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most citedA Near-Optimal Algorithm for Stochastic Bilevel Optimization via Double-Momentum

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cs.CR2026

Securing Autonomous Vehicle Systems via Twin-Aware Federated Reinforcement Learning

Zifan Zhang, Minghong Fang, Dianwei Chen +5

Federated reinforcement learning (FRL) is crucial for enabling collaborative learning across multiple agents without sharing raw data, thereby enhancing privacy and scalability in…

math.OC2025

A Discretization Approach for Bilevel Optimization with Low-Dimensional and Non-Convex Lower-Level

Xiaotian Jiang, Ioannis Tsaknakis, Prashant Khanduri +1

Bilevel optimization (BLO) problem, where two optimization problems (referred to as upper- and lower-level problems) are coupled hierarchically, has wide applications in areas such…

math.OC2025

A Doubly Stochastically Perturbed Algorithm for Linearly Constrained Bilevel Optimization

Prashant Khanduri, Ioannis Tsaknakis, Yihua Zhang +2

In this work, we develop analysis and algorithms for a class of (stochastic) bilevel optimization problems whose lower-level (LL) problem is strongly convex and linearly constraine…

cs.CR2024★ 4 cited

Byzantine-Robust Decentralized Federated Learning

Minghong Fang, Zifan Zhang, Hairi +5

Federated learning (FL) enables multiple clients to collaboratively train machine learning models without revealing their private training data. In conventional FL, the system foll…

cs.LG2024

Understanding Server-Assisted Federated Learning in the Presence of Incomplete Client Participation

Haibo Yang, Peiwen Qiu, Prashant Khanduri +2

Existing works in federated learning (FL) often assume an ideal system with either full client or uniformly distributed client participation. However, in practice, it has been obse…

cs.LG2023★ 4 cited

An Introduction to Bi-level Optimization: Foundations and Applications in Signal Processing and Machine Learning

Yihua Zhang, Prashant Khanduri, Ioannis Tsaknakis +3

Recently, bi-level optimization (BLO) has taken center stage in some very exciting developments in the area of signal processing (SP) and machine learning (ML). Roughly speaking, B…

cs.LG2023

DIAMOND: Taming Sample and Communication Complexities in Decentralized Bilevel Optimization

Peiwen Qiu, Yining Li, Zhuqing Liu +5

Decentralized bilevel optimization has received increasing attention recently due to its foundational role in many emerging multi-agent learning paradigms (e.g., multi-agent meta-l…

cs.LG2022★ 1 cited

INTERACT: Achieving Low Sample and Communication Complexities in Decentralized Bilevel Learning over Networks

Zhuqing Liu, Xin Zhang, Prashant Khanduri +2

In recent years, decentralized bilevel optimization problems have received increasing attention in the networking and machine learning communities thanks to their versatility in mo…

cs.LG2021★ 19 cited

Revisiting and Advancing Fast Adversarial Training Through The Lens of Bi-Level Optimization

Yihua Zhang, Guanhua Zhang, Prashant Khanduri +3

Adversarial training (AT) is a widely recognized defense mechanism to gain the robustness of deep neural networks against adversarial attacks. It is built on min-max optimization (…

cs.LG2021★ 6 cited

Anarchic Federated Learning

Haibo Yang, Xin Zhang, Prashant Khanduri +1

Present-day federated learning (FL) systems deployed over edge networks consists of a large number of workers with high degrees of heterogeneity in data and/or computing capabiliti…

math.OC2021★ 26 cited

A Near-Optimal Algorithm for Stochastic Bilevel Optimization via Double-Momentum

Prashant Khanduri, Siliang Zeng, Mingyi Hong +3

This paper proposes a new algorithm -- the \underline{S}ingle-timescale Do\underline{u}ble-momentum \underline{St}ochastic \underline{A}pprox\underline{i}matio\underline{n} (SUSTAI…