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Motivated by recent development in networking and parallel data-processing, we consider a distributed and localized finite-sum (or fixed-sum) allocation technique to solve resource-constrained convex optimization problems over multi-agent…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-29 Mohammadreza Doostmohammadian , Maria Vrakopoulou , Alireza Aghasi , Themistoklis Charalambous

We consider several estimation and learning problems that networked agents face when making decisions given their uncertainty about an unknown variable. Our methods are designed to efficiently deal with heterogeneity in both size and…

Applications · Statistics 2016-11-11 M. Amin Rahimian , Ali Jadbabaie

Distributed stochastic optimization, arising in the crossing and integration of traditional stochastic optimization, distributed computing and storage, and network science, has advantages of high efficiency and a low per-iteration…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-20 Jinhui Hu , Guo Chen , Huaqing Li , Zixiang Shen , Weidong Zhang

We consider solving a convex, possibly stochastic optimization problem over a randomly time-varying multi-agent network. Each agent has access to some local objective function, and it only has unbiased estimates of the gradients of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-11-29 Mingyi Hong , Tsung-Hui Chang

During the past two decades, multi-agent optimization problems have drawn increased attention from the research community. When multiple objective functions are present among agents, many works optimize the sum of these objective functions.…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2020-10-13 M. J. Blondin , M. T. Hale

In this paper, we consider distributed optimization problems where $n$ agents, each possessing a local cost function, collaboratively minimize the average of the local cost functions over a connected network. To solve the problem, we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-03-24 Kun Huang , Xiao Li , Andre Milzarek , Shi Pu , Junwen Qiu

Modern machine learning tasks often involve massive datasets and models, necessitating distributed optimization algorithms with reduced communication overhead. Communication compression, where clients transmit compressed updates to a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-01 Yuan Gao , Anton Rodomanov , Jeremy Rack , Sebastian U. Stich

This paper studies a distributed stochastic optimization problem over random networks with imperfect communications subject to a global constraint, which is the intersection of local constraint sets assigned to agents. The global cost…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-07-25 Jinlong Lei , Han-Fu Chen , Hai-Tao Fang

In this paper, we tackle the problem of distributed optimization over directed networks in open multi-agent systems (OMAS), where agents may dynamically join or leave, causing persistent changes in network topology and problem dimension.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-29 Evagoras Makridis , Gabriele Oliva , Themistoklis Charalambous

This paper studies a distributed online convex optimization problem, where agents in an unbalanced network cooperatively minimize the sum of their time-varying local cost functions subject to a coupled inequality constraint. To solve this…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-09-06 Dandan Wang , Daokuan Zhu , Kin Cheong Sou , Jie Lu

This paper proposes a distributed dual gradient tracking algorithm (DDGT) to solve resource allocation problems over an unbalanced network, where each node in the network holds a private cost function and computes the optimal resource by…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-25 Jiaqi Zhang , Keyou You , Kai Cai

Distributed abstract programs are a novel class of distributed optimization problems where (i) the number of variables is much smaller than the number of constraints and (ii) each constraint is associated to a network node. Abstract…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2009-11-02 Giuseppe Notarstefano , Francesco Bullo

With the growth of data and necessity for distributed optimization methods, solvers that work well on a single machine must be re-designed to leverage distributed computation. Recent work in this area has been limited by focusing heavily on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-08-04 Chenxin Ma , Jakub Konečný , Martin Jaggi , Virginia Smith , Michael I. Jordan , Peter Richtárik , Martin Takáč

In this paper, we study the distributed optimization problem for a system of agents embedded in time-varying directed communication networks. Each agent has its own cost function and agents cooperate to determine the global decision that…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-09-27 Angelia Nedich , Duong Thuy Anh Nguyen , Duong Tung Nguyen

We propose a novel algorithm for solving convex, constrained and distributed optimization problems defined on multi-agent-networks, where each agent has exclusive access to a part of the global objective function. The agents are able to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-12 Jan Zimmermann , Tatiana Tatarenko , Volker Willert , Jürgen Adamy

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

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-10-23 Jinming Xu , Ying Sun , Ye Tian , Gesualdo Scutari

This article presents a second-order fully distributed optimization algorithm, HBNET-GIANT, driven by heavy-ball momentum, for $L$-smooth and $\mu$-strongly convex objective functions. A rigorous convergence analysis is performed, and we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-18 Souvik Das , Luca Schenato , Subhrakanti Dey

In this paper, we consider an unconstrained distributed optimization problem over a network of agents, in which some agents are adversarial. We solve the problem via gradient-based distributed optimization algorithm and characterize the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-03-22 Iyanuoluwa Emiola , Laurent Njilla , Chinwendu Enyioha

We consider distributed optimization as motivated by machine learning in a multi-agent system: each agent holds local data and the goal is to minimize an aggregate loss function over a common model, via an interplay of local training and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-08 Dingran Yi , Fanhao Zeng , Nikolaos M. Freris

We consider a class of multi-agent cooperative consensus optimization problems with local nonlinear convex constraints where only those agents connected by an edge can directly communicate, hence, the optimal consensus decision lies in the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-02-23 Nazanin Abolfazli , Afrooz Jalilzadeh , Erfan Yazdandoost Hamedani