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most citedOn the Influence of Bias-Correction on Distributed Stochastic Optimization

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math.OC2026

On the Spectral Dependence of Decentralized Stochastic Gradient Tracking

Sulaiman A. Alghunaim, Haoyuan Cai, Ali H. Sayed

We study how the spectral geometry of the mixing matrix enters the convergence of decentralized stochastic gradient tracking (GT) for smooth strongly convex problems. General bound…

math.OC2026

CED-EF: Compressed Exact Diffusion with Error Feedback for Multi-Agent Learning

Sulaiman A. Alghunaim, Kun Yuan

We study decentralized stochastic optimization over a network of agents under compressed communication. We propose CED-EF, an exact diffusion-based method with error feedback t…

math.OC2026

Stochastic Gradient Tracking over Time-Varying Networks: One-Step Lyapunov Analysis

Sulaiman A. Alghunaim

We study decentralized stochastic gradient tracking over a time-varying network of agents under a uniform window-mixing condition. Products of consecutive doubly stochastic…

math.OC2025

DAMA: A Unified Accelerated Approach for Decentralized Nonconvex Minimax Optimization-Part II: Convergence and Performance Analyses

Haoyuan Cai, Sulaiman A. Alghunaim, Ali H. Sayed

In Part I of this work [1], we developed an accelerated algorithmic framework, DAMA (Decentralized Accelerated Minimax Approach), for nonconvex Polyak-Lojasiewicz (PL) minimax opti…

math.OC2025

DAMA: A Unified Accelerated Approach for Decentralized Nonconvex Minimax Optimization-Part I: Algorithm Development and Results

Haoyuan Cai, Sulaiman A. Alghunaim, Ali H. Sayed

In this work and its accompanying Part II [1], we develop an accelerated algorithmic framework, DAMA (Decentralized Accelerated Minimax Approach), for nonconvex Polyak-Lojasiewicz…

math.OC2025

Communication-Efficient Decentralized Stochastic Minimax Optimization

Haoyuan Cai, Sulaiman A. Alghunaim, Ali H. Sayed

In this work, we study decentralized stochastic nonconvex Polyak--Łojasiewicz minimax problems and propose a communication-efficient algorithm. Motivated by the efficiency of local…

math.OC2023

Local Exact-Diffusion for Decentralized Optimization and Learning

Sulaiman A. Alghunaim

Distributed optimization methods with local updates have recently attracted a lot of attention due to their potential to reduce the communication cost of distributed methods. In th…

math.OC2023

An Enhanced Gradient-Tracking Bound for Distributed Online Stochastic Convex Optimization

Sulaiman A. Alghunaim, Kun Yuan

Gradient-tracking (GT) based decentralized methods have emerged as an effective and viable alternative method to decentralized (stochastic) gradient descent (DSGD) when solving dis…

math.OC2022

On the Performance of Gradient Tracking with Local Updates

Edward Duc Hien Nguyen, Sulaiman A. Alghunaim, Kun Yuan +1

We study the decentralized optimization problem where a network of agents seeks to minimize the average of a set of heterogeneous non-convex cost functions distributedly. State…

math.OC2021★ 11 cited

Removing Data Heterogeneity Influence Enhances Network Topology Dependence of Decentralized SGD

Kun Yuan, Sulaiman A. Alghunaim, Xinmeng Huang

We consider the decentralized stochastic optimization problems, where a network of nodes, each owning a local cost function, cooperate to find a minimizer of the globally-avera…

math.OC2020

A Multi-Agent Primal-Dual Strategy for Composite Optimization over Distributed Features

Sulaiman A. Alghunaim, Ming Yan, Ali H. Sayed

This work studies multi-agent sharing optimization problems with the objective function being the sum of smooth local functions plus a convex (possibly non-smooth) function couplin…

math.OC2019

Decentralized Proximal Gradient Algorithms with Linear Convergence Rates

Sulaiman A. Alghunaim, Ernest K. Ryu, Kun Yuan +1

This work studies a class of non-smooth decentralized multi-agent optimization problems where the agents aim at minimizing a sum of local strongly-convex smooth components plus a c…

math.OC2019★ 49 cited

A Linearly Convergent Proximal Gradient Algorithm for Decentralized Optimization

Sulaiman A. Alghunaim, Kun Yuan, Ali H. Sayed

Decentralized optimization is a powerful paradigm that finds applications in engineering and learning design. This work studies decentralized composite optimization problems with n…

math.OC2019

Linear Convergence of Primal-Dual Gradient Methods and their Performance in Distributed Optimization

Sulaiman A. Alghunaim, Ali H. Sayed

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 problem…

math.OC2018

A Proximal Diffusion Strategy for Multi-Agent Optimization with Sparse Affine Constraints

Sulaiman A. Alghunaim, Kun Yuan, Ali H. Sayed

This work develops a proximal primal-dual decentralized strategy for multi-agent optimization problems that involve multiple coupled affine constraints, where each constraint may i…

math.OC2017

Distributed Coupled Multi-Agent Stochastic Optimization

Sulaiman A. Alghunaim, Ali H. Sayed

This work develops effective distributed strategies for the solution of constrained multi-agent stochastic optimization problems with coupled parameters across the agents. In this…