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We consider distributed online convex optimization problems, where the distributed system consists of various computing units connected through a time-varying communication graph. In each time step, each computing unit selects a constrained…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-23 Deming Yuan , Alexandre Proutiere , Guodong Shi

This paper investigates the distributed fixed point seeking problem of sum-separable stochastic operators over the multi-agent network. Based on inexact Krasnosel'ski\u{\i}--Mann iterations, the communication-efficient distributed algorithm…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-22 Fan Li , Lei Xu , Xinlei Yi , Guanghui Wen , Yang Shi , Tao Yang

We consider cooperative multi-agent consensus optimization problems over an undirected network of agents, where only those agents connected by an edge can directly communicate. The objective is to minimize the sum of agent-specific…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-07-12 Necdet Serhat Aybat , Erfan Yazdandoost Hamedani

We study strongly convex distributed optimization problems where a set of agents are interested in solving a separable optimization problem collaboratively. In this paper, we propose and study a two time-scale decentralized gradient descent…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-08-16 Hadi Reisizadeh , Behrouz Touri , Soheil Mohajer

In Part I of this paper, we proposed and analyzed a novel algorithmic framework for the minimization of a nonconvex (smooth) objective function, subject to nonconvex constraints, based on inner convex approximations. This Part II is devoted…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-04-05 Gesualdo Scutari , Francisco Facchinei , Lorenzo Lampariello , Peiran Song , Stefania Sardellitti

This thesis is concerned with the design of distributed algorithms for solving optimization problems. We consider networks where each node has exclusive access to a cost function, and design algorithms that make all nodes cooperate to find…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-12-03 João F. C. Mota

We propose a divide-and-conquer (DAC) algorithm for constrained convex optimization over networks, where the global objective is the sum of local objectives attached to individual agents. The algorithm is fully distributed: each iteration…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-03 Nazar Emirov , Guohui Song , Qiyu Sun

Composite minimization is a powerful framework in large-scale convex optimization, based on decoupling of the objective function into terms with structurally different properties and allowing for more flexible algorithmic design. We…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-02-17 Jelena Diakonikolas , Cristóbal Guzmán

Optimization in distributed networks plays a central role in almost all distributed machine learning problems. In principle, the use of distributed task allocation has reduced the computational time, allowing better response rates and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-07-28 Elie Atallah , Nazanin Rahnavard , Chinwendu Enyioha

Distributed consensus optimization has received considerable attention in recent years; several distributed consensus-based algorithms have been proposed for (nonsmooth) convex and (smooth) nonconvex objective functions. However, the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-11-05 Vyacheslav Kungurtsev

Nonconvex optimization is central to modern machine learning, but the general framework of nonconvex optimization yields weak convergence guarantees that are too pessimistic compared to practice. On the other hand, while convexity enables…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Artem Riabinin , Ahmed Khaled , Peter Richtárik

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

Distributed aggregative optimization is a recently emerged framework in which the agents of a network want to minimize the sum of local objective functions, each one depending on the agent decision variable (e.g., the local position of a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-08 Guido Carnevale , Nicola Mimmo , Giuseppe Notarstefano

We propose a regularized saddle-point algorithm for convex networked optimization problems with resource allocation constraints. Standard distributed gradient methods suffer from slow convergence and require excessive communication when…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2012-08-16 Andrea Simonetto , Tamas Keviczky , Mikael Johansson

In this two-part work, we propose an algorithmic framework for solving non-convex problems whose objective function is the sum of a number of smooth component functions plus a convex (possibly non-smooth) or/and smooth (possibly non-convex)…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-07-24 Sandeep Kumar , Ketan Rajawat , Daniel P. Palomar

We consider a stochastic convex optimization problem that requires minimizing a sum of misspecified agentspecific expectation-valued convex functions over the intersection of a collection of agent-specific convex sets. This misspecification…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-09-22 Aswin Kannan , Angelia Nedich , Uday V. Shanbhag

Modern artificial intelligence relies on networks of agents that collect data, process information, and exchange it with neighbors to collaboratively solve optimization and learning problems. This article introduces a novel distributed…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-15 Diego Deplano , Nicola Bastianello , Mauro Franceschelli , Karl H. Johansson

This technical note studies the distributed optimization problem of a sum of nonsmooth convex cost functions with local constraints. At first, we propose a novel distributed continuous-time projected algorithm, in which each agent knows its…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-11-29 Xianlin Zeng , Peng Yi , Yiguang Hong

One of the most important problems in the field of distributed optimization is the problem of minimizing a sum of local convex objective functions over a networked system. Most of the existing work in this area focus on developing…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-01-08 Fatemeh Mansoori , Ermin Wei

In this paper, the distributed resource allocation optimization problem is investigated. The allocation decisions are made to minimize the sum of all the agents' local objective functions while satisfying both the global network resource…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-04-11 Peng Yi , Yiguang Hong , Feng Liu