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We study a distributed method called SAB-TV, which employs gradient tracking to collaboratively minimize the sum of smooth and strongly-convex local cost functions for networked agents communicating over a time-varying directed graph. Each…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-10-31 Duong Thuy Anh Nguyen , Duong Tung Nguyen , Angelia Nedich

This paper considers a time-varying optimization problem associated with a network of systems, with each of the systems shared by (and affecting) a number of individuals. The objective is to minimize cost functions associated with the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-03-15 Ana M. Ospina , Andrea Simonetto , Emiliano Dall'Anese

We propose an algorithm for distributed optimization over time-varying communication networks. Our algorithm uses an optimized ratio between the number of rounds of communication and gradient evaluations to achieve fast convergence. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-01-08 Bryan Van Scoy , Laurent Lessard

In this paper, the distributed resource allocation optimization problem is investigated. The allocation decisions are made to minimize the sum of all the agents' local objective functions while satisfying both the global network resource…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-04-11 Peng Yi , Yiguang Hong , Feng Liu

With the increasing scale and dynamics of data, distributed online optimization has become essential for real-time decision-making in various applications. However, existing algorithms often rely on bounded gradient assumptions and overlook…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Xinli Shi , Xingxing Yuan , Longkang Zhu , Guanghui Wen

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

This paper considers the problem of designing a dynamical system to solve constrained optimization problems in a distributed way and in an anytime fashion (i.e., such that the feasible set is forward invariant). For problems with separable…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-09-07 Pol Mestres , Jorge Cortés

In this paper, we propose a new framework to study distributed optimization problems with stochastic gradients by employing a multi-agent system with continuous-time dynamics. Here the goal of the agents is to cooperatively minimize the sum…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-10 Jianhua Sun , Kaihong Lu , Xin Yu

A challenging problem in decentralized optimization is to develop algorithms with fast convergence on random and time varying topologies under unreliable and bandwidth-constrained communication network. This paper studies a stochastic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-29 Chung-Yiu Yau , Haoming Liu , Hoi-To Wai

In this paper, a gradient-free distributed algorithm is introduced to solve a set constrained optimization problem under a directed communication network. Specifically, at each time-step, the agents locally compute a so-called…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-09-06 Yipeng Pang , Guoqiang Hu

We investigate the problem of agent-to-agent interaction in decentralized (federated) learning over time-varying directed graphs, and, in doing so, propose a consensus-based algorithm called DSGTm-TV. The proposed algorithm incorporates…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-09-27 Duong Thuy Anh Nguyen , Su Wang , Duong Tung Nguyen , Angelia Nedich , H. Vincent Poor

The goal of this paper is to study a distributed version of the gradient temporal-difference (GTD) learning algorithm for a class of multi-agent Markov decision processes (MDPs). The temporal-difference (TD) learning is a reinforcement…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-04-29 Donghwan Lee , Jianghai Hu

Various distributed optimization methods have been developed for solving problems which have simple local constraint sets and whose objective function is the sum of local cost functions of distributed agents in a network. Motivated by…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Tsung-Hui Chang , Angelia Nedić , Anna Scaglione

A good parallelization strategy can significantly improve the efficiency or reduce the cost for the distributed training of deep neural networks (DNNs). Recently, several methods have been proposed to find efficient parallelization…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-01-12 Zhenkun Cai , Kaihao Ma , Xiao Yan , Yidi Wu , Yuzhen Huang , James Cheng , Teng Su , Fan Yu

This paper considers distributed stochastic optimization, in which a number of agents cooperate to optimize a global objective function through local computations and information exchanges with neighbors over a network. Stochastic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-08-09 Jie Hou , Xianlin Zeng , Gang Wang , Jian Sun , Jie Chen

This paper proposes a set of novel optimization algorithms for solving a class of convex optimization problems with time-varying streaming cost function. We develop an approach to track the optimal solution with a bounded error. Unlike the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-10-13 M. Rostami , H. Moradian , S. S. Kia

This paper seeks an efficient algorithm for stochastic precoding to maximize the long-term average weighted sum rates throughout a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) network. Unlike many existing works that assume a particular…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Wenyu Wang , Kaiming Shen

We consider a distributed convex optimization problem in a network which is time-varying and not always strongly connected. The local cost function of each node is affected by some stochastic process. All nodes of the network collaborate to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-05-27 Wenjie Li , Mohamad Assaad

In this paper, we present an event-triggered distributed optimization approach including a distributed controller to solve a class of distributed time-varying optimization problems (DTOP). The proposed approach is developed within a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-28 Haojin Li , Xiaodong Cheng , Peter van Heijster , Sitian Qin

This paper concerns iterative reconstruction for low-dose and few-view CT by minimizing a data-fidelity term regularized with the Total Variation (TV) penalty. We propose a very fast iterative algorithm to solve this problem. The algorithm…

Medical Physics · Physics 2017-02-01 Hiroyuki Kudo , Fukashi Yamazaki , Takuya Nemoto , Keita Takaki