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This paper presents a distributed optimization scheme over a network of agents in the presence of cost uncertainties and over switching communication topologies. Inspired by recent advances in distributed convex optimization, we propose a…

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We consider distributed optimization over orthogonal collision channels in spatial random access networks. Users are spatially distributed and each user is in the interference range of a few other users. Each user is allowed to transmit…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-10-26 Kobi Cohen , Angelia Nedich , R. Srikant

This paper proposes a novel distributed interval observer design for linear time-invariant (LTI) discrete-time systems subject to bounded disturbances. In the proposed observer algorithm, each agent in a networked group exchanges…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-07 Mohammad Khajenejad , Scott Brown , Sonia Martinez

The electrical network reconfiguration problem aims to minimize losses in a distribution system by adjusting switches while ensuring radial topology. The growing use of renewable energy and the complexity of managing modern power grids make…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-12 Yacine Mokhtari , Patrick Coirault , Emmanuel Moulay , Jérôme Le Ny , Didier Larraillet

In this paper, we propose a fully distributed algorithm for second-order continuous-time multi-agent systems to solve the distributed optimization problem. The global objective function is a sum of private cost functions associated with the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-04-15 Xinlei Yi , Lisha Yao , Tao Yang , Jemin George , Karl H. Johansson

This paper addresses the sweep coverage problem of multi-agent systems in uncertain regions. A new formulation of distributed sweep coverage is proposed to cooperatively complete the workload in the uncertain region. Specifically, each…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-11-30 Chao Zhai

We consider the problem of function estimation by a multi-agent system comprising of two agents and a fusion center. Each agent receives data comprising of samples of an independent variable (input) and the corresponding values of the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-09 Aneesh Raghavan , Karl Henrik Johansson

The robust distributed state estimation for a class of continuous-time linear time-invariant systems is achieved by a novel kernel-based distributed observer, which, for the first time, ensures fixed-time convergence properties. The…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-21 Pudong Ge , Peng Li , Boli Chen , Fei Teng

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

Processing data collected by a network of agents often boils down to solving an optimization problem. The distributed nature of these problems calls for methods that are, themselves, distributed. While most collaborative learning problems…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-08-29 Inês Almeida , João Xavier

In this paper, we consider a network of processors aiming at cooperatively solving mixed-integer convex programs subject to uncertainty. Each node only knows a common cost function and its local uncertain constraint set. We propose a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-07-19 Mohammadreza Chamanbaz , Giuseppe Notarstefano , Francesco Sasso , Roland Bouffanais

We consider distributed convex-concave saddle point problems over arbitrary connected undirected networks and propose a decentralized distributed algorithm for their solution. The local functions distributed across the nodes are assumed to…

Multi-agent distributed consensus optimization problems arise in many signal processing applications. Recently, the alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) has been used for solving this family of problems. ADMM based distributed…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2015-06-18 Tsung-Hui Chang , Mingyi Hong , Xiangfeng Wang

Most algorithms for solving optimization problems or finding saddle points of convex-concave functions are fixed-point algorithms. In this work we consider the generic problem of finding a fixed point of an average of operators, or an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-17 Grigory Malinovsky , Dmitry Kovalev , Elnur Gasanov , Laurent Condat , Peter Richtárik

Firstly, we invoke the weak convergence (resp. strong convergence) of translated basic methods involving nonexpansive operators to establish the weak convergence (resp. strong convergence) of the associated method with both perturbation and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-03-29 Hui Ouyang

This paper deals with an optimization problem over a network of agents, where the cost function is the sum of the individual objectives of the agents and the constraint set is the intersection of local constraints. Most existing methods…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-06-20 Van Sy Mai , Eyad H. Abed

We study strongly convex distributed optimization problems where a set of agents are interested in solving a separable optimization problem collaboratively. In this paper, we propose and study a two time-scale decentralized gradient descent…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-08-16 Hadi Reisizadeh , Behrouz Touri , Soheil Mohajer

This paper studies a class of distributed optimization problems with coupled equality constraints in networked systems. Many existing distributed algorithms rely on solving local subproblems via the $\operatorname{argmin}$ operator in each…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-26 Chenyang Qiu , Zongli Lin

We consider a group of computation units trying to cooperatively solve a distributed optimization problem with shared linear equality and inequality constraints. Assuming that the computation units are communicating over a network whose…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-06-06 Simon Michalowsky , Bahman Gharesifard , Christian Ebenbauer

Consider $n$ agents connected over a network collaborating to minimize the average of their local cost functions combined with a common nonsmooth function. This paper introduces a unified algorithmic framework for solving such a problem…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-05 Kun Huang , Shi Pu , Angelia Nedić