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We consider problems where agents in a network seek a common quantity, measured independently and periodically by each agent through a local time-varying process. Numerous solvers addressing such problems have been developed in the past,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-08 Navneet Agrawal , Renato L. G. Cavalcante , Sławomir Stańczak

Distributed network optimization has been studied for well over a decade. However, we still do not have a good idea of how to design schemes that can simultaneously provide good performance across the dimensions of utility optimality,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-07-19 Sinong Wang , Ness Shroff

We consider distributed optimization problems where forming the Hessian is computationally challenging and communication is a significant bottleneck. We develop unbiased parameter averaging methods for randomized second order optimization…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-02-18 Burak Bartan , Mert Pilanci

Despite the importance of sparsity in many large-scale applications, there are few methods for distributed optimization of sparsity-inducing objectives. In this paper, we present a communication-efficient framework for L1-regularized…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-06-06 Virginia Smith , Simone Forte , Michael I. Jordan , Martin Jaggi

This paper presents a distributed optimization scheme over a network of agents in the presence of cost uncertainties and over switching communication topologies. Inspired by recent advances in distributed convex optimization, we propose a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-11-15 Saghar Hosseini , Airlie Chapman , Mehran Mesbahi

To design algorithms that reduce communication cost or meet rate constraints and are robust to communication noise, we study convex distributed optimization problems where a set of agents are interested in solving a separable optimization…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-05-02 Hadi Reisizadeh , Anand Gokhale , Behrouz Touri , Soheil Mohajer

In this paper we introduce a class of novel distributed algorithms for solving stochastic big-data convex optimization problems over directed graphs. In the addressed set-up, the dimension of the decision variable can be extremely high and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-10-06 Francesco Farina , Giuseppe Notarstefano

We develop a system-theoretic framework for the structured analysis of distributed optimization algorithms with decomposable cost functions. We model such algorithms as a network of interacting dynamical systems and derive tests for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-14 Aron Karakai , Jaap Eising , Andrea Martinelli , Florian Dörfler

In this work, we propose a hyperparameter optimization method named \emph{HyperTime} to find hyperparameters robust to potential temporal distribution shifts in the unseen test data. Our work is motivated by an important observation that it…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-31 Shaokun Zhang , Yiran Wu , Zhonghua Zheng , Qingyun Wu , Chi Wang

In this paper we consider a network of processors aiming at cooperatively solving linear programming problems subject to uncertainty. Each node only knows a common cost function and its local uncertain constraint set. We propose a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-08-27 Mohammadreza Chamanbaz , Giuseppe Notarstefano , Roland Bouffanais

In this paper we consider a distributed optimization scenario in which a set of agents has to solve a convex optimization problem with separable cost function, local constraint sets and a coupling inequality constraint. We propose a novel…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-04-25 Ivano Notarnicola , Giuseppe Notarstefano

In this paper, a time-varying distributed convex optimization problem is studied for continuous-time multi-agent systems. Control algorithms are designed for the cases of single-integrator and double-integrator dynamics. Two discontinuous…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-09-07 Salar Rahili , Wei Ren

We consider distributed nonconvex optimization over an undirected network, where each node privately possesses its local objective and communicates exclusively with its neighboring nodes, striving to collectively achieve a common optimal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-11 Zichong Ou , Jie Lu

In this paper, we investigate a distributed interval optimization problem which is modeled with optimizing a sum of convex interval-valued objective functions subject to global convex constraints, corresponding to agents over a time-varying…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-05-01 Yinghui Wang , Xianlin Zeng , Wenxiao Zhao , Yiguang Hong

In this article, we present an algorithm that drives the outputs of a network of agents to jointly track the solutions of time-varying optimization problems in a way that is robust to asynchrony in the agents' operations. We consider three…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-12-04 Gabriel Behrendt , Matthew Longmire , Zachary I. Bell , Matthew Hale

In this paper, we consider distributed optimization design for resource allocation problems over weight-balanced graphs. With the help of singular perturbation analysis, we propose a simple sub-optimal continuous-time optimization…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-06-14 Shu Liang , Xianlin Zeng , Yiguang Hong

This thesis is concerned with the design of distributed algorithms for solving optimization problems. We consider networks where each node has exclusive access to a cost function, and design algorithms that make all nodes cooperate to find…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-12-03 João F. C. Mota

We study a continuous-time primal-dual algorithm for distributed optimization with nonconvex local cost functions over weight-unbalanced digraphs, and analyze its performance from a dissipativity-based perspective. We first reformulate the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-10 Weijian Li , Panos J. Antsaklis , Hai Lin

This paper presents a set of continuous-time distributed algorithms that solve unconstrained, separable, convex optimization problems over undirected networks with fixed topologies. The algorithms are developed using a Lyapunov function…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2011-09-27 Jie Lu , Choon Yik Tang

Various distributed optimization methods have been developed for solving problems which have simple local constraint sets and whose objective function is the sum of local cost functions of distributed agents in a network. Motivated by…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Tsung-Hui Chang , Angelia Nedić , Anna Scaglione