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In distributed learning, the goal is to perform a learning task over data distributed across multiple nodes with minimal (expensive) communication. Prior work (Daume III et al., 2012) proposes a general model that bounds the communication…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-04-17 Hal Daume , Jeff M. Phillips , Avishek Saha , Suresh Venkatasubramanian

We present distributed algorithms that can be used by multiple agents to align their estimates with a particular value over a network with time-varying connectivity. Our framework is general in that this value can represent a consensus…

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This paper presents a family of algorithms for decentralized convex composite problems. We consider the setting of a network of agents that cooperatively minimize a global objective function composed of a sum of local functions plus a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-02-14 Yichuan Li , Petros G. Voulgaris , Dusan M. Stipanovic , Nikolaos M. Freris

This paper proposes two nonlinear dynamics to solve constrained distributed optimization problem for resource allocation over a multi-agent network. In this setup, coupling constraint refers to resource-demand balance which is preserved at…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-30 Mohammadreza Doostmohammadian , Alireza Aghasi , Maria Vrakopoulou , Hamid R. Rabiee , Usman A. Khan , Themistoklis Charalambou

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

We consider distributed convex optimization problems originated from sample average approximation of stochastic optimization, or empirical risk minimization in machine learning. We assume that each machine in the distributed computing…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-01-05 Yuchen Zhang , Lin Xiao

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

In this paper we consider resource allocation problem stated as a convex minimization problem with linear constraints. To solve this problem, we use gradient and accelerated gradient descent applied to the dual problem and prove the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-10-01 Anastasiya Ivanova , Pavel Dvurechensky , Alexander Gasnikov , Dmitry Kamzolov

Error bound analysis, which estimates the distance of a point to the solution set of an optimization problem using the optimality residual, is a powerful tool for the analysis of first-order optimization algorithms. In this paper, we use…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-07-01 Jiawei Zhang , Zhiquan Luo

Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers (ADMM) is a popular convex optimization algorithm, which can be employed for solving distributed consensus optimization problems. In this setting agents locally estimate the optimal solution of an…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-03-27 Layla Majzoobi , Farshad Lahouti , Vahid Shah-Mansouri

This paper considers the distributed online convex-concave optimization with constraint sets over a multiagent network, in which each agent autonomously generates a series of decision pairs through a designable mechanism to cooperatively…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-14 Wentao Zhang , Baoyong Zhang , Deming Yuan , Shengyuan Xu , Vincent K. N. Lau

Distributed online convex optimization (D-OCO) is a powerful paradigm for modeling distributed scenarios with streaming data. However, the communication cost between local learners and the central server is substantial in large-scale…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Sifan Yang , Dan-Yue Li , Lijun Zhang

The problem of minimizing a separable convex function under linearly coupled constraints arises from various application domains such as economic systems, distributed control, and network flow. The main challenge for solving this problem is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-09-05 Qin Fan , Min Xu , Yiming Ying

Distributed optimization finds applications in large-scale machine learning, data processing and classification over multi-agent networks. In real-world scenarios, the communication network of agents may encounter latency that may affect…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-06 Mohammadreza Doostmohammadian , Narahari Kasagatta Ramesh , Alireza Aghasi

In this paper, a distributed convex optimization algorithm, termed \emph{distributed coordinate dual averaging} (DCDA) algorithm, is proposed. The DCDA algorithm addresses the scenario of a large distributed optimization problem with…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-10-31 Milind Rao , Stefano Rini , Andrea Goldsmith

Optimizing problems in a distributed manner is critical for systems involving multiple agents with private data. Despite substantial interest, a unified method for analyzing the convergence rates of distributed optimization algorithms is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-01 Mayank Baranwal , Kushal Chakrabarti

In this paper, we focus on finding the global minimizer of a general unconstrained nonsmooth nonconvex optimization problem. Taking advantage of the smoothing method and the consensus-based optimization (CBO) method, we propose a novel…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-14 Jiazhen Wei , Wei Bian

This paper considers distributed optimization for minimizing the average of local nonconvex cost functions, by using local information exchange over undirected communication networks. To reduce the required communication capacity, we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-03 Lei Xu , Xinlei Yi , Jiayue Sun , Yang Shi , Karl H. Johansson , Tao Yang

We study first-order optimization algorithms under the constraint that the descent direction is quantized using a pre-specified budget of $R$-bits per dimension, where $R \in (0 ,\infty)$. We propose computationally efficient optimization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-17 Rajarshi Saha , Mert Pilanci , Andrea J. Goldsmith

This article reports an algorithm for multi-agent distributed optimization problems with a common decision variable, local linear equality and inequality constraints and set constraints with convergence rate guarantees.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-17 Vivek Khatana , Murti V. Salapaka