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Distributed gossip algorithm has been studied in literature for practical implementation of the distributed consensus algorithm as a fundamental algorithm for the purpose of in-network collaborative processing. This paper focuses on…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2015-12-14 Saber Jafarizadeh

Gossip protocols form the basis of many smart collective adaptive systems. They are a class of fully decentralised, simple but robust protocols for the distribution of information throughout large scale networks with hundreds or thousands…

Performance · Computer Science 2020-04-17 Nicolas Gast , Diego Latella , Mieke Massink

This paper addresses the problem of robust estimation in gossip algorithms over arbitrary communication graphs. Gossip algorithms are fully decentralized, relying only on local neighbor-to-neighbor communication, making them well-suited for…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-01-01 Anna Van Elst , Igor Colin , Stephan Clémençon

We consider two variants of the classical gossip algorithm. The first variant is a version of asynchronous stochastic approximation. We highlight a fundamental difficulty associated with the classical asynchronous gossip scheme, viz., that…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-06-17 Vivek S. Borkar , Rahul Makhijani , Rajesh Sundaresan

Gossip algorithms for aggregation have recently received significant attention for sensor network applications because of their simplicity and robustness in noisy and uncertain environments. However, gossip algorithms can waste significant…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Alexandros G. Dimakis , Anand D. Sarwate , Martin J. Wainwright

In this paper, we study gossip algorithms in communication models that describe the peer-to-peer networking functionality included in most standard smartphone operating systems. We begin by describing and analyzing a new synchronous gossip…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Calvin Newport , Alex Weaver , Chaodong Zheng

By the distributed averaging problem is meant the problem of computing the average value of a set of numbers possessed by the agents in a distributed network using only communication between neighboring agents. Gossiping is a well-known…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-12-28 Ji Liu , Shaoshuai Mou , A. Stephen Morse , Brian D. O. Anderson , Changbin Yu

Efficient and robust algorithms for decentralized estimation in networks are essential to many distributed systems. Whereas distributed estimation of sample mean statistics has been the subject of a good deal of attention, computation of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-01-25 Igor Colin , Aurélien Bellet , Joseph Salmon , Stéphan Clémençon

This paper presents greedy gossip with eavesdropping (GGE), a novel randomized gossip algorithm for distributed computation of the average consensus problem. In gossip algorithms, nodes in the network randomly communicate with their…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-05-14 Deniz Ustebay , Boris Oreshkin , Mark Coates , Michael Rabbat

This paper proposes and investigates a framework for clique gossip protocols. As complete subnetworks, the existence of cliques is ubiquitous in various social, computer, and engineering networks. By clique gossiping, nodes interact with…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-06-09 Yang Liu , Bo Li , Brian Anderson , Guodong Shi

We design and analyze gossip algorithms for networks with correlated data. In these networks, either the data to be distributed, the data already available at the nodes, or both, are correlated. This model is applicable for a variety of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-02-09 Bernhard Haeupler , Asaf Cohen , Chen Avin , Muriel Médard

This paper studies reliability of probabilistic neighbor-aware gossip algorithms over three well- known large-scale random topologies, namely Bernoulli (or Erd\H{o}s-R\'enyi) graph, the random geometric graph, and the scale-free graph. We…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-04-20 Ruijing Hu , Leander Jehl

We consider the average-consensus problem in a multi-node network of finite size. Communication between nodes is modeled by a sequence of directed signals with arbitrary communication delays. Four distributed algorithms that achieve…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2011-06-23 Kevin Topley , Vikram Krishnamurthy

As agentic platforms scale, agents are evolving beyond static roles and fixed toolchains, creating a growing need for flexible, decentralized coordination. Today's structured communication protocols (e.g., direct agent-to-agent messaging)…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Mansura Habiba , Nafiul I. Khan

Consider a network of agents connected by communication links, where each agent holds a real value. The gossip problem consists in estimating the average of the values diffused in the network in a distributed manner. We develop a method…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2019-06-12 Raphaël Berthier , Francis Bach , Pierre Gaillard

In many applications, nodes in a network desire not only a consensus, but an optimal one. To date, a family of subgradient algorithms have been proposed to solve this problem under general convexity assumptions. This paper shows that, for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2011-02-11 Jie Lu , Choon Yik Tang , Paul R. Regier , Travis D. Bow

Periodic gossip algorithms have generated a lot of interest due to their ability to compute the global statistics by using local pairwise communications among nodes. Simple execution, robustness to topology changes, and distributed nature…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-03-31 S. Kouachi , Sateeshkrishna Dhuli , Y. N. Singh

In this paper, we study random gossip processes in communication models that describe the peer-to-peer networking functionality included in standard smartphone operating systems. Random gossip processes spread information through the basic…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-02-08 Calvin Newport , Alex Weaver

Recently, the privacy guarantees of information dissemination protocols have attracted increasing research interests, among which the gossip protocols assume vital importance in various information exchange applications. In this work, we…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-02-08 Richeng Jin , Yufan Huang , Huaiyu Dai

Machine learning over fully distributed data poses an important problem in peer-to-peer (P2P) applications. In this model we have one data record at each network node, but without the possibility to move raw data due to privacy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-06-07 Róbert Ormándi , István Hegedüs , Márk Jelasity