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In this paper a novel distributed algorithm for blind macro calibration in sensor networks based on output synchronization is proposed. The algorithm is formulated as a set of gradient-type recursions for estimating parameters of sensor…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-03-27 Miloš S. Stanković , Srđan S. Stanković , Karl Henrik Johansson

This paper studies the problem of distributed weighted least-squares (WLS) estimation for an interconnected linear measurement network with additive noise. Two types of measurements are considered: self measurements for individual nodes,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-27 Qiqi Yang , Zhaorong Zhang , Minyue Fu

Classical distributed estimation scenarios typically assume timely and reliable exchanges of information over the sensor network. This paper, in contrast, considers single time-scale distributed estimation via a sensor network subject to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-08 Mohammadreza Doostmohammadian , Usman A. Khan , Mohammad Pirani , Themistoklis Charalambous

This paper studies resilient multi-agent distributed estimation of an unknown vector parameter when a subset of the agents is adversarial. We present and analyze a Flag Raising Distributed Estimator ($\mathcal{FRDE}$) that allows the agents…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-05-09 Yuan Chen , Soummya Kar , José M. F. Moura

Sequential attack detection in a distributed estimation system is considered, where each sensor successively produces one-bit quantized samples of a desired deterministic scalar parameter corrupted by additive noise. The unknown parameters…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-02-12 Jiangfan Zhang , Xiaodong Wang

In this note, the problem of simultaneous leader-following consensus and parameter estimation is studied for a class of multi-agent systems subject to an uncertain leader system. The leader system is described by a sum of sinusoids with…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-28 Shimin Wang , Xiangyu Meng

We propose a novel distributed expectation maximization (EM) method for non-cooperative RF device localization using a wireless sensor network. We consider the scenario where few or no sensors receive line-of-sight signals from the target.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-08-15 Wenjie Xu , Francois Quitin , Mei Leng , Wee Peng Tay , Sirajudeen G. Razul

This paper investigates an expected average error for distributed averaging problems under asynchronous updates. The asynchronism in this context implies no existence of a global clock as well as random characteristics in communication…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-04 Kooktae Lee

A parameter estimation problem is considered, in which dispersed sensors transmit to the statistician partial information regarding their observations. The sensors observe the paths of continuous semimartingales, whose drifts are linear…

Methodology · Statistics 2013-02-01 Georgios Fellouris

We consider nonparametric sequential hypothesis testing problem when the distribution under the null hypothesis is fully known but the alternate hypothesis corresponds to some other unknown distribution with some loose constraints. We…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-11-15 Shouvik Ganguly , K Sahasranand , Vinod Sharma

We study the problem of diffusion-based network learning of a nonlinear phenomenon, $m$, from local agents' measurements collected in a noisy environment. For a decentralized network and information spreading merely between directly…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-05-08 Paweł Wachel , Krzysztof Kowalczyk , Cristian R. Rojas

A finite dimensional abstract approximation and convergence theory is developed for estimation of the distribution of random parameters in infinite dimensional discrete time linear systems with dynamics described by regularly dissipative…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-03-15 Melike Sirlanci , Susan E. Luczak , I. Gary Rosen

Federated learning, where algorithms are trained across multiple decentralized devices without sharing local data, is increasingly popular in distributed machine learning practice. Typically, a graph structure $G$ exists behind local…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-09-20 Huiyuan Wang , Xuyang Zhao , Wei Lin

Estimation of a multivariate regression function from independent and identically distributed data is considered. An estimate is defined which fits a deep neural network consisting of a large number of fully connected neural networks, which…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-08-31 Selina Drews , Michael Kohler

We study the problem of distributed zero-order optimization for a class of strongly convex functions. They are formed by the average of local objectives, associated to different nodes in a prescribed network of connections. We propose a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-29 Arya Akhavan , Massimiliano Pontil , Alexandre B. Tsybakov

We present an algorithm for distributed estimation of an unknown vector parameter $\boldsymbol{\theta}^\ast \in {\mathbb R}^M$ in the presence of heavy-tailed observation and communication noises. Heavy-tailed noises frequently appear,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Dragana Bajovic , Dusan Jakovetic , Soummya Kar , Manojlo Vukovic

Anonymity and privacy are two key properties of modern communication networks. In quantum networks, distributed quantum sensing has emerged as a powerful use case, with applications to clock synchronisation, detecting gravitational effects…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-10 Jarn de Jong , Santiago Scheiner , Naomi R. Solomons , Ziad Chaoui , Damian Markham , Anna Pappa

We consider parameter estimation in distributed networks, where each sensor in the network observes an independent sample from an underlying distribution and has $k$ bits to communicate its sample to a centralized processor which computes…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-07-23 Yanjun Han , Ayfer Özgür , Tsachy Weissman

We study asymptotic performance of distributed detection in large scale connected sensor networks. Contrasting to the canonical parallel network where a single node has access to local decisions from all other nodes, each node can only…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-10-16 Shengyu Zhu , Biao Chen

Distributed parameter estimation for large-scale systems is an active research problem. The goal is to derive a distributed algorithm in which each agent obtains a local estimate of its own subset of the global parameter vector, based on…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2018-06-26 Tianju Sui , Damián Marelli , Minyue Fu , Renquan Lu