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Federated learning poses new statistical and systems challenges in training machine learning models over distributed networks of devices. In this work, we show that multi-task learning is naturally suited to handle the statistical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-02-28 Virginia Smith , Chao-Kai Chiang , Maziar Sanjabi , Ameet Talwalkar

To leverage data and computation capabilities of mobile devices, machine learning algorithms are deployed at the network edge for training artificial intelligence (AI) models, resulting in the new paradigm of edge learning. In this paper,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-01 Dingzhu Wen , Mehdi Bennis , Kaibin Huang

We propose an asynchronous iterative scheme that allows a set of interconnected nodes to distributively reach an agreement within a pre-specified bound in a finite number of steps. While this scheme could be adopted in a wide variety of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-01-13 Andreas Grammenos , Themistoklis Charalambous , Evangelia Kalyvianaki

To benefit the learning of a new task, meta-learning has been proposed to transfer a well-generalized meta-model learned from various meta-training tasks. Existing meta-learning algorithms randomly sample meta-training tasks with a uniform…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-28 Huaxiu Yao , Yu Wang , Ying Wei , Peilin Zhao , Mehrdad Mahdavi , Defu Lian , Chelsea Finn

This paper studies the optimal resource allocation problem within a multi-agent network composed of both autonomous agents and humans. The main challenge lies in the globally coupled constraints that link the decisions of autonomous agents…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-04 Yichen Yao , Ryan Mbagna Nanko , Yue Wang , Xuan Wang

We consider the problem of assigning or allocating resources to a set of jobs. We consider the case when the resources are fungible, that is, the job can be done with any mix of the resources, but with different efficiencies. In our…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-04-20 Akshay Agrawal , Stephen Boyd , Deepak Narayanan , Fiodar Kazhamiaka , Matei Zaharia

The rapid growth of large language model (LLM) services imposes increasing demands on distributed GPU inference infrastructure. Most existing scheduling systems follow a reactive paradigm, relying solely on the current system state to make…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Chengze Du , Zhiwei Yu , Heng Xu , Haojie Wang , Bo liu , Jialong Li

Intelligent techniques are urged to achieve automatic allocation of the computing resource in Open Radio Access Network (O-RAN), to save computing resource, increase utilization rate of them and decrease the delay. However, the existing…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-01-13 Gan Ruan , Leandro L. Minku , Zhao Xu , Xin Yao

Multi-robot task allocation is a ubiquitous problem in robotics due to its applicability in a variety of scenarios. Adaptive task-allocation algorithms account for unknown disturbances and unpredicted phenomena in the environment where…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-11-11 Yousef Emam , Gennaro Notomista , Paul Glotfelter , Magnus Egerstedt

This paper deals with large-scale decentralised task allocation problems for multiple heterogeneous robots with monotone submodular objective functions. One of the significant challenges with the large-scale decentralised task allocation…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Teng Li , Hyo-Sang Shin , Antonios Tsourdos

The alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) has been recognized as a versatile approach for solving modern large-scale machine learning and signal processing problems efficiently. When the data size and/or the problem dimension…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-05-04 Tsung-Hui Chang , Wei-Cheng Liao , Mingyi Hong , Xiangfeng Wang

Although federated learning has achieved many breakthroughs recently, the heterogeneous nature of the learning environment greatly limits its performance and hinders its real-world applications. The heterogeneous data, time-varying wireless…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-22 Jingxin Li , Toktam Mahmoodi , Hak-Keung Lam

Deep learning models have demonstrated exceptional performance across a wide range of computer vision tasks. However, their performance often degrades significantly when faced with distribution shifts, such as domain or dataset changes.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Samuel Barbeau , Pedram Fekri , David Osowiechi , Ali Bahri , Moslem Yazdanpanah , Masih Aminbeidokhti , Christian Desrosiers

We study the multi-task learning problem that aims to simultaneously analyze multiple datasets collected from different sources and learn one model for each of them. We propose a family of adaptive methods that automatically utilize…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-09-19 Yaqi Duan , Kaizheng Wang

To fully leverage the multi-task optimization paradigm for accelerating the solution of expensive scheduling problems, this study has effectively tackled three vital concerns. The primary issue is identifying auxiliary tasks that closely…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-02 Minshuo Li , Bo Liu , Bin Xin , Liang Feng , Peng Li

In the rapidly evolving research on artificial intelligence (AI) the demand for fast, computationally efficient, and scalable solutions has increased in recent years. The problem of optimizing the computing resources for distributed machine…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Mohammadreza Doostmohammadian , Zulfiya R. Gabidullina , Hamid R. Rabiee

Efficient multi-robot task allocation (MRTA) is fundamental to various time-sensitive applications such as disaster response, warehouse operations, and construction. This paper tackles a particular class of these problems that we call…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Steve Paul , Wenyuan Li , Brian Smyth , Yuzhou Chen , Yulia Gel , Souma Chowdhury

Coordinating multi-agent systems over spatially distributed areas requires solving a complex hierarchical problem: first distributing areas among agents (allocation) and subsequently determining the optimal visitation order (routing).…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Yazan Youssef , Aboelmagd Noureldin , Sidney Givigi

Asynchronous distributed algorithms are a popular way to reduce synchronization costs in large-scale optimization, and in particular for neural network training. However, for nonsmooth and nonconvex objectives, few convergence guarantees…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-07-14 Vyacheslav Kungurtsev , Malcolm Egan , Bapi Chatterjee , Dan Alistarh

Task allocation is an important problem in multi-agent systems. It becomes more challenging when the team-members are humans with imperfect knowledge about their teammates' costs and the overall performance metric. In this paper, we propose…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Zahra Zahedi , Sailik Sengupta , Subbarao Kambhampati