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Gradient tracking (GT) is an algorithm designed for solving decentralized optimization problems over a network (such as training a machine learning model). A key feature of GT is a tracking mechanism that allows to overcome data…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-01-05 Yue Liu , Tao Lin , Anastasia Koloskova , Sebastian U. Stich

This paper investigates a novel approach for solving the distributed optimization problem in which multiple agents collaborate to find the global decision that minimizes the sum of their individual cost functions. First, the $AB$/Push-Pull…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-06-23 Duong Thuy Anh Nguyen , Duong Tung Nguyen , Angelia Nedich

This paper proposes a differentially private gradient-tracking-based distributed stochastic optimization algorithm over directed graphs. In particular, privacy noises are incorporated into each agent's state and tracking variable to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-15 Jialong Chen , Jimin Wang , Ji-Feng Zhang

In this paper, two distributed multi-proximal primal-dual algorithms are proposed to deal with a class of distributed nonsmooth resource allocation problems. In these problems, the global cost function is the summation of local convex and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-03-17 Yue Wei , Chengsi Shang , Hao Fang , Xianlin Zeng , Lihua Dou , Panos Pardalos

This paper proposes two distributed random reshuffling methods, namely Gradient Tracking with Random Reshuffling (GT-RR) and Exact Diffusion with Random Reshuffling (ED-RR), to solve the distributed optimization problem over a connected…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-18 Kun Huang , Linli Zhou , Shi Pu

Typical coordination schemes for future power grids require two-way communications. Since the number of end power-consuming devices is large, the bandwidth requirements for such two-way communication schemes may be prohibitive. Motivated by…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-01-27 Sindri Magnusson , Chinwendu Enyioha , Kathryn Heal , Na Li , Carlo Fischione , Vahid Tarokh

Many modern large-scale machine learning problems benefit from decentralized and stochastic optimization. Recent works have shown that utilizing both decentralized computing and local stochastic gradient estimates can outperform…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-11-06 Haoran Sun , Songtao Lu , Mingyi Hong

The paper considers distributed gradient flow (DGF) for multi-agent nonconvex optimization. DGF is a continuous-time approximation of distributed gradient descent that is often easier to study than its discrete-time counterpart. The paper…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-08-13 Brian Swenson , Ryan Murray , H. Vincent Poor , Soummya Kar

Decentralized distributed optimization over time-varying graphs (networks) is nowadays a very popular branch of research in optimization theory and consensus theory. One of the motivations to consider such networks is an application to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-06-24 Alexander Rogozin , Alexander Gasnikov

This paper is mainly devoted to the distributed second-order multi-agent optimization problem with unbalanced and directed networks. To deal with this problem, a new distributed algorithm is proposed based on the local neighbor information…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-05 Lipo Mo , Haokun Hu , Yongguang Yu , Guojian Ren

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…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-08-26 Hongzhe Liu , Wenwu Yu , Guanghui Wen , Wei Xing Zheng

Many large-scale constrained optimization problems can be formulated as bilevel distributed optimization tasks over undirected networks, where agents collaborate to minimize a global cost function while adhering to constraints, relying only…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-25 Ajay Tak , Mayank Baranwal

Motivated by the need for decentralized learning, this paper aims at designing a distributed algorithm for solving nonconvex problems with general linear constraints over a multi-agent network. In the considered problem, each agent owns…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-06-23 Jiawei Zhang , Songyang Ge , Tsung-Hui Chang , Zhi-Quan Luo

Distributed optimization advances centralized machine learning methods by enabling parallel and decentralized learning processes over a network of computing nodes. This work provides an accelerated consensus-based distributed algorithm for…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-01 Mohammadreza Doostmohammadian , Hamid R. Rabiee

We analyze the convergence of gradient-based optimization algorithms that base their updates on delayed stochastic gradient information. The main application of our results is to the development of gradient-based distributed optimization…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2011-05-02 Alekh Agarwal , John C. Duchi

In this paper, we consider a large network containing many regions such that each region is equipped with a worker with some data processing and communication capability. For such a network, some workers may become stragglers due to the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-14 Elie Atallah , Nazanin Rahnavard , Qiyu Sun

With the increasing scale and dynamics of data, distributed online optimization has become essential for real-time decision-making in various applications. However, existing algorithms often rely on bounded gradient assumptions and overlook…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Xinli Shi , Xingxing Yuan , Longkang Zhu , Guanghui Wen

In this paper we consider a distributed optimization scenario in which a set of processors aims at cooperatively solving a class of min-max optimization problems. This set-up is motivated by peak-demand minimization problems in smart grids.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-11-29 Ivano Notarnicola , Mauro Franceschelli , Giuseppe Notarstefano

We study the distributed optimization problem over a graphon with a continuum of nodes, which is regarded as the limit of the distributed networked optimization as the number of nodes goes to infinity. Each node has a private local cost…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-02 Yan Chen , Tao Li , Xiaofeng Zong

In this paper, a distributed convex optimization algorithm, termed \emph{distributed coordinate dual averaging} (DCDA) algorithm, is proposed. The DCDA algorithm addresses the scenario of a large distributed optimization problem with…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-10-31 Milind Rao , Stefano Rini , Andrea Goldsmith