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This paper investigates the problem of distributed network-wide averaging and proposes a new greedy gossip algorithm. Instead of finding the optimal path of each node in a greedy manner, the proposed approach utilises a suboptimal…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-08-20 Hyo-Sang Shin , Shaoming He , Antonios Tsourdos

Consider a network of agents connected by communication links, where each agent holds a real value. The gossip problem consists in estimating the average of the values diffused in the network in a distributed manner. We develop a method…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2019-06-12 Raphaël Berthier , Francis Bach , Pierre Gaillard

The problems discussed in this paper are motivated by general ratio consensus algorithms, introduced by Kempe, Dobra, and Gehrke (2003) in a simple form as the push-sum algorithm, later extended by B\'en\'ezit et al. (2010) under the name…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-05-19 Balázs Gerencsér , László Gerencsér

Efficient and robust algorithms for decentralized estimation in networks are essential to many distributed systems. Whereas distributed estimation of sample mean statistics has been the subject of a good deal of attention, computation of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-01-25 Igor Colin , Aurélien Bellet , Joseph Salmon , Stéphan Clémençon

We study gossip algorithms for the fundamental rumor spreading problem, where the goal is to disseminate a rumor from a given source node to all nodes in an arbitrary (and unknown) graph. Gossip algorithms allow each node to call only one…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Fabien Dufoulon , William K. Moses , Gopal Pandurangan

In the context of sensor networks, gossip algorithms are a popular, well esthablished technique for achieving consensus when sensor data is encoded in linear spaces. Gossip algorithms also have several extensions to non linear data spaces.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-05-19 Anass Bellachehab , Jérémie Jakubowicz

This paper presents gossip algorithms for aggregation tasks that demonstrate both robustness to adversarial corruptions of any order of magnitude and optimality across a substantial range of these corruption levels. Gossip algorithms…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Bernhard Haeupler , Marc Kaufmann , Raghu Raman Ravi , Ulysse Schaller

We design and analyze gossip algorithms for networks with correlated data. In these networks, either the data to be distributed, the data already available at the nodes, or both, are correlated. This model is applicable for a variety of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-02-09 Bernhard Haeupler , Asaf Cohen , Chen Avin , Muriel Médard

In this paper, randomized gossip-type matrix-weighted consensus algorithms are proposed for both leaderless and leader-follower topologies. First, we introduce the notion of expected matrix-weighted network, which captures the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-25 Nhat-Minh Le-Phan , Minh Hoang Trinh , Phuoc Doan Nguyen

In this paper, we study gossip algorithms in communication models that describe the peer-to-peer networking functionality included in most standard smartphone operating systems. We begin by describing and analyzing a new synchronous gossip…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Calvin Newport , Alex Weaver , Chaodong Zheng

This paper studies reliability of probabilistic neighbor-aware gossip algorithms over three well- known large-scale random topologies, namely Bernoulli (or Erd\H{o}s-R\'enyi) graph, the random geometric graph, and the scale-free graph. We…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-04-20 Ruijing Hu , Leander Jehl

Communication overhead hinders the scalability of large-scale distributed training. Gossip SGD, where each node averages only with its neighbors, is more communication-efficient than the prevalent parallel SGD. However, its convergence rate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-20 Yiming Chen , Kun Yuan , Yingya Zhang , Pan Pan , Yinghui Xu , Wotao Yin

We have recently proposed quantized gossip algorithms which solve the consensus and averaging problems on directed graphs with the least restrictive connectivity requirements. In this paper we study the convergence time of these algorithms.…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2011-11-10 Kai Cai , Hideaki Ishii

The influence of node mobility on the convergence time of averaging gossip algorithms in networks is studied. It is shown that a small number of fully mobile nodes can yield a significant decrease in convergence time. A method is developed…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2011-06-22 Anand D. Sarwate , Alexandros G. Dimakis

Gossip protocols are popular methods for average consensus problems in distributed computing. We prove new convergence guarantees for a variety of such protocols, including path, clique, and synchronous pairwise gossip. These arise by…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-10-28 Jamie Haddock , Benjamin Jarman , Chen Yap

We study the weighted average consensus problem for a gossip network of agents with vector-valued states. For a given matrix-weighted graph, the gossip process is described by a sequence of pairs of adjacent agents communicating and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-11-09 Erkan Bayram , Mohamed-Ali Belabbas , Tamer Başar

Distributed estimation of the average value over a Wireless Sensor Network has recently received a lot of attention. Most papers consider single variable sensors and communications with feedback (e.g. peer-to-peer communications). However,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-06-11 Franck Iutzeler , Philippe Ciblat , Walid Hachem

This paper addresses the problem of robust estimation in gossip algorithms over arbitrary communication graphs. Gossip algorithms are fully decentralized, relying only on local neighbor-to-neighbor communication, making them well-suited for…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-01-01 Anna Van Elst , Igor Colin , Stephan Clémençon

Distributed averaging is among the most relevant cooperative control problems, with applications in sensor and robotic networks, distributed signal processing, data fusion, and load balancing. Consensus and gossip algorithms have been…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-06 Christel Sirocchi , Alessandro Bogliolo

Although gossip and random walk-based learning algorithms are widely known for decentralized learning, there has been limited theoretical and experimental analysis to understand their relative performance for different graph topologies and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Peyman Gholami , Hulya Seferoglu