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We consider the problem of distributed binary hypothesis testing in a parallel network topology where sensors independently observe some phenomenon and send a finite rate summary of their observations to a fusion center for the final…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-06-29 Alla Tarighati , Joakim Jalden

Consider a multi-agent network comprised of risk averse social sensors and a controller that jointly seek to estimate an unknown state of nature, given noisy measurements. The network of social sensors perform Bayesian social learning -…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-12-22 Sujay Bhatt , Vikram Krishnamurthy

A common approach for designing scalable algorithms for massive data sets is to distribute the computation across, say $k$, machines and process the data using limited communication between them. A particularly appealing framework here is…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-05-24 Sepehr Assadi , Sanjeev Khanna

The problem of quickest change detection (QCD) in anonymous heterogeneous sensor networks is studied. There are $n$ heterogeneous sensors and a fusion center. The sensors are clustered into $K$ groups, and different groups follow different…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-23 Zhongchang Sun , Shaofeng Zou , Ruizhi Zhang , Qunwei Li

In this correspondence we study the problem of channel-aware decision fusion when the sensor detection probability is not known at the decision fusion center. Several alternatives proposed in the literature are compared and new fusion rules…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-03-11 Domenico Ciuonzo , Pierluigi Salvo Rossi

We consider a power-constrained sensor network, consisting of multiple sensor nodes and a fusion center (FC), that is deployed for the purpose of estimating a common random parameter of interest. In contrast to the distributed framework,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-05-16 Swarnendu Kar , Pramod K. Varshney

Semantic segmentation has made tremendous progress in recent years. However, satisfying performance highly depends on a large number of pixel-level annotations. Therefore, in this paper, we focus on the semi-supervised segmentation problem…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Xin Lai , Zhuotao Tian , Li Jiang , Shu Liu , Hengshuang Zhao , Liwei Wang , Jiaya Jia

We study the following one-way asymmetric transmission problem, also a variant of model-based compressed sensing: a resource-limited encoder has to report a small set $S$ from a universe of $N$ items to a more powerful decoder (server). The…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-07-30 Alexandr Andoni , Javad Ghaderi , Daniel Hsu , Dan Rubenstein , Omri Weinstein

In this paper we consider an interacting two-agent sequential decision-making problem consisting of a Markov source process, a causal encoder with feedback, and a causal decoder. Motivated by a desire to foster links between control and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-18 Siva Gorantla , Todd Coleman

Bounded context switching (BCS) is an under-approximate method for finding violations to safety properties in shared memory concurrent programs. Technically, BCS is a reachability problem that is known to be NP-complete. Our contribution is…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2017-04-25 Peter Chini , Jonathan Kolberg , Andreas Krebs , Roland Meyer , Prakash Saivasan

The \emph{sensor placement problem} for stochastic linear inverse problems consists of determining the optimal manner in which sensors can be employed to collect data. Specifically, one wishes to place a limited number of sensors over a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-15 Christian Aarset

Context plays a crucial role in visual recognition as it provides complementary clues for different learning tasks including image classification and annotation. As the performances of these tasks are currently reaching a plateau, any extra…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-01 Mingyuan Jiu , Hichem Sahbi

We consider a centralized detection problem where sensors experience noisy measurements and intermittent connectivity to a centralized fusion center. The sensors collaborate locally within predefined sensor clusters and fuse their noisy…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-23 Michal Yemini , Stephanie Gil , Andrea J. Goldsmith

Generative LLM have achieved remarkable success in various industrial applications, owing to their promising In-Context Learning capabilities. However, the issue of long context in complex tasks poses a significant barrier to their wider…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Yihang Wang , Xu Huang , Bowen Tian , Yueyang Su , Lei Yu , Huaming Liao , Yixing Fan , Jiafeng Guo , Xueqi Cheng

Consensus conditions and convergence speeds are crucial for distributed consensus algorithms of networked systems. Based on a basic first-order average-consensus protocol with time-varying topologies and additive noises, this paper first…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-04-26 Ge Chen , Le Yi Wang , Chen Chen , George Yin

Wireless sensor networks are finally becoming a reality. In this paper, we present a scalable architecture for using wireless sensor networks in combination with wireless Ethernet networks to provide a complete end-to-end solution to narrow…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Ioan Raicu , Owen Richter , Loren Schwiebert , Sherali Zeadally

A power constrained sensor network that consists of multiple sensor nodes and a fusion center (FC) is considered, where the goal is to estimate a random parameter of interest. In contrast to the distributed framework, the sensor nodes may…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-07-03 Swarnendu Kar , Pramod K. Varshney

This paper considers the communication for omniscience (CO) problem: A set of users observe a discrete memoryless multiple source and want to recover the entire multiple source via noise-free broadcast communications. We study the problem…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-11-26 Ni Ding , Chung Chan , Qiaoqiao Zhou , Rodney A. Kennedy , Parastoo Sadeghi

Nowadays computing becomes increasingly mobile and pervasive. One of the important steps in pervasive computing is context-awareness. Context-aware pervasive systems rely on information about the context and user preferences to adapt their…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2010-07-09 Tam Van Nguyen , Wontaek Lim , Huy Nguyen , Deokjai Choi

This work studies inference-based resource allocation in ultra low-power, large-scale backscatter sensor networks (BSNs). Several ultra-low cost and power sensor devices (tags) are illuminated by a carrier and reflect the measured…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-07-18 Panos N. Alevizos , Aggelos Bletsas