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We consider stochastic convex optimization problems with affine constraints and develop several methods using either primal or dual approach to solve it. In the primal case, we use a special penalization technique to make the initial…
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We study non-convex distributed optimization problems where a set of agents collaboratively solve a separable optimization problem that is distributed over a time-varying network. The existing methods to solve these problems rely on (at…
We consider distributed nonconvex optimization over an undirected network, where each node privately possesses its local objective and communicates exclusively with its neighboring nodes, striving to collectively achieve a common optimal…
This paper focuses on the decentralized optimization (minimization and saddle point) problems with objective functions that satisfy Polyak-{\L}ojasiewicz condition (PL-condition). The first part of the paper is devoted to the minimization…
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In this paper, a class of convex feasibility problems (CFPs) are studied for multi-agent systems through local interactions. The objective is to search a feasible solution to the convex inequalities with some set constraints in a…
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