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Stochastic gradient descent (SGD) is a widely adopted iterative method for optimizing differentiable objective functions. In this paper, we propose and discuss a novel approach to scale up SGD in applications involving non-convex functions…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-10-07 Saad Mohamad , Hamad Alamri , Abdelhamid Bouchachia

The distributed subgradient method (DSG) is a widely discussed algorithm to cope with large-scale distributed optimization problems in the arising machine learning applications. Most exisiting works on DSG focus on ideal communication…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-24 Zhaoyue Xia , Jun Du , Yong Ren

We consider the task of decentralized minimization of the sum of smooth strongly convex functions stored across the nodes of a network. For this problem, lower bounds on the number of gradient computations and the number of communication…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-11-16 Dmitry Kovalev , Adil Salim , Peter Richtárik

Submodular maximization generalizes many fundamental problems in discrete optimization, including Max-Cut in directed/undirected graphs, maximum coverage, maximum facility location and marketing over social networks. In this paper we…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-01-18 Ariel Kulik , Hadas Shachnai , Tami Tamir

In decentralized optimization over networks, synchronizing the updates of all nodes incurs significant communication overhead. For this reason, much of the recent literature has focused on the analysis and design of asynchronous…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-29 Marina Costantini , Nikolaos Liakopoulos , Panayotis Mertikopoulos , Thrasyvoulos Spyropoulos

We consider the problem of decentralized optimization over time-varying directed networks. The network nodes can access only their local objectives, and aim to collaboratively minimize a global function by exchanging messages with their…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-03 Yiyue Chen , Abolfazl Hashemi , Haris Vikalo

Decentralized min-max optimization allows multi-agent systems to collaboratively solve global min-max optimization problems by facilitating the exchange of model updates among neighboring agents, eliminating the need for a central server.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Yueyang Quan , Chang Wang , Shengjie Zhai , Minghong Fang , Zhuqing Liu

Decentralized optimization to minimize a finite sum of functions over a network of nodes has been a significant focus within control and signal processing research due to its natural relevance to optimal control and signal estimation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Ran Xin , Shi Pu , Angelia Nedić , Usman A. Khan

This paper considers decentralized optimization of convex functions with mixed affine equality constraints involving both local and global variables. Constraints on global variables may vary across different nodes in the network, while…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-05 Demyan Yarmoshik , Nhat Trung Nguyen , Alexander Rogozin , Alexander Gasnikov

We study the consensus decentralized optimization problem where the objective function is the average of $n$ agents private non-convex cost functions; moreover, the agents can only communicate to their neighbors on a given network topology.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-07-20 Sulaiman A. Alghunaim , Kun Yuan

Methods for distributed optimization have received significant attention in recent years owing to their wide applicability in various domains. A distributed optimization method typically consists of two key components: communication and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-06-04 Albert S. Berahas , Raghu Bollapragada , Nitish Shirish Keskar , Ermin Wei

Network-distributed optimization has attracted significant attention in recent years due to its ever-increasing applications. However, the classic decentralized gradient descent (DGD) algorithm is communication-inefficient for large-scale…

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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…

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$L_0$-smoothness, which has been pivotal to advancing decentralized optimization theory, is often fairly restrictive for modern tasks like deep learning. The recent advent of relaxed $(L_0,L_1)$-smoothness condition enables improved…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-13 Zhanhong Jiang , Aditya Balu , Soumik Sarkar

In this paper, we propose a Differentially Private Stochastic Gradient Push with Compressed communication (termed DP-CSGP) for decentralized learning over directed graphs. Different from existing works, the proposed algorithm is designed to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Zehan Zhu , Heng Zhao , Yan Huang , Joey Tianyi Zhou , Shouling Ji , Jinming Xu

In this paper, we consider the problem of black box continuous submodular maximization where we only have access to the function values and no information about the derivatives is provided. For a monotone and continuous DR-submodular…

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We present a differentiable, decision-oriented learning framework for cost prediction in a class of multi-robot decision-making problems, in which the robots need to trade off the task performance with the costs of taking actions when they…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Guangyao Shi , Chak Lam Shek , Nare Karapetyan , Pratap Tokekar

We consider a decentralized optimization problem for networks affected by communication delays. Examples of such networks include collaborative machine learning, sensor networks, and multi-agent systems. To mimic communication delays, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-03 Tomas Ortega , Hamid Jafarkhani

We study decentralized optimization where multiple agents minimize the average of their (strongly) convex, smooth losses over a communication graph. Convergence of the existing decentralized methods generally hinges on an apriori, proper…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-01 Ilya Kuruzov , Xiaokai Chen , Gesualdo Scutari , Alexander Gasnikov

We address differential privacy for fully distributed optimization subject to a shared inequality constraint. By co-designing the distributed optimization mechanism and the differential-privacy noise injection mechanism, we propose the…

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