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The incremental aggregated gradient algorithm is popular in network optimization and machine learning research. However, the current convergence results require the objective function to be strongly convex. And the existing convergence…

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In this paper, we consider the IoT data discovery problem in very large and growing scale networks. Through analysis, examples, and experimental studies, we show the importance of peer-to-peer, unstructured routing for IoT data discovery…

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Enforcing complex (e.g., nonconvex) operational constraints is a critical challenge in real-world learning and control systems. However, existing methods struggle to efficiently enforce general classes of constraints. To address this, we…

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The proximal gradient method is a generic technique introduced to tackle the non-smoothness in optimization problems, wherein the objective function is expressed as the sum of a differentiable convex part and a non-differentiable…

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We propose a distributed positioning algorithm to estimate the unknown positions of a number of target nodes, given distance measurements between target nodes and between target nodes and a number of reference nodes at known positions.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-04-26 Mohammad Reza Gholami , Luba Tetruashvili , Erik G. Ström , Yair Censor

Federated edge learning (FEEL) is envisioned as a promising paradigm to achieve privacy-preserving distributed learning. However, it consumes excessive learning time due to the existence of straggler devices. In this paper, a novel…

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We provide a unifying framework for distributed convex optimization over time-varying networks, in the presence of constraints and uncertainty, features that are typically treated separately in the literature. We adopt a proximal…

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The concave utility in the Network Utility Maximization (NUM) problem is only suitable for elastic flows. However, the networks with the multiclass traffic, the utility of inelastic traffic is usually represented by the sigmoidal function…

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Gradient boosting is a prediction method that iteratively combines weak learners to produce a complex and accurate model. From an optimization point of view, the learning procedure of gradient boosting mimics a gradient descent on a…

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This study explores the combination of automated machine learning (AutoML) with model-based deep unfolding (DU) for optimizing wireless beamforming and waveforms. We convert the iterative proximal gradient descent (PGD) algorithm into a…

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This paper aims to address distributed optimization problems over directed and time-varying networks, where the global objective function consists of a sum of locally accessible convex objective functions subject to a feasible set…

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We propose a proximal algorithm for minimizing objective functions consisting of three summands: the composition of a nonsmooth function with a linear operator, another nonsmooth function, each of the nonsmooth summands depending on an…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-08-03 Radu Ioan Bot , Ernö Robert Csetnek , Dang-Khoa Nguyen

The training of deep neural networks predominantly relies on a combination of gradient-based optimisation and back-propagation for the computation of the gradient. While incredibly successful, this approach faces challenges such as…

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This paper proposes a joint detection and estimation (JDE) scheme based on mutual information for the radar work, whose goal is to choose the true one between target existent and target absence, and to estimate the unknown distance…

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This paper investigates a general class of problems in which a lower bounded smooth convex function incorporating $\ell_{0}$ and $\ell_{2,0}$ regularization is minimized over a box constraint. Although such problems arise frequently in…

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We study the problem of learning high dimensional regression models regularized by a structured-sparsity-inducing penalty that encodes prior structural information on either input or output sides. We consider two widely adopted types of…

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In this paper, a data-driven approach is proposed to jointly design the common sensing (measurement) matrix and jointly support recovery method for complex signals, using a standard deep auto-encoder for real numbers. The auto-encoder in…

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In this work, we conduct a comparative study on two deep unfolding mechanisms to efficiently perform power control in the next generation wireless networks. The power control problem is formulated as energy efficiency over multiple…

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Although AI-based models have achieved high accuracy in IoT threat detection, their deployment in enterprise environments is constrained by reliance on stationary datasets that fail to reflect the dynamic nature of real-world IoT NetFlow…

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