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Decentralized Federated Learning (DFL) has emerged as a robust distributed paradigm that circumvents the single-point-of-failure and communication bottleneck risks of centralized architectures. However, a significant challenge arises as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Lianshuai Guo , Zhongzheng Yuan , Xunkai Li , Yinlin Zhu , Meixia Qu , Wenyu Wang

We consider the distributed optimization problem where $n$ agents each possessing a local cost function, collaboratively minimize the average of the $n$ cost functions over a connected network. Assuming stochastic gradient information is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-05-12 Kun Huang , Shi Pu

In this work, we develop a distributed source routing algorithm for topology discovery suitable for ISP transport networks, that is however inspired by opportunistic algorithms used in ad hoc wireless networks. We propose a plug-and-play…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2011-05-02 Christophe Betoule , Thomas Bonald , Remi Clavier , Dario Rossi , Giuseppe Rossini , Gilles Thouenon

Online algorithms make decisions based on past inputs. In general, the decision may depend on the entire history of inputs. If many computers run the same online algorithm with the same input stream but are started at different times, they…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-10-14 Maciej Pacut , Mahmoud Parham , Joel Rybicki , Stefan Schmid , Jukka Suomela , Aleksandr Tereshchenko

We study the decentralized online regularized linear regression algorithm over random time-varying graphs. At each time step, every node runs an online estimation algorithm consisting of an innovation term processing its own new…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Xiwei Zhang , Tao Li , Xiaozheng Fu

The increasing popularity of cloud computing has resulted in a proliferation of data centers. Effective placement of data centers improves network performance and minimizes clients' perceived latency. The problem of determining the optimal…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-02-06 Wuqiong Luo , Wee Peng Tay , Peng Sun , Yonggang Wen

We consider the distributed learning problem where a network of $n$ agents seeks to minimize a global function $F$. Agents have access to $F$ through noisy gradients, and they can locally communicate with their neighbors a network. We study…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-09 Tiancheng Qin , S. Rasoul Etesami , César A. Uribe

Embeddings of graphs into distributions of trees that preserve distances in expectation are a cornerstone of many optimization algorithms. Unfortunately, online or dynamic algorithms which use these embeddings seem inherently randomized and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-02-11 Bernhard Haeupler , D Ellis Hershkowitz , Goran Zuzic

We consider the problem of computing routing schemes in the $\mathsf{HYBRID}$ model of distributed computing where nodes have access to two fundamentally different communication modes. In this problem nodes have to compute small labels and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Sam Coy , Artur Czumaj , Christian Scheideler , Philipp Schneider , Julian Werthmann

We revisit the design of self-adjusting single-source tree networks. The problem can be seen as a generalization of the classic list update problem to trees, and finds applications in reconfigurable datacenter networks. We are given a fixed…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-04-25 Chen Avin , Marcin Bienkowski , Iosif Salem , Robert Sama , Stefan Schmid , Paweł Schmidt

In this paper, we present a new routing algorithm called "the Self Avoiding Paths Routing Algorithm". Its application to traffic flow in scale-free networks shows a great improvement over the so called "efficient routing" protocol while at…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2013-02-18 Abdeljalil Rachadi , Mohamed Jedra , Noureddine Zahid

We investigate the vulnerabilities of consensus-based distributed optimization protocols to nodes that deviate from the prescribed update rule (e.g., due to failures or adversarial attacks). We first characterize certain fundamental…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-06-30 Shreyas Sundaram , Bahman Gharesifard

Despite the recent success of Graph Neural Networks (GNNs), training GNNs on large graphs remains challenging. The limited resource capacities of the existing servers, the dependency between nodes in a graph, and the privacy concern due to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Morteza Ramezani , Weilin Cong , Mehrdad Mahdavi , Mahmut T. Kandemir , Anand Sivasubramaniam

We study distributed algorithms for solving global optimization problems in which the objective function is the sum of local objective functions of agents and the constraint set is given by the intersection of local constraint sets of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-03-14 Ilan Lobel , Asuman Ozdaglar , Diego Feijer

Given a set of messages to be transmitted in packages from a set of sending stations to a set of receiving stations, we are required to schedule the packages so as to achieve the minimum possible time from the moment the 1st transmission…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2014-04-14 Timotheos Aslanidis , Marios-Evangelos Kogias

Graphs provide a natural way to represent data by encoding information about objects and the relationships between them. With the ever-increasing amount of data collected and generated, locating specific patterns of relationships between…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Tatyana Benko , Rebecca Jones , Lucas Tate

Federated learning has emerged as a privacy-preserving technique for collaborative model training across heterogeneously distributed silos. Yet, its reliance on a single central server introduces potential bottlenecks and risks of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Huong Nguyen , Hong-Tri Nguyen , Praveen Kumar Donta , Susanna Pirttikangas , Lauri Lovén

In realistic distributed optimization scenarios, individual nodes possess only partial information and communicate over bandwidth constrained channels. For this reason, the development of efficient distributed algorithms is essential. In…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-21 Apostolos I. Rikos , Wei Jiang , Themistoklis Charalambous , Karl H. Johansson

The in-memory graph layout or organization has a considerable impact on the time and energy efficiency of distributed memory graph computations. It affects memory locality, inter-task load balance, communication time, and overall memory…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-01-04 George M Slota , Sivasankaran Rajamanickam , Kamesh Madduri

When designing large-scale distributed controllers, the information-sharing constraints between sub-controllers, as defined by a communication topology interconnecting them, are as important as the controller itself. Controllers implemented…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-29 Fengjun Yang , Nikolai Matni