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Motivated by recent development in networking and parallel data-processing, we consider a distributed and localized finite-sum (or fixed-sum) allocation technique to solve resource-constrained convex optimization problems over multi-agent…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-29 Mohammadreza Doostmohammadian , Maria Vrakopoulou , Alireza Aghasi , Themistoklis Charalambous

This paper considers distributed optimization problems, where each agent cooperatively minimizes the sum of local objective functions through the communication with its neighbors. The widely adopted distributed gradient method in solving…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-19 Yeming Xu , Ziyuan Guo , Kaihong Lu , Huanshui Zhang

This paper considers the distributed online convex-concave optimization with constraint sets over a multiagent network, in which each agent autonomously generates a series of decision pairs through a designable mechanism to cooperatively…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-14 Wentao Zhang , Baoyong Zhang , Deming Yuan , Shengyuan Xu , Vincent K. N. Lau

Distributed optimization has a rich history. It has demonstrated its effectiveness in many machine learning applications, etc. In this paper we study a subclass of distributed optimization, namely decentralized optimization in a non-smooth…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-12-05 Aleksandr Lobanov , Andrew Veprikov , Georgiy Konin , Aleksandr Beznosikov , Alexander Gasnikov , Dmitry Kovalev

In this paper, a gradient-free distributed algorithm is introduced to solve a set constrained optimization problem under a directed communication network. Specifically, at each time-step, the agents locally compute a so-called…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-09-06 Yipeng Pang , Guoqiang Hu

Consider a connected network of agents endowed with local cost functions representing private objectives. Agents seek to find an agreement on some minimizer of the aggregate cost, by means of repeated communications between neighbors.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-09-30 Walid Ben-Ameur , Pascal Bianchi , Jérémie Jakubowicz

In the large collection of existing distributed algorithms for convex multi-agent optimization, only a handful of them provide convergence rate guarantees on agent networks with time-varying topologies, which, however, restrict the problem…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-04-06 Xuyang Wu , Jie Lu

This work addresses the distributed estimation problem in a set membership framework. The agents of a network collect measurements which are affected by bounded errors, thus implying that the unknown parameters to be estimated belong to a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-12-11 Francesco Farina , Andrea Garulli , Antonio Giannitrapani

In this article, we present an algorithm that drives the outputs of a network of agents to jointly track the solutions of time-varying optimization problems in a way that is robust to asynchrony in the agents' operations. We consider three…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-12-04 Gabriel Behrendt , Matthew Longmire , Zachary I. Bell , Matthew Hale

In this paper, we investigate a distributed aggregative optimization problem in a network, where each agent has its own local cost function which depends not only on the local state variable but also on an aggregated function of state…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-04-18 Jiaxu Liu , Song Chen , Shengze Cai , Chao Xu

We study the problem of constrained distributed optimization in multi-agent networks when some of the computing agents may be faulty. In this problem, the system goal is to have all the non-faulty agents collectively minimize a global…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-11-06 Lili Su , Nitin H. Vaidya

We propose a distributed algorithm for multiagent systems that aim to optimize a common objective when agents differ in their estimates of the objective-relevant state of the environment. Each agent keeps an estimate of the environment and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-10 Sina Arefizadeh , Ceyhun Eksin

A general nonlinear $1$st-order consensus-based solution for distributed constrained convex optimization is proposed with network resource allocation applications. The solution is used to optimize continuously-differentiable strictly convex…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-22 Mohammadreza Doostmohammadian , Alireza Aghasi , Maria Vrakopoulou , Themistoklis Charalambous

This paper focuses on a distributed coupled constrained convex optimization problem over directed unbalanced and time-varying multi-agent networks, where the global objective function is the sum of all agents' private local objective…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-10-25 Kai Gong , Liwei Zhang

We develop a new consensus-based distributed algorithm for solving learning problems with feature partitioning and non-smooth convex objective functions. Such learning problems are not separable, i.e., the associated objective functions…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-25 Cristiano Gratton , Naveen K. D. Venkategowda , Reza Arablouei , Stefan Werner

As multi-agent networks grow in size and scale, they become increasingly difficult to synchronize, though agents must work together even when generating and sharing different information at different times. Targeting such cases, this paper…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-09-18 Stefan Hochhaus , Matthew Hale

In networks of autonomous agents (e.g., fleets of vehicles, scattered sensors), the problem of minimizing the sum of the agents' local functions has received a lot of interest. We tackle here this distributed optimization problem in the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-10-19 Yu-Guan Hsieh , Franck Iutzeler , Jérôme Malick , Panayotis Mertikopoulos

The distributed dual ascent is an established algorithm to solve strongly convex multi-agent optimization problems with separable cost functions, in the presence of coupling constraints. In this paper, we study its asynchronous counterpart.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-05-05 Mattia Bianchi , Wicak Ananduta , Sergio Grammatico

This paper examines online distributed Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers (ADMM). The goal is to distributively optimize a global objective function over a network of decision makers under linear constraints. The global objective…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-10-05 Saghar Hosseini , Airlie Chapman , Mehran Mesbahi