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We consider a multi-agent system where each agent has its own estimate of a given quantity and the goal is to reach consensus on the average. To this purpose, we propose a distributed consensus algorithm that guarantees convergence to the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-08-31 Alessandro Falsone , Kostas Margellos , Simone Garatti , Maria Prandini

There is a fundamental trade-off between the communication cost and latency in information aggregation. Aggregating multiple communication messages over time can alleviate overhead and improve energy efficiency on one hand, but inevitably…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-09-25 Chi-Kin Chau , Majid Khonji , Muhammad Aftab

Distributed algorithms for solving additive or consensus optimization problems commonly rely on first-order or proximal splitting methods. These algorithms generally come with restrictive assumptions and at best enjoy a linear convergence…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-05-11 Sina Khoshfetrat Pakazad , Christian A. Naesseth , Fredrik Lindsten , Anders Hansson

In various online/offline multi-agent networked environments, it is very popular that the system can benefit from coordinating actions of two interacting agents at some cost of coordination. In this paper, we first formulate an optimization…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-09-14 Hyeryung Jang , Jinwoo Shin , Yung Yi

Non-coherent over-the-air (OTA) computation has garnered increasing attention for its advantages in facilitating information aggregation among distributed agents in resource-constrained networks without requiring precise channel estimation.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Yuhang Deng , Zheng Chen , Erik G. Larsson

The paper addresses large-scale, convex optimization problems that need to be solved in a distributed way by agents communicating according to a random time-varying graph. Specifically, the goal of the network is to minimize the sum of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-10-28 Andrea Camisa , Francesco Farina , Ivano Notarnicola , Giuseppe Notarstefano

In this paper, we consider distributed algorithms for solving the empirical risk minimization problem under the master/worker communication model. We develop a distributed asynchronous quasi-Newton algorithm that can achieve superlinear…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-06-11 Saeed Soori , Konstantin Mischenko , Aryan Mokhtari , Maryam Mehri Dehnavi , Mert Gurbuzbalaban

Distributed change-point detection has been a fundamental problem when performing real-time monitoring using sensor-networks. We propose a distributed detection algorithm, where each sensor only exchanges CUSUM statistic with their…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-01-09 Qinghua Liu , Rui Zhang , Yao Xie

We investigate the problem of co-designing computation and communication in a multi-agent system (e.g. a sensor network or a multi-robot team). We consider the realistic setting where each agent acquires sensor data and is capable of local…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Vishrant Tripathi , Luca Ballotta , Luca Carlone , Eytan Modiano

In this paper, multi-agent systems minimizing a sum of objective functions, where each component is only known to a particular node, is considered for continuous-time dynamics with time-varying interconnection topologies. Assuming that each…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Guodong Shi , Karl Henrik Johansson , Yiguang Hong

This paper analyzes consensus in multi-agent systems under uniform and nonuniform communication delays, a key challenge in distributed coordination with applications to robotic swarms. It investigates the convergence of a consensus…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-18 Shokoufeh Naderi , Maude Blondin , Sébastien Roy

We address distributed learning problems over undirected networks. Specifically, we focus on designing a novel ADMM-based algorithm that is jointly computation- and communication-efficient. Our design guarantees computational efficiency by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Xiaoxing Ren , Nicola Bastianello , Karl H. Johansson , Thomas Parisini

The distributed coordination problem of multi-agent systems is addressed in this paper under the assumption of intermittent communication between agents in the presence of time-varying communication delays. Specifically, we consider the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-09-20 Abdelkader Abdessameud , Ilia G. Polushin , Abdelhamid Tayebi

We propose a distributed algorithm to solve a dynamic programming problem with multiple agents, where each agent has only partial knowledge of the state transition probabilities and costs. We provide consensus proofs for the presented…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-06-19 Nikolaus Vertovec , Kostas Margellos

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

In this paper, we propose a communication-efficiently decentralized machine learning framework that solves a consensus optimization problem defined over a network of inter-connected workers. The proposed algorithm, Censored and Quantized…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-13 Chaouki Ben Issaid , Anis Elgabli , Jihong Park , Mehdi Bennis , Mérouane Debbah

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

We study distributed (strongly convex) optimization problems over a network of agents, with no centralized nodes. The loss functions of the agents are assumed to be \textit{similar}, due to statistical data similarity or otherwise. In order…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-04-12 Ye Tian , Gesualdo Scutari , Tianyu Cao , Alexander Gasnikov

In the past few years, the problem of distributed consensus has received a lot of attention, particularly in the framework of ad hoc sensor networks. Most methods proposed in the literature address the consensus averaging problem by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-11-13 Effrosyni Kokiopoulou , Pascal Frossard

This paper presents a novel distributed algorithm for tracking a maneuvering target using bearing or direction of arrival measurements collected by a networked sensor array. The proposed approach is built on the dynamic average-consensus…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-01-31 Jemin George