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The basic inverse problem in spectral graph theory consists in determining the graph given its eigenvalue spectrum. In this paper, we are interested in a network of technological agents whose graph is unknown, communicating by means of a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-08-20 Enzo Fioriti , Stefano Chiesa , Fabio Fratichini

We examine the impact of torpid mixing and meta-stability issues on the delay performance in wireless random-access networks. Focusing on regular meshes as prototypical scenarios, we show that the mean delays in an $L\times L$ toric grid…

Probability · Mathematics 2013-07-08 Alessandro Zocca , Sem C. Borst , Johan S. H. van Leeuwaarden , Francesca R. Nardi

In this letter, we study the problem of accelerating reaching average consensus over connected graphs in a discrete-time communication setting. Literature has shown that consensus algorithms can be accelerated by increasing the graph…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-11-14 Amir-Salar Esteki , Hossein Moradian , Solmaz S. Kia

In this paper, we consider consensus problems over a network of nodes, where the network is divided into a number of clusters. We are interested in the case where the communication topology within each cluster is dense as compared to the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-27 Thiem V. Pham , Thinh T. Doan , Dinh Hoa Nguyen

We analyze transport on a graph with multiple constraints and where the weight of the edges connecting the nodes is a dynamical variable. The network dynamics results from the interplay between a nonlinear function of the flow, dissipation,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-11-28 Frederic Folz , Kurt Mehlhorn , Giovanna Morigi

In this paper, a kind of neural network with time-varying delays is proposed to solve the problems of quadratic programming. The delay term of the neural network changes with time t. The number of neurons in the neural network is n + h, so…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-07-15 Ling Zhang , Xiaoqi Sun

We consider the weight design problem for the consensus algorithm under a finite time horizon. We assume that the underlying network is random where the links fail at each iteration with certain probability and the link failures can be…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-09-29 Dusan Jakovetic , Joao Xavier , Jose' M. F. Moura

We describe a protocol for the average consensus problem on any fixed undirected graph whose convergence time scales linearly in the total number nodes $n$. The protocol is completely distributed, with the exception of requiring all nodes…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-08-07 Alex Olshevsky

This paper considers distributed online nonconvex optimization with time-varying inequality constraints over a network of agents, where the nonconvex local loss and convex local constraint functions can vary arbitrarily across iterations.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-19 Kunpeng Zhang , Lei Xu , Xinlei Yi , Guanghui Wen , Ming Cao , Karl H. Johansson , Tianyou Chai , Tao Yang

We propose a weight design method to increase the convergence rate of distributed consensus. Prior work has focused on symmetric weight design due to computational tractability. We show that with proper choice of asymmetric weights, the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-03-14 He Hao , Prabir Barooah

Decentralized optimization strategies are helpful for various applications, from networked estimation to distributed machine learning. This paper studies finite-sum minimization problems described over a network of nodes and proposes a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-06 Mohammadreza Doostmohammadian , Zulfiya R. Gabidullina , Hamid R. Rabiee

Consensus over networked agents is typically studied using undirected or directed communication graphs. Undirected graphs enforce symmetry in information exchange, leading to convergence to the average of initial states, while directed…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-25 Abhinav Sinha , Dwaipayan Mukherjee , Shashi Ranjan Kumar

This paper considers optimization problems over networks where agents have individual objectives to meet, or individual parameter vectors to estimate, subject to subspace constraints that require the objectives across the network to lie in…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2020-04-22 Roula Nassif , Stefan Vlaski , Ali H. Sayed

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 propose several consensus protocols of the first and second order for networked multi-agent systems and provide explicit representations for their asymptotic states. These representations involve the eigenprojection of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-11-27 Rafig Agaev , Pavel Chebotarev

In graph signal processing, data samples are associated to vertices on a graph, while edge weights represent similarities between those samples. We propose a convex optimization problem to learn sparse well connected graphs from data. We…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-21 Eduardo Pavez , Antonio Ortega

Understanding what governs collective robustness and how it can be enhanced remains a central pursuit in network science. This paper investigates the robustness of multi-agent consensus networks, quantified by the $H_2$ performance metric,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-29 Jiamin Wang , Jian Liu , Feng Xiao , Haibin Duan , Yuanshi Zheng

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…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Gesualdo Scutari , Sergio Barbarossa , Loreto Pescosolido

We study the effects of nonzero time delays in stochastic synchronization problems with linear couplings in complex networks. We consider two types of time delays: transmission delays between interacting nodes and local delays at each node…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-12-03 D. Hunt , B. K. Szymanski , G. Korniss

A proper abstraction of a large-scale linear consensus network with a dense coupling graph is one whose number of coupling links is proportional to its number of subsystems and its performance is comparable to the original network. Optimal…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-09-06 Milad Siami , Nader Motee