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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

In this work, we investigate stochastic quasi-Newton methods for minimizing a finite sum of cost functions over a decentralized network. In Part I, we develop a general algorithmic framework that incorporates stochastic quasi-Newton…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-03-22 Jiaojiao Zhang , Huikang Liu , Anthony Man-Cho So , Qing Ling

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…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-24 Antai Xie , Xiaoqiang Ren , Xinlei Yi , Tao Yang , Xiaofan Wang

Many large-scale constrained optimization problems can be formulated as bilevel distributed optimization tasks over undirected networks, where agents collaborate to minimize a global cost function while adhering to constraints, relying only…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-25 Ajay Tak , Mayank Baranwal

We study distributed non-convex optimization on a time-varying multi-agent network. Each node has access to its own smooth local cost function, and the collective goal is to minimize the sum of these functions. We generalize the results…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-12-06 Tatiana Tatarenko , Behrouz Touri

This paper proposes a distributed stochastic projection-free algorithm for large-scale constrained finite-sum optimization whose constraint set is complicated such that the projection onto the constraint set can be expensive. The global…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-04-25 Xia Jiang , Xianlin Zeng , Lihua Xie , Jian Sun , Jie Chen

In this paper, we focus on solving a distributed convex aggregative optimization problem in a network, where each agent has its own cost function which depends not only on its own decision variables but also on the aggregated function of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-07-26 Tongyu Wang , Peng Yi

In this study, we consider an optimization problem with uncertainty dependent on decision variables, which has recently attracted attention due to its importance in machine learning and pricing applications. In this problem, the gradient of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-31 Yuya Hikima , Akiko Takeda

The distributed nonconvex optimization problem of minimizing a global cost function formed by a sum of $n$ local cost functions by using local information exchange is considered. This problem is an important component of many machine…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-01-11 Xinlei Yi , Shengjun Zhang , Tao Yang , Tianyou Chai , Karl H. Johansson

In this work, we consider the problem of a network of agents collectively minimizing a sum of convex functions. The agents in our setting can only access their local objective functions and exchange information with their immediate…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-10-01 Charikleia Iakovidou , Ermin Wei

In this paper we introduce a class of novel distributed algorithms for solving stochastic big-data convex optimization problems over directed graphs. In the addressed set-up, the dimension of the decision variable can be extremely high and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-10-06 Francesco Farina , Giuseppe Notarstefano

This paper considers a distributed stochastic non-convex optimization problem, where the nodes in a network cooperatively minimize a sum of $L$-smooth local cost functions with sparse gradients. By adaptively adjusting the stepsizes…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-01 Dongyu Han , Kun Liu , Yeming Lin , Yuanqing Xia

We study optimization algorithms for the finite sum problems frequently arising in machine learning applications. First, we propose novel variants of stochastic gradient descent with a variance reduction property that enables linear…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-07-06 Jakub Konečný

We analyze convergence rates of stochastic optimization procedures for non-smooth convex optimization problems. By combining randomized smoothing techniques with accelerated gradient methods, we obtain convergence rates of stochastic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-04-10 John C. Duchi , Peter L. Bartlett , Martin J. Wainwright

This paper investigates the distributed continuous-time nonconvex optimization problem over unbalanced directed networks. The objective is to cooperatively drive all the agent states to an optimal solution that minimizes the sum of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-12-01 Jin Zhang , Yahui Hao , Lu Liu , Haibo Ji

In this paper, we study the problem of distributed multi-agent optimization over a network, where each agent possesses a local cost function that is smooth and strongly convex. The global objective is to find a common solution that…

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

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

In this paper we analyze a zeroth-order proximal stochastic gradient method suitable for the minimization of weakly convex stochastic optimization problems. We consider nonsmooth and nonlinear stochastic composite problems, for which…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-21 Spyridon Pougkakiotis , Dionysios S. Kalogerias

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 work, we consider the distributed optimization of non-smooth convex functions using a network of computing units. We investigate this problem under two regularity assumptions: (1) the Lipschitz continuity of the global objective…

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