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We develop two distributed downlink resource allocation algorithms for user-centric, cell-free, spatially-distributed, multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) networks. In such networks, each user is served by a subset of nearby transmitters…
The field of Distributed Constraint Optimization has gained momentum in recent years, thanks to its ability to address various applications related to multi-agent cooperation. Nevertheless, solving Distributed Constraint Optimization…
This paper develops column partition based distributed schemes for a class of large-scale convex sparse optimization problems, e.g., basis pursuit (BP), LASSO, basis pursuit denosing (BPDN), and their extensions, e.g., fused LASSO. We are…
This paper proposes a novel approach to resilient distributed optimization with quadratic costs in a networked control system (e.g., wireless sensor network, power grid, robotic team) prone to external attacks (e.g., hacking, power outage)…
We develop a discrete-time version of the blended dynamics theorem for the use of designing distributed computation algorithms. The blended dynamics theorem enables to predict the behavior of heterogeneous multi-agent systems. Therefore,…
In this paper we introduce a class of novel distributed algorithms for solving stochastic big-data convex optimization problems over directed graphs. In the addressed set-up, the dimension of the decision variable can be extremely high and…
Distributed optimization, where the computations are performed in a localized and coordinated manner using multiple agents, is a promising approach for solving large-scale optimization problems, e.g., those arising in model predictive…
In this article, we focus on solving a class of distributed optimization problems involving $n$ agents with the local objective function at every agent $i$ given by the difference of two convex functions $f_i$ and $g_i$…
In this paper we consider a general problem set-up for a wide class of convex and robust distributed optimization problems in peer-to-peer networks. In this set-up convex constraint sets are distributed to the network processors who have to…
In this paper, we propose two exact distributed algorithms to solve mixed integer linear programming (MILP) problems with multiple agents where data privacy is important for the agents. A key challenge is that, because of the non-convex…
We introduce a reduced-communication distributed optimization scheme based on estimating the solution to a proximal minimization problem. Our proposed setup involves a group of agents coordinated by a central entity, altogether operating in…
We consider a network of agents, each with its own private cost consisting of a sum of two possibly nonsmooth convex functions, one of which is composed with a linear operator. At every iteration each agent performs local calculations and…
In this paper we present a novel derivation for an existing node-based algorithm for distributed optimisation termed the primal-dual method of multipliers (PDMM). In contrast to its initial derivation, in this work monotone operator theory…
This paper investigates the distributed power allocation problem for coordinated multipoint (CoMP) transmissions in distributed antenna systems (DAS). Traditional duality based optimization techniques cannot be directly applied to this…
Consider a set of networked agents endowed with private cost functions and seeking to find a consensus on the minimizer of the aggregate cost. A new class of random asynchronous distributed optimization methods is introduced. The methods…
The primal-dual distributed optimization methods have broad large-scale machine learning applications. Previous primal-dual distributed methods are not applicable when the dual formulation is not available, e.g. the sum-of-non-convex…
Splitting methods have emerged as powerful tools to address complex problems by decomposing them into smaller solvable components. In this work, we develop a general approach to forward-backward splitting methods for solving monotone…
In this work, we consider solving a distributed optimization problem (DOP) in a multi-agent network with multiple agent clusters. In each cluster, the agents manage separable cost functions composed of possibly non-smooth components and aim…
This paper studies distributed resource allocation problem in multi-agent systems, where all the agents cooperatively minimize the sum of their cost functions with global resource constraints over stochastic communication networks. This…
We study the averaging-based distributed optimization solvers over random networks. We show a general result on the convergence of such schemes using weight-matrices that are row-stochastic almost surely and column-stochastic in expectation…