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We consider the decentralized optimization problem, where a network of $n$ agents aims to collaboratively minimize the average of their individual smooth and convex objective functions through peer-to-peer communication in a directed graph.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-12-07 Zhuoqing Song , Lei Shi , Shi Pu , Ming Yan

This paper studies decentralized stochastic nonconvex optimization problem over row-stochastic networks. We consider the heavy-tailed gradient noise which is empirically observed in many popular real-world applications. Specifically, we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-19 Menglian Wang , Zhuanghua Liu , Luo Luo

We study the convergence of a variant of distributed gradient descent (DGD) on a distributed low-rank matrix approximation problem wherein some optimization variables are used for consensus (as in classical DGD) and some optimization…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-12-27 Zhihui Zhu , Qiuwei Li , Xinshuo Yang , Gongguo Tang , Michael B. Wakin

As distributed learning applications such as Federated Learning, the Internet of Things (IoT), and Edge Computing grow, it is critical to address the shortcomings of such technologies from a theoretical perspective. As an abstraction, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Sajjad Ghiasvand , Amirhossein Reisizadeh , Mahnoosh Alizadeh , Ramtin Pedarsani

This paper investigates distributed online convex optimization in the presence of an aggregative variable without any global/central coordinators over a multi-agent network, where each individual agent is only able to access partial…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-07-15 Xiuxian Li , Xinlei Yi , Lihua Xie

In this work and its accompanying Part II [1], we develop an accelerated algorithmic framework, DAMA (Decentralized Accelerated Minimax Approach), for nonconvex Polyak-Lojasiewicz minimax optimization over decentralized multi-agent…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-17 Haoyuan Cai , Sulaiman A. Alghunaim , Ali H. Sayed

This paper studies the stochastic nonconvex-strongly-concave minimax optimization over a multi-agent network. We propose an efficient algorithm, called Decentralized Recursive gradient descEnt Ascent Method (DREAM), which achieves the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-15 Lesi Chen , Haishan Ye , Luo Luo

We analyze the convergence of gradient-based optimization algorithms that base their updates on delayed stochastic gradient information. The main application of our results is to the development of gradient-based distributed optimization…

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In this paper, we study secure distributed optimization against arbitrary gradient attack in multi-agent networks. In distributed optimization, there is no central server to coordinate local updates, and each agent can only communicate with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-10-31 Shuhua Yu , Soummya Kar

Nonconvex-concave min-max problem arises in many machine learning applications including minimizing a pointwise maximum of a set of nonconvex functions and robust adversarial training of neural networks. A popular approach to solve this…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-21 Jiawei Zhang , Peijun Xiao , Ruoyu Sun , Zhi-Quan Luo

Decentralized optimization problems consist of multiple agents connected by a network. The agents have each local cost function, and the goal is to minimize the sum of the functions cooperatively. It requires the agents communicate with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-11-12 Jimyeong Kim , Woocheol Choi

This paper studies a policy optimization problem arising from collaborative multi-agent reinforcement learning in a decentralized setting where agents communicate with their neighbors over an undirected graph to maximize the sum of their…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-09-07 Jinchi Chen , Jie Feng , Weiguo Gao , Ke Wei

In this paper, we tackle the problem of distributed optimization over directed networks in open multi-agent systems (OMAS), where agents may dynamically join or leave, causing persistent changes in network topology and problem dimension.…

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We present a distributed optimization algorithm for solving online personalized optimization problems over a network of computing and communicating nodes, each of which linked to a specific user. The local objective functions are assumed to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-15 Ivano Notarnicola , Andrea Simonetto , Francesco Farina , Giuseppe Notarstefano

The paper considers the problem of network-based computation of global minima in smooth nonconvex optimization problems. It is known that distributed gradient-descent-type algorithms can achieve convergence to the set of global minima by…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-10-24 Brian Swenson , Anirudh Sridhar , H. Vincent Poor

In this paper, we study the problem of consensus-based distributed optimization where a network of agents, abstracted as a directed graph, aims to minimize the sum of all agents' cost functions collaboratively. In existing distributed…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-30 Xiaomeng Chen , Lingying Huang , Lidong He , Subhrakanti Dey , Ling Shi

Decentralized optimization with orthogonality constraints is found widely in scientific computing and data science. Since the orthogonality constraints are nonconvex, it is quite challenging to design efficient algorithms. Existing…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-09 Lei Wang , Xin Liu

This paper proposes Asynchronous Triggered Gradient Tracking, i.e., a distributed optimization algorithm to solve consensus optimization over networks with asynchronous communication. As a building block, we devise the continuous-time…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-09-13 Guido Carnevale , Ivano Notarnicola , Lorenzo Marconi , Giuseppe Notarstefano

Local SGD is a promising approach to overcome the communication overhead in distributed learning by reducing the synchronization frequency among worker nodes. Despite the recent theoretical advances of local SGD in empirical risk…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-01 Yuyang Deng , Mehrdad Mahdavi

The paper studies the distributed stochastic compositional optimization problems over networks, where all the agents' inner-level function is the sum of each agent's private expectation function. Focusing on the aggregative structure of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-11-10 Shengchao Zhao , Yongchao Liu