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This paper considers privacy-concerned distributed constraint-coupled resource allocation problems over an undirected network, where each agent holds a private cost function and obtains the solution via only local communication. With…

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We study distributed composite optimization over networks: agents minimize a sum of smooth (strongly) convex functions, the agents' sum-utility, plus a nonsmooth (extended-valued) convex one. We propose a general unified algorithmic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-08-04 Jinming Xu , Ye Tian , Ying Sun , Gesualdo Scutari

In this paper, we aim to solve a distributed optimization problem with affine coupling constraints in a multi-agent network, where the cost function of the agents is composed of smooth and possibly non-smooth parts. To solve this problem,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-05-31 Jianzheng Wang , Guoqiang Hu

We propose an asynchronous, decentralized algorithm for consensus optimization. The algorithm runs over a network in which the agents communicate with their neighbors and perform local computation. In the proposed algorithm, each agent can…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-03-06 Tianyu Wu , Kun Yuan , Qing Ling , Wotao Yin , Ali H. Sayed

This paper develops a distributed primal-dual algorithm via event-triggered mechanism to solve a class of convex optimization problems subject to local set constraints, coupled equality and inequality constraints. Different from some…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-10-27 Yi Huang , Xianlin Zeng , Ziyang Meng , Jian Sun

In this paper, we develop a distributed algorithm for solving a class of distributed convex optimization problems where the local objective functions can be a general nonsmooth function, and all equalities and inequalities are network-wide…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-14 Yeong-Ung Kim , Hyo-Sung Ahn

The paper studies decentralized optimization over networks, where agents minimize a sum of {\it locally} smooth (strongly) convex losses and plus a nonsmooth convex extended value term. We propose decentralized methods wherein agents {\it…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-20 Xiaokai Chen , Ilya Kuruzov , Gesualdo Scutari

By enabling the nodes or agents to solve small-sized subproblems to achieve coordination, distributed algorithms are favored by many networked systems for efficient and scalable computation. While for convex problems, substantial…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-08-24 Yu Yang , Qing-Shan Jia , Zhanbo Xu , Xiaohong Guan , Costas J. Spanos

In this paper, we consider the problem of distributed consensus optimization over multi-agent networks with directed network topology. Assuming each agent has a local cost function that is smooth and strongly convex, the global objective is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-08-21 Shi Pu

We consider distributed optimization problems in which a group of agents are to collaboratively seek the global optimum through peer-to-peer communication networks. The problem arises in various application areas, such as resource…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-08-30 Jinming Xu , Shanying Zhu , Yeng Chai Soh , Lihua Xie

Distributed aggregative optimization is a recently emerged framework in which the agents of a network want to minimize the sum of local objective functions, each one depending on the agent decision variable (e.g., the local position of a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-08 Guido Carnevale , Nicola Mimmo , Giuseppe Notarstefano

This paper investigates a novel approach for solving the distributed optimization problem in which multiple agents collaborate to find the global decision that minimizes the sum of their individual cost functions. First, the $AB$/Push-Pull…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-06-23 Duong Thuy Anh Nguyen , Duong Tung Nguyen , Angelia Nedich

This paper studies the distributed model predictive control (DMPC) problem for distributed discrete-time linear systems with both local and global constraints over directed communication networks. We establish an optimization problem to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-06 Pengbiao Wang , Xuemei Ren , Dongdong Zheng

We propose a distributed algorithm, termed the Directed-Distributed Projected Subgradient (D-DPS), to solve a constrained optimization problem over a multi-agent network, where the goal of agents is to collectively minimize the sum of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-08-30 Chenguang Xi , Usman A. Khan

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

This work proposes an Accelerated Primal-Dual Fixed-Point (APDFP) method that employs Nesterov type acceleration to solve composite problems of the form min f(x) + g(Bx), where g is nonsmooth and B is a linear operator. The APDFP features…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-04 Ya-Nan Zhu

In this work, we consider the distributed optimization of non-smooth convex functions using a network of computing units. We investigate this problem under two regularity assumptions: (1) the Lipschitz continuity of the global objective…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-06-04 Kevin Scaman , Francis Bach , Sébastien Bubeck , Yin Tat Lee , Laurent Massoulié

Motivated by emerging applications in wireless sensor networks and large-scale data processing, we consider distributed optimization over directed networks where the agents communicate their information locally to their neighbors to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-03-22 Farzad Yousefian

This paper considers distributed online nonconvex optimization with time-varying inequality constraints over a network of agents. For a time-varying graph, we propose a distributed online primal-dual algorithm with compressed communication…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-01 Kunpeng Zhang , Lei Xu , Xinlei Yi , Ming Cao , Karl H. Johansson , Tianyou Chai , Tao Yang

We propose a novel algorithm for solving convex, constrained and distributed optimization problems defined on multi-agent-networks, where each agent has exclusive access to a part of the global objective function. The agents are able to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-12 Jan Zimmermann , Tatiana Tatarenko , Volker Willert , Jürgen Adamy