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In multi-agent systems, strong connectivity of the communication network is often crucial for establishing consensus protocols, which underpin numerous applications in decision-making and distributed optimization. However, this connectivity…

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We consider decentralized optimization problems in which a number of agents collaborate to minimize the average of their local functions by exchanging over an underlying communication graph. Specifically, we place ourselves in an…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-03-20 Yu-Guan Hsieh , Yassine Laguel , Franck Iutzeler , Jérôme Malick

This paper studies a class of distributed online convex optimization problems for heterogeneous linear multi-agent systems. Agents in a network, knowing only their own outputs, need to minimize the time-varying costs through neighboring…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-07-04 Yang Yu , Xiuxian Li , Li Li , Lihua Xie

Consider the problem of minimizing the expected value of a (possibly nonconvex) cost function parameterized by a random (vector) variable, when the expectation cannot be computed accurately (e.g., because the statistics of the random…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2017-12-12 Yang Yang , Gesualdo Scutari , Daniel P. Palomar , Marius Pesavento

We study asynchronous distributed decision-making for scalable multi-agent bandit submodular maximization. We are motivated by distributed information-gathering tasks in unknown environments and under heterogeneous inter-agent communication…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-09 Pranjal Sharma , Zirui Xu , Vasileios Tzoumas

We consider the problem of decentralized optimization where a collection of agents, each having access to a local cost function, communicate over a time-varying directed network and aim to minimize the sum of those functions. In practice,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-01 Yiyue Chen , Abolfazl Hashemi , Haris Vikalo

We consider discrete-time distributed averaging algorithms over multi-agent networks with measurement noises and time-varying random graph flows. Each agent updates its state by relative states between neighbours with both additive and…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-02-14 Tao Li , Jiexiang Wang

This paper fully studies distributed optimal consensus problem in non-directed dynamical networks. We consider a group of networked agents that are supposed to rendezvous at the optimal point of a collective convex objective function. Each…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-12-22 Amir Adibzadeh , Amir A. Suratgar , Mohammad B. Menhaja , Mohsen Zamani

This paper considers continuous-time coordination algorithms for networks of agents that seek to collectively solve a general class of nonsmooth convex optimization problems with an inherent distributed structure. Our algorithm design…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-05-17 Simon K. Niederländer , Jorge Cortés

This paper explores the distance-based relative state estimation problem in large-scale systems, which is hard to solve effectively due to its high-dimensionality and non-convexity. In this paper, we alleviate this inherent hardness to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-06-03 Tianyue Wu , Gongye Zaitian , Qianhao Wang , Fei Gao

In this paper, we consider distributed algorithms for solving the empirical risk minimization problem under the master/worker communication model. We develop a distributed asynchronous quasi-Newton algorithm that can achieve superlinear…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-06-11 Saeed Soori , Konstantin Mischenko , Aryan Mokhtari , Maryam Mehri Dehnavi , Mert Gurbuzbalaban

We consider a class of multi-agent cooperative consensus optimization problems with local nonlinear convex constraints where only those agents connected by an edge can directly communicate, hence, the optimal consensus decision lies in the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-02-23 Nazanin Abolfazli , Afrooz Jalilzadeh , Erfan Yazdandoost Hamedani

Cellular sheaves and sheaf Laplacians provide a far-reaching generalization of graphs and graph Laplacians, resulting in a wide array of applications ranging from machine learning to multi-agent control. In the context of multi-agent…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-02 Yichen Zhao , Tyler Hanks , Hans Riess , Samuel Cohen , Matthew Hale , James Fairbanks

Dual decomposition is widely utilized in distributed optimization of multi-agent systems. In practice, the dual decomposition algorithm is desired to admit an asynchronous implementation due to imperfect communication, such as time delay…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-03-05 Yifan Su , Zhaojian Wang , Ming Cao , Mengshuo Jia , Feng Liu

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…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-04-28 Chenguang Xi , Qiong Wu , Usman A. Khan

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

In this paper we propose and analyze a distributed algorithm for achieving globally optimal decisions, either estimation or detection, through a self-synchronization mechanism among linearly coupled integrators initialized with local…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2009-11-13 Gesualdo Scutari , Sergio Barbarossa , Loreto Pescosolido

We consider a scenario in which leaders are required to recruit teams of followers. Each leader cannot recruit all followers, but interaction is constrained according to a bipartite network. The objective for each leader is to reach a state…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2012-12-11 Lorenzo Coviello , Massimo Franceschetti

We consider cooperative multi-agent consensus optimization problems over both static and time-varying communication networks, where only local communications are allowed. The objective is to minimize the sum of agent-specific possibly…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-06-27 Erfan Yazdandoost Hamedani , Necdet Serhat Aybat

Techniques for coordination of multi-agent systems are vast and varied, often utilizing purpose-built solvers or controllers with tight coupling to the types of systems involved or the coordination goal. In this paper, we introduce a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-07 Tyler Hanks , Hans Riess , Samuel Cohen , Trevor Gross , Matthew Hale , James Fairbanks