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We consider a multi-agent network where each node has a stochastic (local) cost function that depends on the decision variable of that node and a random variable, and further the decision variables of neighboring nodes are pairwise…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-12-24 Navjot Singh , Xuanyu Cao , Suhas Diggavi , Tamer Basar

We introduce a new framework for distributed computing that extends and refines the standard master-worker approach of scheduling multi-threaded computations. In this framework, there are different roles: a supervisor, a source, a target,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-09-11 John Augustine , Christian Scheideler , Julian Werthmann

The convergence speed of machine learning models trained with Federated Learning is significantly affected by heterogeneous data partitions, even more so in a fully decentralized setting without a central server. In this paper, we show that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-05 Aurélien Bellet , Anne-Marie Kermarrec , Erick Lavoie

In this paper we study the data exchange problem where a set of users is interested in gaining access to a common file, but where each has only partial knowledge about it as side-information. Assuming that the file is broken into packets,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-02-24 Nebojsa Milosavljevic , Sameer Pawar , Salim El Rouayheb , Michael Gastpar , Kannan Ramchandran

With growing deployment of Internet of Things (IoT) and machine learning (ML) applications, which need to leverage computation on edge and cloud resources, it is important to develop algorithms and tools to place these distributed…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-12-30 Xiangchen Zhao , Diyi Hu , Bhaskar Krishnamachari

In this paper, we consider the unconstrained distributed optimization problem, in which the exchange of information in the network is captured by a directed graph topology, thus, nodes can only communicate with their neighbors.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-07 Apostolos I. Rikos , Wei Jiang , Themistoklis Charalambous , Karl H. Johansson

Next-generation communication networks are envisioned to extensively utilize storage-enabled caching units to alleviate unfavorable surges of data traffic by pro-actively storing anticipated highly popular contents across geographically…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-02-20 Alireza Sadeghi , Antonio G. Marques , Georgios B. Giannakis

Distributed learning has become a critical enabler of the massively connected world envisioned by many. This article discusses four key elements of scalable distributed processing and real-time intelligence --- problems, data, communication…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-24 Tsung-Hui Chang , Mingyi Hong , Hoi-To Wai , Xinwei Zhang , Songtao Lu

We study the maximum $k$-set coverage problem in the following distributed setting. A collection of sets $S_1,\ldots,S_m$ over a universe $[n]$ is partitioned across $p$ machines and the goal is to find $k$ sets whose union covers the most…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-08-24 Sepehr Assadi , Sanjeev Khanna

We introduce a new and increasingly relevant setting for distributed optimization in machine learning, where the data defining the optimization are unevenly distributed over an extremely large number of nodes. The goal is to train a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-10-11 Jakub Konečný , H. Brendan McMahan , Daniel Ramage , Peter Richtárik

The {Congested Clique} is a distributed-computing model for single-hop networks with restricted bandwidth that has been very intensively studied recently. It models a network by an $n$-vertex graph in which any pair of vertices can…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-02-21 Leonid Barenboim , Victor Khazanov

We consider the problem of optimally allocating a given total storage budget in a distributed storage system. A source has a data object which it can code and store over a set of storage nodes; it is allowed to store any amount of coded…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Derek Leong , Alexandros G. Dimakis , Tracey Ho

We consider the problem of jointly optimizing users' offloading decisions, communication and computing resource allocation in a sliced multi-cell mobile edge computing (MEC) network. We minimize the weighted sum of the gap between the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-12 Sheyda Zarandi , Hina Tabassum

Graph learning is often a necessary step in processing or representing structured data, when the underlying graph is not given explicitly. Graph learning is generally performed centrally with a full knowledge of the graph signals, namely…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-14 Isabela Cunha Maia Nobre , Mireille El Gheche , Pascal Frossard

Distributed optimization concerns the optimization of a common function in a distributed network, which finds a wide range of applications ranging from machine learning to vehicle platooning. Its key operation is to aggregate all local…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-04-15 Zhenyi Lin , Yi Gong , Kaibin Huang

We study the balanced $k$-way hypergraph partitioning problem, with a special focus on its practical applications to manycore scheduling. Given a hypergraph on $n$ nodes, our goal is to partition the node set into $k$ parts of size at most…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-04-06 Pál András Papp , Georg Anegg , A. N. Yzelman

This work presents a decentralized allocation algorithm of safety-critical application on parallel computing architectures, where individual Computational Units can be affected by faults. The described method consists in representing the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-11-20 Thanakorn Khamvilai , Louis Sutter , Eric Feron , Philippe Baufreton , Francois Neumann

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

We consider a class of popular distributed non-convex optimization problems, in which agents connected by a network $\mathcal{G}$ collectively optimize a sum of smooth (possibly non-convex) local objective functions. We address the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-01-08 Haoran Sun , Mingyi Hong

Collaborative edge computing (CEC) is an emerging paradigm for heterogeneous devices to collaborate on edge computation jobs. For congestible links and computing units, delay-optimal forwarding and offloading for service chain tasks (e.g.,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Jinkun Zhang , Edmund Yeh