English
Related papers

Related papers: Decentralized Inference for Spatial Data Using Low…

200 papers

To solve the problem of joint sparsity pattern recovery in a decen-tralized network, we propose an algorithm named decentralized and collaborative subspace pursuit (DCSP). The basic idea of DCSP is to embed collaboration among nodes and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-03-07 Gang Li , Thakshila Wimalajeewa , Pramod K. Varshney

We deal with the minimization of the ${\mathcal H}_\infty$-norm of the transfer function of a parameter-dependent descriptor system over the set of admissible parameter values. Subspace frameworks are proposed for such minimization problems…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-05-13 Nicat Aliyev , Peter Benner , Emre Mengi , Matthias Voigt

We present a new class of decentralized first-order methods for nonsmooth and stochastic optimization problems defined over multiagent networks. Considering that communication is a major bottleneck in decentralized optimization, our main…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-02-07 Guanghui Lan , Soomin Lee , Yi Zhou

To understand the convergence behavior of the Push-Pull method for decentralized optimization with stochastic gradients (Stochastic Push-Pull), this paper presents a comprehensive analysis. Specifically, we first clarify the algorithm's…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-10 Runze You , Shi Pu

In this two-part paper, we propose a general algorithmic framework for the minimization of a nonconvex smooth function subject to nonconvex smooth constraints. The algorithm solves a sequence of (separable) strongly convex problems and…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2016-01-18 Gesualdo Scutari , Francisco Facchinei , Lorenzo Lampariello , Peiran Song

This work addresses decentralized online optimization in non-stationary environments. A network of agents aim to track the minimizer of a global time-varying convex function. The minimizer evolves according to a known dynamics corrupted by…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-09-12 Shahin Shahrampour , Ali Jadbabaie

An interior-point algorithm framework is proposed, analyzed, and tested for solving nonlinearly constrained continuous optimization problems. The main setting of interest is when the objective and constraint functions may be nonlinear…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-08-30 Frank E. Curtis , Xin Jiang , Qi Wang

We consider the problem of decentralized optimization where a collection of agents, each having access to a local cost function, communicate over a time-varying directed network and aim to minimize the sum of those functions. In practice,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-01 Yiyue Chen , Abolfazl Hashemi , Haris Vikalo

Imposing additional constraints on low-rank optimization has garnered growing interest. However, the geometry of coupled constraints hampers the well-developed low-rank structure and makes the problem intricate. To this end, we propose a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-01 Yan Yang , Bin Gao , Ya-xiang Yuan

This paper presents a novel stochastic gradient descent algorithm for constrained optimization. The proposed algorithm randomly samples constraints and components of the finite sum objective function and relies on a relaxed logarithmic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-13 Naum Dimitrieski , Jing Cao , Christian Ebenbauer

Decentralized minimax optimization has been actively studied in the past few years due to its application in a wide range of machine learning models. However, the current theoretical understanding of its convergence rate is far from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Yihan Zhang , Wenhao Jiang , Feng Zheng , Chiu C. Tan , Xinghua Shi , Hongchang Gao

The paper studies decentralized optimization over networks, where agents minimize a composite objective consisting of the sum of smooth convex functions--the agents' losses--and an additional nonsmooth convex extended value function. We…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-05 Xiaokai Chen , Ilya Kuruzov , Gesualdo Scutari , Alexander Gasnikov

Decentralized learning has emerged as an alternative method to the popular parameter-server framework which suffers from high communication burden, single-point failure and scalability issues due to the need of a central server. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Guojun Xiong , Gang Yan , Shiqiang Wang , Jian Li

We investigate the generalisation performance of Distributed Gradient Descent with Implicit Regularisation and Random Features in the homogenous setting where a network of agents are given data sampled independently from the same unknown…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-07-02 Dominic Richards , Patrick Rebeschini , Lorenzo Rosasco

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

Finding parameters that minimise a loss function is at the core of many machine learning methods. The Stochastic Gradient Descent algorithm is widely used and delivers state of the art results for many problems. Nonetheless, Stochastic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-09-26 Yao Zhang , Andrew M. Saxe , Madhu S. Advani , Alpha A. Lee

The randomized coordinate descent (RCD) method is a classical algorithm with simple, lightweight iterations that is widely used for various optimization problems, including the solution of positive semidefinite linear systems. As a linear…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-13 Jackie Lok , Elizaveta Rebrova

Prediction+optimization is a common real-world paradigm where we have to predict problem parameters before solving the optimization problem. However, the criteria by which the prediction model is trained are often inconsistent with the goal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-23 Kai Yan , Jie Yan , Chuan Luo , Liting Chen , Qingwei Lin , Dongmei Zhang

This paper focuses on the construction of accurate and predictive data-driven reduced models of large-scale numerical simulations with complex dynamics and sparse training datasets. In these settings, standard, single-domain approaches may…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-09-26 Ionut-Gabriel Farcas , Rayomand P. Gundevia , Ramakanth Munipalli , Karen E. Willcox

We consider the problem of decentralized deep learning where multiple agents collaborate to learn from a distributed dataset. While there exist several decentralized deep learning approaches, the majority consider a central parameter-server…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Aditya Balu , Zhanhong Jiang , Sin Yong Tan , Chinmay Hedge , Young M Lee , Soumik Sarkar