Publications related to Decentralized Decision-Making Over Multi-Task Networks

Optimization Algorithms for Decentralized, Distributed and Collaborative Machine Learning

Distributed learning is the key for enabling training of modern large-scale machine learning models, through parallelising the learning process. Collaborative learning is essential for learning from privacy-sensitive data that is distributed across various ...

EPFL2024

Online interoperable resources for building hippocampal neuron models via the Hippocampus Hub

Felix Schürmann, Armando Romani, Michele Migliore, Luca Leonardo Bologna

To build biophysically detailed models of brain cells, circuits, and regions, a data-driven approach is increasingly being adopted. This helps to obtain a simulated activity that reproduces the experimentally recorded neural dynamics as faithfully as possi ...

2023

Generalizing Bulk-Synchronous Parallel Processing for Data Science: From Data to Threads and Agent-Based Simulations

Zilu Tian

Agent-based simulations have been widely applied in many disciplines, by scientists and engineers alike. Scientists use agent-based simulations to tackle global problems, including alleviating poverty, reducing violence, and predicting the impact of pandem ...

EPFL2023

Multi-robot task allocation for safe planning against stochastic hazard dynamics

Orcun Karaca, Maryam Kamgarpour

We address multi-robot safe mission planning in uncertain dynamic environments. This problem arises in several applications including safety-critical exploration, surveillance, and emergency rescue missions. Computation of a multi-robot optimal control pol ...

IEEE2023

Opinion Formation over Adaptive Networks

Virginia Bordignon

An adaptive network consists of multiple communicating agents, equipped with sensing and learning abilities that allow them to extract meaningful information from measurements. The objective of the network is to solve a global inference problem in a decent ...

EPFL2022

Synthesis and Analysis of 3D shapes with Geometric Deep Learning in Computer-Aided Engineering

Edoardo Remelli

In this thesis, we advocate that Computer-Aided Engineering could benefit from a Geometric Deep Learning revolution, similarly to the way that Deep Learning revolutionized Computer Vision. To do so, we consider a variety of Computer-Aided Engineering pr ...

EPFL2022

MaxwellNet: Physics-driven deep neural network training based on Maxwell's equations

Demetri Psaltis, Joowon Lim

Maxwell's equations govern light propagation and its interaction with matter. Therefore, the solution of Maxwell's equations using computational electromagnetic simulations plays a critical role in understanding light-matter interaction and designing optic ...

AIP Publishing2022

Meta Navigation Functions: Adaptive Associations for Coordination of Multi-Agent Systems

Matin Macktoobian

In this paper, we introduce a new class of potential fields, i.e., meta navigation functions (MNFs) to coordinate multi-agent systems. Thanks to the MNF formulation, agents can contribute to each other's coordination via partial and/or total associations, ...

IEEE2022

Increasing Superstructure Optimization Capacity Through Self-Learning Surrogate Models

François Maréchal, Ivan Daniel Kantor, Julia Granacher

Simulation-based optimization models are widely applied to find optimal operating conditions of processes. Often, computational challenges arise from model complexity, making the generation of reliable design solutions difficult. We propose an algorithm fo ...

2021

Self-learning surrogate models in superstructure optimization

François Maréchal, Ivan Daniel Kantor, Julia Granacher, Michel Lopez

In this contribution, we propose an algorithm for replacing non-linear process simulation integrated in multi-level optimization of an energy system superstructure with surrogate models. With our approach, we demonstrate that surrogate models are a valid t ...

Elsevier2021

Adaptation And Learning In Multi-Task Decision Systems

Ali H. Sayed

Adaptation and learning over multi-agent networks is a topic of great relevance with important implications. Elaborating on previous works on single-task networks engaged in decision problems, here we consider the multi-task version in the challenging scen ...

IEEE2020

Linear convergence of primal-dual gradient methods and their performance in distributed optimization

Ali H. Sayed, Sulaiman A S A E Alghunaim

In this work, we revisit a classical incremental implementation of the primal-descent dual-ascent gradient method used for the solution of equality constrained optimization problems. We provide a short proof that establishes the linear (exponential) conver ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2020

A new wake model and comparison of eight algorithms for layout optimization of wind farms in complex terrain

Fernando Porté Agel, Roberto Brogna

Layout optimization of wind farms constitutes an important and challenging task in complex terrain. This is especially due to the complex interactions of the boundary layer flows in complex terrain and wind turbine wakes, which renders wake modelling in co ...

ELSEVIER SCI LTD2020

Walkman: A Communication-Efficient Random-Walk Algorithm for Decentralized Optimization

Ali H. Sayed, Kun Yuan

This paper introduces a new algorithm for consensus optimization in a multi-agent network, where all agents collaboratively find a minimizer for the sum of their private functions. All decentralized algorithms rely on communications between adjacent nodes. ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2020

Convergence without Convexity: Sampling, Optimization, and Games

Ya-Ping Hsieh

Many important problems in contemporary machine learning involve solving highly non- convex problems in sampling, optimization, or games. The absence of convexity poses significant challenges to convergence analysis of most training algorithms, and in some ...

EPFL2020

Distributed Learning over Networks under Subspace Constraints

Ali H. Sayed, Roula Nassif, Stefan Vlaski

This work presents and studies a distributed algorithm for solving optimization problems over networks where agents have individual costs to minimize subject to subspace constraints that require the minimizers across the network to lie in a low-dimensional ...

IEEE2019

Modeling and Assessment of Urban Energy Systems

Amarasinghage Tharindu Dasun Perera

Improving the energy sustainability of our cities involves the integration of multiple renewable energy technologies into existing energy infrastructure, stretching the capabilities of traditional energy systems to the limit. To consider the transition tak ...

EPFL2019

On Certifying Non-Uniform Bounds against Adversarial Attacks

Volkan Cevher, Chen Liu

This work studies the robustness certification problem of neural network models, which aims to find certified adversary-free regions as large as possible around data points. In contrast to the existing approaches that seek regions bounded uniformly along a ...

2019

Distributed Optimization and Control using Operator Splitting Methods

Georgios Stathopoulos

The significant progress that has been made in recent years both in hardware implementations and in numerical computing has rendered real-time optimization-based control a viable option when it comes to advanced industrial applications. At the same time, t ...

EPFL2018

Mean-Field methods for Structured Deep-Learning in Computer Vision

Pierre Bruno Baqué

In recent years, Machine Learning based Computer Vision techniques made impressive progress. These algorithms proved particularly efficient for image classification or detection of isolated objects. From a probabilistic perspective, these methods can predi ...

EPFL2018