A survey of distributed optimization

T Yang, X Yi, J Wu, Y Yuan, D Wu, Z Meng… - Annual Reviews in …, 2019 - Elsevier
In distributed optimization of multi-agent systems, agents cooperate to minimize a global
function which is a sum of local objective functions. Motivated by applications including …

Advances in asynchronous parallel and distributed optimization

M Assran, A Aytekin, HR Feyzmahdavian… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Motivated by large-scale optimization problems arising in the context of machine learning,
there have been several advances in the study of asynchronous parallel and distributed …

Network topology and communication-computation tradeoffs in decentralized optimization

A Nedić, A Olshevsky, MG Rabbat - Proceedings of the IEEE, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In decentralized optimization, nodes cooperate to minimize an overall objective function that
is the sum (or average) of per-node private objective functions. Algorithms interleave local …

Stochastic gradient push for distributed deep learning

M Assran, N Loizou, N Ballas… - … on Machine Learning, 2019 - proceedings.mlr.press
Distributed data-parallel algorithms aim to accelerate the training of deep neural networks
by parallelizing the computation of large mini-batch gradient updates across multiple nodes …

Distributed gradient methods for convex machine learning problems in networks: Distributed optimization

A Nedic - IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article provides an overview of distributed gradient methods for solving convex machine
learning problems of the form minxRn (1/m) ΣR i= 1 fi (x) in a system consisting of mm …

Privacy-preserving distributed averaging via homomorphically encrypted ratio consensus

CN Hadjicostis… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this article, we develop distributed iterative algorithms that enable the components of a
multicomponent system, each with some integer initial value, to asymptotically compute the …

Consensus conditions of continuous-time multi-agent systems with time-delays and measurement noises

X Zong, T Li, JF Zhang - Automatica, 2019 - Elsevier
This work is concerned with stochastic consensus conditions of multi-agent systems with
both time-delays and measurement noises. For the case of additive noises, we develop …

Distributed control of battery energy storage systems for improved frequency regulation

T Zhao, A Parisio, JV Milanović - IEEE Transactions on Power …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper a distributed control strategy for coordinating multiple battery energy storage
systems to support frequency regulation in power systems with high penetration of …

Distributed estimation approach for tracking a mobile target via formation of UAVs

M Doostmohammadian, A Taghieh… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper considers distributed estimation methods to enable the formation of Unmanned-
Aerial-Vehicles (UAVs) that track a moving target. The UAVs (or agents) are equipped with …

Distributed finite-time average consensus in digraphs in the presence of time delays

T Charalambous, Y Yuan, T Yang… - … on Control of …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Most algorithms for distributed averaging only guarantee asymptotic convergence. This
paper introduces a distributed protocol that allows nodes to find the exact average of the …