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This work considers the problem of decentralized online learning, where the goal is to track the optimum of the sum of time-varying functions, distributed across several nodes in a network. The local availability of the functions and their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-14 Shivangi Dubey Sharma , Ketan Rajawat

Motion estimation approaches typically employ sensor fusion techniques, such as the Kalman Filter, to handle individual sensor failures. More recently, deep learning-based fusion approaches have been proposed, increasing the performance and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-19 Nimet Kaygusuz , Oscar Mendez , Richard Bowden

Aligning denoising generative models with human preferences or verifiable rewards remains a key challenge. While policy-gradient online reinforcement learning (RL) offers a principled post-training framework, its direct application is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Bingda Tang , Yuhui Zhang , Xiaohan Wang , Jiayuan Mao , Ludwig Schmidt , Serena Yeung-Levy

Although fusing multiple sensor modalities can enhance object detection performance, existing fusion approaches often overlook subtle variations in environmental conditions and sensor inputs. As a result, they struggle to adaptively weight…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Aditya Taparia , Noel Ngu , Mario Leiva , Joshua Shay Kricheli , John Corcoran , Nathaniel D. Bastian , Gerardo Simari , Paulo Shakarian , Ransalu Senanayake

Deep learning inference that needs to largely take place on the 'edge' is a highly computational and memory intensive workload, making it intractable for low-power, embedded platforms such as mobile nodes and remote security applications.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-23 Andres Ussa , Chockalingam Senthil Rajen , Deepak Singla , Jyotibdha Acharya , Gideon Fu Chuanrong , Arindam Basu , Bharath Ramesh

Communication compression techniques are of growing interests for solving the decentralized optimization problem under limited communication, where the global objective is to minimize the average of local cost functions over a multi-agent…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-21 Yiwei Liao , Zhuorui Li , Kun Huang , Shi Pu

In this paper, we address the problem of the distributed multi-target tracking with labeled set filters in the framework of Generalized Covariance Intersection (GCI). Our analyses show that the label space mismatching (LS-DM) phenomenon,…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-03-29 Bailu Wang , Wei Yi , Suqi Li , Lingjiang Kong , Xiaobo Yang

Cooperative spectrum sensing is a robust strategy that enhances the detection probability of primary licensed users. However, a large number of detectors reporting to a fusion center for a final decision causes significant delay and also…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-05-28 Laila Hesham , Ahmed Sultan , Mohammed Nafie

This article introduces a generalized framework for Decentralized Learning formulated as a Multi-Objective Optimization problem, in which both distributed agents and a central coordinator contribute independent, potentially conflicting…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-21 Roberto Morales , Umberto Biccari

Autonomous vehicles need precise knowledge on dynamic objects in their surroundings. Especially in urban areas with many objects and possible occlusions, an infrastructure system based on a multi-sensor setup can provide the required…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-11-12 Martin Herrmann , Aldi Piroli , Jan Strohbeck , Johannes Müller , Michael Buchholz

Mobile target tracking is crucial in various applications such as surveillance and autonomous navigation. This study presents a decentralized tracking framework utilizing a Consensus-Based Estimation Filter (CBEF) integrated with the…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Amir Ahmad Ghods , Mohammadreza Doostmohammadian

A decentralized Poisson multi-Bernoulli filter is proposed to track multiple vehicles using multiple high-resolution sensors. Independent filters estimate the vehicles' presence, state, and shape using a Gaussian process extent model; a…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Markus Fröhle , Karl Granström , Henk Wymeersch

In modern decentralized applications, ensuring communication efficiency and privacy for the users are the key challenges. In order to train machine-learning models, the algorithm has to communicate to the data center and sample data for its…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-04 Hoang Huy Nguyen , Yan Li , Tuo Zhao

With the continuous improvement in the computational capabilities of edge devices such as intelligent sensors in the Industrial Internet of Things, these sensors are no longer limited to mere data collection but are increasingly capable of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-06 Heqiang Wang , Xiaoxiong Zhong , Kang Liu , Fangming Liu , Weizhe Zhang

A key objective of multi-agent surveillance systems is to monitor a much larger region than the limited field-of-view (FoV) of any individual agent by successfully exploiting cooperation among multi-view agents. Whenever either a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-25 Bailu Wang , Suqi Li , Giorgio Battistelli , Luigi Chisci , Wei Yi

Although large-scale visual foundation models (VFMs) achieve remarkable performance in semantic understanding, they still underperform in instance-aware dense prediction tasks. They exhibit different biases in representation: for instance,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Yachan Guo , JoseLuis Gomez Zurita , Danna Xue , Yi Xiao , AntonioManuel Lopez Pena

Accurately delineating the visual pathway (VP) is crucial for understanding the human visual system and diagnosing related disorders. Exploring multi-parametric MR imaging data has been identified as an important way to delineate VP.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Alou Diakite , Cheng Li , Lei Xie , Yuanjing Feng , Ruoyou Wu , Jianzhong He , Hairong Zheng , Shanshan Wang

Stochastic models with global parameters and latent variables are common, and for which variational inference (VI) is popular. However, existing methods are often either slow or inaccurate in high dimensions. We suggest a fast and accurate…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-07-26 Weiben Zhang , Michael Stanley Smith , Worapree Maneesoonthorn , Ruben Loaiza-Maya

This paper proposes a computationally efficient algorithm for distributed fusion in a sensor network in which multi-Bernoulli (MB) filters are locally running in every sensor node for multi-target tracking. The generalized Covariance…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-19 Wei Yi , Suqi Li , Bailu Wang , Reza Hoseinnezhad , Lingjiang Kong

In a decentralized Internet of Things (IoT) network, a fusion center receives information from multiple sensors to infer a public hypothesis of interest. To prevent the fusion center from abusing the sensor information, each sensor…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-04-09 Meng Sun , Wee Peng Tay