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The mobile robot dispersion problem on graphs asks $k\leq n$ robots placed initially arbitrarily on the nodes of an $n$-node anonymous graph to reposition autonomously to reach a configuration in which each robot is on a distinct node of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-04-30 Ajay D. Kshemkalyani , Anisur Rahaman Molla , Gokarna Sharma

In this work we consider a generalization of the well-known multivehicle routing problem: given a network, a set of agents occupying a subset of its nodes, and a set of tasks, we seek a minimum cost sequence of movements subject to the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Jamison W. Weber , Dhanush R. Giriyan , Devendra R. Parkar , Dimitri P. Bertsekas , Andréa W. Richa

We study the problem of communication-efficient distributed vector mean estimation, a commonly used subroutine in distributed optimization and Federated Learning (FL). Rand-$k$ sparsification is a commonly used technique to reduce…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Shuli Jiang , Pranay Sharma , Gauri Joshi

We study the problem of distributed coverage control in a network of mobile agents arranged on a line. The goal is to design distributed dynamics for the agents to achieve optimal coverage positions with respect to a scalar density field…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-11-25 P. Davison , N. E. Leonard , A. Olshevsky , M. Schwemmer

A k-order coverage control problem is studied where a network of agents must deploy over a desired area. The objective is to deploy all the agents in a decentralized manner such that a certain coverage performance metric of the network is…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2019-03-14 Daniel Tabatabai , Mohanad Ajina , Cameron Nowzari

In this paper we provide a fully distributed implementation of the k-means clustering algorithm, intended for wireless sensor networks where each agent is endowed with a possibly high-dimensional observation (e.g., position, humidity,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-11-11 Gabriele Oliva , Roberto Setola , Christoforos N. Hadjicostis

We consider the distributed learning problem where a network of $n$ agents seeks to minimize a global function $F$. Agents have access to $F$ through noisy gradients, and they can locally communicate with their neighbors a network. We study…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-09 Tiancheng Qin , S. Rasoul Etesami , César A. Uribe

We propose a distributed algorithm, named Distributed Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers (D-ADMM), for solving separable optimization problems in networks of interconnected nodes or agents. In a separable optimization problem there…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-04-26 João F. C. Mota , João M. F. Xavier , Pedro M. Q. Aguiar , Markus Püschel

In dynamic graphs, edges may be added or deleted in each synchronous round. Various connectivity models exist based on constraints on these changes. One well-known model is the $T$-Interval Connectivity model, where the graph remains…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-04-14 Ashish Saxena , Kaushik Mondal

In numerous settings, agents lack sufficient data to directly learn a model. Collaborating with other agents may help, but it introduces a bias-variance trade-off, when local data distributions differ. A key challenge is for each agent to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-20 Franco Galante , Giovanni Neglia , Emilio Leonardi

In this paper, we propose a distributed algorithm, called Directed-Distributed Gradient Descent (D-DGD), to solve multi-agent optimization problems over directed graphs. Existing algorithms mostly deal with similar problems under the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-02-02 Chenguang Xi , Qiong Wu , Usman A. Khan

Distributed optimization enables networked agents to cooperatively solve a global optimization problem even with each participating agent only having access to a local partial view of the objective function. Despite making significant…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-10-04 Yongqiang Wang , Tamer Başar

We introduce a new problem in the domain of mobile robots, which we term dispersion. In this problem, $n$ robots are placed in an $n$ node graph arbitrarily and must coordinate with each other to reach a final configuration such that…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-07-18 John Augustine , William K. Moses

Inspired by the great success of machine learning in the past decade, people have been thinking about the possibility of improving the theoretical results by exploring data distribution. In this paper, we revisit a fundamental problem…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-06-24 Hao Wu , Junhao Gan , Rui Zhang

We study non-convex distributed optimization problems where a set of agents collaboratively solve a separable optimization problem that is distributed over a time-varying network. The existing methods to solve these problems rely on (at…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-04-26 Hadi Reisizadeh , Behrouz Touri , Soheil Mohajer

This paper proposes two distributed random reshuffling methods, namely Gradient Tracking with Random Reshuffling (GT-RR) and Exact Diffusion with Random Reshuffling (ED-RR), to solve the distributed optimization problem over a connected…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-18 Kun Huang , Linli Zhou , Shi Pu

In this paper, we present a communication-free algorithm for distributed coverage of an arbitrary network by a group of mobile agents with local sensing capabilities. The network is represented as a graph, and the agents are arbitrarily…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-02-01 A. Yasin Yazicioglu , Magnus Egerstedt , Jeff S. Shamma

We consider nucleon-nucleon interactions from chiral effective field theory applying the N/D method. The case of coupled partial waves is now treated, extending Ref. [1] where the uncoupled case was studied. As a result three N/D…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-03 M. Albaladejo , J. A. Oller

The k Nearest Neighbor (kNN) query over moving objects on road networks is essential for location-based services. Recently, this problem has been studied under road networks with distance as the metric, overlooking fluctuating travel costs.…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Mingjin Tao , Kailin Jiao , Yawen Li , Wei Liu , Ziqiang Yu

This paper investigates online distributed aggregative games with time-varying cost functions, where agents are interconnected through an unbalanced communication graph. Due to the distributed and noncooperative nature of the game, some…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Olusola Odeyomi , Tokunbo Ogunfunmi , Adjovi Laba