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We consider a distributed learning setup where a network of agents sequentially access realizations of a set of random variables with unknown distributions. The network objective is to find a parametrized distribution that best describes…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-05-10 Angelia Nedić , Alex Olshevsky , César Uribe

Federated learning is a communication-efficient training process that alternates between local training at the edge devices and averaging the updated local model at the central server. Nevertheless, it is impractical to achieve a perfect…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-04 Fan Ang , Li Chen , Nan Zhao , Yunfei Chen , Weidong Wang , F. Richard Yu

We study binary coordination games over graphs under log-linear learning when neighbor actions are conveyed through explicit noisy communication links. Each edge is modeled as either a binary symmetric channel (BSC) or a binary erasure…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-29 Emrah Akyol , Marcos Vasconcelos

We consider the problem of training a machine learning model over a network of nodes in a fully decentralized framework. The nodes take a Bayesian-like approach via the introduction of a belief over the model parameter space. We propose a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-01 Anusha Lalitha , Osman Cihan Kilinc , Tara Javidi , Farinaz Koushanfar

In recent years, the application of artificial intelligence (AI) in wireless communications has demonstrated inherent robustness against wireless channel distortions. Most existing works empirically leverage this robustness to yield…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Yangshuo He , Guanding Yu , Huaiyu Dai

In this paper, we study the robust consensus problem for a set of discrete-time linear agents to coordinate over an uncertain communication network, which is to achieve consensus against the transmission errors and noises resulted from the…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-03-30 Zhongkui Li , Jie Chen

Possibility theory is proposed as an uncertainty representation framework for distributed learning in multi-agent systems and robot swarms. In particular, we investigate its application to the best-of-n problem where the aim is for a…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Jonathan Lawry , Michael Crosscombe , David Harvey

We analyze the dynamics of the Learning-Without-Recall model with Gaussian priors in a dynamic social network. Agents seeking to learn the state of the world, the "truth", exchange signals about their current beliefs across a changing…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-09-21 Chu Wang , Bernard Chazelle

As the complexity of our neural network models grow, so too do the data and computation requirements for successful training. One proposed solution to this problem is training on a distributed network of computational devices, thus…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-22 Kyle Crandall , Dustin Webb

This work examines a social learning problem, where dispersed agents connected through a network topology interact locally to form their opinions (beliefs) as regards certain hypotheses of interest. These opinions evolve over time, since…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-26 Michele Cirillo , Virginia Bordignon , Vincenzo Matta , Ali H. Sayed

The paper considers the problem of cooperative estimation for a linear uncertain plant observed by a network of communicating sensors. We take a novel approach by treating the filtering problem from the view point of local sensors while the…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-03-18 M. Zamani , V. Ugrinovskii

Investigating cooperativity of interlocutors is central in studying pragmatics of dialogue. Models of conversation that only assume cooperative agents fail to explain the dynamics of strategic conversations. Thus, we investigate the ability…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-18 Anthony Sicilia , Tristan Maidment , Pat Healy , Malihe Alikhani

We analyze a model of learning and belief formation in networks in which agents follow Bayes rule yet they do not recall their history of past observations and cannot reason about how other agents' beliefs are formed. They do so by making…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-11-29 M. Amin Rahimian , Ali Jadbabaie

We study the utility of social learning in a distributed detection model with agents sharing the same goal: a collective decision that optimizes an agreed upon criterion. We show that social learning is helpful in some cases but is provably…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-24 Joong Bum Rhim , Vivek K Goyal

In this paper we consider a network of processors aiming at cooperatively solving linear programming problems subject to uncertainty. Each node only knows a common cost function and its local uncertain constraint set. We propose a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-08-27 Mohammadreza Chamanbaz , Giuseppe Notarstefano , Roland Bouffanais

We study non-Bayesian social learning on random directed graphs and show that under mild connectivity assumptions, all the agents almost surely learn the true state of the world asymptotically in time if the sequence of the associated…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-08-02 Rohit Parasnis , Massimo Franceschetti , Behrouz Touri

In this paper, a distributed learning leader-follower consensus protocol based on Gaussian process regression for a class of nonlinear multi-agent systems with unknown dynamics is designed. We propose a distributed learning approach to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-31 Zewen Yang , Stefan Sosnowski , Qingchen Liu , Junjie Jiao , Armin Lederer , Sandra Hirche

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

In the sequential learning problem, agents in a network attempt to predict a binary ground truth, informed by both a noisy private signal and the predictions of neighboring agents before them. It is well known that social learning in this…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-02-10 William Guo , Edward Xiong , Jie Gao

This work studies the intersection of continual and federated learning, in which independent agents face unique tasks in their environments and incrementally develop and share knowledge. We introduce a mathematical framework capturing the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Long Le , Marcel Hussing , Eric Eaton