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

• المؤلفون الرئيسيون: Pang, Yipeng, Hu, Guoqiang
• مؤلفون آخرون: School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
• التنسيق: مقال
• اللغة: English
• منشور في: 2023
• الموضوعات: Engineering::Electrical and electronic engineering; Distributed Optimization; Gradient-Free Optimization
• الوصول للمادة أونلاين: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/170517

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...