumor spreading problem which asks each node to deliver a rumor to all nodes in an unknown network. Gossip algorithms allow nodes only to call one neighbor per round and have recently attracted attention…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-04-08 Bernhard Haeupler

In many applications, nodes in a network desire not only a consensus, but an optimal one. To date, a family of subgradient algorithms have been proposed to solve this problem under general convexity assumptions. This paper shows that, for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2011-02-11 Jie Lu , Choon Yik Tang , Paul R. Regier , Travis D. Bow

This paper focuses on non-asymptotic diffusion time in asynchronous gossip protocols. Asynchronous gossip protocols are designed to perform distributed computation in a network of nodes by randomly exchanging messages on the associated…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-11-22 David Picard , Jérôme Fellus , Stéphane Garnier

Bilevel optimization have gained growing interests, with numerous applications found in meta learning, minimax games, reinforcement learning, and nested composition optimization. This paper studies the problem of distributed bilevel…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-06-23 Shuoguang Yang , Xuezhou Zhang , Mengdi Wang

Gossip has been shown to be a relatively efficient solution to problems of cooperation in reputation-based systems of exchange, but many studies don't conceptualize gossiping in a realistic way, often assuming near-perfect information or…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Jan Majewski , Francesca Giardini

In this work we present a new framework for the analysis and design of randomized gossip algorithms for solving the average consensus problem. We show how classical randomized iterative methods for solving linear systems can be interpreted…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-06-04 Nicolas Loizou , Peter Richtárik

Gossip protocols are widely used to disseminate information in massive peer-to-peer networks. These protocols are often claimed to guarantee privacy because of the uncertainty they introduce on the node that started the dissemination. But…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-08-05 Aurélien Bellet , Rachid Guerraoui , Hadrien Hendrikx

We study a general framework for broadcast gossip algorithms which use companion variables to solve the average consensus problem. Each node maintains an initial state and a companion variable. Iterative updates are performed asynchronously…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2012-09-03 Wu Shaochuan , Michael G. Rabbat

We consider the problem of decentralized constrained optimization with multiple agents $E_1,\ldots,E_N$ who jointly wish to learn the optimal solution set while keeping their feasible sets $\mathcal{P}_1,\ldots,\mathcal{P}_N$ private from…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Shreya Meel , Sennur Ulukus

We revisit the classic problem of spreading a piece of information in a group of $n$ fully connected processors. By suitably adding a small dose of randomness to the protocol of Gasienic and Pelc (1996), we derive for the first time…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-01-06 Benjamin Doerr , Carola Doerr , Shay Moran , Shlomo Moran

We introduce models of gossip based communication networks in which each node is simultaneously a sensor, a relay and a user of information. We model the status of ages of information between nodes as a discrete time Markov chain. In this…

Probability · Mathematics 2013-10-30 Jori Selen , Yoni Nazarathy , Lachlan L. H. Andrew , Hai L. Vu

This paper presents gossip algorithms for aggregation tasks that demonstrate both robustness to adversarial corruptions of any order of magnitude and optimality across a substantial range of these corruption levels. Gossip algorithms…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Bernhard Haeupler , Marc Kaufmann , Raghu Raman Ravi , Ulysse Schaller

This paper considers gossiping among mobile agents in graphs: agents move on the graph and have to disseminate their initial information to every other agent. We focus on self-stabilizing solutions for the gossip problem, where agents may…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2008-12-18 Toshimitsu Masuzawa , Sébastien Tixeuil

In this work we present novel provably accelerated gossip algorithms for solving the average consensus problem. The proposed protocols are inspired from the recently developed accelerated variants of the randomized Kaczmarz method - a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-11-01 Nicolas Loizou , Michael Rabbat , Peter Richtárik

This paper proposes and investigates a framework for clique gossip protocols. As complete subnetworks, the existence of cliques is ubiquitous in various social, computer, and engineering networks. By clique gossiping, nodes interact with…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-06-09 Yang Liu , Bo Li , Brian Anderson , Guodong Shi

Distributing Neural Network training is of particular interest for several reasons including scaling using computing clusters, training at data sources such as IOT devices and edge servers, utilizing underutilized resources across…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-07 Siddharth Pramod

The gossip-based distributed algorithms are widely used to solve decentralized optimization problems in various multi-agent applications, while they are generally vulnerable to data injection attacks by internal malicious agents as each…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Sissi Xiaoxiao Wu , Gangqiang Li , Shengli Zhang , Xiaohui Lin

We consider a fully connected network consisting of a source that maintains the current version of a file, $n$ nodes that use asynchronous gossip mechanisms to disseminate fresh information in the network, and an adversary who infects the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-18 Priyanka Kaswan , Sennur Ulukus