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In this paper, a decentralized proximal method of multipliers (DPMM) is proposed to solve constrained convex optimization problems over multi-agent networks, where the local objective of each agent is a general closed convex function, and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-10-25 Kai Gong , Liwei Zhang

Decentralized learning algorithms empower interconnected devices to share data and computational resources to collaboratively train a machine learning model without the aid of a central coordinator. In the case of heterogeneous data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-16 Matteo Zecchin , Marios Kountouris , David Gesbert

This paper considers an optimization problem that components of the objective function are available at different nodes of a network and nodes are allowed to only exchange information with their neighbors. The decentralized alternating…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-11-27 Aryan Mokhtari , Wei Shi , Qing Ling , Alejandro Ribeiro

Distributed optimization has attracted lots of attention in the operation of power systems in recent years, where a large area is decomposed into smaller control regions each solving a local optimization problem with periodic information…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-11-07 Junyao Guo , Gabriela Hug , Ozan Tonguz

This paper considers a convex optimization problem with cost and constraints that evolve over time. The function to be minimized is strongly convex and possibly non-differentiable, and variables are coupled through linear constraints. In…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-13 Yijian Zhang , Emiliano Dall'Anese , Mingyi Hong

In this paper, we consider the problem of distributed optimisation of a separable convex cost function over a graph, where every edge and node in the graph could carry both linear equality and/or inequality constraints. We show how to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Richard Heusdens , Guoqiang Zhang

We consider a resource allocation problem over an undirected network of agents, where edges of the network define communication links. The goal is to minimize the sum of agent-specific convex objective functions, while the agents' decisions…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-11-27 Goran Banjac , Felix Rey , Paul Goulart , John Lygeros

This paper discusses a consensus-based alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) approach to solve the multi-area coordinated network-constrained unit commitment (NCUC) problem in a distributed manner. Due to political and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-01-23 Yamin Wang , Lei Wu , Jie Li

We study distributed multi-agent large-scale optimization problems, wherein the cost function is composed of a smooth possibly nonconvex sum-utility plus a DC (Difference-of-Convex) regularizer. We consider the scenario where the dimension…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-05-29 Ivano Notarnicola , Ying Sun , Gesualdo Scutari , Giuseppe Notarstefano

In this work, we consider the distributed optimization problem in which each node has its own convex cost function and can communicate directly only with its neighbors, as determined by a directed communication topology (directed graph or…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-10-07 Wei Jiang , Themistoklis Charalambous

In this paper, we propose a novel distributed algorithm for consensus optimization over networks and a robust extension tailored to deal with asynchronous agents and packet losses. Indeed, to robustly achieve dynamic consensus on the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-04 Guido Carnevale , Nicola Bastianello , Giuseppe Notarstefano , Ruggero Carli

This paper considers the decentralized convex optimization problem, which has a wide range of applications in large-scale machine learning, sensor networks, and control theory. We propose novel algorithms that achieve optimal computation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Haishan Ye , Luo Luo , Ziang Zhou , Tong Zhang

We consider the task of minimizing the sum of smooth and strongly convex functions stored in a decentralized manner across the nodes of a communication network whose links are allowed to change in time. We solve two fundamental problems for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-09 Dmitry Kovalev , Elnur Gasanov , Peter Richtárik , Alexander Gasnikov

When the data is distributed across multiple servers, lowering the communication cost between the servers (or workers) while solving the distributed learning problem is an important problem and is the focus of this paper. In particular, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-25 Anis Elgabli , Jihong Park , Amrit S. Bedi , Mehdi Bennis , Vaneet Aggarwal

Federated learning (FL) leverages client-server communications to train global models on decentralized data. However, communication noise or errors can impair model accuracy. To address this problem, we propose a novel FL algorithm that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Ehsan Lari , Reza Arablouei , Vinay Chakravarthi Gogineni , Stefan Werner

We propose a distributed algorithm based on Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers (ADMM) to minimize the sum of locally known convex functions using communication over a network. This optimization problem emerges in many applications…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-01-05 Ali Makhdoumi , Asuman Ozdaglar

This work proposes a novel adaptive linearized alternating direction multiplier method (LADMM) to convex optimization, which improves the convergence rate of the LADMM-based algorithm by adjusting step-size iteratively.The innovation of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-07-04 Boran Wang

We propose an asynchronous, decentralized algorithm for consensus optimization. The algorithm runs over a network in which the agents communicate with their neighbors and perform local computation. In the proposed algorithm, each agent can…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-03-06 Tianyu Wu , Kun Yuan , Qing Ling , Wotao Yin , Ali H. Sayed

With the availability of extraordinarily huge data sets, solving the problems of distributed statistical methodology and computing for such data sets has become increasingly crucial in the big data area. In this paper, we focus on the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-10-24 Yue Chao , Lei Huang , Xuejun Ma

The parallel alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) algorithm is widely recognized for its effectiveness in handling large-scale datasets stored in a distributed manner, making it a popular choice for solving statistical…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-11-22 Xiaofei Wu , Zhimin Zhang , Zhenyu Cui