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The aim of this paper is to propose distributed strategies for adaptive learning of signals defined over graphs. Assuming the graph signal to be bandlimited, the method enables distributed reconstruction, with guaranteed performance in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-08-02 P. Di Lorenzo , P. Banelli , S. Barbarossa , S. Sardellitti

Fair division is typically framed from a centralized perspective. However, in practice resource allocation often occurs via decentralized networks. We study a decentralized variant of fair division inspired by altruistic dynamics observed…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Joel Miller , Rishi Advani , Ian Kash , Chris Kanich , Lenore Zuck

We consider the problem of tracking the minimum of a time-varying convex optimization problem over a dynamic graph. Motivated by target tracking and parameter estimation problems in intermittently connected robotic and sensor networks, the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-05-20 Rishabh Dixit , Amrit Singh Bedi , Ketan Rajawat

The ability to differentiate through optimization problems has unlocked numerous applications, from optimization-based layers in machine learning models to complex design problems formulated as bilevel programs. It has been shown that…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-05 Lucas Fuentes Valenzuela , Robin Brown , Marco Pavone

Gradient-tracking (GT) based decentralized methods have emerged as an effective and viable alternative method to decentralized (stochastic) gradient descent (DSGD) when solving distributed online stochastic optimization problems. Initial…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-01-10 Sulaiman A. Alghunaim , Kun Yuan

This paper studies a basic model of a dynamical distribution network, where the network topology is given by a directed graph with storage variables corresponding to the vertices and flow inputs corresponding to the edges. We aim at…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-11-13 Jieqiang Wei , Arjan J. van der Schaft

This technical note addresses the distributed fixed-time consensus protocol design problem for multi-agent systems with general linear dynamics over directed communication graphs. By using motion planning approaches, a class of distributed…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-05-27 Yu Zhao , Yongfang Liu , Guanrong Chen

We consider decentralized machine learning over a network where the training data is distributed across $n$ agents, each of which can compute stochastic model updates on their local data. The agent's common goal is to find a model that…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-02-09 Anastasia Koloskova , Tao Lin , Sebastian U. Stich

Today, complex networks have attracted increasing attention from various fields of science and engineering. It has been demonstrated that many complex networks display various synchronization phenomena. In this paper, we introduce a…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2007-05-23 Jinhu Lu , Guanrong Chen

With the increasing scale and dynamics of data, distributed online optimization has become essential for real-time decision-making in various applications. However, existing algorithms often rely on bounded gradient assumptions and overlook…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Xinli Shi , Xingxing Yuan , Longkang Zhu , Guanghui Wen

Stochastic network calculus is a theory for stochastic service guarantee analysis of computer communication networks. In the current stochastic network calculus literature, its traffic and server models are typically based on the cumulative…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2009-06-11 J. Xie , Y. Jiang

Time-varying networks describe a wide array of systems whose constituents and interactions evolve over time. They are defined by an ordered stream of interactions between nodes, yet they are often represented in terms of a sequence of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-10-23 Bruno Ribeiro , Nicola Perra , Andrea Baronchelli

In this paper, we study the problem of distributed multi-agent optimization over a network, where each agent possesses a local cost function that is smooth and strongly convex. The global objective is to find a common solution that…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-08-02 Shi Pu , Angelia Nedić

Graphical models are widely used in diverse application domains to model the conditional dependencies amongst a collection of random variables. In this paper, we consider settings where the graph structure is covariate-dependent, and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-04-24 Jiahe Lin , Yikai Zhang , George Michailidis

We provide a unifying framework for distributed convex optimization over time-varying networks, in the presence of constraints and uncertainty, features that are typically treated separately in the literature. We adopt a proximal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-05-24 Kostas Margellos , Alessandro Falsone , Simone Garatti , Maria Prandini

The wireless network is undergoing a trend from "onnection of things" to "connection of intelligence". With data spread over the communication networks and computing capability enhanced on the devices, distributed learning becomes a hot…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-03 Jian Wang , Yourui Huangfu , Rong Li , Yiqun Ge , Jun Wang

In this article we study algorithmic synthesis of the class of stabilizing switching signals for discrete-time switched linear systems proposed in [12]. A weighted digraph is associated in a natural way to a switched system, and the…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-05-27 Atreyee Kundu , Niranjan Balachandran , Debasish Chatterjee

In this paper, we consider the unconstrained distributed optimization problem, in which the exchange of information in the network is captured by a directed graph topology, thus, nodes can only communicate with their neighbors.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-07 Apostolos I. Rikos , Wei Jiang , Themistoklis Charalambous , Karl H. Johansson

We study a variation of vanilla stochastic gradient descent where the optimizer only has access to a Markovian sampling scheme. These schemes encompass applications that range from decentralized optimization with a random walker (token…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-06-26 Mathieu Even

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have shown remarkable performance on graph-structured data. However, recent empirical studies suggest that GNNs are very susceptible to distribution shift. There is still significant ambiguity about why…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Qi Zhu , Yizhu Jiao , Natalia Ponomareva , Jiawei Han , Bryan Perozzi