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The recently developed Distributed Block Proximal Method, for solving stochastic big-data convex optimization problems, is studied in this paper under the assumption of constant stepsizes and strongly convex (possibly non-smooth) local…
In this paper, we study the cooperative output regulation problem for the discrete linear time-delay multi-agent systems by distributed observer approach. In contrast with the same problem for continuous-time linear time-delay multi-agent…
This paper studies the distributed optimization problem with possibly nonidentical local constraints, where its global objective function is composed of $N$ convex functions. The aim is to solve the considered optimization problem in a…
This paper proposes a new distributed finite-time differentiator (DFD) for multi-agent systems (MAS) under directed graph, which extends the differentiator algorithm from the centralized case to the distributed case by only using…
We consider the problem of solving a large-scale system of linear equations in a distributed or federated manner by a taskmaster and a set of machines, each possessing a subset of the equations. We provide a comprehensive comparison of two…
This paper fully studies distributed optimal consensus problem in non-directed dynamical networks. We consider a group of networked agents that are supposed to rendezvous at the optimal point of a collective convex objective function. Each…
Solving an output consensus problem in multi-agent systems is often hindered by multiple time-variant delays. To address such fundamental problems over time, we present a new optimal time-variant distributed control for linearly perturbed…
This paper studies a distributed estimation problem for time-varying/time-invariant large-scale interconnected systems (LISs). A fully distributed estimator is presented by recursively solving a distributed modified Riccati equation (DMRE)…
Generalized from the concept of consensus, this paper considers a group of edge agreements, i.e. constraints defined for neighboring agents, in which each pair of neighboring agents is required to satisfy one edge agreement constraint. Edge…
The paper considers distributed stochastic optimization over randomly switching networks, where agents collaboratively minimize the average of all agents' local expectation-valued convex cost functions. Due to the stochasticity in gradient…
In this paper, we first present an adaptive distributed observer for a discrete-time leader system. This adaptive distributed observer will provide, to each follower, not only the estimation of the leader's signal, but also the estimation…
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…
We study the policy evaluation problem in multi-agent reinforcement learning, modeled by a Markov decision process. In this problem, the agents operate in a common environment under a fixed control policy, working together to discover the…
This paper addresses the problem of distributed detection in fixed and switching networks. A network of agents observe partially informative signals about the unknown state of the world. Hence, they collaborate with each other to identify…
Min-max problems are important in multi-agent sequential decision-making because they improve the performance of the worst-performing agent in the network. However, solving the multi-agent min-max problem is challenging. We propose a…
This work studies the problem of distributed optimization in heterogeneous linear multi-agent systems. Instead of relying on a perfect communication network as in many existing distributed optimization approaches, we considered two…
In this paper, we propose a novel solution for the distributed unconstrained optimization problem where the total cost is the summation of time-varying local cost functions of a group networked agents. The objective is to track the optimal…
This paper considers a distributed stochastic strongly convex optimization, where agents connected over a network aim to cooperatively minimize the average of all agents' local cost functions. Due to the stochasticity of gradient estimation…
This paper investigates the problem of finding a fixed point for a global nonexpansive operator under time-varying communication graphs in real Hilbert spaces, where the global operator is separable and composed of an aggregate sum of local…
Inspired and underpinned by the idea of integral feedback, a distributed constant gain algorithm is proposed for multi-agent networks to solve convex optimization problems with local linear constraints. Assuming agent interactions are…