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We study distributed (strongly convex) optimization problems over a network of agents, with no centralized nodes. The loss functions of the agents are assumed to be \textit{similar}, due to statistical data similarity or otherwise. In order…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-04-12 Ye Tian , Gesualdo Scutari , Tianyu Cao , Alexander Gasnikov

Multi-level optimization has gained increasing attention in recent years, as it provides a powerful framework for solving complex optimization problems that arise in many fields, such as meta-learning, multi-player games, reinforcement…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Shuoguang Yang , Xuezhou Zhang , Mengdi Wang

Multi-agent systems outperform single agent in complex collaborative tasks. However, in large-scale scenarios, ensuring timely information exchange during decentralized task execution remains a challenge. This work presents an online…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-09-07 Junjie Wang , Meng Guo , Zhongkui Li

We consider the problem of communication-constrained collaborative personalized mean estimation under a privacy constraint in an environment of several agents continuously receiving data according to arbitrary unknown agent-specific…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Yauhen Yakimenka , Hsuan-Yin Lin , Eirik Rosnes , Jörg Kliewer

The paper studies distributed Dictionary Learning (DL) problems where the learning task is distributed over a multi-agent network with time-varying (nonsymmetric) connectivity. This formulation is relevant, for instance, in big-data…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-12-23 Amir Daneshmand , Gesualdo Scutari , Francisco Facchinei

In multicenter biomedical research, integrating data from multiple decentralized sites provides more robust and generalizable findings due to its larger sample size and the ability to account for the between-site heterogeneity. However,…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-12-29 Xiaokang Liu , Yuchen Yang , Yifei Sun , Jiang Bian , Yanyuan Ma , Raymond J. Carroll , Yong Chen

In this paper, we discuss a class of distributed detection algorithms which can be viewed as implementations of Bayes' law in distributed settings. Some of the algorithms are proposed in the literature most recently, and others are first…

Methodology · Statistics 2015-11-10 Qipeng Liu , Jiuhua Zhao , Xiaofan Wang

We present the first distributed optimization algorithm with lazy communication for collaborative geometric estimation, the backbone of modern collaborative simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) and structure-from-motion (SfM)…

One of the key challenges for multi-agent learning is scalability. In this paper, we introduce a technique for speeding up multi-agent learning by exploiting concurrent and incremental experience sharing. This solution adaptively identifies…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2017-03-07 Dan Garant , Bruno da Silva , Victor Lesser , Chongjie Zhang

Utilizing messages from teammates can improve coordination in cooperative Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL). Previous works typically combine raw messages of teammates with local information as inputs for policy. However, neglecting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Cong Guan , Feng Chen , Lei Yuan , Zongzhang Zhang , Yang Yu

We introduce a new framework for the convergence analysis of a class of distributed constrained non-convex optimization algorithms in multi-agent systems. The aim is to search for local minimizers of a non-convex objective function which is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-12-03 Pascal Bianchi , Jérémie Jakubowicz

In this paper, a distributed subgradient-based algorithm is proposed for continuous-time multi-agent systems to search a feasible solution to convex inequalities. The algorithm involves each agent achieving a state constrained by its own…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-06-13 Kaihong Lu , Gangshan Jing , Long Wang

Mixture-of-Agents (MoA) has recently been proposed as a method to enhance performance of large language models (LLMs), enabling multiple individual LLMs to work together for collaborative inference. This collaborative approach results in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Purbesh Mitra , Priyanka Kaswan , Sennur Ulukus

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

The prevalence of technologies in the space of the Internet of Things and use of multi-processing computing platforms to aid in the computation required to perform learning and inference from large volumes of data has necessitated the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-03-10 Alexander Kolesov , Vyacheslav Kungurtsev

A multi-agent optimization problem motivated by the management of energy systems is discussed. The associated cost function is separable and convex although not necessarily strongly convex and there exist edge-based coupling equality…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-06-03 Wicak Ananduta , Angelia Nedić , Carlos Ocampo-Martinez

This paper investigates online distributed aggregative games with time-varying cost functions, where agents are interconnected through an unbalanced communication graph. Due to the distributed and noncooperative nature of the game, some…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Olusola Odeyomi , Tokunbo Ogunfunmi , Adjovi Laba

In this work, we examine a network of agents operating asynchronously, aiming to discover an ideal global model that suits individual local datasets. Our assumption is that each agent independently chooses when to participate throughout the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-09 Elsa Rizk , Kun Yuan , Ali H. Sayed

In a multi-agent system, agents can cooperatively learn a model from data by exchanging their estimated model parameters, without the need to exchange the locally available data used by the agents. This strategy, often called federated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Halil Yigit Oksuz , Fabio Molinari , Henning Sprekeler , Jörg Raisch

Distributed computing is a standard way to scale up machine learning and data science algorithms to process large amounts of data. In such settings, avoiding communication amongst machines is paramount for achieving high performance. Rather…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-05-04 Vasileios Charisopoulos , Austin R. Benson , Anil Damle