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The core principle of Variational Inference (VI) is to convert the statistical inference problem of computing complex posterior probability densities into a tractable optimization problem. This property enables VI to be faster than several…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-25 Ankush Ganguly , Sanjana Jain , Ukrit Watchareeruetai

Approximating complex probability densities is a core problem in modern statistics. In this paper, we introduce the concept of Variational Inference (VI), a popular method in machine learning that uses optimization techniques to estimate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-23 Ankush Ganguly , Samuel W. F. Earp

As an alternative sensing paradigm, dynamic vision sensors (DVS) have been recently explored to tackle scenarios where conventional sensors result in high data rate and processing time. This paper presents a hybrid event-frame approach for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-11 Vivek Mohan , Deepak Singla , Tarun Pulluri , Andres Ussa , Pradeep Kumar Gopalakrishnan , Pao-Sheng Sun , Bharath Ramesh , Arindam Basu

Decentralized stochastic bilevel optimization (DSBO) is a powerful tool for various machine learning tasks, including decentralized meta-learning and hyperparameter tuning. Existing DSBO methods primarily address problems with strongly…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-02 Yaoshuai Ma , Xiao Wang , Wei Yao , Jin Zhang

We consider the decentralized convex optimization problem, where multiple agents must cooperatively minimize a cumulative objective function, with each local function expressible as an empirical average of data-dependent losses.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-12-15 Ketan Rajawat , Chirag Kumar

This study proposes a coupled velocity model (CVM) that establishes the relation between the orientation and velocity using their correlation, avoiding that the existing extended object tracking (EOT) models treat them as two independent…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-25 Zhifei Li , Yan Liang , Linfeng Xu

In this paper, we present a novel distributed expectation propagation algorithm for multiple sensors, multiple objects tracking in cluttered environments. The proposed framework enables each sensor to operate locally while collaboratively…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-09 Qing Li , Runze Gan , James R. Hopgood , Michael E. Davies , Simon J. Godsill

We investigate the problem of agent-to-agent interaction in decentralized (federated) learning over time-varying directed graphs, and, in doing so, propose a consensus-based algorithm called DSGTm-TV. The proposed algorithm incorporates…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-09-27 Duong Thuy Anh Nguyen , Su Wang , Duong Tung Nguyen , Angelia Nedich , H. Vincent Poor

Correlation filter (CF) based tracking algorithms have demonstrated favorable performance recently. Nevertheless, the top performance trackers always employ complicated optimization methods which constraint their real-time applications. How…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-14 Yipeng Ma , Chun Yuan , Peng Gao , Fei Wang

Decentralized optimization to minimize a finite sum of functions over a network of nodes has been a significant focus within control and signal processing research due to its natural relevance to optimal control and signal estimation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Ran Xin , Shi Pu , Angelia Nedić , Usman A. Khan

As a computational alternative to Markov chain Monte Carlo approaches, variational inference (VI) is becoming more and more popular for approximating intractable posterior distributions in large-scale Bayesian models due to its comparable…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-06-05 Anirban Bhattacharya , Debdeep Pati , Yun Yang

Massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) stands as a key technology for advancing performance metrics such as data rate, reliability, and spectrum efficiency in the fifth generation (5G) and beyond of wireless networks. However, its…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-19 Sajjad Nassirpour , Toan-Van Nguyen , Duy H. N. Nguyen

We consider the setting where a team of robots is tasked with tracking multiple targets with the following property: approaching the targets enables more accurate target position estimation, but also increases the risk of sensor failures.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Jiazhen Liu , Lifeng Zhou , Ragesh Ramachandran , Gaurav S. Sukhatme , Vijay Kumar

We introduce a novel tracking technique which uses dynamic confidence-based fusion of two different information sources for robust and efficient tracking of visual objects. Mean-shift tracking is a popular and well known method used in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Ibrahim Saygin Topkaya , Hakan Erdogan

We present a decentralized collision avoidance method for dense environments that is based on buffered Voronoi cells (BVC) and reciprocal velocity obstacles (RVO). Our approach is designed for scenarios with large number of close proximity…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-03-01 Senthil Hariharan Arul , Dinesh Manocha

Previous visual object tracking methods employ image-feature regression models or coordinate autoregression models for bounding box prediction. Image-feature regression methods heavily depend on matching results and do not utilize…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Xinyu Zhou , Jinglun Li , Lingyi Hong , Kaixun Jiang , Pinxue Guo , Weifeng Ge , Wenqiang Zhang

Egocentric action anticipation is a challenging task that aims to make advanced predictions of future actions from current and historical observations in the first-person view. Most existing methods focus on improving the model architecture…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Congqi Cao , Ze Sun , Qinyi Lv , Lingtong Min , Yanning Zhang

Visual Deformation Measurement (VDM) aims to recover dense deformation fields by tracking surface motion from camera observations. Traditional image-based methods rely on minimal inter-frame motion to constrain the correspondence search…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Yuliang Wu , Wei Zhai , Yuxin Cui , Tiesong Zhao , Yang Cao , Zheng-Jun Zha

Distributed desynchronization algorithms are key to wireless sensor networks as they allow for medium access control in a decentralized manner. In this paper, we view desynchronization primitives as iterative methods that solve optimization…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Nikos Deligiannis , Joao F. C. Mota , George Smart , Yiannis Andreopoulos

Decentralized multi-robot LiDAR-SLAM is essential for collaborative missions but faces significant challenges in maintaining global consistency. Existing frameworks predominantly rely on local-search optimization or one-time coordinate…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Baoshan Song , Feng Huang , Li-Ta Hsu