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We consider distributed online learning for joint regret with communication constraints. In this setting, there are multiple agents that are connected in a graph. Each round, an adversary first activates one of the agents to issue a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Dirk van der Hoeven , Hédi Hadiji , Tim van Erven

The problem of distributed learning and channel access is considered in a cognitive network with multiple secondary users. The availability statistics of the channels are initially unknown to the secondary users and are estimated using…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Animashree Anandkumar , Nithin Michael , Ao Kevin Tang , Ananthram Swami

We consider distributed kernel bandits where $N$ agents aim to collaboratively maximize an unknown reward function that lies in a reproducing kernel Hilbert space. Each agent sequentially queries the function to obtain noisy observations at…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-21 Nikola Pavlovic , Sudeep Salgia , Qing Zhao

In this paper, we consider the general scenario of resource sharing in a decentralized system when the resource rewards/qualities are time-varying and unknown to the users, and using the same resource by multiple users leads to reduced…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-10-23 Cem Tekin , Mingyan Liu

In this tutorial article, we give an overview of new challenges and representative results on distributed no-regret learning in multi-agent systems modeled as repeated unknown games. Four emerging game characteristics---dynamicity,…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-24 Xiao Xu , Qing Zhao

We consider the problem where M agents collaboratively interact with an instance of a stochastic K-armed contextual bandit, where K>>M. The goal of the agents is to simultaneously minimize the cumulative regret over all the agents over a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-16 Jiabin Lin , Shana Moothedath

We consider a collaborative online learning paradigm, wherein a group of agents connected through a social network are engaged in playing a stochastic multi-armed bandit game. Each time an agent takes an action, the corresponding reward is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-07-12 Ravi Kumar Kolla , Krishna Jagannathan , Aditya Gopalan

This paper studies the optimal resource allocation problem within a multi-agent network composed of both autonomous agents and humans. The main challenge lies in the globally coupled constraints that link the decisions of autonomous agents…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-04 Yichen Yao , Ryan Mbagna Nanko , Yue Wang , Xuan Wang

We consider a problem where multiple agents must learn an action profile that maximises the sum of their utilities in a distributed manner. The agents are assumed to have no knowledge of either the utility functions or the actions and…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-03-31 Chithrupa Ramesh , Marius Schmitt , John Lygeros

We consider the problem of online stochastic optimization in a distributed setting with $M$ clients connected through a central server. We develop a distributed online learning algorithm that achieves order-optimal cumulative regret with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Sudeep Salgia , Qing Zhao , Tamir Gabay , Kobi Cohen

This paper considers distributed online nonconvex optimization with time-varying inequality constraints over a network of agents, where the nonconvex local loss and convex local constraint functions can vary arbitrarily across iterations.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-19 Kunpeng Zhang , Lei Xu , Xinlei Yi , Guanghui Wen , Ming Cao , Karl H. Johansson , Tianyou Chai , Tao Yang

We consider distributed online convex optimization problems, where the distributed system consists of various computing units connected through a time-varying communication graph. In each time step, each computing unit selects a constrained…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-23 Deming Yuan , Alexandre Proutiere , Guodong Shi

In this paper, the mixed equilibrium problem with coupled inequality constraints in dynamic environments is solved by employing a multi-agent system, where each agent only has access to its own bifunction, its own constraint function, and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-30 Hang Xu , Kaihong Lu , Yu-Long Wang , Qixin 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 study the problem of federated stochastic multi-arm contextual bandits with unknown contexts, in which M agents are faced with different bandits and collaborate to learn. The communication model consists of a central server and the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-31 Jiabin Lin , Shana Moothedath

Recently, there has been extensive study of cooperative multi-agent multi-armed bandits where a set of distributed agents cooperatively play the same multi-armed bandit game. The goal is to develop bandit algorithms with the optimal group…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-09 Lin Yang , Xuchuang Wang , Mohammad Hajiesmaili , Lijun Zhang , John C. S. Lui , Don Towsley

This paper studies multi-stage systems with end-to-end bandit feedback. In such systems, each job needs to go through multiple stages, each managed by a different agent, before generating an outcome. Each agent can only control its own…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-20 I-Hong Hou

We consider distributed linear bandits where $M$ agents learn collaboratively to minimize the overall cumulative regret incurred by all agents. Information exchange is facilitated by a central server, and both the uplink and downlink…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Sudeep Salgia , Qing Zhao

In this paper, we consider a distributed learning problem in a subnetwork zero-sum game, where agents are competing in different subnetworks. These agents are connected through time-varying graphs where each agent has its own cost function…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-08-05 Shijie Huang , Jinlong Lei , Yiguang Hong , Uday V. Shanbhag , Jie Chen

In this paper, we consider the distributed stochastic multi-armed bandit problem, where a global arm set can be accessed by multiple players independently. The players are allowed to exchange their history of observations with each other at…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-13 Shuang Liu , Cheng Chen , Zhihua Zhang
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