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Many ad hoc routing protocols are based on some variant of flooding. Despite various optimizations, many routing messages are propagated unnecessarily. We propose a gossiping-based approach, where each node forwards a message with some…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Zygmunt Haas , Joseph Y. Halpern , Erran L. Li

Although gossip and random walk-based learning algorithms are widely known for decentralized learning, there has been limited theoretical and experimental analysis to understand their relative performance for different graph topologies and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Peyman Gholami , Hulya Seferoglu

Federated learning and gossip learning are emerging methodologies designed to mitigate data privacy concerns by retaining training data on client devices and exclusively sharing locally-trained machine learning (ML) models with others. The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Yongding Tian , Zaid Al-Ars , Maksim Kitsak , Peter Hofstee

Gossipping has demonstrate to be an efficient mechanism for spreading information among P2P networks. Within the context of P2P computing, we propose the so-called Evolvable Agent Model for distributed population-based algorithms which uses…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2007-05-23 J. L. J. Laredo , E. A. Eiben , M. Schoenauer , P. A. Castillo , A. M. Mora , F. Fernandez , J. J. Merelo

Future applications in environmental monitoring, delivery of services and transportation of goods motivate the study of deployment and partitioning tasks for groups of autonomous mobile agents. These tasks are achieved by recent coverage…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2009-12-28 Francesco Bullo , Ruggero Carli , Paolo Frasca

Communication overhead hinders the scalability of large-scale distributed training. Gossip SGD, where each node averages only with its neighbors, is more communication-efficient than the prevalent parallel SGD. However, its convergence rate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-20 Yiming Chen , Kun Yuan , Yingya Zhang , Pan Pan , Yinghui Xu , Wotao Yin

Distributed deep learning is an effective way to reduce the training time of deep learning for large datasets as well as complex models. However, the limited scalability caused by network overheads makes it difficult to synchronize the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Sangho Yeo , Minho Bae , Minjoong Jeong , Oh-kyoung Kwon , Sangyoon Oh

In this paper, we develop and analyze a gossip-based average consensus algorithm that enables all of the components of a distributed system, each with some initial value, to reach (approximate) average consensus on their initial values…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-09 Nicolaos E. Manitara , Apostolos I. Rikos , Christoforos N. Hadjicostis

We study distributed methods for online prediction and stochastic optimization. Our approach is iterative: in each round nodes first perform local computations and then communicate in order to aggregate information and synchronize their…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-03-06 Konstantinos I. Tsianos , Michael G. Rabbat

While sharing resources the efficiency is substantially degraded as a result of the scarceness of availability of the requested resources in a multiclient support manner. These resources are often aggravated by many factors like the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2010-09-24 Constandinos X. Mavromoustakis , Helen D. Karatza

A gossip process is an iterative process in a multi-agent system where only two neighboring agents communicate at each iteration and update their states. The neighboring condition is by convention described by an undirected graph. In this…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-10-19 Xudong Chen , Mohamed-Ali Belabbas , Ji Liu

We develop an analytical model of information dissemination for a gossiping protocol that combines both pull and push approaches. With this model we analyse how fast an item is replicated through a network, and how fast the item spreads in…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2010-03-11 Rena Bakhshi , Daniela Gavidia , Wan Fokkink , Maarten van Steen

Distributed gossip algorithm has been studied in literature for practical implementation of the distributed consensus algorithm as a fundamental algorithm for the purpose of in-network collaborative processing. This paper focuses on…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2015-12-14 Saber Jafarizadeh

We study gossip algorithms for the fundamental rumor spreading problem, where the goal is to disseminate a rumor from a given source node to all nodes in an arbitrary (and unknown) graph. Gossip algorithms allow each node to call only one…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Fabien Dufoulon , William K. Moses , Gopal Pandurangan

With the growing computational capabilities of microcontroller units (MCUs), edge devices can now support machine learning models. However, deploying decentralised federated learning (DFL) on such devices presents key challenges, including…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Ziyuan Bao , Eiman Kanjo , Soumya Banerjee , Hasib-Al Rashid , Tinoosh Mohsenin

The influence of node mobility on the convergence time of averaging gossip algorithms in networks is studied. It is shown that a small number of fully mobile nodes can yield a significant decrease in convergence time. A method is developed…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2011-06-22 Anand D. Sarwate , Alexandros G. Dimakis

We consider information dissemination over a network of gossiping agents (nodes). In this model, a source keeps the most up-to-date information about a time-varying binary state of the world, and $n$ receiver nodes want to follow the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Melih Bastopcu , S. Rasoul Etesami , Tamer Başar

Bilevel optimization have gained growing interests, with numerous applications found in meta learning, minimax games, reinforcement learning, and nested composition optimization. This paper studies the problem of distributed bilevel…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-06-23 Shuoguang Yang , Xuezhou Zhang , Mengdi Wang

Efficient and robust algorithms for decentralized estimation in networks are essential to many distributed systems. Whereas distributed estimation of sample mean statistics has been the subject of a good deal of attention, computation of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-01-25 Igor Colin , Aurélien Bellet , Joseph Salmon , Stéphan Clémençon

In this paper, we study an asynchronous randomized gossip algorithm under unreliable communication. At each instance, two nodes are selected to meet with a given probability. When nodes meet, two unreliable communication links are…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-03-28 Guodong Shi , Mikael Johansson , Karl Henrik Johansson