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This paper introduces a novel decentralized implementation of a continuification-based strategy to control the density of large-scale multi-agent systems on the unit circle. While continuification methods effectively address micro-to-macro…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-27 Beniamino Di Lorenzo , Gian Carlo Maffettone , Mario di Bernardo

This paper addresses the problem of collaboratively satisfying long-term spatial constraints in multi-agent systems. Each agent is subject to spatial constraints, expressed as inequalities, which may depend on the positions of other agents…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-23 Farhad Mehdifar , Mani H. Dhullipalla , Charalampos P. Bechlioulis , Dimos V. Dimarogonas

Decentralized optimization is crucial for multi-agent systems, with significant concerns about communication efficiency and privacy. This paper explores the role of efficient communication in decentralized stochastic gradient descent…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-10 Wei Huo , Changxin Liu , Kemi Ding , Karl Henrik Johansson , Ling Shi

This paper investigates the distributed safety critical control for multi-agent systems (MASs) in the presence of uncontrollable agents with uncertain behaviors. To ensure system safety, the control barrier function (CBF) is employed in…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-22 Yuzhang Peng , Wei Wang , Jiaqi Yan , Mengze Yu

One of the main challenges of multi-agent learning lies in establishing convergence of the algorithms, as, in general, a collection of individual, self-serving agents is not guaranteed to converge with their joint policy, when learning…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Aleksander Czechowski , Frans A. Oliehoek

In this paper, we propose a communication-efficiently decentralized machine learning framework that solves a consensus optimization problem defined over a network of inter-connected workers. The proposed algorithm, Censored and Quantized…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-13 Chaouki Ben Issaid , Anis Elgabli , Jihong Park , Mehdi Bennis , Mérouane Debbah

Distributed optimization is often widely attempted and innovated as an attractive and preferred methodology to solve large-scale problems effectively in a localized and coordinated manner. Thus, it is noteworthy that the methodology of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-08-30 Xiaoxue Zhang , Jun Ma , Zilong Cheng , Sunan Huang , Clarence W. de Silva , Tong Heng Lee

In this paper the problem of driving the state of a network of identical agents, modeled by boundary-controlled heat equations, towards a common steady-state profile is addressed. Decentralized consensus protocols are proposed to address…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2015-09-24 A. Pilloni , A. Pisano , Y. Orlov , E. Usai

Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers (ADMM) is a popular algorithm for distributed learning, where a network of nodes collaboratively solve a regularized empirical risk minimization by iterative local computation associated with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-19 Zonghao Huang , Yanmin Gong

ADMM is a popular algorithm for solving convex optimization problems. Applying this algorithm to distributed consensus optimization problem results in a fully distributed iterative solution which relies on processing at the nodes and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-01-17 Layla Majzoobi , Farshad Lahouti

This paper focuses on decentralized composite optimization over networks without a central coordinator. We propose a novel decentralized symmetric ADMM algorithm that incorporates multiple communication rounds within each iteration, derived…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-06 Jinrui Huang , Xueqin Wang , Dong Liu , Jingguo Lan , Runxiong Wu

By enabling the nodes or agents to solve small-sized subproblems to achieve coordination, distributed algorithms are favored by many networked systems for efficient and scalable computation. While for convex problems, substantial…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-08-24 Yu Yang , Qing-Shan Jia , Zhanbo Xu , Xiaohong Guan , Costas J. Spanos

Distributed optimization is manifesting great potential in multiple fields, e.g., machine learning, control, and resource allocation. Existing decentralized optimization algorithms require sharing explicit state information among the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-28 Huqiang Cheng , Xiaofeng Liao , Huaqing Li , You Zhao

We consider the problem of designing distributed collision-avoidance multi-agent control in large-scale environments with potentially moving obstacles, where a large number of agents are required to maintain safety using only local…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-23 Songyuan Zhang , Kunal Garg , Chuchu Fan

A novel deep multi-agent reinforcement learning framework is proposed to identify and resolve conflicts among a variable number of aircraft in a high-density, stochastic, and dynamic sector. Currently the sector capacity is constrained by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-28 Marc Brittain , Xuxi Yang , Peng Wei

Decentralized optimization has become a standard paradigm for solving large-scale decision-making problems and training large machine learning models without centralizing data. However, this paradigm introduces new privacy and security…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-19 Changxin Liu , Nicola Bastianello , Wei Huo , Yang Shi , Karl H. Johansson

This paper considers an optimization problem that components of the objective function are available at different nodes of a network and nodes are allowed to only exchange information with their neighbors. The decentralized alternating…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-11-27 Aryan Mokhtari , Wei Shi , Qing Ling , Alejandro Ribeiro

This paper is devoted to distributed continuous-time and discrete-time optimization problems with nonuniform convex constraint sets and nonuniform stepsizes for general differentiable convex objective functions. The communication graphs are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-03-03 Peng Lin , Wei Ren , Chunhua Yang , Weihua Gui

We consider stochastic optimization problems in multi-agent settings, where a network of agents aims to learn parameters which are optimal in terms of a global objective, while giving preference to locally observed streaming information. To…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2017-05-24 Alec Koppel , Brian M. Sadler , Alejandro Ribeiro

We address distributed learning problems, both nonconvex and convex, over undirected networks. In particular, we design a novel algorithm based on the distributed Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers (ADMM) to address the challenges…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Xiaoxing Ren , Nicola Bastianello , Karl H. Johansson , Thomas Parisini