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We consider a multi-process remote estimation system observing $K$ independent Ornstein-Uhlenbeck processes. In this system, a shared sensor samples the $K$ processes in such a way that the long-term average sum mean square error (MSE) is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Karim Banawan , Ahmed Arafa , Karim G. Seddik

Factor extraction from systems of variables with a large cross-sectional dimension, $N$, is often based on either Principal Components (PC)-based procedures, or Kalman filter (KF)-based procedures. Measuring the uncertainty of the extracted…

Econometrics · Economics 2026-01-08 Matteo Barigozzi , Diego Fresoli , Esther Ruiz

In multi-agent applications such as surveillance and logistics, fleets of mobile agents are often expected to coordinate and safely visit a large number of goal locations as efficiently as possible. The multi-agent planning problem in these…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-11-09 Zhongqiang Ren , Sivakumar Rathinam , Howie Choset

In this paper we study the problem of driving an agent to an unknown source whose location is estimated in real-time by a recursive optimization algorithm. The optimization criterion is subject to a least-square cost function constructed…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-01-08 Thien-Minh Nguyen , Lihua Xie

In this work we propose novel decision feedback (DF) detection algorithms with error propagation mitigation capabilities for multi-input multi-output (MIMO) spatial multiplexing systems based on multiple processing branches. The novel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-04-18 R. C. de Lamare , D. Le Ruyet

For a multi-agent system state estimation resting upon noisy measurements constitutes a problem related to several application scenarios. Adopting the standard least-squares approach, in this work we derive both the (centralized) analytic…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-22 Marco Fabris , Giulia Michieletto , Angelo Cenedese

Decentralized state estimation in a communication-constrained sensor network is considered. The exchanged estimates are dimension-reduced to reduce the communication load using a linear mapping to a lower-dimensional space. The mean squared…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-13 Robin Forsling , Fredrik Gustafsson , Zoran Sjanic , Gustaf Hendeby

In a recent work, we studied a novel precoding design for cell-free networks called team minimum mean-square error (TMMSE) precoding, which rigorously generalizes centralized MMSE precoding to distributed operations based on…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-25 Lorenzo Miretti , Emil Björnson , David Gesbert

Missions for autonomous systems often require agents to visit multiple targets in complex operating conditions. This work considers the problem of visiting a set of targets in minimum time by a team of non-communicating agents in a Markov…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-06-21 Farhad Nawaz , Melkior Ornik

Offline model selection (OMS), that is, choosing the best policy from a set of many policies given only logged data, is crucial for applying offline RL in real-world settings. One idea that has been extensively explored is to select…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-18 Joshua P. Zitovsky , Daniel de Marchi , Rishabh Agarwal , Michael R. Kosorok

This work develops a fully decentralized multi-agent algorithm for policy evaluation. The proposed scheme can be applied to two distinct scenarios. In the first scenario, a collection of agents have distinct datasets gathered following…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-13 Lucas Cassano , Kun Yuan , Ali H. Sayed

Recent algorithms allow decentralised agents, possibly connected via a communication network, to learn equilibria in mean-field games from a non-episodic run of the empirical system. However, these algorithms are for tabular settings: this…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Patrick Benjamin , Alessandro Abate

This paper investigates an indefinite linear-quadratic partially observed mean-field game with common noise, incorporating both state-average and control-average effects. In our model, each agent's state is observed through both individual…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-05 Tian Chen , Tianyang Nie , Zhen Wu

We consider linear precoding and decoding in the downlink of a multiuser multiple-input, multiple-output (MIMO) system, wherein each user may receive more than one data stream. We propose several mean squared error (MSE) based criteria for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-02-10 Adam J. Tenenbaum , Raviraj S. Adve

In this technical report we analyse the performance of diffusion strategies applied to the Least-Mean-Square adaptive filter. We configure a network of cooperative agents running adaptive filters and discuss their behaviour when compared…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-02-21 Jonathan Gelati , Sithan Kanna

Estimation models from connected vehicles often assume low level parameters such as arrival rates and market penetration rates as known or estimate them in real-time. At low market penetration rates, such parameter estimators produce large…

Applications · Statistics 2020-11-19 Gurcan Comert , Negash Begashaw

Classical estimation outputs a single point estimate of an unknown $d$-dimensional vector from an observation. In this paper, we study \emph{$k$-list estimation}, in which a single observation is used to produce a list of $k$ candidate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Nikola Zlatanov , Amin Gohari , Farzad Shahrivari , Mikhail Rudakov

Motivated by collaborative reinforcement learning (RL) and optimization with time-correlated data, we study a generic federated stochastic approximation problem involving $M$ agents, where each agent is characterized by an agent-specific…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-17 Feng Zhu , Aritra Mitra , Robert W. Heath

A distributed discrete-time algorithm is proposed for multi-agent networks to achieve a common least squares solution of a group of linear equations, in which each agent only knows some of the equations and is only able to receive…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-10-02 Xuan Wang , Jingqiu Zhou , Shaoshuai Mou , Martin J. Corless

A set of N independent Gaussian linear time invariant systems is observed by M sensors whose task is to provide the best possible steady-state causal minimum mean square estimate of the state of the systems, in addition to minimizing a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2008-10-30 Jerome Le Ny , Eric Feron , Munther A. Dahleh