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We address the optimal transmit power allocation problem (from the sensor nodes (SNs) to the fusion center (FC)) for the decentralized detection of an unknown deterministic spatially uncorrelated signal which is being observed by a…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2015-06-04 Edmond Nurellari , Des McLernon , Mounir Ghogho , Syed Ali Raza Zaidi

In this paper, we introduce Partial Information Decomposition of Features (PIDF), a new paradigm for simultaneous data interpretability and feature selection. Contrary to traditional methods that assign a single importance value, our…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Charles Westphal , Stephen Hailes , Mirco Musolesi

In this paper, we study the problem of distributed estimation with an emphasis on communication-efficiency. The proposed algorithm is based on a windowed maximum a posteriori (MAP) estimation problem, wherein each agent in the network…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Miguel Calvo-Fullana , Jonathan P. How

This work studies distributed (probability) density estimation of large-scale systems. Such problems are motivated by many density-based distributed control tasks in which the real-time density of the swarm is used as feedback information,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-03 Tongjia Zheng , Hai Lin

[This work has been submitted to the IEEE for possible publication. Copyright may be transferred without notice, after which this version may no longer be accessible.] In a wireless acoustic sensor network (WASN), devices (i.e., nodes) can…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-15 Paul Didier , Toon van Waterschoot , Simon Doclo , Jörg Bitzer , Pourya Behmandpoor , Henri Gode , Marc Moonen

This paper is concerned with the problem of distributed Kalman filtering in a network of interconnected subsystems with distributed control protocols. We consider networks, which can be either homogeneous or heterogeneous, of linear…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-11-22 Damian Marelli , Mohsen Zamani , Minyue Fu

We consider the problem of distributed Kalman filtering for sensor networks in the case there are constraints in data transmission and there is model uncertainty. More precisely, we propose two distributed filtering strategies with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-09-12 Davide Ghion , Mattia Zorzi

In this paper, we consider the parameter estimation problem over sensor networks in the presence of quantized data and directed communication links. We propose a two-stage algorithm aiming at achieving the centralized sample mean estimate…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2015-07-27 Shanying Zhu , Yeng Chai Soh , Lihua Xie

We introduce cooperative sequential state space estimation in the domain of augmented complex statistics, whereby nodes in a network collaborate locally to estimate noncircular complex signals. For rigour, a distributed augmented (widely…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2013-11-19 Dahir H. Dini , Sithan Kanna , Danilo P. Mandic

In this paper, we study the design of an optimal transmission policy for remote state estimation over packet-dropping wireless channels with imperfect channel state information. A smart sensor uses a Kalman filter to estimate the system…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-05 Ioannis Tzortzis , Evagoras Makridis , Charalambos D. Charalambous , Themistoklis Charalambous

In this paper we provide a fully distributed implementation of the k-means clustering algorithm, intended for wireless sensor networks where each agent is endowed with a possibly high-dimensional observation (e.g., position, humidity,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-11-11 Gabriele Oliva , Roberto Setola , Christoforos N. Hadjicostis

We study a new variant of consensus problems, termed `local average consensus', in networks of agents. We consider the task of using sensor networks to perform distributed measurement of a parameter which has both spatial (in this paper 1D)…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2013-09-02 Kai Cai , Brian D. O. Anderson , Changbin Yu , Guoqiang Mao

Decentralized federated learning (DFL) has emerged as a transformative server-free paradigm that enables collaborative learning over large-scale heterogeneous networks. However, it continues to face fundamental challenges, including data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Shan Sha , Shenglong Zhou , Xin Wang , Lingchen Kong , Geoffrey Ye Li

This paper systematically investigates the performance of consensus-based distributed filtering under mismatched noise covariances. First, we introduce three performance evaluation indices for such filtering problems,namely the standard…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-14 Xiaoxu Lyu , Guanghui Wen , Ling Shi , Peihu Duan , Zhisheng Duan

Based on the user-item bipartite network, collaborative filtering (CF) recommender systems predict users' interests according to their history collections, which is a promising way to solve the information exploration problem. However, CF…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2011-12-13 Zhao-Guo Xuan , Zhan Li , Jian-Guo Liu

Disentanglement techniques used in collaborative filtering uncover interaction intents between nodes, improving the interpretability of node representations and enhancing recommendation performance. However, existing disentanglement methods…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Haojie Li , Junwei Du , Guanfeng Liu , Feng Jiang , Yan Wang , Xiaofang Zhou

The theory of evidence reasoning has been applied to collective decision-making in recent years. However, existing distributed evidence fusion methods lead to participants' preference leakage and fusion failures as they directly exchange…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-12-04 Chaoxiong Ma , Yan Liang , Xinyu Yang , Han Wu , Huixia Zhang

Distributed phased arrays are comprised of separate, smaller antenna systems that coordinate with each other to support coherent beamforming towards a destination. However, due to the frequency drift and phase jitter of the oscillators, as…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-28 Mohammed Rashid , Jeffrey A. Nanzer

In this paper, we establish the connections of the fundamental limitations in feedback communication, estimation, and feedback control over Gaussian channels, from a unifying perspective for information, estimation, and control. The optimal…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-10-05 Jialing Liu , Nicola Elia

Bayesian Federated Learning (FL) has been recently introduced to provide well-calibrated Machine Learning (ML) models quantifying the uncertainty of their predictions. Despite their advantages compared to frequentist FL setups, Bayesian FL…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-12 Luca Barbieri , Stefano Savazzi , Monica Nicoli