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This paper re-visits a multi-agent deployment problem where agents are restricted from requesting information from other agents as well as sending acknowledgments when information is received. These communication constraints relax the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-10-25 Mohanad Ajina , Daniel Tabatabai , Cameron Nowzari

In this paper we propose a novel consensus protocol for discrete-time multi-agent systems (MAS), which solves the dynamic consensus problem on the max value, i.e., the dynamic max-consensus problem. In the dynamic max-consensus problem to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-24 Diego Deplano , Mauro Franceschelli , Alessandro Giua

Decentralized and lifelong-adaptive multi-agent collaborative learning aims to enhance collaboration among multiple agents without a central server, with each agent solving varied tasks over time. To achieve efficient collaboration, agents…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Shuo Tang , Rui Ye , Chenxin Xu , Xiaowen Dong , Siheng Chen , Yanfeng Wang

The problem of decentralized sequential change detection is considered, where an abrupt change occurs in an area monitored by a number of sensors; the sensors transmit their data to a fusion center, subject to bandwidth and energy…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2013-11-12 Georgios Fellouris , George V. Moustakides

This article presents a novel multi-agent spatial transformer (MAST) for learning communication policies in large-scale decentralized and collaborative multi-robot systems (DC-MRS). Challenges in collaboration in DC-MRS arise from: (i)…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Damian Owerko , Frederic Vatnsdal , Saurav Agarwal , Vijay Kumar , Alejandro Ribeiro

In this paper we focus on the distributed quantized average consensus problem in open multi-agent systems consisting of dynamic directed communication links among active nodes. We propose three communication-efficient distributed algorithms…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-10 Jiaqi Hu , Karl H. Johansson , Apostolos I. Rikos

In this paper, we consider the dynamic power control for delay-aware D2D communications. The stochastic optimization problem is formulated as an infinite horizon average cost Markov decision process. To deal with the curse of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-04-09 Wei Wang , Fan Zhang , Vincent K. N. Lau

Actor-critic (AC) algorithms have been widely adopted in decentralized multi-agent systems to learn the optimal joint control policy. However, existing decentralized AC algorithms either do not preserve the privacy of agents or are not…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-04 Ziyi Chen , Yi Zhou , Rongrong Chen , Shaofeng Zou

We study distributed optimization in a cooperative multi-agent setting, where agents have to agree on the usage of shared resources and can communicate via a time-varying network to this purpose. Each agent has its own decision variables…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-04-20 Alessandro Falsone , Kostas Margellos , Simone Garatti , Maria Prandini

In this paper, we study a distributed learning problem constrained by constant communication bits. Specifically, we consider the distributed hypothesis testing (DHT) problem where two distributed nodes are constrained to transmit a constant…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Xiangxiang Xu , Shao-Lun Huang

This paper addresses the problem of distributed state estimation via multiple access channels (MACs). We consider a scenario where two encoders are simultaneously communicating their measurements through a noisy channel. Firstly, the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-23 Ghassen Zafzouf , Girish N. Nair , Farhad Farokhi

This paper proposes implicit cooperation, a framework enabling decentralized agents to approximate optimal coordination in local energy markets without explicit peer-to-peer communication. We formulate the problem as a decentralized…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-19 Nelson Salazar-Pena , Alejandra Tabares , Andres Gonzalez-Mancera

We consider the setting of agents cooperatively minimizing the sum of local objectives plus a regularizer on a graph. This paper proposes a primal-dual method in consideration of three distinctive attributes of real-life multi-agent…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-12-11 Ziyi Yu , Nikolaos M. Freris

We consider the problem of decentralized deep learning where multiple agents collaborate to learn from a distributed dataset. While there exist several decentralized deep learning approaches, the majority consider a central parameter-server…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Aditya Balu , Zhanhong Jiang , Sin Yong Tan , Chinmay Hedge , Young M Lee , Soumik Sarkar

We present a test for the problem of decentralized sequential hypothesis testing, which is asymptotically optimum. By selecting a suitable sampling mechanism at each sensor, communication between sensors and fusion center is asynchronous…

Methodology · Statistics 2009-08-31 Georgios Fellouris , George V. Moustakides

To integrate high amounts of renewable energy resources, electrical power grids must be able to cope with high amplitude, fast timescale variations in power generation. Frequency regulation through demand response has the potential to…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-01-09 Vincent Mai , Philippe Maisonneuve , Tianyu Zhang , Hadi Nekoei , Liam Paull , Antoine Lesage-Landry

We consider the problem of resource allocation and control of multihop networks in which multiple source-destination pairs communicate confidential messages, to be kept confidential from the intermediate nodes. We pose the problem as that…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-09-15 Yunus Sarikaya , C. Emre Koksal , Ozgur Ercetin

We consider the decentralized power optimization problem for Gaussian fast-fading multiple access channel (MAC) so that the average sum-throughput is maximized. In our MAC setup, each transmitter has access to only its own fading…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-19 Kamal Singh

We analyse the learning performance of Distributed Gradient Descent in the context of multi-agent decentralised non-parametric regression with the square loss function when i.i.d. samples are assigned to agents. We show that if agents hold…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-11-14 Dominic Richards , Patrick Rebeschini

Due to the rapid growth of smart agents such as weakly connected computational nodes and sensors, developing decentralized algorithms that can perform computations on local agents becomes a major research direction. This paper considers the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-09 Haishan Ye , Tong Zhang