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We consider a setting in which $N$ agents aim to speedup a common Stochastic Approximation (SA) problem by acting in parallel and communicating with a central server. We assume that the up-link transmissions to the server are subject to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-08-05 Nicolò Dal Fabbro , Arman Adibi , H. Vincent Poor , Sanjeev R. Kulkarni , Aritra Mitra , George J. Pappas

The paper considers independent reinforcement learning (IRL) for multi-agent decision-making process in the paradigm of federated learning (FL). We show that FL can clearly improve the policy performance of IRL in terms of training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-01 Xing Xu , Rongpeng Li , Zhifeng Zhao , Honggang Zhang

Interference among concurrent transmissions in a wireless network is a key factor limiting the system performance. One way to alleviate this problem is to manage the radio resources in order to maximize either the average or the worst-case…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-24 Navid Naderializadeh , Jaroslaw Sydir , Meryem Simsek , Hosein Nikopour , Shilpa Talwar

Crowd navigation has received significant research attention in recent years, especially DRL-based methods. While single-robot crowd scenarios have dominated research, they offer limited applicability to real-world complexities. The…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-18 Xinyu Zhou , Songhao Piao , Wenzheng Chi , Liguo Chen , Wei Li

Communication networks able to withstand hostile environments are critically important for disaster relief operations. In this paper, we consider a challenging scenario where drones have been compromised in the supply chain, during their…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-12-11 Chris Hicks , Vasilios Mavroudis , Myles Foley , Thomas Davies , Kate Highnam , Tim Watson

The scalability of Distributed Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD) is today limited by communication bottlenecks. We propose a novel SGD variant: Communication-efficient SGD with Error Reset, or CSER. The key idea in CSER is first a new…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Cong Xie , Shuai Zheng , Oluwasanmi Koyejo , Indranil Gupta , Mu Li , Haibin Lin

Motivated by the needs of resiliency, scalability, and plug-and-play operation, distributed decision-making is becoming increasingly prevalent. The problem of achieving consensus in a multi-agent system is at the core of distributed…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-11-21 Vivek Khatana , Murti V. Salapaka

Intrusion detection systems (IDSs) play an important role in identifying malicious attacks and threats in networking systems. As fundamental tools of IDSs, learning based classification methods have been widely employed. When it comes to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-01-29 He Zhang , Xingrui Yu , Peng Ren , Chunbo Luo , Geyong Min

Respondent-Driven Sampling (RDS) employs a variant of a link-tracing network sampling strategy to collect data from hard-to-reach populations. By tracing the links in the underlying social network, the process exploits the social structure…

Applications · Statistics 2009-04-14 Krista J. Gile , Mark S. Handcock

Dynamic Source Routing (DSR) is a well known source routing protocol for ad hoc networks. The algorithm depends on the cooperative participation of the nodes that enables route discovery from a source node to a destination node. However, if…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2012-09-09 Jaydip Sen

Timely delivery of delay-sensitive information over dynamic, heterogeneous networks is increasingly essential for a range of interactive applications, such as industrial automation, self-driving vehicles, and augmented reality. However,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Vincenzo Norman Vitale , Antonia Maria Tulino , Andreas F. Molisch , Jaime Llorca

Achieving consensus among noncooperative agents remains challenging in decentralized multi-agent systems, where agents often have conflicting preferences. Existing coordination methods enable agents to reach consensus without a centralized…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Jaehan Im , John-Paul Clarke , Ufuk Topcu , David Fridovich-Keil

In order to collaborate efficiently with unknown partners in cooperative control settings, adaptation of the partners based on online experience is required. The rather general and widely applicable control setting, where each cooperation…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2019-10-30 Florian Köpf , Samuel Tesfazgi , Michael Flad , Sören Hohmann

We consider decentralized optimization problems where one aims to minimize a sum of convex smooth objective functions distributed between nodes in the network. The links in the network can change from time to time. For the setting when the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-01-30 Dmitriy Metelev , Alexander Rogozin , Dmitry Kovalev , Alexander Gasnikov

We consider how to connect a set of disjoint networks to optimize the performance of the resulting composite network. We quantify this performance by the coherence of the composite network, which is defined by an $H_2$ norm of the system.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-04-11 Erika Mackin , Stacy Patterson

This paper investigates the problems large-scale distributed composite convex optimization, with motivations from a broad range of applications, including multi-agent systems, federated learning, smart grids, wireless sensor networks,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-16 Maoran Wang , Xingju Cai , Yongxin Chen

Digital twins (DTs) are envisioned as a key enabler of the cyber-physical continuum in future wireless networks. However, efficient deployment and synchronization of DTs in dynamic multi-access edge computing (MEC) environments remains…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-02 Hossam Farag , Cedomir Stefanovic

Energy efficiency in mobile networks is crucial for sustainable telecommunications infrastructure, particularly as network densification continues to increase power consumption. Sleep mechanisms for the components in mobile networks can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Kristina Levina , Nikolaos Pappas , Athanasios Karapantelakis , Aneta Vulgarakis Feljan , Jendrik Seipp

Local-remote systems allow robots to execute complex tasks in hazardous environments such as space and nuclear power stations. However, establishing accurate positional mapping between local and remote devices can be difficult due to time…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-09-21 Luc McCutcheon , Saber Fallah

Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) provides a promising way for learning navigation in complex autonomous driving scenarios. However, identifying the subtle cues that can indicate drastically different outcomes remains an open problem with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-25 Xiaobai Ma , Jiachen Li , Mykel J. Kochenderfer , David Isele , Kikuo Fujimura