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We study distributed composite optimization over networks: agents minimize a sum of smooth (strongly) convex functions, the agents' sum-utility, plus a nonsmooth (extended-valued) convex one. We propose a general unified algorithmic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-08-04 Jinming Xu , Ye Tian , Ying Sun , Gesualdo Scutari

In this paper, we address a class of distributed optimization problems in the presence of inter-agent communication delays based on passivity. We first focus on unconstrained distributed optimization and provide a passivity-based…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-09-16 Takeshi Hatanaka , Nikhil Chopra , Takayuki Ishizaki , Na Li

In the era of big data, it is necessary to split extremely large data sets across multiple computing nodes and construct estimators using the distributed data. When designing distributed estimators, it is desirable to minimize the amount of…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-04-25 Azeem Zaman , Botond Szabó

In this paper, we propose a novel distributed algorithm for consensus optimization over networks and a robust extension tailored to deal with asynchronous agents and packet losses. Indeed, to robustly achieve dynamic consensus on the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-04 Guido Carnevale , Nicola Bastianello , Giuseppe Notarstefano , Ruggero Carli

Age of Information (AoI) measures the freshness of the information at a remote location. AoI reflects the time that is elapsed since the generation of the packet by a transmitter. In this paper, we consider a remote monitoring problem…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-05-14 Anis Elgabli , Hamza Khan , Mounssif Krouka , Mehdi Bennis

This paper characterizes the fundamental trade-off between throughput and Age of Information (AoI) in wireless networks where multiple devices transmit status updates to a central base station over unreliable channels. To address the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-09 Lin Wang , I-Hong Hou

The joint design of control and communication scheduling in a Networked Control System (NCS) is known to be a hard problem. Several research works have successfully designed optimal sampling and/or control strategies under simplified…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-20 Jaya Prakash Champati , Mohammad H. Mamduhi , Karl H. Johansson , James Gross

The distributed subgradient method (DSG) is a widely discussed algorithm to cope with large-scale distributed optimization problems in the arising machine learning applications. Most exisiting works on DSG focus on ideal communication…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-24 Zhaoyue Xia , Jun Du , Yong Ren

In this paper we consider a distributed optimization scenario in which the aggregate objective function to minimize is partitioned, big-data and possibly non-convex. Specifically, we focus on a set-up in which the dimension of the decision…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-03-27 Ivano Notarnicola , Giuseppe Notarstefano

We study distributed composite optimization over networks: agents minimize the sum of a smooth (strongly) convex function, the agents' sum-utility, plus a non-smooth (extended-valued) convex one. We propose a general algorithmic framework…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-10-23 Jinming Xu , Ying Sun , Ye Tian , Gesualdo Scutari

The notion of age of information (AoI) has become an important performance metric in network and control systems. Information freshness, represented by AoI, naturally arises in the context of caching. We address optimal scheduling of cache…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-05-04 Ghafour Ahani , Di Yuan

This paper studies a class of distributed optimization algorithms by a set of agents, where each agent has only access to its own local convex objective function, and jointly minimizes the sum of the functions. The communications among…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-11-11 Qingguo Lü , Huaqing Li

In this article, we present an algorithm that drives the outputs of a network of agents to jointly track the solutions of time-varying optimization problems in a way that is robust to asynchrony in the agents' operations. We consider three…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-12-04 Gabriel Behrendt , Matthew Longmire , Zachary I. Bell , Matthew Hale

In this work, we revisit a classical distributed gradient-descent algorithm, introducing an interesting class of perturbed multi-agent systems. The state of each subsystem represents a local estimate of a solution to the global optimization…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-04 Tarek Bazizi , Mohamed Maghenem , Paolo Frasca , Antonio Lorìa , Elena Panteley

In this work, we consider solving a distributed optimization problem in a multi-agent network with multiple clusters. In each cluster, the involved agents cooperatively optimize a separable composite function with a common decision…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-03-03 Jianzheng Wang , Guoqiang Hu

During the past two decades, multi-agent optimization problems have drawn increased attention from the research community. When multiple objective functions are present among agents, many works optimize the sum of these objective functions.…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2020-10-13 M. J. Blondin , M. T. Hale

In recent times, various distributed optimization algorithms have been proposed for whose specific agent dynamics global optimality and convergence is proven. However, there exist no general conditions for the design of such algorithms. In…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-14 Pol Jane-Soneira , Charles Muller , Felix Strehle , Sören Hohmann

With the surge in IoT devices ranging from wearables to smart homes, prompt transmission is crucial. The Age of Information (AoI) emerges as a critical metric in this context, representing the freshness of the information transmitted across…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Aymen Hamrouni , Sofie Pollin , Hazem Sallouha

Given a wireless network where some pairs of communication links interfere with each other, we study sufficient conditions for determining whether a given set of minimum bandwidth quality-of-service (QoS) requirements can be satisfied. We…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-12-11 Ashwin Ganesan

We derive lower bounds on the convergence speed of a widely used class of distributed averaging algorithms. In particular, we prove that any distributed averaging algorithm whose state consists of a single real number and whose (possibly…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-03-13 Alex Olshevsky , John N. Tsitsiklis