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In this paper, we propose distributed algorithms that solve a system of Boolean equations over a network, where each node in the network possesses only one Boolean equation from the system. The Boolean equation assigned at any particular…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-03-04 Hongsheng Qi , Bo Li , Rui-Juan Jing , Lei Wang , Alexandre Proutiere , Guodong Shi

We study distributed optimization where nodes cooperatively minimize the sum of their individual, locally known, convex costs $f_i(x)$'s, $x \in {\mathbb R}^d$ is global. Distributed augmented Lagrangian (AL) methods have good empirical…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-04-15 Dusan Jakovetic , Jose M. F. Moura , Joao Xavier

This paper presents a class of new algorithms for distributed statistical estimation that exploit divide-and-conquer approach. We show that one of the key benefits of the divide-and-conquer strategy is robustness, an important…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2018-08-29 Stanislav Minsker , Nate Strawn

In this paper, we investigate a distributed learning scheme for a broad class of stochastic optimization problems and games that arise in signal processing and wireless communications. The proposed algorithm relies on the method of matrix…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-04-05 Panayotis Mertikopoulos , E. Veronica Belmega , Romain Negrel , Luca Sanguinetti

Probabilistic message-passing algorithms are developed for routing transmissions in multi-wavelength optical communication networks, under node and edge-disjoint routing constraints and for various objective functions. Global routing…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-04-25 Yi-Zhi Xu , Ho Fai Po , Chi Ho Yeung , David Saad

This paper proposes distributed algorithms for solving linear equations to seek a least square solution via multi-agent networks. We consider that each agent has only access to a small and imcomplete block of linear equations rather than…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-05-20 Yi Huang , Ziyang Meng

Motivated by performance optimization of large-scale graph processing systems that distribute the graph across multiple machines, we consider the balanced graph partitioning problem. Compared to the previous work, we study the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-02-19 Dmitrii Avdiukhin , Sergey Pupyrev , Grigory Yaroslavtsev

We propose an adaptive diffusion mechanism to optimize a global cost function in a distributed manner over a network of nodes. The cost function is assumed to consist of a collection of individual components. Diffusion adaptation allows the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-06-03 Jianshu Chen , Ali H. Sayed

We provide a unifying framework for distributed convex optimization over time-varying networks, in the presence of constraints and uncertainty, features that are typically treated separately in the literature. We adopt a proximal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-05-24 Kostas Margellos , Alessandro Falsone , Simone Garatti , Maria Prandini

This paper studies the problem of distributed weighted least-squares (WLS) estimation for an interconnected linear measurement network with additive noise. Two types of measurements are considered: self measurements for individual nodes,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-27 Qiqi Yang , Zhaorong Zhang , Minyue Fu

In this paper we consider a novel partitioned framework for distributed optimization in peer-to-peer networks. In several important applications the agents of a network have to solve an optimization problem with two key features: (i) the…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-05-23 Ivano Notarnicola , Ruggero Carli , Giuseppe Notarstefano

In average consensus protocols, nodes in a network perform an iterative weighted average of their estimates and those of their neighbors. The protocol converges to the average of initial estimates of all nodes found in the network. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-07-21 Mahmoud El Chamie , Giovanni Neglia , Konstantin Avrachenkov

We study diffusion and consensus based optimization of a sum of unknown convex objective functions over distributed networks. The only access to these functions is through stochastic gradient oracles, each of which is only available at a…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2015-09-01 N. Denizcan Vanli , Muhammed O. Sayin , Suleyman S. Kozat

We study a standard distributed optimization framework where $N$ networked nodes collaboratively minimize the sum of their local convex costs. The main body of existing work considers the described problem when the underling network is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-03-22 Anit Kumar Sahu , Dusan Jakovetic , Dragana Bajovic , Soummya Kar

The aim of this work is to develop a fully-distributed algorithmic framework for training graph convolutional networks (GCNs). The proposed method is able to exploit the meaningful relational structure of the input data, which are collected…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-21 Simone Scardapane , Indro Spinelli , Paolo Di Lorenzo

When solving consensus optimization problems over a graph, there is often an explicit characterization of the convergence rate of Gradient Descent (GD) using the spectrum of the graph Laplacian. The same type of problems under the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-10-04 Guilherme França , José Bento

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

We study the problem of minimizing a sum of convex objective functions where the components of the objective are available at different nodes of a network and nodes are allowed to only communicate with their neighbors. The use of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-04-24 Aryan Mokhtari , Qing Ling , Alejandro Ribeiro

This paper considers a general data-fitting problem over a networked system, in which many computing nodes are connected by an undirected graph. This kind of problem can find many real-world applications and has been studied extensively in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-04-14 Ying Zhang

We consider discrete-time distributed averaging algorithms over multi-agent networks with measurement noises and time-varying random graph flows. Each agent updates its state by relative states between neighbours with both additive and…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-02-14 Tao Li , Jiexiang Wang