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Communication overhead hinders the scalability of large-scale distributed training. Gossip SGD, where each node averages only with its neighbors, is more communication-efficient than the prevalent parallel SGD. However, its convergence rate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-20 Yiming Chen , Kun Yuan , Yingya Zhang , Pan Pan , Yinghui Xu , Wotao Yin

As agentic platforms scale, agents are moving beyond fixed roles and predefined toolchains, creating an urgent need for flexible and decentralized coordination. Current structured communication protocols such as direct agent-to-agent…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Nafiul I. Khan , Mansura Habiba , Rafflesia Khan

Distributed averaging is among the most relevant cooperative control problems, with applications in sensor and robotic networks, distributed signal processing, data fusion, and load balancing. Consensus and gossip algorithms have been…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-06 Christel Sirocchi , Alessandro Bogliolo

This paper investigates the message complexity of distributed information spreading (a.k.a gossip or token dissemination) in adversarial dynamic networks, where the goal is to spread $k$ tokens of information to every node on an $n$-node…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-06-27 Mohamad Ahmadi , Fabian Kuhn , Shay Kutten , Anisur Rahaman Molla , Gopal Pandurangan

We consider a rumor model in which the network is divided into three classes of agents: ignorant, spreader, and stifler. A spreader transmits the rumor to each of its ignorant neighbors at rate one, and at the same rate, it becomes a…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-01-06 Ana C. Díaz Bacca , Pablo M. Rodriguez , Catalina M. Rúa-Alvarez

We show how to construct an overlay network of constant degree and diameter $O(\log n)$ in time $O(\log n)$ starting from an arbitrary weakly connected graph. We assume a synchronous communication network in which nodes can send messages to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-07-28 Thorsten Götte , Kristian Hinnenthal , Christian Scheideler , Julian Werthmann

We provide an in-depth study of the knowledge-theoretic aspects of communication in so-called gossip protocols. Pairs of agents communicate by means of calls in order to spread information---so-called secrets---within the group. Depending…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2018-10-12 Krzysztof R. Apt , Davide Grossi , Wiebe van der Hoek

In earlier rumor spreading models, at each time step nodes contact all of their neighbors. In more realistic scenario it is possible that a node may contact only some of its neighbors to spread the rumor. Therefore it is must in real world…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2013-04-05 Anurag Singh , Yatindra Nath Singh

In this paper, we develop and analyze a gossip-based average consensus algorithm that enables all of the components of a distributed system, each with some initial value, to reach (approximate) average consensus on their initial values…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-09 Nicolaos E. Manitara , Apostolos I. Rikos , Christoforos N. Hadjicostis

The convergence of the gossip process has been extensively studied; however, algorithms that generate a set of stochastic matrices, the infinite product of which converges to a rank-one matrix determined by a given weight vector, have been…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-02-28 Erkan Bayram , Mohamed-Ali Belabbas

In this paper we investigate the limit performance of Floating Gossip, a new, fully distributed Gossip Learning scheme which relies on Floating Content to implement location-based probabilistic evolution of machine learning models in an…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-11-23 Gianluca Rizzo , Noelia Perez Palma , Marco Ajmone Marsan , Vincenzo Mancuso

This paper considers the average consensus problem on a network of digital links, and proposes a set of algorithms based on pairwise ''gossip'' communications and updates. We study the convergence properties of such algorithms with the goal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2011-07-25 Ruggero Carli , Fabio Fagnani , Paolo Frasca , Sandro Zampieri

We consider gossiping in a fully-connected wireless network consisting of $n$ nodes. The network receives Poisson updates from a source, which generates new information. The nodes gossip their available information with the neighboring…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-09 Purbesh Mitra , Sennur Ulukus

The libp2p GossipSub protocol leverages a full-message mesh with a lower node degree and a more densely connected metadata-only (gossip) mesh. This combination allows an efficient dissemination of messages in unstructured peer-to-peer (P2P)…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Muhammad Umar Farooq , Tanguy Cizain , Daniel Kaiser

The Gauss-Newton algorithm is a popular and efficient centralized method for solving non-linear least squares problems. In this paper, we propose a multi-agent distributed version of this algorithm, named Gossip-based Gauss-Newton (GGN)…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-08-24 Xiao Li , Anna Scaglione

We study the stopping times of gossip algorithms for network coding. We analyze algebraic gossip (i.e., random linear coding) and consider three gossip algorithms for information spreading Pull, Push, and Exchange. The stopping time of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-08-28 Michael Borokhovich , Chen Avin , Zvi Lotker

In instances of online kernel learning where little prior information is available and centralized learning is unfeasible, past research has shown that distributed and online multi-kernel learning provides sub-linear regret as long as every…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Tomas Ortega , Hamid Jafarkhani

In the ad-hoc radio network model, nodes communicate with their neighbors via radio signals, without knowing the topology of the graph. We study the information gathering problem, where each node has a piece of information called a rumor,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-11-19 Marek Chrobak , Kevin Costello , Leszek Gasieniec

As agentic platforms scale, agents are evolving beyond static roles and fixed toolchains, creating a growing need for flexible, decentralized coordination. Today's structured communication protocols (e.g., direct agent-to-agent messaging)…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Mansura Habiba , Nafiul I. Khan

The spread of rumors, which are known as unverified statements of uncertain origin, may cause tremendous number of social problems. If it would be possible to identify factors affecting spreading a rumor (such as agents' desires, trust…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-10-23 Masoud Amoozgar , Rasoul Ramezanian