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High communication costs create a major bottleneck for distributed resource allocation over unbalanced directed networks. Conventional dual gradient tracking methods, while effective for problems on unbalanced digraphs, rely on periodic…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-18 Xiayan Xu , Xiaomeng Chen , Dawei Shi , Ling Shi

Resources such as bandwidth and energy are limited in many wireless communications use cases, especially when large numbers of sensors and fusion centers need to exchange information frequently. One opportunity to overcome resource…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-14 Eva Julia Schmitt , Benjamin Noack

Distributed sensor networks have gained interest thanks to the developments in processing power and communications. Event-triggering mechanisms can be useful in reducing communication between the nodes of the network, while still ensuring…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-27 Irene Perez-Salesa , Rodrigo Aldana-Lopez , Carlos Sagues

In this paper, we present a novel distributed expectation propagation algorithm for multiple sensors, multiple objects tracking in cluttered environments. The proposed framework enables each sensor to operate locally while collaboratively…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-09 Qing Li , Runze Gan , James R. Hopgood , Michael E. Davies , Simon J. Godsill

This paper focuses on the distributed online convex optimization problem with time-varying inequality constraints over a network of agents, where each agent collaborates with its neighboring agents to minimize the cumulative network-wide…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-05-06 Kunpeng Zhang , Xinlei Yi , Yuzhe Li , Ming Cao , Tianyou Chai , Tao Yang

This paper investigates the privacy-preserving distributed optimization problem, aiming to protect agents' private information from potential attackers during the optimization process. Gradient tracking, an advanced technique for improving…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Furan Xie , Bing Liu , Li Chai

Tracking multiple time-varying states based on heterogeneous observations is a key problem in many applications. Here, we develop a statistical model and algorithm for tracking an unknown number of targets based on the probabilistic fusion…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-10 Domenico Gaglione , Paolo Braca , Giovanni Soldi , Florian Meyer , Franz Hlawatsch , Moe Z. Win

Consensus is a popular technique for distributed state estimation. This formulation allows networks of connected agents or sensors to exchange information about the distribution of a set of targets with their immediate neighbors without the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-03 Ishan Paranjape , Islam Hussein , Jeremy Murray-Krezan , Sean Phillips , Suman Chakravorty

Decentralized optimization and communication compression have exhibited their great potential in accelerating distributed machine learning by mitigating the communication bottleneck in practice. While existing decentralized algorithms with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-13 Yao Li , Xiaorui Liu , Jiliang Tang , Ming Yan , Kun Yuan

Distributed optimization enables networked agents to cooperatively solve a global optimization problem even with each participating agent only having access to a local partial view of the objective function. Despite making significant…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-10-04 Yongqiang Wang , Tamer Başar

In edge inference, an edge server provides remote-inference services to edge devices. This requires the edge devices to upload high-dimensional features of data samples over resource-constrained wireless channels, which creates a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-15 Qiao Lan , Qunsong Zeng , Petar Popovski , Deniz Gündüz , Kaibin Huang

We study distributed estimation of a high-dimensional static parameter vector through a group of sensors whose communication network is modeled by a fixed directed graph. Different from existing time-triggered communication schemes, an…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-10 Xingkang He , Yu Xing , Junfeng Wu , Karl H. Johansson

In the context of distributed fusion estimation, directly transmitting local estimates to the fusion center may cause a privacy leakage concerning exogenous inputs. Thus, it is crucial to protect exogenous inputs against full eavesdropping…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-30 Liping Guo , Jimin Wang , Yanlong Zhao , Ji-Feng Zhang

The present paper deals with data-driven event-triggered control of a class of unknown discrete-time interconnected systems (a.k.a. network systems). To this end, we start by putting forth a novel distributed event-triggering transmission…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-15 Xin Wang , Jian Sun , Gang Wang , Frank Allgöwer , Jie Chen

Using network-based information to facilitate information spreading is an essential task for spreading dynamics in complex networks, which will benefit the promotion of technical innovations, healthy behaviors, new products, etc. Focusing…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-06-20 Lei Gao , Wei Wang , Liming Pan , Ming Tang , Hai-Feng Zhang

Transformer-based entropy models have gained prominence in recent years due to their superior ability to capture long-range dependencies in probability distribution estimation compared to convolution-based methods. However, previous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-03 Daxin Li , Yuanchao Bai , Kai Wang , Junjun Jiang , Xianming Liu , Wen Gao

We present a framework for model-free learning of event-triggered control strategies. Event-triggered methods aim to achieve high control performance while only closing the feedback loop when needed. This enables resource savings, e.g.,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-26 Niklas Funk , Dominik Baumann , Vincent Berenz , Sebastian Trimpe

In distributed target-tracking sensor networks, efficient data gathering methods are necessary to save communication resources and assure information accuracy. This paper proposes a Feedback (FB) distributed data-gathering method which lets…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-07 Hyeongmin Choe , SooJean Han

Emerging applications in multi-agent environments such as internet-of-things, networked sensing, autonomous systems and federated learning, call for decentralized algorithms for finite-sum optimizations that are resource-efficient in terms…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-12-03 Boyue Li , Zhize Li , Yuejie Chi

Imitation learning has shown great potential for enabling robots to acquire complex manipulation behaviors. However, these algorithms suffer from high sample complexity in long-horizon tasks, where compounding errors accumulate over the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Tian Gao , Soroush Nasiriany , Huihan Liu , Quantao Yang , Yuke Zhu