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In this paper, we study unconstrained distributed optimization strongly convex problems, in which the exchange of information in the network is captured by a directed graph topology over digital channels that have limited capacity (and…

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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…

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This paper considers distributed online convex optimization with adversarial constraints. In this setting, a network of agents makes decisions at each round, and then only a portion of the loss function and a coordinate block of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-06-02 Xinlei Yi , Xiuxian Li , Tao Yang , Lihua Xie , Yiguang Hong , Tianyou Chai , Karl H. Johansson

We study nonconvex distributed optimization in multi-agent networks with time-varying (nonsymmetric) connectivity. We introduce the first algorithmic framework for the distributed minimization of the sum of a smooth (possibly nonconvex and…

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This paper studies the network optimization problem about which a group of agents cooperates to minimize a global function under practical constraints of finite bandwidth communication. Particularly, we propose an adaptive encoding-decoding…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-11-17 Ziqin Chen , Shu Liang , Li Li , Shuming Cheng

This paper focuses on a multi-agent zeroth-order online optimization problem in a federated learning setting for target tracking. The agents only sense their current distances to their targets and aim to maintain a minimum safe distance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-12 Ege C. Kaya , M. Berk Sahin , Abolfazl Hashemi

This paper studies the decentralized online convex optimization problem for heterogeneous linear multi-agent systems. Agents have access to their time-varying local cost functions related to their own outputs, and there are also…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-07-05 Yang Yu , Xiuxian Li , Li Li , Lihua Xie

This paper proposes a multi-scale method to design a continuous-time distributed algorithm for constrained convex optimization problems by using multi-agents with Markov switched network dynamics and noisy inter-agent communications. Unlike…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-03-02 Wei Ni , Xiaoli Wang

We present distributed algorithms that can be used by multiple agents to align their estimates with a particular value over a network with time-varying connectivity. Our framework is general in that this value can represent a consensus…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2010-04-20 Angelia Nedić , Asuman Ozdaglar , Pablo A. Parrilo

We study distributed optimization problems over a network when the communication between the nodes is constrained, and so information that is exchanged between the nodes must be quantized. This imperfect communication poses a fundamental…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-10-30 Thinh T. Doan , Siva Theja Maguluri , Justin Romberg

We study distributed composite optimization over networks: agents minimize a sum of smooth (strongly) convex functions, the agents' sum-utility, plus a nonsmooth (extended-valued) convex one. We propose a general unified algorithmic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-08-04 Jinming Xu , Ye Tian , Ying Sun , Gesualdo Scutari

This paper aims at distributed multi-agent convex optimization where the communications network among the agents are presented by a random sequence of possibly state-dependent weighted graphs. This is the first work to consider both random…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-31 Seyyed Shaho Alaviani , Atul Kelkar

We consider the problem of decentralized optimization where a collection of agents, each having access to a local cost function, communicate over a time-varying directed network and aim to minimize the sum of those functions. In practice,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-01 Yiyue Chen , Abolfazl Hashemi , Haris Vikalo

In this paper, the problem of distributed optimization is studied via a network of agents. Each agent only has access to a stochastic gradient of its own objective function in the previous time, and can communicate with its neighbors via a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-29 Yuchen Yang , Kaihong Lu , Long Wang

In this paper, we focus on solving a distributed convex aggregative optimization problem in a network, where each agent has its own cost function which depends not only on its own decision variables but also on the aggregated function of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-07-26 Tongyu Wang , Peng Yi

In this paper, distributed convex optimization problem over non-directed dynamical networks is studied. Here, networked agents with single-integrator dynamics are supposed to rendezvous at a point that is the solution of a global convex…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-07-18 Amir Adibzadeh , Mohsen Zamani , Amir A. Suratgar , Mohammad B. Menhaj

This paper considers the distributed online convex optimization problem with time-varying constraints over a network of agents. This is a sequential decision making problem with two sequences of arbitrarily varying convex loss and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-12-29 Xinlei Yi , Xiuxian Li , Tao Yang , Lihua Xie , Tianyou Chai , Karl H. Johansson

This paper investigates distributed online convex optimization in the presence of an aggregative variable without any global/central coordinators over a multi-agent network, where each individual agent is only able to access partial…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-07-15 Xiuxian Li , Xinlei Yi , Lihua Xie

This paper mainly addresses the distributed online optimization problem where the local objective functions are assumed to be convex or non-convex. First, the distributed algorithms are proposed for the convex and non-convex situations,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-24 Yaowen Wang , Lipo Mo , Min Zuo , Yuanshi Zheng

This paper considers a distributed optimization problem in a multi-agent system where a fraction of the agents act in an adversarial manner. Specifically, the malicious agents steer the network of agents away from the optimal solution by…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-06-07 Iyanuoluwa Emiola , Chinwendu Enyioha