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We provide a distributed online algorithm for multi-agent submodular maximization under communication delays. We are motivated by the future distributed information-gathering tasks in unknown and dynamic environments, where utility…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Zirui Xu , Vasileios Tzoumas

Graph learning is often a necessary step in processing or representing structured data, when the underlying graph is not given explicitly. Graph learning is generally performed centrally with a full knowledge of the graph signals, namely…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-14 Isabela Cunha Maia Nobre , Mireille El Gheche , Pascal Frossard

This paper considers the problem of distributed optimization over time-varying graphs. For the case of undirected graphs, we introduce a distributed algorithm, referred to as DIGing, based on a combination of a distributed inexact gradient…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-03-21 Angelia Nedich , Alex Olshevsky , Wei Shi

We study distributed optimization problems over a network when the communication between the nodes is constrained, and so information that is exchanged between the nodes must be quantized. This imperfect communication poses a fundamental…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-10-30 Thinh T. Doan , Siva Theja Maguluri , Justin Romberg

Motivated by applications in machine learning and statistics, we study distributed optimization problems over a network of processors, where the goal is to optimize a global objective composed of a sum of local functions. In these problems,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-05-14 Thinh T. Doan , Carolyn L. Beck , R. Srikant

We present a new algorithmic paradigm for the decentralized solution of graph-structured optimization problems that arise in the estimation and control of network systems. A key and novel design concept of the proposed approach is that it…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-04-01 Sungho Shin , Victor M. Zavala , Mihai Anitescu

We propose an asynchronous, decentralized algorithm for consensus optimization. The algorithm runs over a network in which the agents communicate with their neighbors and perform local computation. In the proposed algorithm, each agent can…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-03-06 Tianyu Wu , Kun Yuan , Qing Ling , Wotao Yin , Ali H. Sayed

Minimizing transmission delay in wireless multi-hop networks is a fundamental yet challenging task due to the complex coupling among interference, queue dynamics, and distributed control. Traditional scheduling algorithms, such as…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-10 Boxuan Wen , Junyu Luo

We study optimal distributed first-order optimization algorithms when the network (i.e., communication constraints between the agents) changes with time. This problem is motivated by scenarios where agents experience network malfunctions.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-12-02 Alexander Rogozin , César A. Uribe , Alexander Gasnikov , Nikolay Malkovsky , Angelia Nedić

We study decentralized optimization where multiple agents minimize the average of their (strongly) convex, smooth losses over a communication graph. Convergence of the existing decentralized methods generally hinges on an apriori, proper…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-01 Ilya Kuruzov , Xiaokai Chen , Gesualdo Scutari , Alexander Gasnikov

We consider the problem of minimizing the sum of cost functions pertaining to agents over a network whose topology is captured by a directed graph (i.e., asymmetric communication). We cast the problem into the ADMM setting, via a consensus…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-04-04 Dingran Yi , Nikolaos M. Freris

This paper proposes distributed discrete-time algorithms to cooperatively solve an additive cost optimization problem in multi-agent networks. The striking feature lies in the use of only the sign of relative state information between…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-12-11 Jiaqi Zhang , Keyou You , Tamer Başar

The goal of decentralized optimization over a network is to optimize a global objective formed by a sum of local (possibly nonsmooth) convex functions using only local computation and communication. It arises in various application domains,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-03-17 John Duchi , Alekh Agarwal , Martin Wainwright

We consider the decentralized stochastic optimization problems, where a network of $n$ nodes, each owning a local cost function, cooperate to find a minimizer of the globally-averaged cost. A widely studied decentralized algorithm for this…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-03-04 Kun Yuan , Sulaiman A. Alghunaim , Xinmeng Huang

In this paper, we study the problem of minimizing a sum of smooth and strongly convex functions split over the nodes of a network in a decentralized fashion. We propose the algorithm $ESDACD$, a decentralized accelerated algorithm that only…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-02-25 Hadrien Hendrikx , Francis Bach , Laurent Massoulié

In distributed networks, it is often useful for the nodes to be aware of dense subgraphs, e.g., such a dense subgraph could reveal dense subtructures in otherwise sparse graphs (e.g. the World Wide Web or social networks); these might…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2012-08-08 Atish Das Sarma , Ashwin Lall , Danupon Nanongkai , Amitabh Trehan

This paper presents a decentralized algorithm for non-convex optimization over tree-structured networks. We assume that each node of this network can solve small-scale optimization problems and communicate approximate value functions with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-11-02 Yuning Jiang , Dimitris Kouzoupis , Haoyu Yin , Moritz Diehl , Boris Houska

A key challenge in decentralized optimization is determining the optimal convergence rate and designing algorithms to achieve it. While this problem has been extensively addressed for doubly-stochastic and column-stochastic mixing matrices,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-06 Liyuan Liang , Xinyi Chen , Gan Luo , Kun Yuan

We consider the distributed learning problem where a network of $n$ agents seeks to minimize a global function $F$. Agents have access to $F$ through noisy gradients, and they can locally communicate with their neighbors a network. We study…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-09 Tiancheng Qin , S. Rasoul Etesami , César A. Uribe

We consider distributed online convex optimization problems, where the distributed system consists of various computing units connected through a time-varying communication graph. In each time step, each computing unit selects a constrained…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-23 Deming Yuan , Alexandre Proutiere , Guodong Shi