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Many problems of interest for cyber-physical network systems can be formulated as Mixed-Integer Linear Programs in which the constraints are distributed among the agents. In this paper we propose a distributed algorithmic framework to solve…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-06-05 Andrea Testa , Alessandro Rucco , Giuseppe Notarstefano

Adjiashvili introduced network design in a non-uniform fault model: the edge set of a given graph is partitioned into safe and unsafe edges. A vertex pair $(s,t)$ is $(p,q)$-flex-connected if $s$ and $t$ have $p$ edge-connectivity even…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Chandra Chekuri , Rhea Jain

We introduce a simple time-triggered protocol to achieve communication-efficient non-Bayesian learning over a network. Specifically, we consider a scenario where a group of agents interact over a graph with the aim of discerning the true…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-05 Aritra Mitra , John A. Richards , Shreyas Sundaram

Federated learning (FL) has enabled training machine learning models exploiting the data of multiple agents without compromising privacy. However, FL is known to be vulnerable to data heterogeneity, partial device participation, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Marina Costantini , Giovanni Neglia , Thrasyvoulos Spyropoulos

Multi-agent architectures built on large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated the potential to realize swarm intelligence through well-crafted collaboration. However, the substantial burden of manual orchestration inherently raises an…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Rui Li , Zeyu Zhang , Xiaohe Bo , Quanyu Dai , Chaozhuo Li , Feng Wen , Xu Chen

There has been an increasing necessity for scalable optimization methods, especially due to the explosion in the size of datasets and model complexity in modern machine learning applications. Scalable solvers often distribute the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-09-08 Guilherme França , José Bento

Heterogeneous networks comprise agents with varying capabilities in terms of computation, storage, and communication. In such settings, it is crucial to factor in the operating characteristics in allowing agents to choose appropriate…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-09-07 Yichuan Li , Petros Voulgaris , Nikolaos M. Freris

This work introduces NetDiff, an expressive graph denoising diffusion probabilistic architecture that generates wireless ad hoc network link topologies. Such networks, with directional antennas, can achieve unmatched performance when the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Félix Marcoccia , Cédric Adjih , Paul Mühlethaler

The problem of maintaining a wireless communication link between a fixed base station and an autonomous agent by means of a team of mobile robots is addressed in this work. Such problem can be of interest for search and rescue missions in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2013-12-10 Vaibhav Kumar Mehta , Filippo Arrichiello

We investigate the distributed multi-agent sharing optimization problem in a directed graph, with a composite objective function consisting of a smooth function plus a convex (possibly non-smooth) function shared by all agents. While…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-06-21 Sajad Zandi , Mehdi Korki

We consider the problem of designing an overlay network and routing mechanism that permits finding resources efficiently in a peer-to-peer system. We argue that many existing approaches to this problem can be modeled as the construction of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2007-05-23 James Aspnes , Zoe Diamadi , Gauri Shah

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have attracted increasing interests. With broad deployments of GNNs in real-world applications, there is an urgent need for understanding the robustness of GNNs under adversarial attacks, especially in realistic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Jiaqi Ma , Junwei Deng , Qiaozhu Mei

We address real-time sampling and estimation of autoregressive Markovian sources in dynamic yet structurally similar multi-hop wireless networks. Each node caches samples from others and communicates over wireless collision channels, aiming…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Xingran Chen , Navid NaderiAlizadeh , Alejandro Ribeiro , Shirin Saeedi Bidokhti

Deep reinforcement learning (RL) is emerging as a viable strategy for automated cyber defense (ACD). The traditional RL approach represents networks as a list of computers in various states of safety or threat. Unfortunately, these models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Isaiah J. King , Benjamin Bowman , H. Howie Huang

Large-scale multi-agent communication has long faced a scalability bottleneck: fully connected networks require quadratic complexity, yet existing sparse topologies rely on hand-crafted rules. This paper treats the communication graph…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Jingkai Luo , Yulin Shao

We consider the problem of aggregating data in a dynamic graph, that is, aggregating the data that originates from all nodes in the graph to a specific node, the sink. We are interested in giving lower bounds for this problem, under…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-10-10 Quentin Bramas , Toshimitsu Masuzawa , Sébastien Tixeuil

Learning from data owned by several parties, as in federated learning, raises challenges regarding the privacy guarantees provided to participants and the correctness of the computation in the presence of malicious parties. We tackle these…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-10-31 César Sabater , Aurélien Bellet , Jan Ramon

Utilizing the concept of observability, in conjunction with tools from graph theory and optimization, this paper develops an algorithm for network synthesis with privacy guarantees. In particular, we propose an algorithm for the selection…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-08-21 Atiye Alaeddini , Kristi Morgansen , Mehran Mesbahi

In an attempt to utilize spectrum resources more efficiently, protocols sharing licensed spectrum with unlicensed users are receiving increased attention. From the perspective of cellular networks, spectrum underutilization makes spatial…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2013-12-10 Brett Kaufman , Jorma Lilleberg , Behnaam Aazhang

Most previous studies on multi-agent reinforcement learning focus on deriving decentralized and cooperative policies to maximize a common reward and rarely consider the transferability of trained policies to new tasks. This prevents such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-28 Heechang Ryu , Hayong Shin , Jinkyoo Park