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We design and analyze gossip algorithms for networks with correlated data. In these networks, either the data to be distributed, the data already available at the nodes, or both, are correlated. This model is applicable for a variety of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-02-09 Bernhard Haeupler , Asaf Cohen , Chen Avin , Muriel Médard

We study randomized gossip-based processes in dynamic networks that are motivated by discovery processes in large-scale distributed networks like peer-to-peer or social networks. A well-studied problem in peer-to-peer networks is the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2012-02-10 Bernhard Haeupler , Gopal Pandurangan , David Peleg , Rajmohan Rajaraman , Zhifeng Sun

Bilevel optimization have gained growing interests, with numerous applications found in meta learning, minimax games, reinforcement learning, and nested composition optimization. This paper studies the problem of distributed bilevel…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-06-23 Shuoguang Yang , Xuezhou Zhang , Mengdi Wang

This paper introduces a model of self-organization between communication and topology in social networks, with a feedback between different communication habits and the topology. To study this feedback, we let agents communicate to build a…

Physics and Society · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Rosvall , K. Sneppen

We study the optimal transmission and scheduling policy for a transmitter (source) communicating with two gossiping receivers aiming at tracking the source's status over time using the age of information (AoI) metric. Gossiping enables…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Irtiza Hasan , Ahmed Arafa

In this paper, we study gossip algorithms in communication models that describe the peer-to-peer networking functionality included in most standard smartphone operating systems. We begin by describing and analyzing a new synchronous gossip…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Calvin Newport , Alex Weaver , Chaodong Zheng

This technical note presents a leader-follower scheme for network aggregative games. The followers and leader are selfish cost minimizing agents. The cost function of each follower is affected by strategy of leader and aggregated strategies…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-08 Mohammad Shokri , Hamed Kebriaei

We consider information dissemination over a network of gossiping agents (nodes). In this model, a source keeps the most up-to-date information about a time-varying binary state of the world, and $n$ receiver nodes want to follow the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Melih Bastopcu , S. Rasoul Etesami , Tamer Başar

By the distributed averaging problem is meant the problem of computing the average value of a set of numbers possessed by the agents in a distributed network using only communication between neighboring agents. Gossiping is a well-known…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-12-28 Ji Liu , Shaoshuai Mou , A. Stephen Morse , Brian D. O. Anderson , Changbin Yu

We study gossip algorithms for the fundamental rumor spreading problem, where the goal is to disseminate a rumor from a given source node to all nodes in an arbitrary (and unknown) graph. Gossip algorithms allow each node to call only one…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Fabien Dufoulon , William K. Moses , Gopal Pandurangan

In this paper, we study an asynchronous randomized gossip algorithm under unreliable communication. At each instance, two nodes are selected to meet with a given probability. When nodes meet, two unreliable communication links are…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-03-28 Guodong Shi , Mikael Johansson , Karl Henrik Johansson

Gossip algorithms are widely used to solve the distributed consensus problem, but issues can arise when nodes receive multiple signals either at the same time or before they are able to finish processing their current work load.…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2013-01-15 Christopher D. Hollander , Annie S. Wu

We consider the binary freshness metric for gossip networks that consist of a single source and $n$ end-nodes, where the end-nodes are allowed to share their stored versions of the source information with the other nodes. We develop…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-07-30 Melih Bastopcu , Baturalp Buyukates , Sennur Ulukus

We consider a gossip approach for finding a Nash equilibrium in a distributed multi-player network game. We extend previous results on Nash equilibrium seeking to the case when the players' cost functions may be affected by the actions of…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-05-09 Farzad Salehisadaghiani , Lacra Pavel

This study considers a wireless network where an access point (AP) broadcasts timely updates to numerous mobile users. The timeliness of information owned by a user is characterized by the age of information. Frequently broadcasting the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-02-22 Yu-Pin Hsu

We give a new technique to analyze the stopping time of gossip protocols that are based on random linear network coding (RLNC). Our analysis drastically simplifies, extends and strengthens previous results. We analyze RLNC gossip in a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2010-10-05 Bernhard Haeupler

In this paper, we study the fundamental problem of gossip in the mobile telephone model: a recently introduced variation of the classical telephone model modified to better describe the local peer-to-peer communication services implemented…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-05-29 Calvin Newport

We study a general framework for broadcast gossip algorithms which use companion variables to solve the average consensus problem. Each node maintains an initial state and a companion variable. Iterative updates are performed asynchronously…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2012-09-03 Wu Shaochuan , Michael G. Rabbat

This paper presents gossip algorithms for aggregation tasks that demonstrate both robustness to adversarial corruptions of any order of magnitude and optimality across a substantial range of these corruption levels. Gossip algorithms…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Bernhard Haeupler , Marc Kaufmann , Raghu Raman Ravi , Ulysse Schaller

We consider gossiping in a fully-connected wireless network consisting of $n$ nodes. The network receives Poisson updates from a source, which generates new information. The nodes gossip their available information with the neighboring…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-09 Purbesh Mitra , Sennur Ulukus