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Although online convex optimization (OCO) under arbitrary delays has received increasing attention recently, previous studies focus on stationary environments with the goal of minimizing static regret. In this paper, we investigate the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Yuanyu Wan , Chang Yao , Yitao Ma , Mingli Song , Lijun Zhang

A novel distributed algorithm is proposed for finite-time converging to a feasible consensus solution satisfying global optimality to a certain accuracy of the distributed robust convex optimization problem (DRCO) subject to bounded…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-09-06 Xunhao Wu , Jun Fu

We consider the problem of decentralized optimization where a collection of agents, each having access to a local cost function, communicate over a time-varying directed network and aim to minimize the sum of those functions. In practice,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-01 Yiyue Chen , Abolfazl Hashemi , Haris Vikalo

This paper mainly addresses the distributed online optimization problem where the local objective functions are assumed to be convex or non-convex. First, the distributed algorithms are proposed for the convex and non-convex situations,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-24 Yaowen Wang , Lipo Mo , Min Zuo , Yuanshi Zheng

We consider the distributed optimization problem, where a group of agents work together to optimize a common objective by communicating with neighboring agents and performing local computations. For a given algorithm, we use tools from…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-09-11 Bryan Van Scoy , Laurent Lessard

Motivated by applications in machine learning and statistics, we study distributed optimization problems over a network of processors, where the goal is to optimize a global objective composed of a sum of local functions. In these problems,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-05-14 Thinh T. Doan , Carolyn L. Beck , R. Srikant

This work concerns the analysis and design of distributed first-order optimization algorithms over time-varying graphs. The goal of such algorithms is to optimize a global function that is the average of local functions using only local…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-02-17 Akhil Sundararajan , Bryan Van Scoy , Laurent Lessard

This paper develops and analyzes an online distributed proximal-gradient method (DPGM) for time-varying composite convex optimization problems. Each node of the network features a local cost that includes a smooth strongly convex function…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-05-07 Nicola Bastianello , Emiliano Dall'Anese

This paper considers the problem of distributed bandit online convex optimization with time-varying coupled inequality constraints. This problem can be defined as a repeated game between a group of learners and an adversary. The learners…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-12-10 Xinlei Yi , Xiuxian Li , Tao Yang , Lihua Xie , Karl H. Johansson , Tianyou Chai

We consider solving a convex, possibly stochastic optimization problem over a randomly time-varying multi-agent network. Each agent has access to some local objective function, and it only has unbiased estimates of the gradients of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-11-29 Mingyi Hong , Tsung-Hui Chang

Modern stochastic optimization methods often rely on uniform sampling which is agnostic to the underlying characteristics of the data. This might degrade the convergence by yielding estimates that suffer from a high variance. A possible…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-06-07 Zalán Borsos , Andreas Krause , Kfir Y. Levy

This paper studies online nonstochastic control problems with adversarial and static constraints. We propose online nonstochastic control algorithms that achieve both sublinear regret and sublinear adversarial constraint violation while…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Xin Liu , Zixian Yang , Lei Ying

Stochastic Optimization (SO) is a classical approach for optimization under uncertainty that typically requires knowledge about the probability distribution of uncertain parameters. As the latter is often unknown, Distributionally Robust…

This paper studies distributed resource allocation problem in multi-agent systems, where all the agents cooperatively minimize the sum of their cost functions with global resource constraints over stochastic communication networks. This…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-04-27 Tie Ding , Shanying Zhu , Cailian Chen , Xinping Guan

Distributed optimization and learning algorithms are designed to operate over large scale networks enabling processing of vast amounts of data effectively and efficiently. One of the main challenges for ensuring a smooth learning process in…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-21 Apostolos I. Rikos , Nicola Bastianello , Themistoklis Charalambous , Karl H. Johansson

In this paper we consider online distributed learning problems. Online distributed learning refers to the process of training learning models on distributed data sources. In our setting a set of agents need to cooperatively train a learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Nicola Bastianello , Apostolos I. Rikos , Karl H. Johansson

Recently, distributed dual averaging has received increasing attention due to its superiority in handling constraints and dynamic networks in multiagent optimization. However, all distributed dual averaging methods reported so far…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-03-20 Changxin Liu , Huiping Li , Yang Shi

We consider an online two-stage stochastic optimization with long-term constraints over a finite horizon of $T$ periods. At each period, we take the first-stage action, observe a model parameter realization and then take the second-stage…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-03 Piao Hu , Jiashuo Jiang , Guodong Lyu , Hao Su

This paper develops the first decentralized online Riemannian optimization algorithm on Hadamard manifolds. Our algorithm, the decentralized projected Riemannian gradient descent, iteratively performs local updates using projected…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-08 Hengchao Chen , Qiang Sun

Optimization in distributed networks plays a central role in almost all distributed machine learning problems. In principle, the use of distributed task allocation has reduced the computational time, allowing better response rates and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-07-28 Elie Atallah , Nazanin Rahnavard , Chinwendu Enyioha