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Network connectivity plays an important role in the information exchange between different agents in the multi-level networks. In this paper, we establish a game-theoretic framework to capture the uncoordinated nature of the decision-making…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-03-17 Juntao Chen , Quanyan Zhu

In this paper, a distributed velocity-constrained consensus problem is studied for discrete-time multi-agent systems, where each agent's velocity is constrained to lie in a nonconvex set. A distributed constrained control algorithm is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-03-05 Peng Lin , Wei Ren , Huijun Gao

Decentralized learning enables edge users to collaboratively train models by exchanging information via device-to-device communication, yet prior works have been limited to wireless networks with fixed topologies and reliable workers. In…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-03 Eunjeong Jeong , Matteo Zecchin , Marios Kountouris

We study a decentralized channel allocation problem in an ad-hoc Internet of Things network underlaying on the spectrum licensed to a primary cellular network. In the considered network, the impoverished channel sensing/probing capability…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2022-01-20 Wenbo Wang , Amir Leshem , Dusit Niyato , Zhu Han

The emerging field semantic communication is driving the research of end-to-end data transmission. By utilizing the powerful representation ability of deep learning models, learned data transmission schemes have exhibited superior…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Jincheng Dai , Sixian Wang , Ke Yang , Kailin Tan , Xiaoqi Qin , Zhongwei Si , Kai Niu , Ping Zhang

We propose and analyse a model predictive control (MPC) strategy tailored for networks of underwater agents tasked with maintaining formation while following a shared path and using acoustic communication channels. The strategy accommodates…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-22 Emil Wengle , Damiano Varagnolo

We consider the problem of decentralized optimization where a collection of agents, each having access to a local cost function, communicate over a time-varying directed network and aim to minimize the sum of those functions. In practice,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-01 Yiyue Chen , Abolfazl Hashemi , Haris Vikalo

This paper considers the problem of adaptively searching for an unknown target using multiple agents connected through a time-varying network topology. Agents are equipped with sensors capable of fast information processing, and we propose…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Theodoros Tsiligkaridis

We analyse the learning performance of Distributed Gradient Descent in the context of multi-agent decentralised non-parametric regression with the square loss function when i.i.d. samples are assigned to agents. We show that if agents hold…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-11-14 Dominic Richards , Patrick Rebeschini

This paper presents distributed algorithmic solutions that employ opportunistic inter-agent communication to achieve dynamic average consensus. In our solutions each agent is endowed with a local criterion that enables it to determine…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-03-03 Solmaz S. Kia , Jorge Cortes , Sonia Martinez

The problem of distributed access of a set of N on-off channels by K<N users is considered. The channels are slotted and modeled as independent but not necessarily identical alternating renewal processes. Each user decides to either observe…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-06-12 Shiyao Chen , Lang Tong

Recent developments and emerging use cases, such as smart Internet of Things (IoT) and Edge AI, have sparked considerable interest in the training of neural networks over fully decentralized (serverless) networks. One of the major…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-30 Eunjeong Jeong , Marios Kountouris

Federated learning is a new learning paradigm for extracting knowledge from distributed data. Due to its favorable properties in preserving privacy and saving communication costs, it has been extensively studied and widely applied to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Hongchang Gao , My T. Thai , Jie Wu

In this paper, we consider decentralized optimization problems where agents have individual cost functions to minimize subject to subspace constraints that require the minimizers across the network to lie in low-dimensional subspaces. This…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-08-01 Roula Nassif , Stefan Vlaski , Marco Carpentiero , Vincenzo Matta , Marc Antonini , Ali H. Sayed

We study decentralized optimization where multiple agents minimize the average of their (strongly) convex, smooth losses over a communication graph. Convergence of the existing decentralized methods generally hinges on an apriori, proper…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-01 Ilya Kuruzov , Xiaokai Chen , Gesualdo Scutari , Alexander Gasnikov

Reinforcement learning algorithms require a large amount of samples; this often limits their real-world applications on even simple tasks. Such a challenge is more outstanding in multi-agent tasks, as each step of operation is more costly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-05 Yali Du , Chengdong Ma , Yuchen Liu , Runji Lin , Hao Dong , Jun Wang , Yaodong Yang

We study the problem of decentralized task offloading and load-balancing in a dense network with numerous devices and a set of edge servers. Solving this problem optimally is complicated due to the unknown network information and random…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Mariam Yahya , Alexander Conzelmann , Setareh Maghsudi

We design a low complexity decentralized learning algorithm to train a recently proposed large neural network in distributed processing nodes (workers). We assume the communication network between the workers is synchronized and can be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-30 Xinyue Liang , Alireza M. Javid , Mikael Skoglund , Saikat Chatterjee

We introduce a new model of spatial random multiple access systems with a non-standard departure policy: all arriving messages are distributed uniformly on a finite sphere in the space, and when a successful transmission of a single message…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-08-29 Sergey Foss , Andrey Turlikov , Maxim Grankin

Towards realizing an intelligent networked society, enabling low-cost low-energy connectivity for things, also known as Internet of Things (IoT), is of crucial importance. While the existing wireless access networks require centralized…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-05 Amin Azari , Mahmoud Abbasi