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Federated learning has been explored as a promising solution for training at the edge, where end devices collaborate to train models without sharing data with other entities. Since the execution of these learning models occurs at the edge,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-02-07 Silvana Trindade , Luiz F. Bittencourt , Nelson L. S. da Fonseca

In distributed optimization, the practical problem-solving performance is essentially sensitive to algorithm selection, parameter setting, problem type and data pattern. Thus, it is often laborious to acquire a highly efficient method for a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-04 Daokuan Zhu , Tianqi Xu , Jie Lu

Distributed learning (DL) is considered a cornerstone of intelligence enabler, since it allows for collaborative training without the necessity for local clients to share raw data with other parties, thereby preserving privacy and security.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-11 Paul Zheng , Navid Keshtiarast , Pradyumna Kumar Bishoyi , Yao Zhu , Yulin Hu , Marina Petrova , Anke Schmeink

We study a robust alternative to empirical risk minimization called distributionally robust learning (DRL), in which one learns to perform against an adversary who can choose the data distribution from a specified set of distributions. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-19 Charlie Frogner , Sebastian Claici , Edward Chien , Justin Solomon

This report investigates the application of deep reinforcement learning (DRL) algorithms for dynamic resource allocation in wireless communication systems. An environment that includes a base station, multiple antennas, and user equipment…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Shubham Malhotra , Fnu Yashu , Muhammad Saqib , Dipkumar Mehta , Jagdish Jangid , Sachin Dixit

Intelligent vehicular systems and smart city applications are the fastest growing Internet of things (IoT) implementations at a compound annual growth rate of 30%. In view of the recent advances in IoT devices and the emerging new breed of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-10-21 Almuthanna Nassar , Yasin Yilmaz

Reinforcement Learning (RL) is a general framework concerned with an agent that seeks to maximize rewards in an environment. The learning typically happens through trial and error using explorative methods, such as epsilon-greedy. There are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-06 Per-Arne Andersen , Morten Goodwin , Ole-Christoffer Granmo

The digital transformation is pushing the existing network technologies towards new horizons, enabling new applications (e.g., vehicular networks). As a result, the networking community has seen a noticeable increase in the requirements of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-09-01 Paul Almasan , José Suárez-Varela , Bo Wu , Shihan Xiao , Pere Barlet-Ros , Albert Cabellos-Aparicio

As the number of user equipments (UEs) with various data rate and latency requirements increases in wireless networks, the resource allocation problem for orthogonal frequency-division multiple access (OFDMA) becomes challenging. In…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-08-30 Eike-Manuel Bansbach , Victor Eliachevitch , Laurent Schmalen

Flexible demand response (DR) resources can be leveraged to accommodate the stochasticity of some distributed energy resources. This paper develops an online learning approach that continuously estimates price sensitivities of residential…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2020-04-28 Robert Mieth , Yury Dvorkin

Increased complexity and heterogeneity of emerging 5G and beyond 5G (B5G) wireless networks will require a paradigm shift from traditional resource allocation mechanisms. Deep learning (DL) is a powerful tool where a multi-layer neural…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-08-03 K. I. Ahmed , H. Tabassum , E. Hossain

Resource allocation plays a critical role in minimizing cycle time and improving the efficiency of business processes. Recently, Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) has emerged as a powerful technique to optimize resource allocation policies…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Jeroen Middelhuis , Zaharah Bukhsh , Ivo Adan , Remco Dijkman

Transfer of recent advances in deep reinforcement learning to real-world applications is hindered by high data demands and thus low efficiency and scalability. Through independent improvements of components such as replay buffers or more…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-28 André Eberhard , Houssam Metni , Georg Fahland , Alexander Stroh , Pascal Friederich

Online Network Resource Allocation (ONRA) for service provisioning is a fundamental problem in communication networks. As a sequential decision-making under uncertainty problem, it is promising to approach ONRA via Reinforcement Learning…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Bahador Bakhshi , Josep Mangues-Bafalluy

Wireless network optimization has been becoming very challenging as the problem size and complexity increase tremendously, due to close couplings among network entities with heterogeneous service and resource requirements. By continuously…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-29 Shimin Gong , Yutong Xie , Jing Xu , Dusit Niyato , Ying-Chang Liang

This paper investigates the cost function learning in social information networks, wherein the influence of humans' memory on information consumption is explicitly taken into account. We first propose a model for social…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Yanbing Mao , Jining Li , Naira Hovakimyan , Tarek Abdelzaher , Christian Lebiere

Next-generation networks aim to provide performance guarantees to real-time interactive services that require timely and cost-efficient packet delivery. In this context, the goal is to reliably deliver packets with strict deadlines imposed…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Ozan Aygün , Vincenzo Norman Vitale , Antonia M. Tulino , Hao Feng , Elza Erkip , Jaime Llorca

Many challenging real-world problems require the deployment of ensembles multiple complementary learning models to reach acceptable performance levels. While effective, applying the entire ensemble to every sample is costly and often…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Orel Lavie , Asaf Shabtai , Gilad Katz

As robots (edge-devices, agents) find uses in an increasing number of settings and edge-cloud resources become pervasive, wireless networks will often be shared by flows of data traffic that result from communication between agents and…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Shivangi Agarwal , Adi Asija , Sanjit K. Kaul , Arani Bhattacharya , Saket Anand

Dynamic resource allocation in mobile wireless networks involves complex, time-varying optimization problems, motivating the adoption of deep reinforcement learning (DRL). However, most existing works rely on pre-trained policies,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Xinren Zhang , Jiadong Yu