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Optimizing distributed learning systems is an art of balancing between computation and communication. There have been two lines of research that try to deal with slower networks: {\em communication compression} for low bandwidth networks,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-04 Hanlin Tang , Shaoduo Gan , Ce Zhang , Tong Zhang , Ji Liu

We address distributed learning problems over undirected networks. Specifically, we focus on designing a novel ADMM-based algorithm that is jointly computation- and communication-efficient. Our design guarantees computational efficiency by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Xiaoxing Ren , Nicola Bastianello , Karl H. Johansson , Thomas Parisini

Modern networked systems are increasingly reconfigurable, enabling demand-aware infrastructures whose resources can be adjusted according to the workload they currently serve. Such dynamic adjustments can be exploited to improve network…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-04-12 Monika Henzinger , Stefan Neumann , Stefan Schmid

The state-of-the-art topologies of datacenter networks are fixed, based on electrical switching technology, and by now, we understand their throughput and cost well. For the past years, researchers have been developing novel optical…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-02-15 Chen Griner , Chen Avin

The efficiency of multi-agent systems driven by large language models (LLMs) largely hinges on their communication topology. However, designing an optimal topology is a non-trivial challenge, as it requires balancing competing objectives…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Eric Hanchen Jiang , Mengting Li , Guancheng Wan , Sophia Yin , Yuchen Wu , Xiao Liang , Xinfeng Li , Yizhou Sun , Wei Wang , Kai-Wei Chang , Ying Nian Wu

More than two decades ago, combinatorial topology was shown to be useful for analyzing distributed fault-tolerant algorithms in shared memory systems and in message passing systems. In this work, we show that combinatorial topology can also…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-10-05 Armando Castañeda , Pierre Fraigniaud , Ami Paz , Sergio Rajsbaum , Matthieu Roy , Corentin Travers

Online social networks have emerged as useful tools to communicate or share information and news on a daily basis. One of the most popular networks is Twitter, where users connect to each other via directed follower relationships.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Christoph Schweimer

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

Virtual topologies in peer-to-peer networks can reduce the traffic consumed by altering the logical connectivity of peers without altering the underlying network. However, such sparsely connected virtual topologies do not focus on the needs…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-05-05 Purboday Ghosh , Shashank Shekhar , Yashen Lin , Ulrich Muenz , Gabor Karsai

Real-time applications are performance critical applications that require bounded service latency. In multi-hop wireless ad-hoc and sensor networks, communication delays are dominant over processing delays. Therefore, to enable real-time…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2012-01-25 Deepali Virmani , Satbir Jain

The paper considers the consensus problem in large networks represented by time-varying directed graphs. A practical way of dealing with large-scale networks is to reduce their dimension by collapsing the states of nodes belonging to…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-08-31 Samuel Martin , Irinel-Constantin Morarescu , Dragan Nesic

In this paper, we consider networked systems comprised of interconnected sets of linear subsystems and propose a decentralized and compositional approach to stabilize or dissipativate such linear networked systems via optimally modifying…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-05 Shirantha Welikala , Hai Lin , Panos J. Antsaklis

In-network computation represents a transformative approach to addressing the escalating demands of Artificial Intelligence (AI) workloads on network infrastructure. By leveraging the processing capabilities of network devices such as…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Aleksandr Algazinov , Joydeep Chandra , Matt Laing

Despite significant advances on distributed continuous-time optimization of multi-agent networks, there is still lack of an efficient algorithm to achieve the goal of distributed optimization at a pre-specified time. Herein, we design a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-23 Jialing Zhou , Yuezu Lv , Changyun Wen , Guanghui Wen

Communication efficiency arises as a necessity in federated learning due to limited communication bandwidth. To this end, the present paper develops an algorithmic framework where an ensemble of pre-trained models is learned. At each…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Pouya M Ghari , Yanning Shen

In this paper we consider several problems concerning packet routing in distributed systems. Each problem is formulated using terms from Graph Theory and for each problem we present efficient, novel, algorithmic techniques for computing…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2009-06-19 Mugurel Ionut Andreica , Nicolae Tapus

Organization, scalability and routing have been identified as key problems hindering viability and commercial success of mobile ad hoc networks. Clustering of mobile nodes among separate domains has been proposed as an efficient approach to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2011-09-20 Damianos Gavalas , Grammati Pantziou , Charalampos Konstantopoulos , Basilis Mamalis

High demands for industrial networks lead to increasingly large sensor networks. However, the complexity of networks and demands for accurate data require better stability and communication quality. Conventional clustering methods for…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-10 Shufan Huang , Yongpeng Wu , Siyuan Gao

Emerging reconfigurable datacenters allow to dynamically adjust the network topology in a demand-aware manner. These datacenters rely on optical switches which can be reconfigured to provide direct connectivity between racks, in the form of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Kathrin Hanauer , Monika Henzinger , Lara Ost , Stefan Schmid

Many community detection algorithms require the introduction of a measure on the set of nodes. Previously, a lot of efforts have been made to find the top-performing measures. In most cases, experiments were conducted on several datasets or…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-11-03 Rinat Aynulin