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A novel and fully distributed optimization method is proposed for the distributed robust convex program (DRCP) over a time-varying unbalanced directed network under the uniformly jointly strongly connected (UJSC) assumption. Firstly, an…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-29 Jun Fu , Xunhao Wu

Decentralized min-max optimization allows multi-agent systems to collaboratively solve global min-max optimization problems by facilitating the exchange of model updates among neighboring agents, eliminating the need for a central server.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Yueyang Quan , Chang Wang , Shengjie Zhai , Minghong Fang , Zhuqing Liu

This paper addresses the problem of distributed optimization, where a network of agents represented as a directed graph (digraph) aims to collaboratively minimize the sum of their individual cost functions. Existing approaches for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-07-06 Xiaomeng Chen , Wei Jiang , Themistoklis Charalambous , Ling Shi

We propose a distributed version of the Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers (ADMM) with linear updates for directed networks. We show that if the objective function of the minimization problem is smooth and strongly convex, our…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-09-21 Kiran Rokade , Rachel Kalpana Kalaimani

This paper proposes a scalable distributed policy gradient method and proves its convergence to near-optimal solution in multi-agent linear quadratic networked systems. The agents engage within a specified network under local communication…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-03-06 Yuzi Yan , Yuan Shen

This paper considers nonconvex distributed constrained optimization over networks, modeled as directed (possibly time-varying) graphs. We introduce the first algorithmic framework for the minimization of the sum of a smooth nonconvex…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-09-05 Gesualdo Scutari , Ying Sun

In this paper, we consider a large network containing many regions such that each region is equipped with a worker with some data processing and communication capability. For such a network, some workers may become stragglers due to the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-14 Elie Atallah , Nazanin Rahnavard , Qiyu Sun

In this paper, we consider the problem of distributed online convex optimization, where a group of agents collaborate to track the global minimizers of a sum of time-varying objective functions in an online manner. Specifically, we propose…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-10-14 Yan Zhang , Robert J. Ravier , Vahid Tarokh , Michael M. Zavlanos

This paper considers the distributed bandit convex optimization problem with time-varying inequality constraints over a network of agents, where the goal is to minimize network regret and cumulative constraint violation. Existing…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-06-21 Kunpeng Zhang , Xinlei Yi , Guanghui Wen , Ming Cao , Karl H. Johansson , Tianyou Chai , Tao Yang

This paper focuses on an online version of the emerging distributed constrained aggregative optimization framework, which is particularly suited for applications arising in cooperative robotics. Agents in a network want to minimize the sum…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-09-13 Guido Carnevale , Andrea Camisa , Giuseppe Notarstefano

This paper is concerned with multi-agent optimization problem. A distributed randomized gradient-free mirror descent (DRGFMD) method is developed by introducing a randomized gradient-free oracle in the mirror descent scheme where the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-03-12 Zhan Yu , Daniel W. C. Ho , Deming Yuan

We consider a fully distributed constrained convex optimization problem over a multi-agent (no central coordinator) network. We propose an asynchronous gossip-based random projection (GRP) algorithm that solves the distributed problem using…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-04-08 Soomin Lee , Angelia Nedich

This paper studies the distributed optimization problem with possibly nonidentical local constraints, where its global objective function is composed of $N$ convex functions. The aim is to solve the considered optimization problem in a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-08-26 Hongzhe Liu , Wenwu Yu , Guanghui Wen , Wei Xing Zheng

In this paper we consider a recently developed distributed optimization algorithm based on gradient tracking. We propose a system theory framework to analyze its structural properties on a preliminary, quadratic optimization set-up.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-03 Michelangelo Bin , Ivano Notarnicola , Lorenzo Marconi , Giuseppe Notarstefano

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

In this work, we first consider distributed convex constrained optimization problems where the objective function is encoded by multiple local and possibly nonsmooth objectives privately held by a group of agents, and propose a distributed…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-02-20 Changxin Liu , Huiping Li , Yang Shi

We study the convergence of a variant of distributed gradient descent (DGD) on a distributed low-rank matrix approximation problem wherein some optimization variables are used for consensus (as in classical DGD) and some optimization…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-12-27 Zhihui Zhu , Qiuwei Li , Xinshuo Yang , Gongguo Tang , Michael B. Wakin

We study structured convex optimization problems, with additive objective $r:=p + q$, where $r$ is ($\mu$-strongly) convex, $q$ is $L_q$-smooth and convex, and $p$ is $L_p$-smooth, possibly nonconvex. For such a class of problems, we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-05-31 Dmitry Kovalev , Aleksandr Beznosikov , Ekaterina Borodich , Alexander Gasnikov , Gesualdo Scutari

We develop a distributed stochastic gradient descent algorithm for solving non-convex optimization problems under the assumption that the local objective functions are twice continuously differentiable with Lipschitz continuous gradients…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-08-20 Jemin George , Tao Yang , He Bai , Prudhvi Gurram

Large-scale distributed optimization is of great importance in various applications. For data-parallel based distributed learning, the inter-node gradient communication often becomes the performance bottleneck. In this paper, we propose the…

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