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Collaborative deep reinforcement learning (CDRL) algorithms in which multiple agents can coordinate over a wireless network is a promising approach to enable future intelligent and autonomous systems that rely on real-time decision-making…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-07 Fatemeh Lotfi , Omid Semiari , Walid Saad

We consider a distributed learning problem, where agents minimize a global objective function by exchanging information over a network. Our approach has two distinct features: (i) It substantially reduces communication by triggering…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Guner Dilsad Er , Sebastian Trimpe , Michael Muehlebach

Federated learning (FL) can lead to significant communication overhead and reliance on a central server. To address these challenges, decentralized federated learning (DFL) has been proposed as a more resilient framework. DFL involves…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Zhigang Yan , Dong Li

Federated learning (FL) has emerged as a key technique for distributed machine learning (ML). Most literature on FL has focused on ML model training for (i) a single task/model, with (ii) a synchronous scheme for updating model parameters,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-19 Zhan-Lun Chang , Seyyedali Hosseinalipour , Mung Chiang , Christopher G. Brinton

Many machine learning problems can be formulated as consensus optimization problems which can be solved efficiently via a cooperative multi-agent system. However, the agents in the system can be unreliable due to a variety of reasons:…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-05-23 Qunwei Li , Bhavya Kailkhura , Ryan Goldhahn , Priyadip Ray , Pramod K. Varshney

This paper introduces a decentralized multi-agent reinforcement learning framework enabling structurally heterogeneous teams of agents to jointly discover and acquire randomly located targets in environments characterized by partial…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Gabriele Calzolari , Vidya Sumathy , Christoforos Kanellakis , George Nikolakopoulos

Decentralized optimization enables multiple devices to learn a global machine learning model while each individual device only has access to its local dataset. By avoiding the need for training data to leave individual users' devices, it…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Ziqin Chen , Zuang Wang , Yongqiang Wang

To address the communication burden issues associated with federated learning (FL), decentralized federated learning (DFL) discards the central server and establishes a decentralized communication network, where each client communicates…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-17 Qinglun Li , Li Shen , Guanghao Li , Quanjun Yin , Dacheng Tao

Communication is supposed to improve multi-agent collaboration and overall performance in cooperative Multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL). However, such improvements are prevalently limited in practice since most existing…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Tingting Yuan , Hwei-Ming Chung , Jie Yuan , Xiaoming Fu

In multi-task learning (MTL), related tasks learn jointly to improve generalization performance. To exploit the high learning speed of extreme learning machines (ELMs), we apply the ELM framework to the MTL problem, where the output weights…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-26 Yu Ye , Ming Xiao , Mikael Skoglund

A challenge in reinforcement learning (RL) is minimizing the cost of sampling associated with exploration. Distributed exploration reduces sampling complexity in multi-agent RL (MARL). We investigate the benefits to performance in MARL when…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Justin Lidard , Udari Madhushani , Naomi Ehrich Leonard

Reinforcement learning techniques are being explored as solutions to the threat of cyber attacks on enterprise networks. Recent research in the field of AI in cyber security has investigated the ability of homogeneous multi-agent…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Alex Popa , Adrian Taylor , Ranwa Al Mallah

Distributed learning techniques such as federated learning have enabled multiple workers to train machine learning models together to reduce the overall training time. However, current distributed training algorithms (centralized or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-25 Zhenheng Tang , Shaohuai Shi , Xiaowen Chu

Future machine learning (ML) powered applications, such as autonomous driving and augmented reality, involve training and inference tasks with timeliness requirements and are communication and computation intensive, which demands for the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-09-24 Yuxuan Sun , Wenqi Shi , Xiufeng Huang , Sheng Zhou , Zhisheng Niu

Optimizing distributed learning systems is an art of balancing between computation and communication. There have been two lines of research that try to deal with slower networks: {\em communication compression} for low bandwidth networks,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-04 Hanlin Tang , Shaoduo Gan , Ce Zhang , Tong Zhang , Ji Liu

The emerging machine learning paradigm of decentralized federated learning (DFL) has the promise of greatly boosting the deployment of artificial intelligence (AI) by directly learning across distributed agents without centralized…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-12 Yudi Huang , Tingyang Sun , Ting He

Many real-world reinforcement learning tasks require multiple agents to make sequential decisions under the agents' interaction, where well-coordinated actions among the agents are crucial to achieve the target goal better at these tasks.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-02-06 Daewoo Kim , Sangwoo Moon , David Hostallero , Wan Ju Kang , Taeyoung Lee , Kyunghwan Son , Yung Yi

This paper proposes Load-aware Tram-FL, an extension of Tram-FL that introduces a training scheduling mechanism to minimize total training time in decentralized federated learning by accounting for both computational and communication…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Haruki Kainuma , Takayuki Nishio

Decentralized learning with private data is a central problem in machine learning. We propose a novel distillation-based decentralized learning technique that allows multiple agents with private non-iid data to learn from each other,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-30 Andrey Zhmoginov , Mark Sandler , Nolan Miller , Gus Kristiansen , Max Vladymyrov

Traditional methods plan feasible paths for multiple agents in the stochastic environment. However, the methods' iterations with the changes in the environment result in computation complexities, especially for the decentralized agents…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Qizhen Wu , Kexin Liu , Lei Chen , Jinhu Lü