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Gradient quantization is an emerging technique in reducing communication costs in distributed learning. Existing gradient quantization algorithms often rely on engineering heuristics or empirical observations, lacking a systematic approach…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-02 Guangfeng Yan , Shao-Lun Huang , Tian Lan , Linqi Song

Low-rank optimization problems with sparse simplex constraints involve variables that must satisfy nonnegativity, sparsity, and sum-to-1 conditions, making their optimization particularly challenging due to the interplay between low-rank…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-24 Flavia Esposito , Andersen Ang

Zero-order (ZO) optimization is a powerful tool for dealing with realistic constraints. On the other hand, the gradient-tracking (GT) technique proved to be an efficient method for distributed optimization aiming to achieve consensus.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Elissa Mhanna , Mohamad Assaad

We present the first distributed optimization algorithm with lazy communication for collaborative geometric estimation, the backbone of modern collaborative simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) and structure-from-motion (SfM)…

We study distributed multiagent optimization over (directed, time-varying) graphs. We consider the minimization of $F+G$ subject to convex constraints, where $F$ is the smooth strongly convex sum of the agent's losses and $G$ is a nonsmooth…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-10-13 Ying Sun , Amir Daneshmand , Gesualdo Scutari

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

Gradient descent algorithms on Riemannian manifolds have been used recently for the optimization of quantum channels. In this contribution, we investigate the influence of various regularization terms added to the cost function of these…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-01 Felix Soest , Konstantin Beyer , Walter T. Strunz

In this paper, we focus on the decentralized optimization problem over the Stiefel manifold, which is defined on a connected network of $d$ agents. The objective is an average of $d$ local functions, and each function is privately held by…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-07-13 Lei Wang , Xin Liu

We consider a class of popular distributed non-convex optimization problems, in which agents connected by a network $\mathcal{G}$ collectively optimize a sum of smooth (possibly non-convex) local objective functions. We address the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-01-08 Haoran Sun , Mingyi Hong

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

In this paper, we introduce a novel decentralized surrogate gradient-based algorithm for quantile regression in a feature-distributed setting, where global features are dispersed across multiple machines within a decentralized network. The…

Computation · Statistics 2025-04-24 Peiwen Xiao , Xiaohui Liu , Guangming Pan , Wei Long

In this paper, we develop a class of decentralized algorithms for solving a convex resource allocation problem in a network of $n$ agents, where the agent objectives are decoupled while the resource constraints are coupled. The agents…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-12-18 Angelia Nedić , Alex Olshevsky , Wei Shi

This paper addresses two fundamental challenges in distributed online convex optimization: communication efficiency and optimization under limited feedback. We propose Online Compressed Gradient Tracking with one-point Bandit Feedback…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-06 Longkang Zhu , Xinli Shi , Xiangping Xu , Jinde Cao

Distributed aggregative optimization underpins many cooperative optimization and multi-agent control systems, where each agent's objective function depends both on its local optimization variable and an aggregate of all agents' optimization…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-30 Ziqin Chen , Yongqiang Wang

Gradient tracking methods have emerged as one of the most popular approaches for solving decentralized optimization problems over networks. In this setting, each node in the network has a portion of the global objective function, and the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-11-27 Albert S. Berahas , Raghu Bollapragada , Shagun Gupta

This paper addresses two fundamental challenges in distributed online convex optimization: communication efficiency and optimization under limited feedback. We propose a unified framework named Online Compressed Gradient Tracking (OCGT),…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-08 Longkang Zhu , Xinli Shi , Xiangping Xu , Jinde Cao , Xiangyong Chen

Clustering is a hard discrete optimization problem. Nonconvex approaches such as low-rank semidefinite programming (SDP) have recently demonstrated promising statistical and local algorithmic guarantees for cluster recovery. Due to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Peng Xu , Chun-Ying Hou , Xiaohui Chen , Richard Y. Zhang

This paper proposes a distributed stochastic algorithm with variance reduction for general smooth non-convex finite-sum optimization, which has wide applications in signal processing and machine learning communities. In distributed setting,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-07-23 Xia Jiang , Xianlin Zeng , Jian Sun , Jie Chen

We study decentralized online Riemannian optimization over manifolds with possibly positive curvature, going beyond the Hadamard manifold setting. Decentralized optimization techniques rely on a consensus step that is well understood in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-10 Emre Sahinoglu , Shahin Shahrampour

Decentralized methods to solve finite-sum minimization problems are important in many signal processing and machine learning tasks where the data is distributed over a network of nodes and raw data sharing is not permitted due to privacy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-14 Ran Xin , Soummya Kar , Usman A. Khan