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Distributed optimization is widely used in large-scale and privacy-preserving machine learning, where each agent stores a local objective and communicates only with its neighbors in a connected network. We study decentralized second-order…

The paper addresses large-scale, convex optimization problems that need to be solved in a distributed way by agents communicating according to a random time-varying graph. Specifically, the goal of the network is to minimize the sum of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-10-28 Andrea Camisa , Francesco Farina , Ivano Notarnicola , Giuseppe Notarstefano

In decentralized consensus optimization, a connected network of agents collaboratively minimize the sum of their local objective functions over a common decision variable, where their information exchange is restricted between the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-06-16 Wei Shi , Qing Ling , Kun Yuan , Gang Wu , Wotao Yin

This paper considers a distributed multi-agent optimization problem, with the global objective consisting of the sum of local objective functions of the agents. The agents solve the optimization problem using local computation and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-11-07 Shripad Gade , Nitin H. Vaidya

Distributed algorithms for network science applications are of great importance due to today's large real-world networks. In such algorithms, a node is allowed only to have local interactions with its immediate neighbors. This is because…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-06-21 Hamidreza Mahyar , Rouzbeh Hasheminezhad , H Eugene Stanley

Fully decentralised federated learning enables collaborative training of individual machine learning models on a distributed network of communicating devices while keeping the training data localised on each node. This approach avoids…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Arash Badie-Modiri , Chiara Boldrini , Lorenzo Valerio , János Kertész , Márton Karsai

We propose a model for deterministic distributed function computation by a network of identical and anonymous nodes. In this model, each node has bounded computation and storage capabilities that do not grow with the network size.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2011-06-28 Julien M. Hendrickx , Alex Olshevsky , John N. Tsitsiklis

Estimating the eigenvalues of non-normal matrices is a foundational problem with far-reaching implications, from modeling non-Hermitian quantum systems to analyzing complex fluid dynamics. Yet, this task remains beyond the reach of standard…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-23 Yukun Zhang , Yusen Wu , Xiao Yuan

In machine learning practice it is often useful to identify relevant input features. Isolating key input elements, ranked according their respective degree of relevance, can help to elaborate on the process of decision making. Here, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Lorenzo Chicchi , Lorenzo Buffoni , Diego Febbe , Lorenzo Giambagli , Raffaele Marino , Duccio Fanelli

Advancements in information technology have enabled the creation of massive spatial datasets, driving the need for scalable and efficient computational methodologies. While offering viable solutions, centralized frameworks are limited by…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-02-11 Jianwei Shi , Sameh Abdulah , Ying Sun , Marc G. Genton

We consider the problem of solving a distributed optimization problem using a distributed computing platform, where the communication in the network is limited: each node can only communicate with its neighbours and the channel has a…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2015-04-10 Ye Pu , Melanie N. Zeilinger , Colin N. Jones

Decentralized learning algorithms empower interconnected devices to share data and computational resources to collaboratively train a machine learning model without the aid of a central coordinator. In the case of heterogeneous data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-16 Matteo Zecchin , Marios Kountouris , David Gesbert

This paper considers a distributed stochastic strongly convex optimization, where agents connected over a network aim to cooperatively minimize the average of all agents' local cost functions. Due to the stochasticity of gradient estimation…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-02-17 Jinlong Lei , Peng Yi , Jie Chen , Yiguang Hong

We study the classical problem of community recovery in stochastic block models with a fixed number of communities, with a twist: We seek algorithms that are stable with respect to node-wise changes in the graph structure, formally defined…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-05-18 Laurentiu Marchis , Ethan D'souza , Tomáš Flídr , Po-Ling Loh

In this paper, we present a distributed estimation setup where local agents estimate their states from relative measurements received from their neighbours. In the case of heterogeneous multi-agent systems, where only relative measurements…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2015-12-08 Jingbo Wu , Valery Ugrinovskii , Frank Allgöwer

The deluge of networked data motivates the development of algorithms for computation- and communication-efficient information processing. In this context, three data-adaptive censoring strategies are introduced to considerably reduce the…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-01-16 Zifeng Wang , Zheng Yu , Qing Ling , Dimitris Berberidis , Georgios B. Giannakis

Decentralized optimization is gaining increased traction due to its widespread applications in large-scale machine learning and multi-agent systems. The same mechanism that enables its success, i.e., information sharing among participating…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-02-07 Yongqiang Wang , Angelia Nedic

Due to the rapid growth of smart agents such as weakly connected computational nodes and sensors, developing decentralized algorithms that can perform computations on local agents becomes a major research direction. This paper considers the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-09 Haishan Ye , Tong Zhang

We develop cloud-assisted remote sensing techniques for enabling distributed consensus estimation of unknown parameters in a given geographic area. We first propose a distributed sensor network virtualization algorithm that searches for,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2015-01-16 Sherif Abdelwahab , Bechir Hamdaoui , Mohsen Guizani

There is growing interest in large-scale machine learning and optimization over decentralized networks, e.g. in the context of multi-agent learning and federated learning. Due to the imminent need to alleviate the communication burden, the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-09-02 Boyue Li , Shicong Cen , Yuxin Chen , Yuejie Chi