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Over-the-air computation for distributed systems: Something old and something new

Facing the upcoming era of Internet-of-Things and connected intelligence, efficient information processing, computation, and communication design becomes a key challenge in large-scale intelligent systems. Recently, Over-the-Air (OtA) computation has …

A General Framework to Distribute Iterative Algorithms With Localized Information Over Networks

Emerging applications in the Internet of Things (IoT) and edge computing/learning have sparked massive renewed interest in developing distributed versions of existing (centralized) iterative algorithms often used for optimization or machine learning …

On the Convergence of Inexact Gradient Descent With Controlled Synchronization Steps

We develop a gradient-like algorithm to minimize a sum of peer objective functions based on coordination through a peer interconnection network. The coordination admits two stages: the first is to constitute a gradient, possibly with errors, for …

Federated learning over-the-air by retransmissions

Motivated by the increasing computational capabilities of wireless devices, as well as unprecedented levels of user- and device-generated data, new distributed machine learning (ML) methods have emerged. In the wireless community, Federated Learning …

The internet of sounds: Convergent trends, insights, and future directions

Current sound-based practices and systems developed in both academia and industry point to convergent research trends that bring together the field of sound and music Computing with that of the Internet of Things. This article proposes a vision for …

Leakage detection in water distribution networks using machine-learning strategies

This work proposes a reliable leakage detection methodology for water distribution networks (WDNs) using machine-learning strategies. Our solution aims at detecting leakage in WDNs using efficient machine-learning strategies. We analyze pressure …

On the primal feasibility in dual decomposition methods under additive and bounded errors

With the unprecedented growth of signal processing and machine learning application domains, there has been a tremendous expansion of interest in distributed optimization methods to cope with the underlying large-scale problems. Nonetheless, …

A review of reinforcement learning for controlling building energy systems from a computer science perspective

Energy efficient control of energy systems in buildings is a widely recognized challenge due to the use of low temperature heating, renewable electricity sources, and the incorporation of thermal storage. Reinforcement Learning (RL) has been shown to …

Federated Learning Using Three-Operator ADMM

Federated learning (FL) has emerged as an instance of distributed machine learning paradigm that avoids the transmission of data generated on the users' side. Although data are not transmitted, edge devices have to deal with limited communication …

Distributed assignment with load balancing for dnn inference at the edge

Inference carried out on pretrained deep neural networks (DNNs) is particularly effective as it does not require retraining and entails no loss in accuracy. Unfortunately, resource-constrained devices such as those in the Internet of Things may need …