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Distributed optimization has found widespread applications in smart grids, optimal control, and machine learning. This paper studies distributed consensus optimization. We extend the Augmented Lagrangian-based Alternating Direction Inexact…

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In this paper, we focus on solving a distributed convex aggregative optimization problem in a network, where each agent has its own cost function which depends not only on its own decision variables but also on the aggregated function of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-07-26 Tongyu Wang , Peng Yi

We consider a multi-agent optimization problem where agents subject to local, intermittent interactions aim to minimize a sum of local objective functions subject to a global inequality constraint and a global state constraint set. In…

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Motivated by distributed statistical learning over uncertain communication networks, we study distributed stochastic optimization by networked nodes to cooperatively minimize a sum of convex cost functions. The network is modeled by a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-03 Yan Chen , Alexander L. Fradkov , Keli Fu , Xiaozheng Fu , Tao Li

We propose a decentralized penalty method for general convex constrained multi-agent optimization problems. Each auxiliary penalized problem is solved approximately with a special parallel descent splitting method. The method can be…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-08-11 Igor Konnov

In this paper, we focus on solving a distributed convex optimization problem in a network, where each agent has its own convex cost function and the goal is to minimize the sum of the agents' cost functions while obeying the network…

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This paper focuses on the distributed online convex optimization problem with time-varying inequality constraints over a network of agents, where each agent collaborates with its neighboring agents to minimize the cumulative network-wide…

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In this paper, we study distributed big-data nonconvex optimization in multi-agent networks. We consider the (constrained) minimization of the sum of a smooth (possibly) nonconvex function, i.e., the agents' sum-utility, plus a convex…

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This paper studies the problem of distributed Riemannian optimization over a network of agents whose cost functions are geodesically smooth but possibly geodesically non-convex. Extending a well-known distributed optimization strategy…

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We consider the problem of solving a smooth convex optimization problem with equality and inequality constraints in a distributed fashion. Assuming that we have a group of agents available capable of communicating over a communication…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-03-01 Simon Michalowsky , Bahman Gharesifard , Christian Ebenbauer

Optimization problems with convex quadratic cost and polyhedral constraints are ubiquitous in signal processing, automatic control and decision-making. We consider here an enlarged problem class that allows to encode logical conditions and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-09 Alberto De Marchi

Distributed optimization finds applications in large-scale machine learning, data processing and classification over multi-agent networks. In real-world scenarios, the communication network of agents may encounter latency that may affect…

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We address the problem of solving convex optimization problems with many convex constraints in a distributed setting. Our approach is based on an extension of the alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) that recently gained a lot…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-04-09 Joachim Giesen , Sören Laue

We consider the distributed optimization problem for the sum of convex functions where the underlying communications network connecting agents at each time is drawn at random from a collection of directed graphs. Building on an earlier work…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-09-16 Pouya Rezaeinia , Bahman Gharesifard

This paper studies a class of distributed online convex optimization problems for heterogeneous linear multi-agent systems. Agents in a network, knowing only their own outputs, need to minimize the time-varying costs through neighboring…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-07-04 Yang Yu , Xiuxian Li , Li Li , Lihua Xie

In this paper, the distributed resource allocation problem on strongly connected and weight-balanced digraphs is investigated, where the decisions of each agent are restricted to satisfy the coupled network resource constraints and…

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We formulate an optimization problem for maximizing the data rate of a common message transmitted from nodes within an airborne network broadcast to a central station receiver while maintaining a set of intra-network rate demands. Assuming…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-06-08 Theodoros Tsiligkaridis

In this paper, we consider a network of agents that jointly aim to minimise the sum of local functions subject to coupling constraints involving all local variables. To solve this problem, we propose a novel solution based on a primal-dual…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-02-11 Mohamed Abdelmouamin Messilem , Guido Carnevale , Ruggero Carli

In this work we study a distributed optimal output consensus problem for heterogeneous linear multi-agent systems where the agents aim to reach consensus with the purpose of minimizing the sum of private convex costs. Based on output…

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