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most citedLearning Decentralized Controllers for Robot Swarms with Graph Neural Networks

410 citations · 1.5k across the 29 of their papers we have counts for

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41 papers

eess.SP2022★ 16 cited

Graph Filters for Signal Processing and Machine Learning on Graphs

Elvin Isufi, Fernando Gama, David I. Shuman +1

Filters are fundamental in extracting information from data. For time series and image data that reside on Euclidean domains, filters are the crux of many signal processing and mac…

eess.SY2022

Distributed Optimal Control of Graph Symmetric Systems via Graph Filters

Fengjun Yang, Fernando Gama, Somayeh Sojoudi +1

Designing distributed optimal controllers subject to communication constraints is a difficult problem unless structural assumptions are imposed on the underlying dynamics and infor…

eess.SY2022★ 8 cited

Unsupervised Optimal Power Flow Using Graph Neural Networks

Damian Owerko, Fernando Gama, Alejandro Ribeiro

Optimal power flow (OPF) is a critical optimization problem that allocates power to the generators in order to satisfy the demand at a minimum cost. Solving this problem exactly is…

cs.LG2022

Stability of Aggregation Graph Neural Networks

Alejandro Parada-Mayorga, Zhiyang Wang, Fernando Gama +1

In this paper we study the stability properties of aggregation graph neural networks (Agg-GNNs) considering perturbations of the underlying graph. An Agg-GNN is a hybrid architectu…

eess.SP2022★ 12 cited

On Local Distributions in Graph Signal Processing

T. Mitchell Roddenberry, Fernando Gama, Richard G. Baraniuk +1

Graph filtering is the cornerstone operation in graph signal processing (GSP). Thus, understanding it is key in developing potent GSP methods. Graph filters are local and distribut…

cs.LG2021

Unrolling Particles: Unsupervised Learning of Sampling Distributions

Fernando Gama, Nicolas Zilberstein, Richard G. Baraniuk +1

Particle filtering is used to compute good nonlinear estimates of complex systems. It samples trajectories from a chosen distribution and computes the estimate as a weighted averag…

eess.SP2021

A Robust Alternative for Graph Convolutional Neural Networks via Graph Neighborhood Filters

Victor M. Tenorio, Samuel Rey, Fernando Gama +2

Graph convolutional neural networks (GCNNs) are popular deep learning architectures that, upon replacing regular convolutions with graph filters (GFs), generalize CNNs to irregular…

eess.SP2021

Stability Analysis of Unfolded WMMSE for Power Allocation

Arindam Chowdhury, Fernando Gama, Santiago Segarra

Power allocation is one of the fundamental problems in wireless networks and a wide variety of algorithms address this problem from different perspectives. A common element among t…

cs.LG2021★ 26 cited

Wide and Deep Graph Neural Network with Distributed Online Learning

Zhan Gao, Fernando Gama, Alejandro Ribeiro

Graph neural networks (GNNs) are naturally distributed architectures for learning representations from network data. This renders them suitable candidates for decentralized tasks.…

cs.RO2021★ 2 cited

Scalable Perception-Action-Communication Loops with Convolutional and Graph Neural Networks

Ting-Kuei Hu, Fernando Gama, Tianlong Chen +4

In this paper, we present a perception-action-communication loop design using Vision-based Graph Aggregation and Inference (VGAI). This multi-agent decentralized learning-to-contro…

cs.LG2021

Node-Variant Graph Filters in Graph Neural Networks

Fernando Gama, Brendon G. Anderson, Somayeh Sojoudi

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have been successfully employed in a myriad of applications involving graph signals. Theoretical findings establish that GNNs use nonlinear activation…

eess.SY2021

Distributed Linear-Quadratic Control with Graph Neural Networks

Fernando Gama, Somayeh Sojoudi

Controlling network systems has become a problem of paramount importance. In this paper, we consider a distributed linear-quadratic problem and propose the use of graph neural netw…

cs.LG2020

Synthesizing Decentralized Controllers with Graph Neural Networks and Imitation Learning

Fernando Gama, Qingbiao Li, Ekaterina Tolstaya +2

Dynamical systems consisting of a set of autonomous agents face the challenge of having to accomplish a global task, relying only on local information. While centralized controller…

eess.SY2020★ 1 cited

Graph Neural Networks for Distributed Linear-Quadratic Control

Fernando Gama, Somayeh Sojoudi

The linear-quadratic controller is one of the fundamental problems in control theory. The optimal solution is a linear controller that requires access to the state of the entire sy…

eess.SP2020

Discriminability of Single-Layer Graph Neural Networks

Samuel Pfrommer, Fernando Gama, Alejandro Ribeiro

Network data can be conveniently modeled as a graph signal, where data values are assigned to the nodes of a graph describing the underlying network topology. Successful learning f…

eess.SP2020

Nonlinear State-Space Generalizations of Graph Convolutional Neural Networks

Luana Ruiz, Fernando Gama, Alejandro Ribeiro +1

Graph convolutional neural networks (GCNNs) learn compositional representations from network data by nesting linear graph convolutions into nonlinearities. In this work, we approac…

cs.LG2020★ 1 cited

Spherical Convolutional Neural Networks: Stability to Perturbations in SO(3)

Zhan Gao, Fernando Gama, Alejandro Ribeiro

Spherical convolutional neural networks (Spherical CNNs) learn nonlinear representations from 3D data by exploiting the data structure and have shown promising performance in shape…

cs.LG2020

Graph Neural Networks: Architectures, Stability and Transferability

Luana Ruiz, Fernando Gama, Alejandro Ribeiro

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are information processing architectures for signals supported on graphs. They are presented here as generalizations of convolutional neural networks (…

cs.LG2020★ 1 cited

Wide and Deep Graph Neural Networks with Distributed Online Learning

Zhan Gao, Fernando Gama, Alejandro Ribeiro

Graph neural networks (GNNs) learn representations from network data with naturally distributed architectures, rendering them well-suited candidates for decentralized learning. Oft…

cs.LG2020

Graph Neural Networks for Decentralized Controllers

Fernando Gama, Ekaterina Tolstaya, Alejandro Ribeiro

Dynamical systems comprised of autonomous agents arise in many relevant problems such as multi-agent robotics, smart grids, or smart cities. Controlling these systems is of paramou…

cs.LG2020★ 177 cited

Graphs, Convolutions, and Neural Networks: From Graph Filters to Graph Neural Networks

Fernando Gama, Elvin Isufi, Geert Leus +1

Network data can be conveniently modeled as a graph signal, where data values are assigned to nodes of a graph that describes the underlying network topology. Successful learning f…

eess.SY2020★ 3 cited

VGAI: End-to-End Learning of Vision-Based Decentralized Controllers for Robot Swarms

Ting-Kuei Hu, Fernando Gama, Tianlong Chen +3

Decentralized coordination of a robot swarm requires addressing the tension between local perceptions and actions, and the accomplishment of a global objective. In this work, we pr…

eess.SP2020★ 196 cited

Gated Graph Recurrent Neural Networks

Luana Ruiz, Fernando Gama, Alejandro Ribeiro

Graph processes exhibit a temporal structure determined by the sequence index and and a spatial structure determined by the graph support. To learn from graph processes, an informa…

cs.LG2020

EdgeNets:Edge Varying Graph Neural Networks

Elvin Isufi, Fernando Gama, Alejandro Ribeiro

Driven by the outstanding performance of neural networks in the structured Euclidean domain, recent years have seen a surge of interest in developing neural networks for graphs and…