A gradient-free distributed optimization method for convex sum of nonconvex cost functions

• Main Authors: Pang, Yipeng, Hu, Guoqiang
• Other Authors: School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2023
• Subjects: Engineering::Electrical and electronic engineering; Distributed Optimization; Gradient-Free Optimization
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/170517
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This article presents a special type of distributed optimization problems, where the summation of agents' local cost functions (i.e., global cost function) is convex, but each individual can be nonconvex. Unlike most distributed optimization algorithms by taking the advantages of gradient, the...