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In this work, we consider solving a distributed optimization problem in a multi-agent network with multiple clusters. In each cluster, the involved agents cooperatively optimize a separable composite function with a common decision…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-03-03 Jianzheng Wang , Guoqiang Hu

In this paper, we develop a novel distributed algorithm for addressing convex optimization with both nonlinear inequality and linear equality constraints, where the objective function can be a general nonsmooth convex function and all the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-02-26 Xuyang Wu , He Wang , Jie Lu

We study distributed non-convex optimization on a time-varying multi-agent network. Each node has access to its own smooth local cost function, and the collective goal is to minimize the sum of these functions. We generalize the results…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-12-06 Tatiana Tatarenko , Behrouz Touri

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

Decentralized optimization methods often entail information exchange between neighbors. Transmission failures can happen due to network congestion, hardware/software issues, communication outage, and other factors. In this paper, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-05 Wenjing Yan , Xuanyu Cao

In this work, we first consider distributed convex constrained optimization problems where the objective function is encoded by multiple local and possibly nonsmooth objectives privately held by a group of agents, and propose a distributed…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-02-20 Changxin Liu , Huiping Li , Yang Shi

Various distributed optimization methods have been developed for solving problems which have simple local constraint sets and whose objective function is the sum of local cost functions of distributed agents in a network. Motivated by…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Tsung-Hui Chang , Angelia Nedić , Anna Scaglione

We consider stochastic optimization problems in multi-agent settings, where a network of agents aims to learn parameters which are optimal in terms of a global objective, while giving preference to locally observed streaming information. To…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2017-05-24 Alec Koppel , Brian M. Sadler , Alejandro Ribeiro

This paper investigates a novel approach for solving the distributed optimization problem in which multiple agents collaborate to find the global decision that minimizes the sum of their individual cost functions. First, the $AB$/Push-Pull…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-06-23 Duong Thuy Anh Nguyen , Duong Tung Nguyen , Angelia Nedich

We propose a distributed accelerated primal-dual method with backtracking (D-APDB) for cooperative multi-agent constrained consensus optimization problems over an undirected network of agents, where only those agents connected by an edge…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-06 Qiushui Xu , Necdet Serhat Aybat , Mert Gürbüzbalaban

This paper studies distributed online convex optimization with time-varying coupled constraints, motivated by distributed online control in network systems. Most prior work assumes a separability condition: the global objective and coupled…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-18 Zhaoye Pan , Haozhe Lei , Fan Zuo , Zilin Bian , Tao Li

In this paper we consider a general, challenging distributed optimization set-up arising in several important network control applications. Agents of a network want to minimize the sum of local cost functions, each one depending on a local…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-06-15 Ivano Notarnicola , Giuseppe Notarstefano

The paper addresses large-scale, convex optimization problems that need to be solved in a distributed way by agents communicating according to a random time-varying graph. Specifically, the goal of the network is to minimize the sum of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-10-28 Andrea Camisa , Francesco Farina , Ivano Notarnicola , Giuseppe Notarstefano

In this paper we propose an efficient distributed algorithm for solving loosely coupled convex optimization problems. The algorithm is based on a primal-dual interior-point method in which we use the alternating direction method of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-02-10 Mariette Annergren , Sina Khoshfetrat Pakazad , Anders Hansson , Bo Wahlberg

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…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-06-21 Kunpeng Zhang , Xinlei Yi , Guanghui Wen , Ming Cao , Karl H. Johansson , Tianyou Chai , Tao Yang

In this paper, we aim to solve a distributed optimization problem with affine coupling constraints in a multi-agent network, where the cost function of the agents is composed of smooth and possibly non-smooth parts. To solve this problem,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-05-31 Jianzheng Wang , Guoqiang Hu

This paper studies efficient distributed optimization methods for multi-agent networks. Specifically, we consider a convex optimization problem with a globally coupled linear equality constraint and local polyhedra constraints, and develop…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Tsung-Hui Chang

This paper studies distributed algorithms for the extended monotropic optimization problem, which is a general convex optimization problem with a certain separable structure. The considered objective function is the sum of local convex…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-08-04 Xianlin Zeng , Peng Yi , Yiguang Hong , Lihua Xie

We study the problem of minimizing a sum of local objective convex functions over a network of processors/agents. This problem naturally calls for distributed optimization algorithms, in which the agents cooperatively solve the problem…

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