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We propose a distributed algorithm, termed the Directed-Distributed Projected Subgradient (D-DPS), to solve a constrained optimization problem over a multi-agent network, where the goal of agents is to collectively minimize the sum of…

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This paper considers nonconvex distributed constrained optimization over networks, modeled as directed (possibly time-varying) graphs. We introduce the first algorithmic framework for the minimization of the sum of a smooth nonconvex…

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This paper considers the problem of distributed optimization over time-varying graphs. For the case of undirected graphs, we introduce a distributed algorithm, referred to as DIGing, based on a combination of a distributed inexact gradient…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-03-21 Angelia Nedich , Alex Olshevsky , Wei Shi

This paper studies a distributed multi-agent convex optimization problem. The system comprises multiple agents in this problem, each with a set of local data points and an associated local cost function. The agents are connected to a…

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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…

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In this paper, we propose a new framework to study distributed optimization problems with stochastic gradients by employing a multi-agent system with continuous-time dynamics. Here the goal of the agents is to cooperatively minimize the sum…

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This paper aims at distributed multi-agent convex optimization where the communications network among the agents are presented by a random sequence of possibly state-dependent weighted graphs. This is the first work to consider both random…

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In this paper, we propose a distributed algorithm, called Directed-Distributed Gradient Descent (D-DGD), to solve multi-agent optimization problems over directed graphs. Existing algorithms mostly deal with similar problems under the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-02-02 Chenguang Xi , Qiong Wu , Usman A. Khan

This paper proposes a novel family of primal-dual-based distributed algorithms for smooth, convex, multi-agent optimization over networks that uses only gradient information and gossip communications. The algorithms can also employ…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-03-04 Jinming Xu , Ye Tian , Ying Sun , Gesualdo Scutari

In this work, we consider solving a distributed optimization problem in a multi-agent network with multiple clusters. In each cluster, the involved agents cooperatively optimize a separable composite function with a common decision…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-03-03 Jianzheng Wang , Guoqiang Hu

Motivated by distributed statistical learning over uncertain communication networks, we study distributed stochastic optimization by networked nodes to cooperatively minimize a sum of convex cost functions. The network is modeled by a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-03 Yan Chen , Alexander L. Fradkov , Keli Fu , Xiaozheng Fu , Tao Li

We study distributed composite optimization over networks: agents minimize the sum of a smooth (strongly) convex function, the agents' sum-utility, plus a non-smooth (extended-valued) convex one. We propose a general algorithmic framework…

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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

We consider a multi agent optimization problem where a set of agents collectively solves a global optimization problem with the objective function given by the sum of locally known convex functions. We focus on the case when information…

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In this paper, we study distributed stochastic optimization to minimize a sum of smooth and strongly-convex local cost functions over a network of agents, communicating over a strongly-connected graph. Assuming that each agent has access to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-11 Ran Xin , Anit Kumar Sahu , Usman A. Khan , Soummya Kar

We propose a new distributed optimization algorithm for solving a class of constrained optimization problems in which (a) the objective function is separable (i.e., the sum of local objective functions of agents), (b) the optimization…

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Feedback optimization is an increasingly popular control paradigm to optimize dynamical systems, accounting for control objectives that concern the system operation at steady-state. Existing feedback optimization techniques heavily rely on…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-08 Amir Mehrnoosh , Gianluca Bianchin

The distributed convex optimization problem over the multi-agent system is considered in this paper, and it is assumed that each agent possesses its own cost function and communicates with its neighbours over a sequence of time-varying…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-02-03 Cong Wang , Shengyuan Xu , Deming Yuan , Baoyong Zhang , Zhengqiang Zhang

In this paper, we develop a class of decentralized algorithms for solving a convex resource allocation problem in a network of $n$ agents, where the agent objectives are decoupled while the resource constraints are coupled. The agents…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-12-18 Angelia Nedić , Alex Olshevsky , Wei Shi