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In this paper, we consider the problem of distributed online convex optimization, where a network of local agents aim to jointly optimize a convex function over a period of multiple time steps. The agents do not have any information about…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-11-13 Yan Zhang , Robert J. Ravier , Michael M. Zavlanos , Vahid Tarokh

This paper considers a distributed convex optimization problem over a time-varying multi-agent network, where each agent has its own decision variables that should be set so as to minimize its individual objective subject to local…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-05-22 Chuanye Gu , Zhiyou Wu , Jueyou Li , Yaning Guo

This paper presents a distributed optimization scheme over a network of agents in the presence of cost uncertainties and over switching communication topologies. Inspired by recent advances in distributed convex optimization, we propose a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-11-15 Saghar Hosseini , Airlie Chapman , Mehran Mesbahi

This technical note studies the distributed optimization problem of a sum of nonsmooth convex cost functions with local constraints. At first, we propose a novel distributed continuous-time projected algorithm, in which each agent knows its…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-11-29 Xianlin Zeng , Peng Yi , Yiguang Hong

In this paper, we focus on solving a distributed convex optimization problem in a network, where each agent has its own convex cost function and the goal is to minimize the sum of the agents' cost functions while obeying the network…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-08-02 Shi Pu , Wei Shi , Jinming Xu , Angelia Nedić

This paper is mainly devoted to the distributed second-order multi-agent optimization problem with unbalanced and directed networks. To deal with this problem, a new distributed algorithm is proposed based on the local neighbor information…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-05 Lipo Mo , Haokun Hu , Yongguang Yu , Guojian Ren

We study strongly convex distributed optimization problems where a set of agents are interested in solving a separable optimization problem collaboratively. In this paper, we propose and study a two time-scale decentralized gradient descent…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-08-16 Hadi Reisizadeh , Behrouz Touri , Soheil Mohajer

In this paper, a novel distributed optimization framework has been proposed. The key idea is to convert optimization problems into optimal control problems where the objective of each agent is to design the current control input minimizing…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-01 Ziyuan Guo , Yue Sun , Yeming Xu , Liping Zhang , Huanshui Zhang

Various distributed gradient descent algorithms for multi-agent optimization have incorporated the Nesterov accelerated gradient method, where the use of momentum enhances convergence rates. These algorithms have found broad applications in…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-21 Zihao Ren , Lei Wang , Guodong Shi

This paper proposes a multi-scale method to design a continuous-time distributed algorithm for constrained convex optimization problems by using multi-agents with Markov switched network dynamics and noisy inter-agent communications. Unlike…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-03-02 Wei Ni , Xiaoli Wang

We present a distributed proximal-gradient method for optimizing the average of convex functions, each of which is the private local objective of an agent in a network with time-varying topology. The local objectives have distinct…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2012-10-09 Annie I. Chen , Asuman Ozdaglar

We investigate a distributed optimization problem over a cooperative multi-agent time-varying network, where each agent has its own decision variables that should be set so as to minimize its individual objective subject to local…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-05-24 Chuanye Gu , Zhiyou Wu , Jueyou Li

Feedback optimization is an increasingly popular control paradigm to optimize dynamical systems, accounting for control objectives that concern the system operation at steady-state. Existing feedback optimization techniques heavily rely on…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-08 Amir Mehrnoosh , Gianluca Bianchin

This paper presents a special type of distributed optimization problems, where the summation of agents' local cost functions (i.e., global cost function) is convex, but each individual can be non-convex. Unlike most distributed optimization…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-08-16 Yipeng Pang , Guoqiang Hu

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

In this paper, distributed convex optimization problem over non-directed dynamical networks is studied. Here, networked agents with single-integrator dynamics are supposed to rendezvous at a point that is the solution of a global convex…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-07-18 Amir Adibzadeh , Mohsen Zamani , Amir A. Suratgar , Mohammad B. Menhaj

We study distributed composite optimization over networks: agents minimize the sum of a smooth (strongly) convex function, the agents' sum-utility, plus a non-smooth (extended-valued) convex one. We propose a general algorithmic framework…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-10-23 Jinming Xu , Ying Sun , Ye Tian , Gesualdo Scutari

We develop and analyze an asynchronous algorithm for distributed convex optimization when the objective writes a sum of smooth functions, local to each worker, and a non-smooth function. Unlike many existing methods, our distributed…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-12-13 Konstantin Mishchenko , Franck Iutzeler , Jérôme Malick

In this paper, we develop a distributed algorithm for solving a class of distributed convex optimization problems where the local objective functions can be a general nonsmooth function, and all equalities and inequalities are network-wide…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-14 Yeong-Ung Kim , Hyo-Sung Ahn

This work addresses distributed optimization, where a network of agents wants to minimize a global strongly convex objective function. The global function can be written as a sum of local convex functions, each of which is associated with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-09-16 Youbang Sun , Shahin Shahrampour