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This paper considers a distributed optimization problem over a multi-agent network, in which the objective function is a sum of individual cost functions at the agents. We focus on the case when communication between the agents is described…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-11-01 Chenguang Xi , Van Sy Mai , Ran Xin , Eyad H. Abed , Usman A. Khan

This paper is devoted to distributed continuous-time and discrete-time optimization problems with nonuniform convex constraint sets and nonuniform stepsizes for general differentiable convex objective functions. The communication graphs are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-03-03 Peng Lin , Wei Ren , Chunhua Yang , Weihua Gui

In this paper, we develop a class of decentralized algorithms for solving a convex resource allocation problem in a network of $n$ agents, where the agent objectives are decoupled while the resource constraints are coupled. The agents…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-12-18 Angelia Nedić , Alex Olshevsky , Wei Shi

This paper proposes a new framework for distributed optimization, called distributed aggregative optimization, which allows local objective functions to be dependent not only on their own decision variables, but also on the average of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-05-28 Xiuxian Li , Lihua Xie , Yiguang Hong

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…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-05-24 Chuanye Gu , Zhiyou Wu , Jueyou Li

In this paper, we study the problem of distributed multi-agent optimization over a network, where each agent possesses a local cost function that is smooth and strongly convex. The global objective is to find a common solution that…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-08-02 Shi Pu , Angelia Nedić

This paper studies the distributed optimization problem with possibly nonidentical local constraints, where its global objective function is composed of $N$ convex functions. The aim is to solve the considered optimization problem in a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-08-26 Hongzhe Liu , Wenwu Yu , Guanghui Wen , Wei Xing Zheng

We consider the problem of decentralized optimization over time-varying directed networks. The network nodes can access only their local objectives, and aim to collaboratively minimize a global function by exchanging messages with their…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-03 Yiyue Chen , Abolfazl Hashemi , Haris Vikalo

In this paper, we propose a distributed algorithm, called Directed-Distributed Gradient Descent (D-DGD), to solve multi-agent optimization problems over directed graphs. Existing algorithms mostly deal with similar problems under the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-02-02 Chenguang Xi , Qiong Wu , Usman A. Khan

This paper studies distributed nonconvex optimization problems with stochastic gradients for a multi-agent system, in which each agent aims to minimize the sum of all agents' cost functions by using local compressed information exchange. We…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-05 Antai Xie , Xinlei Yi , Xiaofan Wang , Ming Cao , Xiaoqiang Ren

Motivated by distributed statistical learning over uncertain communication networks, we study distributed stochastic optimization by networked nodes to cooperatively minimize a sum of convex cost functions. The network is modeled by a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-03 Yan Chen , Alexander L. Fradkov , Keli Fu , Xiaozheng Fu , Tao Li

In this letter, we study distributed optimization, where a network of agents, abstracted as a directed graph, collaborates to minimize the average of locally-known convex functions. Most of the existing approaches over directed graphs are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-06-08 Ran Xin , Usman A. Khan

We study distributed big-data nonconvex optimization in multi-agent networks. We consider the (constrained) minimization of the sum of a smooth (possibly) nonconvex function, i.e., the agents' sum-utility, plus a convex (possibly) nonsmooth…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-09-03 Ivano Notarnicola , Ying Sun , Gesualdo Scutari , Giuseppe Notarstefano

In this paper, a distributed subgradient-based algorithm is proposed for continuous-time multi-agent systems to search a feasible solution to convex inequalities. The algorithm involves each agent achieving a state constrained by its own…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-06-13 Kaihong Lu , Gangshan Jing , Long Wang

The goal of decentralized optimization over a network is to optimize a global objective formed by a sum of local (possibly nonsmooth) convex functions using only local computation and communication. It arises in various application domains,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-03-17 John Duchi , Alekh Agarwal , Martin Wainwright

We consider a distributed non-convex optimization where a network of agents aims at minimizing a global function over the Stiefel manifold. The global function is represented as a finite sum of smooth local functions, where each local…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-02-16 Shixiang Chen , Alfredo Garcia , Mingyi Hong , Shahin Shahrampour

We study nonconvex distributed optimization in multiagent networks where the communications between nodes is modeled as a time-varying sequence of arbitrary digraphs. We introduce a novel broadcast-based distributed algorithmic framework…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-12-16 Ying Sun , Gesualdo Scutari , Daniel Palomar

We consider distributed optimization by a collection of nodes, each having access to its own convex function, whose collective goal is to minimize the sum of the functions. The communications between nodes are described by a time-varying…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-03-18 Angelia Nedic , Alex Olshevsky

This paper aims at distributed multi-agent convex optimization where the communications network among the agents are presented by a random sequence of possibly state-dependent weighted graphs. This is the first work to consider both random…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-31 Seyyed Shaho Alaviani , Atul Kelkar

We consider the problem of decentralized optimization in networks with communication delays. To accommodate delays, we need decentralized optimization algorithms that work on directed graphs. Existing approaches require nodes to know their…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-31 Tomas Ortega , Hamid Jafarkhani