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Trajectory prediction, the task of forecasting future agent behavior from past data, is central to safe and efficient autonomous driving. A diverse set of methods (e.g., rule-based or learned with different architectures and datasets) have…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-21 Alex Tong , Apoorva Sharma , Sushant Veer , Marco Pavone , Heng Yang

In this paper we consider a distributed optimization scenario in which the aggregate objective function to minimize is partitioned, big-data and possibly non-convex. Specifically, we focus on a set-up in which the dimension of the decision…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-03-27 Ivano Notarnicola , Giuseppe Notarstefano

This paper considers distributed online convex constrained optimization, in which various agents in a multi-agent system cooperate to minimize a global cost function through communicating with neighbors over a time-varying network. When the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-02-02 Wentao Zhang , Yang Shi , Baoyong Zhang , Deming Yuan

This paper aims to address distributed optimization problems over directed and time-varying networks, where the global objective function consists of a sum of locally accessible convex objective functions subject to a feasible set…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-07-14 Xiuxian Li , Gang Feng , Lihua Xie

We consider network aggregative games to model and study multi-agent populations in which each rational agent is influenced by the aggregate behavior of its neighbors, as specified by an underlying network. Specifically, we examine systems…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2015-06-26 Francesca Parise , Sergio Grammatico , Basilio Gentile , John Lygeros

This paper proposes a distributed stochastic algorithm with variance reduction for general smooth non-convex finite-sum optimization, which has wide applications in signal processing and machine learning communities. In distributed setting,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-07-23 Xia Jiang , Xianlin Zeng , Jian Sun , Jie Chen

This paper considers distributed optimization problems, where each agent cooperatively minimizes the sum of local objective functions through the communication with its neighbors. The widely adopted distributed gradient method in solving…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-19 Yeming Xu , Ziyuan Guo , Kaihong Lu , Huanshui Zhang

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 note, a novel observer-based output feedback control approach is proposed to address the distributed optimal output consensus problem of uncertain nonlinear multi-agent systems in the normal form over unbalanced directed graphs. The…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-17 Jin Zhang , Lu Liu , Xinghu Wang , Haibo Ji

This paper proposes Asynchronous Triggered Gradient Tracking, i.e., a distributed optimization algorithm to solve consensus optimization over networks with asynchronous communication. As a building block, we devise the continuous-time…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-09-13 Guido Carnevale , Ivano Notarnicola , Lorenzo Marconi , Giuseppe Notarstefano

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

An associative memory (AM) enables cue-response recall, and associative memorization has recently been noted to underlie the operation of modern neural architectures such as Transformers. This work addresses a distributed setting where…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Bowen Wang , Matteo Zecchin , Osvaldo Simeone

We propose a framework for adaptive data-centric collaborative machine learning among self-interested agents, coordinated by an arbiter. Designed to handle the incremental nature of real-world data, the framework operates in an online…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-07 Nithia Vijayan , Bryan Kian Hsiang Low

In this paper, we study secure distributed optimization against arbitrary gradient attack in multi-agent networks. In distributed optimization, there is no central server to coordinate local updates, and each agent can only communicate with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-10-31 Shuhua Yu , Soummya Kar

This paper presents a distributed continuous-time optimization framework aimed at overcoming the challenges posed by time-varying cost functions and constraints in multi-agent systems, particularly those subject to disturbances. By…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-10 Zeinab Ebrahimi , Mohammad Deghat

We present a distributed proximal-gradient method for optimizing the average of convex functions, each of which is the private local objective of an agent in a network with time-varying topology. The local objectives have distinct…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2012-10-09 Annie I. Chen , Asuman Ozdaglar

In this paper, a multi-agent coordination problem with steady-state regulation constraints is investigated for a class of nonlinear systems. Unlike existing leader-following coordination formulations, the reference signal is not given by a…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-08-15 Yutao Tang , Peng Yi

In this paper, we study convex optimization problems where agents of a network cooperatively minimize the global objective function which consists of multiple local objective functions. Different from most of the existing works, the local…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-30 Huaqing Li , Lifeng Zheng , Zheng Wang , Yu Yan , Liping Feng , Jing Guo

For tasks where the dynamics of multiple agents are physically coupled, e.g., in cooperative manipulation, the coordination between the individual agents becomes crucial, which requires exact knowledge of the interaction dynamics. This…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-06-29 Pablo Budde gen. Dohmann , Armin Lederer , Marcel Dißemond , Sandra Hirche

The paper considers distributed stochastic optimization over randomly switching networks, where agents collaboratively minimize the average of all agents' local expectation-valued convex cost functions. Due to the stochasticity in gradient…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-04-07 Jinlong Lei , Peng Yi , Jie Chen , Yiguang Hong