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Zeroth-Order Nonsmooth Nonconvex Optimization with Convex Liftings and Its Application to State-Feedback Policy Optimization
Xuhao Wang, Yujie Tang
Direct policy optimization is widely used in reinforcement learning and control, but generally leads to nonconvex optimization problems. For state-feedback control, the…
Harnessing Individual Motivation for Collective Efficiency: A Mechanism-Driven Distributed Optimization Method
Dongwei Xie, Xuhao Wang, Yujie Tang +1
In industrial scenarios involving multi-agent collective decision-making, centralized decision-making may not be admissible due to restrictive access to individual local informatio…
Zeroth-Order Feedback Optimization in Multi-Agent Systems: Tackling Coupled Constraints
Yingpeng Duan, Yujie Tang
This paper investigates distributed zeroth-order feedback optimization in multi-agent systems with coupled constraints, where each agent operates its local action vector and observ…
Variance-Reduced Gradient Estimator for Nonconvex Zeroth-Order Distributed Optimization
Huaiyi Mu, Yujie Tang, Jie Song +1
This paper investigates distributed zeroth-order optimization for smooth nonconvex problems, targeting the trade-off between convergence rate and sampling cost per zeroth-order gra…