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We study a distributed method called SAB-TV, which employs gradient tracking to collaboratively minimize the sum of smooth and strongly-convex local cost functions for networked agents communicating over a time-varying directed graph. Each…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-10-31 Duong Thuy Anh Nguyen , Duong Tung Nguyen , Angelia Nedich

In autonomous robotics, a critical challenge lies in developing robust solutions for Active Collaborative SLAM, wherein multiple robots collaboratively explore and map an unknown environment while intelligently coordinating their movements…

The back-end module of Distributed Collaborative Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (DCSLAM) requires solving a nonlinear Pose Graph Optimization (PGO) under a distributed setting, also known as SE(d)-synchronization. Most existing…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Cunhao Li , Peng Yi , Guanghui Guo , Yiguang Hong

This work proposes a decentralized architecture, where individual agents aim at solving a classification problem while observing streaming features of different dimensions and arising from possibly different distributions. In the context of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-27 Virginia Bordignon , Stefan Vlaski , Vincenzo Matta , Ali H. Sayed

This paper investigates sensor scheduling for state estimation of complex networks over shared transmission channels. For a complex network of dynamical systems, referred to as nodes, a sensor network is adopted to measure and estimate the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-12 Peihu Duan , Lidong He , Lingying Huang , Guanrong Chen , Ling Shi

Estimating statistical models within sensor networks requires distributed algorithms, in which both data and computation are distributed across the nodes of the network. We propose a general approach for distributed learning based on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-07-03 Qiang Liu , Alexander Ihler

We consider a distributed estimation method in a setting with heterogeneous streams of correlated data distributed across nodes in a network. In the considered approach, linear models are estimated locally (i.e., with only local data)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-11 Lingzhou Hong , Alfredo Garcia , Ceyhun Eksin

In distributed processing, agents generally collect data generated by the same underlying unknown model (represented by a vector of parameters) and then solve an estimation or inference task cooperatively. In this paper, we consider the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-16 Sheng-Yuan Tu , Ali H. Sayed

This work studies distributed (probability) density estimation of large-scale systems. Such problems are motivated by many density-based distributed control tasks in which the real-time density of the swarm is used as feedback information,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-03 Tongjia Zheng , Hai Lin

Bias estimation or sensor registration is an essential step in ensuring the accuracy of global tracks in multisensor-multitarget tracking. Most previously proposed algorithms for bias estimation rely on local measurements in centralized…

Methodology · Statistics 2016-03-23 Ehsan Taghavi , R. Tharmarasa , T. Kirubarajan , Yaakov Bar-Shalom , Mike McDonald

We present a distributed optimization algorithm for solving online personalized optimization problems over a network of computing and communicating nodes, each of which linked to a specific user. The local objective functions are assumed to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-15 Ivano Notarnicola , Andrea Simonetto , Francesco Farina , Giuseppe Notarstefano

In multicenter biomedical research, integrating data from multiple decentralized sites provides more robust and generalizable findings due to its larger sample size and the ability to account for the between-site heterogeneity. However,…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-12-29 Xiaokang Liu , Yuchen Yang , Yifei Sun , Jiang Bian , Yanyuan Ma , Raymond J. Carroll , Yong Chen

Finding frequently occurring subgraph patterns or network motifs in neural architectures is crucial for optimizing efficiency, accelerating design, and uncovering structural insights. However, as the subgraph size increases,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Yikang Yang , Zhengxin Yang , Minghao Luo , Luzhou Peng , Hongxiao Li , Wanling Gao , Lei Wang , Jianfeng Zhan

Data attribution for generative models seeks to quantify the influence of individual training examples on model outputs. Existing methods for diffusion models typically require access to model gradients or retraining, limiting their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Yutian Zhao , Chao Du , Xiaosen Zheng , Tianyu Pang , Min Lin

In this work, a novel distributed search-planning framework is proposed, where a dynamically varying team of autonomous agents cooperate in order to search multiple objects of interest in three-dimension (3-D). It is assumed that the agents…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-19 Savvas Papaioannou , Panayiotis Kolios , Theocharis Theocharides , Christos G. Panayiotou , Marios M. Polycarpou

Distributed gathering algorithms aim to achieve complete visibility graphs via a "never lose a neighbour" policy. We suggest a method to maintain connected graph topologies, while reducing the number of effective edges in the graph to order…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2019-03-25 Rotem Manor , Ariel Barel , Alfred M. Bruckstein

Distributed diffusion is a powerful algorithm for multi-task state estimation which enables networked agents to interact with neighbors to process input data and diffuse information across the network. Compared to a centralized approach,…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2020-03-27 Jiani Li , Xenofon Koutsoukos

Graph learning is often a necessary step in processing or representing structured data, when the underlying graph is not given explicitly. Graph learning is generally performed centrally with a full knowledge of the graph signals, namely…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-14 Isabela Cunha Maia Nobre , Mireille El Gheche , Pascal Frossard

Distributed averaging is among the most relevant cooperative control problems, with applications in sensor and robotic networks, distributed signal processing, data fusion, and load balancing. Consensus and gossip algorithms have been…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-06 Christel Sirocchi , Alessandro Bogliolo

This paper presents a novel approach to range-based cooperative localization for robot swarms in GPS-denied environments, addressing the limitations of current methods in noisy and sparse settings. We propose a robust multi-layered…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Atharva Sagale , Tohid Kargar Tasooji , Ramviyas Parasuraman