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Emerging applications in multi-agent environments such as internet-of-things, networked sensing, autonomous systems and federated learning, call for decentralized algorithms for finite-sum optimizations that are resource-efficient in terms…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-12-03 Boyue Li , Zhize Li , Yuejie Chi

In this paper, we consider the unconstrained distributed optimization problem, in which the exchange of information in the network is captured by a directed graph topology, thus, nodes can only communicate with their neighbors.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-07 Apostolos I. Rikos , Wei Jiang , Themistoklis Charalambous , Karl H. Johansson

We introduce a new and increasingly relevant setting for distributed optimization in machine learning, where the data defining the optimization are unevenly distributed over an extremely large number of nodes. The goal is to train a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-10-11 Jakub Konečný , H. Brendan McMahan , Daniel Ramage , Peter Richtárik

Resource allocation is a fundamental problem in Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) systems, in which devices work together under limited communication bandwidth to complete diverse tasks. This paper proposes a communication-efficient…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-26 Yuzhu Duan , Ziwen Yang , Xiaoming Duan , Shanying Zhu

We propose Directed-Distributed Projected Subgradient (D-DPS) to solve a constrained optimization problem over a multi-agent network, where the goal of agents is to collectively minimize the sum of locally known convex functions. Each agent…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-06-26 Ran Xin , Chenguang Xi , Usman A. Khan

We consider the problem of regularized regression in a network of communication-constrained devices. Each node has local data and objectives, and the goal is for the nodes to optimize a global objective. We develop a distributed…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-03-22 Neil McGlohon , Stacy Patterson

In this work, we consider solving a distributed optimization problem in a multi-agent network with multiple clusters. In each cluster, the involved agents cooperatively optimize a separable composite function with a common decision…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-03-03 Jianzheng Wang , Guoqiang Hu

In this paper we consider a distributed convex optimization problem over time-varying networks. We propose a dual method that converges R-linearly to the optimal point given that the agents' objective functions are strongly convex and have…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-04-23 Marie Maros , Joakim Jaldén

This papers studies multi-agent (convex and \emph{nonconvex}) optimization over static digraphs. We propose a general distributed \emph{asynchronous} algorithmic framework whereby i) agents can update their local variables as well as…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-09-12 Ye Tian , Ying Sun , Gesualdo Scutari

Decentralized optimization is typically studied under the assumption of noise-free transmission. However, real-world scenarios often involve the presence of noise due to factors such as additive white Gaussian noise channels or…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-07-28 Suhail M. Shah , Raghu Bollapragada

Recently, there has been an increasing interest in designing distributed convex optimization algorithms under the setting where the data matrix is partitioned on features. Algorithms under this setting sometimes have many advantages over…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-12-05 Zihao Chen , Luo Luo , Zhihua Zhang

The emergence of the Internet-of-Things and cyber-physical systems necessitates the coordination of access to limited communication resources in an autonomous and distributed fashion. Herein, the optimal design of a wireless sensing system…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-26 Xu Zhang , Marcos M. Vasconcelos , Wei Cui , Urbashi Mitra

We study the multi-agent Smoothed Online Convex Optimization (SOCO) problem, where $N$ agents interact through a communication graph. In each round, each agent $i$ receives a strongly convex hitting cost function $f^i_t$ in an online…

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This paper investigates distributed resource allocation optimization over directed graphs with limited communication bandwidth. We develop a novel distributed algorithm that integrates the centralized Proximal Jacobian Alternating Direction…

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The paper studies decentralized optimization over networks, where agents minimize a composite objective consisting of the sum of smooth convex functions--the agents' losses--and an additional nonsmooth convex extended value function. We…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-05 Xiaokai Chen , Ilya Kuruzov , Gesualdo Scutari , Alexander Gasnikov

We consider a decentralized learning problem, where a set of computing nodes aim at solving a non-convex optimization problem collaboratively. It is well-known that decentralized optimization schemes face two major system bottlenecks:…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-04 Amirhossein Reisizadeh , Hossein Taheri , Aryan Mokhtari , Hamed Hassani , Ramtin Pedarsani

In this paper, a distributed subgradient-based algorithm is proposed for continuous-time multi-agent systems to search a feasible solution to convex inequalities. The algorithm involves each agent achieving a state constrained by its own…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-06-13 Kaihong Lu , Gangshan Jing , Long Wang

We consider distributed convex optimization problems that involve a separable objective function and nontrivial functional constraints, such as Linear Matrix Inequalities (LMIs). We propose a decentralized and computationally inexpensive…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-01-22 Soomin Lee , Michael M. Zavlanos

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

We propose a new distributed optimization algorithm for solving a class of constrained optimization problems in which (a) the objective function is separable (i.e., the sum of local objective functions of agents), (b) the optimization…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-16 Van Sy Mai , Richard J. La , Tao Zhang , Abdella Battou