3 papers
math.OC2026
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…
cs.AI2026
Deep Reinforcement Learning for Flexible Job Shop Scheduling with Random Job Arrivals
Yu Tang, Muhammad Zakwan, Efe Balta +2
The Flexible Job Shop Scheduling Problem (FJSP) is the optimal allocation of a set of jobs to machines. Two primary challenges persist in FJSP: the unpredictable arrival of future…
math.OC2026
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…