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The paper considers distributed stochastic optimization over randomly switching networks, where agents collaboratively minimize the average of all agents' local expectation-valued convex cost functions. Due to the stochasticity in gradient…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-04-07 Jinlong Lei , Peng Yi , Jie Chen , Yiguang Hong

This paper presents the formulation of fault detection and accommodation schemes for a network of autonomous agents running internal model-based dynamic average consensus algorithms. We focus on two types of consensus algorithms, one that…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-03-09 Jemin George , Matthew L. Elwin , Randy A. Freeman , Kevin M. Lynch

We analyse the learning performance of Distributed Gradient Descent in the context of multi-agent decentralised non-parametric regression with the square loss function when i.i.d. samples are assigned to agents. We show that if agents hold…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-11-14 Dominic Richards , Patrick Rebeschini

In this paper we propose and analyze a distributed algorithm for achieving globally optimal decisions, either estimation or detection, through a self-synchronization mechanism among linearly coupled integrators initialized with local…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Gesualdo Scutari , Sergio Barbarossa , Loreto Pescosolido

This work develops effective distributed strategies for the solution of constrained multi-agent stochastic optimization problems with coupled parameters across the agents. In this formulation, each agent is influenced by only a subset of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-03-15 Sulaiman A. Alghunaim , Ali H. Sayed

In this paper, we focus on solving a distributed convex optimization problem in a network, where each agent has its own convex cost function and the goal is to minimize the sum of the agents' cost functions while obeying the network…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-02-11 Shi Pu , Wei Shi , Jinming Xu , Angelia Nedić

This paper investigates online distributed aggregative games with time-varying cost functions, where agents are interconnected through an unbalanced communication graph. Due to the distributed and noncooperative nature of the game, some…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Olusola Odeyomi , Tokunbo Ogunfunmi , Adjovi Laba

This paper investigates the problem of distributed stochastic approximation in multi-agent systems. The algorithm under study consists of two steps: a local stochastic approximation step and a diffusion step which drives the network to a…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2014-10-28 Gemma Morral , Pascal Bianchi , Gersende Fort

We formulate computation offloading as a decentralized decision-making problem with autonomous agents. We design an interaction mechanism that incentivizes agents to align private and system goals by balancing between competition and…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Jing Tan , Ramin Khalili , Holger Karl , Artur Hecker

This paper proposes a novel distributed event-triggered algorithmic solution to the multi-agent average consensus problem for networks whose communication topology is described by weight-balanced, strongly connected digraphs. The proposed…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-07-09 Cameron Nowzari , Jorge Cortes

This paper takes a different approach for the distributed linear parameter estimation over a multi-agent network. The parameter vector is considered to be stochastic with a Gaussian distribution. The sensor measurements at each agent are…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-19 Subhro Das

This paper addresses distributed average tracking for a group of physical double-integrator agents under an undirected graph with reduced requirement on velocity measurements. The idea is that multiple agents track the average of multiple…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-07-23 Sheida Ghapani , Wei Ren , Fei Chen , Yongduan Song

The paper studies the distributed stochastic compositional optimization problems over networks, where all the agents' inner-level function is the sum of each agent's private expectation function. Focusing on the aggregative structure of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-11-10 Shengchao Zhao , Yongchao Liu

We consider the distributed weight balancing problem in networks of nodes that are interconnected via directed edges, each of which is able to admit a positive integer weight within a certain interval, captured by individual lower and upper…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-10 Apostolos I. Rikos , Christoforos N. Hadjicostis

Distributed algorithms can be efficiently used for solving economic dispatch problem (EDP) in power systems. To implement a distributed algorithm, a communication network is required, making the algorithm vulnerable to noise which may cause…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-18 Wenwen Wu , Shuai Liu , Shanying Zhu

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

We consider the problem of determining the top-$k$ largest measurements from a dataset distributed among a network of $n$ agents with noisy communication links. We show that this scenario can be cast as a distributed convex optimization…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-12-02 Xu Zhang , Marcos Vasconcelos

The problem of network-constrained averaging is to compute the average of a set of values distributed throughout a graph G using an algorithm that can pass messages only along graph edges. We study this problem in the noisy setting, in…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-06-15 Nima Noorshams , Martin Wainwright

This work presents a decentralized time synchronization algorithm for multi-agent systems. Each agent possesses two clocks, a hardware clock that is perturbed by environmental phenomena (e.g., temperature, humidity, pressure, g forces,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-08 Federico M. Zegers , Sean Phillips