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Distributed optimization has a rich history. It has demonstrated its effectiveness in many machine learning applications, etc. In this paper we study a subclass of distributed optimization, namely decentralized optimization in a non-smooth…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-12-05 Aleksandr Lobanov , Andrew Veprikov , Georgiy Konin , Aleksandr Beznosikov , Alexander Gasnikov , Dmitry Kovalev

The ability of a human being to extrapolate previously gained knowledge to other domains inspired a new family of methods in machine learning called transfer learning. Transfer learning is often based on the assumption that objects in both…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-10-21 Ievgen Redko , Younès Bennani

Personalized federated learning is proposed to handle the data heterogeneity problem amongst clients by learning dedicated tailored local models for each user. However, existing works are often built in a centralized way, leading to high…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-02 Rong Dai , Li Shen , Fengxiang He , Xinmei Tian , Dacheng Tao

One of the key challenges in decentralized and federated learning is to design algorithms that efficiently deal with highly heterogeneous data distributions across agents. In this paper, we revisit the analysis of the popular Decentralized…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-24 Batiste Le Bars , Aurélien Bellet , Marc Tommasi , Erick Lavoie , Anne-Marie Kermarrec

Distributed edge learning (DL) is considered a cornerstone of intelligence enablers, since it allows for collaborative training without the necessity for local clients to share raw data with other parties, thereby preserving privacy and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-15 Paul Zheng , Navid Keshtiarast , Pradyumna Kumar Bishoyi , Yao Zhu , Yulin Hu , Marina Petrova , Anke Schmeink

In Federated Learning (FL), with parameter aggregated by a central node, the communication overhead is a substantial concern. To circumvent this limitation and alleviate the single point of failure within the FL framework, recent studies…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-01 Zhigang Yan , Dong Li

Decentralized federated learning (DFL) based on low-rank adaptation (LoRA) enables mobile devices with multi-task datasets to collaboratively fine-tune a large language model (LLM) by exchanging locally updated parameters with a subset of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Nuocheng Yang , Sihua Wang , Ouwen Huan , Mingzhe Chen , Tony Q. S. Quek , Changchuan Yin

We present Agentic Decentralized Knowledge Optimization (ADKO), a framework for collaborative black-box optimization across autonomous agents that achieves sample efficiency, privacy preservation, heterogeneous-objective handling, and…

Decentralized training enables learning with distributed datasets generated at different locations without relying on a central server. In realistic scenarios, the data distribution across these sparsely connected learning agents can be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-27 Sakshi Choudhary , Sai Aparna Aketi , Kaushik Roy

We consider distributed optimization as motivated by machine learning in a multi-agent system: each agent holds local data and the goal is to minimize an aggregate loss function over a common model, via an interplay of local training and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-08 Dingran Yi , Fanhao Zeng , Nikolaos M. Freris

In federated learning, communication cost is often a critical bottleneck to scale up distributed optimization algorithms to collaboratively learn a model from millions of devices with potentially unreliable or limited communication and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-24 Farzin Haddadpour , Mohammad Mahdi Kamani , Aryan Mokhtari , Mehrdad Mahdavi

We study the consensus decentralized optimization problem where the objective function is the average of $n$ agents private non-convex cost functions; moreover, the agents can only communicate to their neighbors on a given network topology.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-07-20 Sulaiman A. Alghunaim , Kun Yuan

Decentralized Federated Learning (DFL) enables collaborative model training without a central server but faces challenges in efficiency, stability, and trustworthiness due to communication and computational limitations among distributed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Shan Sha , Shenglong Zhou , Lingchen Kong , Geoffrey Ye Li

Kernel-based subspace clustering, which addresses the nonlinear structures in data, is an evolving area of research. Despite noteworthy progressions, prevailing methodologies predominantly grapple with limitations relating to (i) the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Kunpeng Xu , Lifei Chen , Shengrui Wang

Fully decentralized learning, where the global information, i.e., the actions of other agents, is inaccessible, is a fundamental challenge in cooperative multi-agent reinforcement learning. However, the convergence and optimality of most…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-03 Jiechuan Jiang , Zongqing Lu

Today, various machine learning (ML) applications offer continuous data processing and real-time data analytics at the edge of a wireless network. Distributed real-time ML solutions are highly sensitive to the so-called straggler effect…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Nikita Zeulin , Olga Galinina , Nageen Himayat , Sergey Andreev , Robert W. Heath

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

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

One of the crucial problems in robotic swarm-based operation is to search and neutralize heterogeneous targets in an unknown and uncertain environment, without any communication within the swarm. Here, some targets can be neutralized by a…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2020-11-16 Nishant Mohanty , Mohitvishnu S. Gadde , Suresh Sundaram , Narasimhan Sundararajan , P. B. Sujit

In decentralized federated learning (FL), multiple clients collaboratively learn a shared machine learning (ML) model by leveraging their privately held datasets distributed across the network, through interactive exchange of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Xiang Zhang , Zhou Li , Shuangyang Li , Kai Wan , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Giuseppe Caire