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We study the problem of multi-agent control of a dynamical system with known dynamics and adversarial disturbances. Our study focuses on optimal control without centralized precomputed policies, but rather with adaptive control policies for…

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In this paper, we consider distributed optimization problems over a multi-agent network, where each agent can only partially evaluate the objective function, and it is allowed to exchange messages with its immediate neighbors. Differently…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-02-22 Davood Hajinezhad , Mingyi Hong , Alfredo Garcia

This paper considers the distributed consensus problem of linear multi-agent systems subject to different matching uncertainties for both the cases without and with a leader of bounded unknown control input. Due to the existence of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-12-31 Zhongkui Li , Zhisheng Duan , Frank Lewis

One fundamental problem in decentralized multi-agent optimization is the trade-off between gradient/sampling complexity and communication complexity. We propose new algorithms whose gradient and sampling complexities are graph topology…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-01-14 Guanghui Lan , Yuyuan Ouyang , Yi Zhou

This paper studies a class of distributed optimization algorithms by a set of agents, where each agent has only access to its own local convex objective function, and jointly minimizes the sum of the functions. The communications among…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-11-11 Qingguo Lü , Huaqing Li

The distributed non-smooth resource allocation problem over multi-agent networks is studied in this paper, where each agent is subject to globally coupled network resource constraints and local feasibility constraints described in terms of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-03-11 Xiaohong Nian , Fan Li , Dongxin Liu

This paper is concerned with the leader-following output consensus problem in the framework of distributed nonlinear observers. In stead of certain hypotheses on the leader system, a group of geometric conditions is put forward to develop a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-07-09 Haotian Xu , Jingcheng Wang , Bohui Wang , Hongyuan Wang , Ibrahim Brahmia

This paper considers the multi-agent linear least-squares problem in a server-agent network. In this problem, the system comprises multiple agents, each having a set of local data points, that are connected to a server. The goal for the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-29 Kushal Chakrabarti , Nirupam Gupta , Nikhil Chopra

In this paper, a multi-agent coordination problem with steady-state regulation constraints is investigated for a class of nonlinear systems. Unlike existing leader-following coordination formulations, the reference signal is not given by a…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-08-15 Yutao Tang , Peng Yi

The paper studies the distributed stochastic compositional optimization problems over networks, where all the agents' inner-level function is the sum of each agent's private expectation function. Focusing on the aggregative structure of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-11-10 Shengchao Zhao , Yongchao Liu

We address the issue of identifying conditions under which the centralized solution to the optimal multi-agent persistent monitoring problem can be recovered in a decentralized event-driven manner. In this problem, multiple agents interact…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-08-23 Nan Zhou , Christos G. Cassandras , Xi Yu , Sean B. Andersson

Mobile agents have emerged as a powerful framework for solving fundamental graph problems in distributed settings in recent times. These agents, modelled as autonomous physical or software entities, possess local computation power, finite…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Prabhat Kumar Chand , Anisur Rahaman Molla

This paper introduces Multi-Agent MDP Homomorphic Networks, a class of networks that allows distributed execution using only local information, yet is able to share experience between global symmetries in the joint state-action space of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-02 Elise van der Pol , Herke van Hoof , Frans A. Oliehoek , Max Welling

In this paper, we aim to solve a distributed optimization problem with affine coupling constraints in a multi-agent network, where the cost function of the agents is composed of smooth and possibly non-smooth parts. To solve this problem,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-05-31 Jianzheng Wang , Guoqiang Hu

We study distributed (strongly convex) optimization problems over a network of agents, with no centralized nodes. The loss functions of the agents are assumed to be \textit{similar}, due to statistical data similarity or otherwise. In order…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-04-12 Ye Tian , Gesualdo Scutari , Tianyu Cao , Alexander Gasnikov

This study deals with the problem of optimizing transmit power in high density heterogeneous networks. In the communication network, effective methods of allocating transmit power, in order to reduce the total transmit power, but still…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-23 Nguyen Doan Hieu , Dao Le Thu Thao , Tran Manh Hoang

We address the multi-agent motion planning problem where interactions, collisions, and congestion co-exist. Conventional game-theoretic planners capture interactions among agents but often converge to conservative, congested equilibria.…

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

In this paper, we develop and present a novel strategy for safe coordination of a large-scale multi-agent team with ``\textit{local deformation}" capabilities. Multi-agent coordination is defined by our proposed method as a multi-layer…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-04-19 Harshvardhan Uppaluru , Hossein Rastgoftar

We consider the problems of tracking an ensemble of indistinguishable agents with linear dynamics based only on output measurements. In this setting, the dynamics of the agents can be modeled by distribution flows in the state space and the…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-03-07 Yongxin Chen , Johan Karlsson
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