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We propose an efficient ADMM method with guarantees for high-dimensional problems. We provide explicit bounds for the sparse optimization problem and the noisy matrix decomposition problem. For sparse optimization, we establish that the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-07-08 Hanie Sedghi , Anima Anandkumar , Edmond Jonckheere

Multi-agent active perception is a task where a team of agents cooperatively gathers observations to compute a joint estimate of a hidden variable. The task is decentralized and the joint estimate can only be computed after the task ends by…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-10-24 Mikko Lauri , Frans A. Oliehoek

The safe control of multi-robot swarms is a challenging and active field of research, where common goals include maintaining group cohesion while simultaneously avoiding obstacles and inter-agent collision. Building off our previously…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-03 Brooks A. Butler , Chi Ho Leung , Philip E. Paré

This paper develops a general framework for multi-agent control synthesis, which applies to a wide range of problems with convergence guarantees, including those with time-varying objective functions. The proposed framework achieves…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-04 Ruoyu Lin , Gennaro Notomista , Magnus Egerstedt

This paper considers the problem of privacy-preservation in decentralized optimization, in which $N$ agents cooperatively minimize a global objective function that is the sum of $N$ local objective functions. We assume that each local…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-09-19 Chunlei Zhang , Huan Gao , Yongqiang Wang

The objective of meta-learning is to exploit the knowledge obtained from observed tasks to improve adaptation to unseen tasks. As such, meta-learners are able to generalize better when they are trained with a larger number of observed tasks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Mert Kayaalp , Stefan Vlaski , Ali H. Sayed

While distributed algorithms provide advantages for the control of complex large-scale systems by requiring a lower local computational load and less local memory, it is a challenging task to design high-performance distributed control…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-01 Simon Muntwiler , Kim P. Wabersich , Andrea Carron , Melanie N. Zeilinger

We propose a finite-state, decentralized decision and control framework for multi-agent ground coverage. The approach decomposes the problem into two coupled components: (i) the structural design of a deep neural network (DNN) induced by…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-06 Hossein Rastgoftar

In cooperative multi-agent robotic systems, coordination is necessary in order to complete a given task. Important examples include search and rescue, operations in hazardous environments, and environmental monitoring. Coordination, in…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Andrea Carron , Danilo Saccani , Lorenzo Fagiano , Melanie N. Zeilinger

This work develops a fully decentralized multi-agent algorithm for policy evaluation. The proposed scheme can be applied to two distinct scenarios. In the first scenario, a collection of agents have distinct datasets gathered following…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-13 Lucas Cassano , Kun Yuan , Ali H. Sayed

We introduce an expressive framework and algorithms for the semi-decentralized control of cooperative agents in environments with communication uncertainty. Whereas semi-Markov control admits a distribution over time for agent actions,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Mahdi Al-Husseini , Mykel J. Kochenderfer , Kyle H. Wray

This paper discusses a consensus-based alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) approach to solve the multi-area coordinated network-constrained unit commitment (NCUC) problem in a distributed manner. Due to political and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-01-23 Yamin Wang , Lei Wu , Jie Li

This work presents a distributed MPC-based approach to solving the problem of multi-agent point-to-point transition with optimization-based collision avoidance. The problem is formulated, motivated by the work on collision avoidance for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-08-04 Adarsh Patnaik , Ashish Ranjan Hota

Attention mechanisms excel at learning sequential patterns by discriminating data based on relevance and importance. This provides state-of-the-art performance in advanced generative artificial intelligence models. This paper applies this…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-24 Turki Bin Mohaya , Peter Seiler

In this paper, a novel decentralized intelligent adaptive optimal strategy has been developed to solve the pursuit-evasion game for massive Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) under uncertain environment. Existing strategies for pursuit-evasion games…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-10 Zejian Zhou , Hao Xu

For nonlinear multi-agent systems with high relative degrees, achieving formation control and obstacle avoidance in a distributed manner remains a significant challenge. To address this issue, we propose a novel distributed safety-critical…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-21 Chao Wang , Shuyuan Zhang , Lei Wang

In this paper, we propose Distributed Mirror Descent (DMD) algorithm for constrained convex optimization problems on a (strongly-)connected multi-agent network. We assume that each agent has a private objective function and a constraint…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-04-28 Chenguang Xi , Qiong Wu , Usman A. Khan

The present work introduces the hybrid consensus alternating direction method of multipliers (H-CADMM), a novel framework for optimization over networks which unifies existing distributed optimization approaches, including the centralized…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-05-10 Meng Ma , Athanasios N. Nikolakopoulos , Georgios B. Giannakis

Distributed model predictive control (MPC) has been proven a successful method in regulating the operation of large-scale networks of constrained dynamical systems. This paper is concerned with cooperative distributed MPC in which the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-29 Georgios Darivianakis , Angelos Georghiou , John Lygeros

We study the interdependence between transportation and power systems considering decentralized renewable generators and electric vehicles (EVs). We formulate the problem in a stochastic multi-agent optimization framework considering the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-01-05 Zhaomiao Guo , Fatima Afifah , Junjian Qi , Sina Baghali