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We propose a separation principle that enables a systematic way of designing decentralized algorithms used in consensus optimization. Specifically, we show that a decentralized optimization algorithm can be constructed by combining a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-03-05 Shuo Han

The distributed dual ascent is an established algorithm to solve strongly convex multi-agent optimization problems with separable cost functions, in the presence of coupling constraints. In this paper, we study its asynchronous counterpart.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-05-05 Mattia Bianchi , Wicak Ananduta , Sergio Grammatico

Distributed control algorithms are known to reduce overall computation time compared to centralized control algorithms. However, they can result in inconsistent solutions leading to the violation of safety-critical constraints. Inconsistent…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-26 Julius Beerwerth , Maximilian Kloock , Bassam Alrifaee

In this paper, we investigate the problem of decentralized consensus optimization over directed graphs with limited communication bandwidth. We introduce a novel decentralized optimization algorithm that combines the Reduced Consensus…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-11 Xu Du , Karl H. Johansson , Apostolos I. Rikos

We consider the problem of decentralized optimization where a collection of agents, each having access to a local cost function, communicate over a time-varying directed network and aim to minimize the sum of those functions. In practice,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-01 Yiyue Chen , Abolfazl Hashemi , Haris Vikalo

Optimal transport has been used extensively in resource matching to promote the efficiency of resources usages by matching sources to targets. However, it requires a significant amount of computations and storage spaces for large-scale…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-04-10 Rui Zhang , Quanyan Zhu

Motivated by applications in machine learning and statistics, we study distributed optimization problems over a network of processors, where the goal is to optimize a global objective composed of a sum of local functions. In these problems,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-05-14 Thinh T. Doan , Carolyn L. Beck , R. Srikant

The paper addresses large-scale, convex optimization problems that need to be solved in a distributed way by agents communicating according to a random time-varying graph. Specifically, the goal of the network is to minimize the sum of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-10-28 Andrea Camisa , Francesco Farina , Ivano Notarnicola , Giuseppe Notarstefano

In this paper, a distributed velocity-constrained consensus problem is studied for discrete-time multi-agent systems, where each agent's velocity is constrained to lie in a nonconvex set. A distributed constrained control algorithm is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-03-05 Peng Lin , Wei Ren , Huijun Gao

Decentralized optimization is crucial for multi-agent systems, with significant concerns about communication efficiency and privacy. This paper explores the role of efficient communication in decentralized stochastic gradient descent…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-10 Wei Huo , Changxin Liu , Kemi Ding , Karl Henrik Johansson , Ling Shi

We consider a decentralized convex unconstrained optimization problem, where the cost function can be decomposed into a sum of strongly convex and smooth functions, associated with individual agents, interacting over a static or…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-12-12 Dmitry Metelev , Aleksandr Beznosikov , Alexander Rogozin , Alexander Gasnikov , Anton Proskurnikov

Distributed consensus has been widely studied for sensor network applications. Whereas the asymptotic convergence rate has been extensively explored in prior work, other important and practical issues, including energy efficiency and link…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2013-04-10 Lei Chen , Jeff Frolik

As multi-agent networks grow in size and scale, they become increasingly difficult to synchronize, though agents must work together even when generating and sharing different information at different times. Targeting such cases, this paper…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-09-18 Stefan Hochhaus , Matthew Hale

The main contribution of this paper is an efficient and generalized decentralized monitoring algorithm allowing to detect satisfaction or violation of any regular specification by local monitors alone in a system without central observation…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2014-02-18 Tom Cornebize , Yliès Falcone

Decentralized optimization is well studied for smooth unconstrained problems. However, constrained problems or problems with composite terms are an open direction for research. We study structured (or composite) optimization problems, where…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-04-10 Alexander Rogozin , Anton Novitskii , Alexander Gasnikov

In decentralized optimization environments, each agent $i$ in a network of $n$ nodes has its own private function $f_i$, and nodes communicate with their neighbors to cooperatively minimize the aggregate objective $\sum_{i=1}^n f_i$. In…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-09-16 Marina Costantini , Nikolaos Liakopoulos , Panayotis Mertikopoulos , Thrasyvoulos Spyropoulos

We tackle the problem of a set of agents achieving resilient consensus in the presence of attacked agents. We present a discrete-time reputation-based consensus algorithm for synchronous and asynchronous networks by developing a local…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-02 Guilherme Ramos , Daniel Silvestre , Carlos Silvestre

The paper proves convergence to global optima for a class of distributed algorithms for nonconvex optimization in network-based multi-agent settings. Agents are permitted to communicate over a time-varying undirected graph. Each agent is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-03-19 Brian Swenson , Soummya Kar , H. Vincent Poor , Jose' M. F. Moura

We propose a distributed algorithm for time synchronization in mobile wireless sensor networks. Each node can employ the algorithm to estimate the global time based on its local clock time. The problem of time synchronization is formulated…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2014-12-30 Chenda Liao , Prabir Barooah

Motivated by large-scale optimization problems arising in the context of machine learning, there have been several advances in the study of asynchronous parallel and distributed optimization methods during the past decade. Asynchronous…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-25 Mahmoud Assran , Arda Aytekin , Hamid Feyzmahdavian , Mikael Johansson , Michael Rabbat