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This paper studies distributed algorithms for the extended monotropic optimization problem, which is a general convex optimization problem with a certain separable structure. The considered objective function is the sum of local convex…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-08-04 Xianlin Zeng , Peng Yi , Yiguang Hong , Lihua Xie

We propose a random coordinate descent algorithm for optimizing a non-convex objective function subject to one linear constraint and simple bounds on the variables. Although it is common use to update only two random coordinates…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-08-27 Alireza Ghaffari-Hadigheh , Lennart Sinjorgo , Renata Sotirov

Resource allocation and scheduling in multi-agent systems present challenges due to complex interactions and decentralization. This survey paper provides a comprehensive analysis of distributed algorithms for addressing the distributed…

Inspired and underpinned by the idea of integral feedback, a distributed constant gain algorithm is proposed for multi-agent networks to solve convex optimization problems with local linear constraints. Assuming agent interactions are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-11-19 Xuan Wang , Shaoshuai Mou , Brian. D. O. Anderson

It is always a challenging task to service sudden events in non-convex and uncertain environments, and multi-agent coverage control provides a powerful theoretical framework to investigate the deployment problem of mobile robotic networks…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-09-07 Chao Zhai , Pengyang Fan

We provide a unifying framework for distributed convex optimization over time-varying networks, in the presence of constraints and uncertainty, features that are typically treated separately in the literature. We adopt a proximal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-05-24 Kostas Margellos , Alessandro Falsone , Simone Garatti , Maria Prandini

Decentralized optimization methods often entail information exchange between neighbors. Transmission failures can happen due to network congestion, hardware/software issues, communication outage, and other factors. In this paper, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-05 Wenjing Yan , Xuanyu Cao

Optimal transport is a framework that facilitates the most efficient allocation of a limited amount of resources. However, the most efficient allocation scheme does not necessarily preserve the most fairness. In this paper, we establish a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-04-01 Jason Hughes , Juntao Chen

The paper addresses large-scale, convex optimization problems that need to be solved in a distributed way by agents communicating according to a random time-varying graph. Specifically, the goal of the network is to minimize the sum of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-10-28 Andrea Camisa , Francesco Farina , Ivano Notarnicola , Giuseppe Notarstefano

Important applications in robotic and sensor networks require distributed algorithms to solve the so-called relative localization problem: a node-indexed vector has to be reconstructed from measurements of differences between neighbor…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2013-03-26 Wilbert Samuel Rossi , Paolo Frasca , Fabio Fagnani

This paper presents a novel distributed robust optimization scheme for steering distributions of multi-agent systems under stochastic and deterministic uncertainty. Robust optimization is a subfield of optimization which aims to discover an…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-01-31 Arshiya Taj Abdul , Augustinos D. Saravanos , Evangelos A. Theodorou

Motivated by recent development in networking and parallel data-processing, we consider a distributed and localized finite-sum (or fixed-sum) allocation technique to solve resource-constrained convex optimization problems over multi-agent…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-29 Mohammadreza Doostmohammadian , Maria Vrakopoulou , Alireza Aghasi , Themistoklis Charalambous

In this paper, we consider distributed optimization problems where $n$ agents, each possessing a local cost function, collaboratively minimize the average of the local cost functions over a connected network. To solve the problem, we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-03-24 Kun Huang , Xiao Li , Andre Milzarek , Shi Pu , Junwen Qiu

In this paper we consider a distributed optimization scenario in which a set of agents has to solve a convex optimization problem with separable cost function, local constraint sets and a coupling inequality constraint. We propose a novel…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-04-25 Ivano Notarnicola , Giuseppe Notarstefano

In this paper, we propose a novel distributed algorithm for consensus optimization over networks and a robust extension tailored to deal with asynchronous agents and packet losses. Indeed, to robustly achieve dynamic consensus on the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-04 Guido Carnevale , Nicola Bastianello , Giuseppe Notarstefano , Ruggero Carli

Distributed decision making in multi-agent networks has recently attracted significant research attention thanks to its wide applicability, e.g. in the management and optimization of computer networks, power systems, robotic teams, sensor…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-11-13 Carlo Cenedese , Yu Kawano , Sergio Grammatico , Ming Cao

Distributed optimization finds applications in large-scale machine learning, data processing and classification over multi-agent networks. In real-world scenarios, the communication network of agents may encounter latency that may affect…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-06 Mohammadreza Doostmohammadian , Narahari Kasagatta Ramesh , Alireza Aghasi

This paper considers online distributed convex constrained optimization over a time-varying multi-agent network. Agents in this network cooperate to minimize the global objective function through information exchange with their neighbors…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-05-09 Wentao Zhang , Yang Shi , Baoyong Zhang , Kaihong Lu , Deming Yuan

In this paper, a distributed velocity-constrained consensus problem is studied for discrete-time multi-agent systems, where each agent's velocity is constrained to lie in a nonconvex set. A distributed constrained control algorithm is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-03-05 Peng Lin , Wei Ren , Huijun Gao

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