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We present a framework combining hierarchical and multi-agent deep reinforcement learning approaches to solve coordination problems among a multitude of agents using a semi-decentralized model. The framework extends the multi-agent learning…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-12-25 Saurabh Kumar , Pararth Shah , Dilek Hakkani-Tur , Larry Heck

The goal of decentralized optimization over a network is to optimize a global objective formed by a sum of local (possibly nonsmooth) convex functions using only local computation and communication. It arises in various application domains,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-03-17 John Duchi , Alekh Agarwal , Martin Wainwright

This paper considers decentralized optimization of convex functions with mixed affine equality constraints involving both local and global variables. Constraints on global variables may vary across different nodes in the network, while…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-05 Demyan Yarmoshik , Nhat Trung Nguyen , Alexander Rogozin , Alexander Gasnikov

The training of large models demands substantial computational resources, typically available only in data centers with high-bandwidth interconnects. However, reducing the reliance on high-bandwidth interconnects between nodes enables the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Sasho Nedelkoski , Alexander Acker , Odej Kao , Soeren Becker , Dominik Scheinert

The decentralized optimization paradigm assumes that each term of a finite-sum objective is privately stored by the corresponding agent. Agents are only allowed to communicate with their neighbors in the communication graph. We consider the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-09-07 Demyan Yarmoshik , Alexander Rogozin , Alexander Gasnikov

This paper presents new and effective algorithms for learning kernels. In particular, as shown by our empirical results, these algorithms consistently outperform the so-called uniform combination solution that has proven to be difficult to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-01 Corinna Cortes , Mehryar Mohri , Afshin Rostamizadeh

Decentralized federated learning (DFL) is an emerging paradigm to enable edge devices collaboratively training a learning model using a device-to-device (D2D) communication manner without the coordination of a parameter server (PS).…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-06 Zhiyuan Zhai , Xiaojun Yuan , Xin Wang , Geoffrey Ye Li

We focus on the continual learning problem where the tasks arrive sequentially and the aim is to perform well on the newly arrived task without performance degradation on the previously seen tasks. In contrast to the continual learning…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-12-06 Martin Hellkvist , Ayça Özçelikkale , Anders Ahlén

The inability to communicate poses a major challenge to coordination in multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL). Prior work has explored correlating local policies via shared randomness, sometimes in the form of a correlation device, as a…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-02-12 John Gardiner , Orlando Romero , Brendan Tivnan , Nicolò Dal Fabbro , George J. Pappas

With the development of the 5G and Internet of Things, amounts of wireless devices need to share the limited spectrum resources. Dynamic spectrum access (DSA) is a promising paradigm to remedy the problem of inefficient spectrum utilization…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-06-18 Xiang Tan , Li Zhou , Haijun Wang , Yuli Sun , Haitao Zhao , Boon-Chong Seet , Jibo Wei , Victor C. M. Leung

Deep kernel learning provides an elegant and principled framework for combining the structural properties of deep learning algorithms with the flexibility of kernel methods. By means of a deep neural network, we learn a parametrized kernel…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-14 Prudencio Tossou , Basile Dura , Francois Laviolette , Mario Marchand , Alexandre Lacoste

Federated learning (FL) has been facilitating privacy-preserving deep learning in many walks of life such as medical image classification, network intrusion detection, and so forth. Whereas it necessitates a central parameter server for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-23 Yuwei Sun , Hideya Ochiai

The rapid growth of Internet of Things (IoT) devices has generated vast amounts of data, leading to the emergence of federated learning as a novel distributed machine learning paradigm. Federated learning enables model training at the edge,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-03 Abdelaziz Salama , Achilleas Stergioulis , Syed Ali Zaidi , Des McLernon

Decentralized federated learning (DFL), inherited from distributed optimization, is an emerging paradigm to leverage the explosively growing data from wireless devices in a fully distributed manner.DFL enables joint training of machine…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-10 Zhiyuan Zhai , Xiaojun Yuan , Xin Wang

We study the problem of distributed cooperative learning, where a group of agents seeks to agree on a set of hypotheses that best describes a sequence of private observations. In the scenario where the set of hypotheses is large, we propose…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-22 Mohammad Taha Toghani , César A. Uribe

This paper addresses the problem of cooperative target tracking using a heterogeneous multi-robot system, where the robots are communicating over a dynamic communication network, and heterogeneity is in terms of different types of sensors…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-09-23 Shubhankar Gupta , Suresh Sundaram

In distributed optimization for large-scale learning, a major performance limitation comes from the communications between the different entities. When computations are performed by workers on local data while a coordinator machine…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-06-26 Dmitry Grishchenko , Franck Iutzeler , Jérôme Malick , Massih-Reza Amini

Autonomous multi-agent target tracking in GPS-denied and communication-restricted environments (e.g., underwater exploration, subterranean search and rescue, and adversarial domains) forces agents to operate independently and only exchange…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Mohamed Abdelnaby , Samuel Honor , Kevin Leahy

Connected and autonomous vehicles across land, water, and air must often operate in dynamic, unpredictable environments with limited communication, no centralized control, and partial observability. These real-world constraints pose…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Hung Du , Hy Nguyen , Srikanth Thudumu , Rajesh Vasa , Kon Mouzakis

This paper addresses distributed learning of a complex object for multiple networked robots based on distributed optimization and kernel-based support vector machine. In order to overcome a fundamental limitation of polynomial kernels…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Toshiyuki Oshima , Junya Yamauchi , Tatsuya Ibuki , Michio Seto , Takeshi Hatanaka