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This paper addresses the analysis and design of quadratic neural networks, which have been recently introduced in the literature, and their applications to regression, classification, system identification and control of dynamical systems.…
In this paper we carry out a stability analysis of a distributed consensus algorithm in presence of link failures. The algorithm combines a new broadcast version of a Push-Sum algorithm, specifically designed for handling link failures,…
We examine the efficiency of Recurrent Neural Networks in forecasting the spatiotemporal dynamics of high dimensional and reduced order complex systems using Reservoir Computing (RC) and Backpropagation through time (BPTT) for gated network…
Decision-making problems can be modeled as combinatorial optimization problems with Constraint Programming formalisms such as Constrained Optimization Problems. However, few Constraint Programming formalisms can deal with both optimization…
In this paper, we propose a systematic approach for extending first-order optimization algorithms, originally designed for unconstrained strongly convex problems, to handle closed and convex set constraints. We show that the resulting…
We consider the task of minimizing the sum of convex functions stored in a decentralized manner across the nodes of a communication network. This problem is relatively well-studied in the scenario when the objective functions are smooth, or…
Existing asynchronous distributed optimization algorithms often use diminishing step-sizes that cause slow practical convergence, or fixed step-sizes that depend on an assumed upper bound of delays. Not only is such a delay bound hard to…
Generalized from the concept of consensus, this paper considers a group of edge agreements, i.e. constraints defined for neighboring agents, in which each pair of neighboring agents is required to satisfy one edge agreement constraint. Edge…
We analyze convergence of decentralized cooperative online estimation algorithms by a network of multiple nodes via information exchanging in an uncertain environment. Each node has a linear observation of an unknown parameter with randomly…
Consensus-based optimization (CBO) is a versatile multi-particle optimization method for performing nonconvex and nonsmooth global optimizations in high dimensions. Proofs of global convergence in probability have been achieved for a broad…
Consensus optimization has received considerable attention in recent years. A number of decentralized algorithms have been proposed for {convex} consensus optimization. However, to the behaviors or consensus \emph{nonconvex} optimization,…
Decentralized optimization over directed graphs is essential for applications such as robotic swarms, sensor networks, and distributed learning. In many practical scenarios, the underlying network takes the form of a Time-Varying Broadcast…
In decentralized optimization, several nodes connected by a network collaboratively minimize some objective function. For minimization of Lipschitz functions lower bounds are known along with optimal algorithms. We study a specific class of…
Stochastic optimization is a vital field in the realm of mathematical optimization, finding applications in diverse areas ranging from operations research to machine learning. In this paper, we introduce a novel first-order optimization…
The deluge of networked data motivates the development of algorithms for computation- and communication-efficient information processing. In this context, three data-adaptive censoring strategies are introduced to considerably reduce the…
In this article we investigate model order reduction of large-scale systems using time-limited balanced truncation, which restricts the well known balanced truncation framework to prescribed finite time intervals. The main emphasis is on…
In this paper, we propose a distributed Newton method for consensus optimization. Our approach outperforms state-of-the-art methods, including ADMM. The key idea is to exploit the sparsity of the dual Hessian and recast the computation of…
We investigate a distributed optimization problem over a cooperative multi-agent time-varying network, where each agent has its own decision variables that should be set so as to minimize its individual objective subject to local…
Recurrent Neural Networks (RNN) are ubiquitous computing systems for sequences and multivariate time series data. While several robust architectures of RNN are known, it is unclear how to relate RNN initialization, architecture, and other…