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Content caching in wireless networks provides a substantial opportunity to trade off low cost memory storage with energy consumption, yet finding the optimal causal policy with low computational complexity remains a challenge. This paper…

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We study a natural generalization of the maximum weight many-to-one matching problem. We are given an undirected bipartite graph $G= (A \cup P, E)$ with weights on the edges in $E$, and with lower and upper quotas on the vertices in $P$. We…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2016-03-29 Ashwin Arulselvan , Ágnes Cseh , Martin Groß , David F. Manlove , Jannik Matuschke

A robust model predictive control (MPC) method is presented for linear, time-invariant systems affected by bounded additive disturbances. The main contribution is the offline design of a disturbance-affine feedback gain whereby the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-16 Anilkumar Parsi , Panagiotis Anagnostaras , Andrea Iannelli , Roy S. Smith

In this paper we present a framework for risk-sensitive model predictive control (MPC) of linear systems affected by stochastic multiplicative uncertainty. Our key innovation is to consider a time-consistent, dynamic risk evaluation of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-04-26 Sumeet Singh , Yin-Lam Chow , Anirudha Majumdar , Marco Pavone

In distributed learning, the goal is to perform a learning task over data distributed across multiple nodes with minimal (expensive) communication. Prior work (Daume III et al., 2012) proposes a general model that bounds the communication…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-04-17 Hal Daume , Jeff M. Phillips , Avishek Saha , Suresh Venkatasubramanian

In training of modern large natural language processing (NLP) models, it has become a common practice to split models using 3D parallelism to multiple GPUs. Such technique, however, suffers from a high overhead of inter-node communication.…

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We consider network-based decentralized optimization problems, where each node in the network possesses a local function and the objective is to collectively attain a consensus solution that minimizes the sum of all the local functions. A…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-09-07 Suhail M. Shah , Albert S. Berahas , Raghu Bollapragada

This tutorial-style overview article examines the fundamental principles and methods of robustness, using wireless sensing and communication (WSC) as the narrative and exemplifying framework. First, we formalize the conceptual and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-11 Shixiong Wang , Wei Dai , Li-Chun Wang , Geoffrey Ye Li

This paper investigates a wireless powered communication network (WPCN) under the protocol of harvest-then-transmit,where a hybrid access point with constant power supply replenishes the passive user nodes by wireless power transfer in the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-03-17 Qian Sun , Gang Zhu , Chao Shen , Xuan Li , Zhangdui Zhong

Expressivity theory, characterizing which graphs a GNN can distinguish, has become the predominant framework for analyzing GNNs, with new models striving for higher expressivity. However, we argue that this focus is misguided: First, higher…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Niklas Kemper , Tom Wollschläger , Stephan Günnemann

Precoding design for maximizing weighted sum-rate (WSR) is a fundamental problem for downlink of massive multi-user multiple-input multiple-output (MU-MIMO) systems. It is well-known that this problem is generally NP-hard due to the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-22 Xiaotong Zhao , Siyuan Lu , Qingjiang Shi , Zhi-Quan Luo

In this paper, the problem of joint transmission and computation resource allocation for a multi-user probabilistic semantic communication (PSC) network is investigated. In the considered model, users employ semantic information extraction…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Zhouxiang Zhao , Zhaohui Yang , Mingzhe Chen , Zhaoyang Zhang , H. Vincent Poor

In this paper we study the inherent trade-off between time and communication complexity for the distributed consensus problem. In our model, communication complexity is measured as the maximum data throughput (in bits per second) sent…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2014-10-07 Federico Rossi , Marco Pavone

Sampling-based Model Predictive Control (MPC) is a flexible control framework that can reason about non-smooth dynamics and cost functions. Recently, significant work has focused on the use of machine learning to improve the performance of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-12-07 Jacob Sacks , Byron Boots

We consider large-scale linear inverse problems in Bayesian settings. We follow a recent line of work that applies the approximate message passing (AMP) framework to multi-processor (MP) computational systems, where each processor node…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-09 Junan Zhu , Dror Baron , Ahmad Beirami

Multiple Tensor-Times-Matrix (Multi-TTM) is a key computation in algorithms for computing and operating with the Tucker tensor decomposition, which is frequently used in multidimensional data analysis. We establish communication lower…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-02-03 Hussam Al Daas , Grey Ballard , Laura Grigori , Suraj Kumar , Kathryn Rouse

We show NP-hardness of the minimum latency scheduling (MLS) problem under the physical model of wireless networking. In this model a transmission is received successfully if the Signal to Interference-plus-Noise Ratio (SINR), is above a…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2012-03-14 Henry Lin , Frans Schalekamp

A widely studied problem in communication networks is that of finding the maximum number of communication requests that can be scheduled concurrently, subject to node and/or link capacity constraints. In this paper, we consider the problem…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-05-25 Yuval Emek , Shay Kutten , Mordechai Shalom , Shmuel Zaks

In the Maximum Connectivity Improvement (MCI) problem, we are given a directed graph $G=(V,E)$ and an integer $B$ and we are asked to find $B$ new edges to be added to $G$ in order to maximize the number of connected pairs of vertices in…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2019-04-30 Federico Corò , Gianlorenzo D'Angelo , Vahan Mkrtchyan

Model predictive control (MPC) for linear systems with quadratic costs and linear constraints is shown to admit an exact representation as an implicit neural network. A method to "unravel" the implicit neural network of MPC into an explicit…

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