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In this paper, we develop a distributed algorithm for solving a class of distributed convex optimization problems where the local objective functions can be a general nonsmooth function, and all equalities and inequalities are network-wide…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-14 Yeong-Ung Kim , Hyo-Sung Ahn

This article introduces a generalized framework for Decentralized Learning formulated as a Multi-Objective Optimization problem, in which both distributed agents and a central coordinator contribute independent, potentially conflicting…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-21 Roberto Morales , Umberto Biccari

We study the problem of constrained distributed optimization in multi-agent networks when some of the computing agents may be faulty. In this problem, the system goal is to have all the non-faulty agents collectively minimize a global…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-11-06 Lili Su , Nitin H. Vaidya

A number of prototypical optimization problems in multi-agent systems (e.g., task allocation and network load-sharing) exhibit a highly local structure: that is, each agent's decision variables are only directly coupled to few other agent's…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2020-03-04 Robin Brown , Federico Rossi , Kiril Solovey , Michael T. Wolf , Marco Pavone

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 2020-03-11 Shi Pu , Angelia Nedić

Distributed optimization is an important direction of research in modern optimization theory. Its applications include large scale machine learning, distributed signal processing and many others. The paper studies decentralized min-max…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-09-08 Nhat Trung Nguyen , Alexander Rogozin , Dmitry Metelev , Alexander Gasnikov

In this paper, we showcase the interplay between discrete and continuous optimization in network-structured settings. We propose the first fully decentralized optimization method for a wide class of non-convex objective functions that…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-02-13 Aryan Mokhtari , Hamed Hassani , Amin Karbasi

We study the problem of tracking multiple moving targets using a team of mobile robots. Each robot has a set of motion primitives to choose from in order to collectively maximize the number of targets tracked or the total quality of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-05-31 Yoonchang Sung , Ashish Kumar Budhiraja , Ryan K. Williams , Pratap Tokekar

This paper presents a family of algorithms for decentralized convex composite problems. We consider the setting of a network of agents that cooperatively minimize a global objective function composed of a sum of local functions plus a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-02-14 Yichuan Li , Petros G. Voulgaris , Dusan M. Stipanovic , Nikolaos M. Freris

We study decentralized optimization where multiple agents minimize the average of their (strongly) convex, smooth losses over a communication graph. Convergence of the existing decentralized methods generally hinges on an apriori, proper…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-01 Ilya Kuruzov , Xiaokai Chen , Gesualdo Scutari , Alexander Gasnikov

We consider a decentralized learning problem, where a set of computing nodes aim at solving a non-convex optimization problem collaboratively. It is well-known that decentralized optimization schemes face two major system bottlenecks:…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-04 Amirhossein Reisizadeh , Hossein Taheri , Aryan Mokhtari , Hamed Hassani , Ramtin Pedarsani

We study the consensus decentralized optimization problem where the objective function is the average of $n$ agents private non-convex cost functions; moreover, the agents can only communicate to their neighbors on a given network topology.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-07-20 Sulaiman A. Alghunaim , Kun Yuan

We consider the setting of agents cooperatively minimizing the sum of local objectives plus a regularizer on a graph. This paper proposes a primal-dual method in consideration of three distinctive attributes of real-life multi-agent…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-12-11 Ziyi Yu , Nikolaos M. Freris

Resource allocation is a fundamental problem in Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) systems, in which devices work together under limited communication bandwidth to complete diverse tasks. This paper proposes a communication-efficient…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-26 Yuzhu Duan , Ziwen Yang , Xiaoming Duan , Shanying Zhu

Reinforcement learning algorithms require a large amount of samples; this often limits their real-world applications on even simple tasks. Such a challenge is more outstanding in multi-agent tasks, as each step of operation is more costly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-05 Yali Du , Chengdong Ma , Yuchen Liu , Runji Lin , Hao Dong , Jun Wang , Yaodong Yang

In this paper, we study unconstrained distributed optimization strongly convex problems, in which the exchange of information in the network is captured by a directed graph topology over digital channels that have limited capacity (and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-12 Apostolos I. Rikos , Wei Jiang , Themistoklis Charalambous , Karl H. Johansson

Many realistic decision-making problems in networked scenarios, such as formation control and collaborative task offloading, often involve complicatedly entangled local decisions, which, however, have not been sufficiently investigated yet.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-20 Dandan Wang , Xuyang Wu , Zichong Ou , Jie Lu

In recent years, as data and problem sizes have increased, distributed learning has become an essential tool for training high-performance models. However, the communication bottleneck, especially for high-dimensional data, is a challenge.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-28 Dmitry Bylinkin , Aleksandr Beznosikov

Decentralized optimization problems consist of multiple agents connected by a network. The agents have each local cost function, and the goal is to minimize the sum of the functions cooperatively. It requires the agents communicate with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-11-12 Jimyeong Kim , Woocheol Choi

We report two decentralized multi-agent cooperative localization algorithms in which, to reduce the communication cost, inter-agent state estimate correlations are not maintained but accounted for implicitly. In our first algorithm, to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-07-23 Jianan Zhu , Solmaz S. Kia