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Distributed optimization utilizes local computation and communication to realize a global aim of optimizing the sum of local objective functions. This article addresses a class of constrained distributed nonconvex optimization problems…

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Distributed optimization has gained significant attention in recent years, primarily fueled by the availability of a large amount of data and privacy-preserving requirements. This paper presents a fixed-time convergent optimization…

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Multi-agent optimization problems with many objective functions have drawn much interest over the past two decades. Many works on the subject minimize the sum of objective functions, which implicitly carries a decision about the problem…

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The non-smooth finite-sum minimization is a fundamental problem in machine learning. This paper develops a distributed stochastic proximal-gradient algorithm with random reshuffling to solve the finite-sum minimization over time-varying…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-10-11 Xia Jiang , Xianlin Zeng , Jian Sun , Jie Chen , Lihua Xie

In this paper, we study the optimal convergence rate for distributed convex optimization problems in networks. We model the communication restrictions imposed by the network as a set of affine constraints and provide optimal complexity…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-11-16 César A. Uribe , Soomin Lee , Alexander Gasnikov , Angelia Nedić

This paper addresses a distributed convex optimization problem with a class of coupled constraints, which arise in a multi-agent system composed of multiple communities modeled by cliques. First, we propose a fully distributed…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-11-21 Yuto Watanabe , Kazunori Sakurama

In this work, we consider a distributed multi-agent stochastic optimization problem, where each agent holds a local objective function that is smooth and convex, and that is subject to a stochastic process. The goal is for all agents to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-10-12 Elissa Mhanna , Mohamad Assaad

This paper studies distributed stochastic nonconvex optimization problems with compressed communication and differential privacy, in which each agent aims to minimize the sum of all agents' cost functions by using local compressed…

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Consider a set of agents collaboratively solving a distributed convex optimization problem, asynchronously, under stringent communication constraints. In such situations, when an agent is activated and is allowed to communicate with only…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-10-28 Ashwin Verma , Marcos M. Vasconcelos , Urbashi Mitra , Behrouz Touri

In this paper, we consider a large network containing many regions such that each region is equipped with a worker with some data processing and communication capability. For such a network, some workers may become stragglers due to the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-14 Elie Atallah , Nazanin Rahnavard , Qiyu Sun

We study the so-called distributed two-time-scale gradient method for solving convex optimization problems over a network of agents when the communication bandwidth between the nodes is limited, and so information that is exchanged between…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-01 Marcos M. Vasconcelos , Thinh T. Doan , Urbashi Mitra

We propose a distributed method to solve a multi-agent optimization problem with strongly convex cost function and equality coupling constraints. The method is based on Nesterov's accelerated gradient approach and works over stochastically…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-12-17 Wicak Ananduta , Carlos Ocampo-Martinez , Angelia Nedić

Distributed stochastic non-convex optimization problems have recently received attention due to the growing interest of signal processing, computer vision, and natural language processing communities in applications deployed over…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-14 Yiyue Chen , Abolfazl Hashemi , Haris Vikalo

We study distributed stochastic nonconvex optimization in multi-agent networks. We introduce a novel algorithmic framework for the distributed minimization of the sum of the expected value of a smooth (possibly nonconvex) function (the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-13 Paolo Di Lorenzo , Simone Scardapane

Distributed optimization enables networked agents to cooperatively solve a global optimization problem even with each participating agent only having access to a local partial view of the objective function. Despite making significant…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-10-04 Yongqiang Wang , Tamer Başar

Distributed learning has gained significant attention due to its advantages in scalability, privacy, and fault tolerance.In this paradigm, multiple agents collaboratively train a global model by exchanging parameters only with their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Ziqin Chen , Yongqiang Wang

We consider the distributed optimization problem, the goal of which is to minimize the sum of local objective functions over a directed network. Though it has been widely studied recently, most of the existing algorithms are designed for…

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In this paper, we analyze the convergence of a distributed Robbins-Monro algorithm for both constrained and unconstrained optimization in multi-agent systems. The algorithm searches for local minima of a (nonconvex) objective function which…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-04-20 Pascal Bianchi , Jérémie Jakubowicz

In this paper, a decentralized proximal method of multipliers (DPMM) is proposed to solve constrained convex optimization problems over multi-agent networks, where the local objective of each agent is a general closed convex function, and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-10-25 Kai Gong , Liwei Zhang

In this paper, we propose Distributed Mirror Descent (DMD) algorithm for constrained convex optimization problems on a (strongly-)connected multi-agent network. We assume that each agent has a private objective function and a constraint…

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