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Distributed Gaussian processes (DGPs) are prominent local approximation methods to scale Gaussian processes (GPs) to large datasets. Instead of a global estimation, they train local experts by dividing the training set into subsets, thus…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-10 Hamed Jalali , Gjergji Kasneci

Multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) requires coordination to efficiently solve certain tasks. Fully centralized control is often infeasible in such domains due to the size of joint action spaces. Coordination graph based formalization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-05 Sheng Li , Jayesh K. Gupta , Peter Morales , Ross Allen , Mykel J. Kochenderfer

This is an extended version of a technical note accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control. The note proposes an Input to State practically Stable (ISpS) formulation of distributed nonlinear model predictive…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2015-04-15 Sami El-Ferik , Bilal A. Siddiqui , Frank L. Lewis

We consider seeking a Nash equilibrium (NE) of a monotone game, played by dynamic agents which are modeled as a class of lower-triangular nonlinear uncertain dynamics with external disturbances. We establish a general framework that…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-04 Weijian Li , Yutao Tang

Designing distributed optimal controllers subject to communication constraints is a difficult problem unless structural assumptions are imposed on the underlying dynamics and information exchange structure, e.g., sparsity, delay, or spatial…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-31 Fengjun Yang , Fernando Gama , Somayeh Sojoudi , Nikolai Matni

Many safety-critical real-world problems, such as autonomous driving and collaborative robots, are of a distributed multi-agent nature. To optimize the performance of these systems while ensuring safety, we can cast them as distributed…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-20 Abdullah Tokmak , Thomas B. Schön , Dominik Baumann

This paper identifies a property of delay-robustness in distributed supervisory control of discrete-event systems (DES) with communication delays. In previous work a distributed supervisory control problem has been investigated on the…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-03-20 Renyuan Zhang , Kai Cai , Yongmei Gan , W. M. Wonham

In this paper, we propose a numerical methodology for finding the closed-loop Nash equilibrium of stochastic delay differential games through deep learning. These games are prevalent in finance and economics where multi-agent interaction…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-07-14 Robert Balkin , Hector D. Ceniceros , Ruimeng Hu

We study strongly convex distributed optimization problems where a set of agents are interested in solving a separable optimization problem collaboratively. In this paper, we propose and study a two time-scale decentralized gradient descent…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-08-16 Hadi Reisizadeh , Behrouz Touri , Soheil Mohajer

This paper considers a class of generalized convex games where each player is associated with a convex objective function, a convex inequality constraint and a convex constraint set. The players aim to compute a Nash equilibrium through…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-09-23 Minghui Zhu , Emilio Frazzoli

We study a multi-agent output regulation problem, where not all agents have access to the exosystem's dynamics. We propose a distributed controller that solves the problem for linear, heterogeneous, and uncertain agent dynamics as well as…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-06-24 Kai Cai

The real world is awash with multi-agent problems that require collective action by self-interested agents, from the routing of packets across a computer network to the management of irrigation systems. Such systems have local incentives…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Michiel A. Bakker , Richard Everett , Laura Weidinger , Iason Gabriel , William S. Isaac , Joel Z. Leibo , Edward Hughes

This paper studies the distributed model predictive control (DMPC) problem for distributed discrete-time linear systems with both local and global constraints over directed communication networks. We establish an optimization problem to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-06 Pengbiao Wang , Xuemei Ren , Dongdong Zheng

In practical applications, decision-makers with heterogeneous dynamics may be engaged in the same decision-making process. This motivates us to study distributed Nash equilibrium seeking for games in which players are mixed-order (first-…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-09-05 Maojiao Ye , Lei Ding , Jizhao Yin

This paper addresses the limitations of multi-node perception and delayed scheduling response in distributed systems by proposing a GNN-based multi-node collaborative perception mechanism. The system is modeled as a graph structure.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Wenxuan Zhu , Qiyuan Wu , Tengda Tang , Renzi Meng , Sheng Chai , Xuehui Quan

Dynamic Graph Neural Network (DGNN) has shown a strong capability of learning dynamic graphs by exploiting both spatial and temporal features. Although DGNN has recently received considerable attention by AI community and various DGNN…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-09-08 Fahao Chen , Peng Li , Celimuge Wu

This paper is devoted to distributed continuous-time and discrete-time optimization problems with nonuniform convex constraint sets and nonuniform stepsizes for general differentiable convex objective functions. The communication graphs are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-03-03 Peng Lin , Wei Ren , Chunhua Yang , Weihua Gui

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

Distributed online optimization and game have been increasingly researched in the last decade, mostly motivated by its wide applications in sensor networks, robotics (e.g., distributed target tracking and formation control), smart grids,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-24 Xiuxian Li , Lihua Xie , Na Li

In this paper, we propose Distributed Mirror Descent (DMD) algorithm for constrained convex optimization problems on a (strongly-)connected multi-agent network. We assume that each agent has a private objective function and a constraint…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-04-28 Chenguang Xi , Qiong Wu , Usman A. Khan