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We consider a decentralized optimization problem, in which $n$ nodes collaborate to optimize a global objective function using local communications only. While many decentralized algorithms focus on \emph{gossip} communications (pairwise…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-05-31 Hadrien Hendrikx

In this paper, we develop and analyze a gossip-based average consensus algorithm that enables all of the components of a distributed system, each with some initial value, to reach (approximate) average consensus on their initial values…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-09 Nicolaos E. Manitara , Apostolos I. Rikos , Christoforos N. Hadjicostis

In this paper, we study an asynchronous randomized gossip algorithm under unreliable communication. At each instance, two nodes are selected to meet with a given probability. When nodes meet, two unreliable communication links are…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-03-28 Guodong Shi , Mikael Johansson , Karl Henrik Johansson

We study gossip algorithms for the rumor spreading problem which asks one node to deliver a rumor to all nodes in an unknown network. We present the first protocol for any expander graph $G$ with $n$ nodes such that, the protocol informs…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2013-11-14 Zeyu Guo , He Sun

Gossip algorithms are pivotal in the dissemination of information within decentralized systems. Consequently, numerous gossip libraries have been developed and widely utilized especially in blockchain protocols for the propagation of blocks…

The randomized Kaczmarz (RK) method is an iterative method for approximating the least-squares solution of large linear systems of equations. The standard RK method uses sequential updates, making parallel computation difficult. Here, we…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-02-12 Jacob D. Moorman , Thomas K. Tu , Denali Molitor , Deanna Needell

The randomized block Kaczmarz (RBK) method is a widely utilized iterative scheme for solving large-scale linear systems. However, the theoretical analysis and practical effectiveness of this method heavily rely on a good row paving of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-03-19 Ruike Xiang , Jiaxin Xie , Qiye Zhang

Distributed gossip algorithm has been studied in literature for practical implementation of the distributed consensus algorithm as a fundamental algorithm for the purpose of in-network collaborative processing. This paper focuses on…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2015-12-14 Saber Jafarizadeh

This paper investigates the problem of distributed network-wide averaging and proposes a new greedy gossip algorithm. Instead of finding the optimal path of each node in a greedy manner, the proposed approach utilises a suboptimal…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-08-20 Hyo-Sang Shin , Shaoming He , Antonios Tsourdos

By introducing a subsampling strategy, we propose a randomized block Kaczmarz-Motzkin method for solving linear systems. Such strategy not only determines the block size, but also combines and extends two famous strategies, i.e., randomness…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-12-01 Yanjun Zhang , Hanyu Li

Gossip algorithms for distributed computation are attractive due to their simplicity, distributed nature, and robustness in noisy and uncertain environments. However, using standard gossip algorithms can lead to a significant waste in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-11-13 Alexandros G. Dimakis , Anand D. Sarwate , Martin J. Wainwright

Motivated by the randomized sketch to solve a variety of problems in scientific computation, we improve both the maximal weighted residual Kaczmarz method and the randomized block average Kaczmarz method using two new randomized sketch…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-18 Haochen Jiang , Dongdong Liu , Xianping Wu , Xu Yang

We describe an asynchronous parallel variant of the randomized Kaczmarz (RK) algorithm for solving the linear system $Ax=b$. The analysis shows linear convergence and indicates that nearly linear speedup can be expected if the number of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-06-10 Ji Liu , Stephen J. Wright , Srikrishna Sridhar

The Kaczmarz algorithm is an iterative technique designed to solve consistent linear systems of equations. It falls within the category of row-action methods, focusing on handling one equation per iteration. This characteristic makes it…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-02-01 Inês Ferreira , Juan A. Acebrón , José Monteiro

In this paper we study two related iterative randomized algorithms for distributed computation of averages. The first one is the recently proposed Broadcast Gossip Algorithm, in which at each iteration one randomly selected node broadcasts…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2011-07-25 Paolo Frasca , Fabio Fagnani

In this paper, randomized gossip-type matrix-weighted consensus algorithms are proposed for both leaderless and leader-follower topologies. First, we introduce the notion of expected matrix-weighted network, which captures the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-25 Nhat-Minh Le-Phan , Minh Hoang Trinh , Phuoc Doan Nguyen

In this paper we present various distributed algorithms for LP-type problems in the well-known gossip model. LP-type problems include many important classes of problems such as (integer) linear programming, geometric problems like smallest…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-04-25 Kristian Hinnenthal , Christian Scheideler , Martijn Struijs

Motivated by the large expansion in the study of social networks, this paper deals with the problem of multiple messages spreading over the same network using gossip algorithms. Given two messages distributed over some nodes of the graph,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-02-04 Amine Semma , Ismail Elouafiq

The convergence of the gossip process has been extensively studied; however, algorithms that generate a set of stochastic matrices, the infinite product of which converges to a rank-one matrix determined by a given weight vector, have been…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-02-28 Erkan Bayram , Mohamed-Ali Belabbas

This paper studies reliability of probabilistic neighbor-aware gossip algorithms over three well- known large-scale random topologies, namely Bernoulli (or Erd\H{o}s-R\'enyi) graph, the random geometric graph, and the scale-free graph. We…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-04-20 Ruijing Hu , Leander Jehl