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This technical note studies the distributed average tracking problem for multiple time-varying signals with general linear dynamics, whose reference inputs are nonzero and not available to any agent in the network. In distributed fashion, a…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2013-12-31 Yu Zhao , Zhisheng Duan , Zhongkui Li

This paper focuses on the problem of distributed consensus control of multi-agent systems while considering two main practical concerns (i) stochastic noise in the agent dynamics and (ii) predefined performance constraints over evolutions…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-09 Pushpak Jagtap , Dimos V. Dimarogonas

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

In this paper, we discuss a class of distributed detection algorithms which can be viewed as implementations of Bayes' law in distributed settings. Some of the algorithms are proposed in the literature most recently, and others are first…

Methodology · Statistics 2015-11-10 Qipeng Liu , Jiuhua Zhao , Xiaofan Wang

This paper investigates the distributed fixed point seeking problem of sum-separable stochastic operators over the multi-agent network. Based on inexact Krasnosel'ski\u{\i}--Mann iterations, the communication-efficient distributed algorithm…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-22 Fan Li , Lei Xu , Xinlei Yi , Guanghui Wen , Yang Shi , Tao Yang

In this paper, we address the distributed average consensus problem over directed networks in open multi-agent systems (OMAS), where the stability of the network is disrupted by frequent agent arrivals and departures, leading to a…

A wider selection of step sizes is explored for the distributed subgradient algorithm for multi-agent optimization problems, for both time-invariant and time-varying communication topologies. The square summable requirement of the step…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-02-02 Peng Wang , Wei Ren

We consider the problem of communication-constrained collaborative personalized mean estimation under a privacy constraint in an environment of several agents continuously receiving data according to arbitrary unknown agent-specific…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Yauhen Yakimenka , Hsuan-Yin Lin , Eirik Rosnes , Jörg Kliewer

We consider the problem of distributedly estimating Gaussian processes in multi-agent frameworks. Each agent collects few measurements and aims to collaboratively reconstruct a common estimate based on all data. Agents are assumed with…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2018-05-11 Gianluigi Pillonetto , Luca Schenato , Damiano Varagnolo

This paper fully studies distributed optimal consensus problem in non-directed dynamical networks. We consider a group of networked agents that are supposed to rendezvous at the optimal point of a collective convex objective function. Each…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-12-22 Amir Adibzadeh , Amir A. Suratgar , Mohammad B. Menhaja , Mohsen Zamani

We introduce a simple time-triggered protocol to achieve communication-efficient non-Bayesian learning over a network. Specifically, we consider a scenario where a group of agents interact over a graph with the aim of discerning the true…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-05 Aritra Mitra , John A. Richards , Shreyas Sundaram

In this paper, we propose a communication-efficiently decentralized machine learning framework that solves a consensus optimization problem defined over a network of inter-connected workers. The proposed algorithm, Censored and Quantized…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-13 Chaouki Ben Issaid , Anis Elgabli , Jihong Park , Mehdi Bennis , Mérouane Debbah

This work derives and analyzes an online learning strategy for tracking the average of time-varying distributed signals by relying on randomized coordinate-descent updates. During each iteration, each agent selects or observes a random…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-07-31 Bicheng Ying , Kun Yuan , Ali H. Sayed

In this paper, we study a distributed parameter estimation problem with an asynchronous communication protocol over multi-agent systems. Different from traditional time-driven communication schemes, in this work, data can be transmitted…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-03-04 Xingkang He , Qian Liu , Junfeng Wu , Karl Henrik Johansson

In this paper, we propose a fully distributed algorithm for frequency offsets estimation in decentralized systems. With the proposed algorithm, each node estimates its frequency offsets by local computations and limited exchange of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-07-12 Jian Du , Yik-Chung Wu

We describe a protocol for the average consensus problem on any fixed undirected graph whose convergence time scales linearly in the total number nodes $n$. The protocol is completely distributed, with the exception of requiring all nodes…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-08-07 Alex Olshevsky

In this paper, we focus on an aggregative optimization problem under the communication bottleneck. The aggregative optimization is to minimize the sum of local cost functions. Each cost function depends on not only local state variables but…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-01-07 Ziqin Chen , Shu Liang

A distributed average consensus algorithm robust to a wide range of impulsive channel noise distributions is proposed. This work is the first of its kind in the literature to propose a consensus algorithm which relaxes the requirement of…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2015-06-22 Sivaraman Dasarathan , Cihan Tepedelenlioglu , Mahesh Banavar , Andreas Spanias

This paper considers online distributed convex constrained optimization over a time-varying multi-agent network. Agents in this network cooperate to minimize the global objective function through information exchange with their neighbors…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-05-09 Wentao Zhang , Yang Shi , Baoyong Zhang , Kaihong Lu , Deming Yuan

We introduce a new class of distributed algorithms for the approximate consensus problem in dynamic rooted networks, which we call amortized averaging algorithms. They are deduced from ordinary averaging algorithms by adding a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-12-15 Bernadette Charron-Bost , Matthias Függer , Thomas Nowak