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Main Authors: Wang, Lei, Ren, Zihao, Yuan, Deming, Shi, Guodong
Format: Preprint
Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.06332
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author Wang, Lei
Ren, Zihao
Yuan, Deming
Shi, Guodong
author_facet Wang, Lei
Ren, Zihao
Yuan, Deming
Shi, Guodong
contents Distributed computing is fundamental to multi-agent systems, with solving distributed linear equations as a typical example. In this paper, we study distributed solvers for network linear equations over a network with node-to-node communication messages compressed as scalar values. Our key idea lies in a dimension compression scheme that includes a dimension-compressing vector and a data unfolding step. The compression vector applies to individual node states as an inner product to generate a real-valued message for node communication. In the unfolding step, such scalar message is then plotted along the subspace generated by the compression vector for the local computations. We first present a compressed consensus flow that relies only on such scalarized communication, and show that linear convergence can be achieved with well excited signals for the compression vector. We then employ such a compressed consensus flow as a fundamental consensus subroutine to develop distributed continuous-time and discrete-time solvers for network linear equations, and prove their linear convergence properties under scalar node communications. With scalar communications, a direct benefit would be the reduced node-to-node communication channel burden for distributed computing. Numerical examples are presented to illustrate the effectiveness of the established theoretical results.
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spellingShingle Distributed Solvers for Network Linear Equations with Scalarized Compression
Wang, Lei
Ren, Zihao
Yuan, Deming
Shi, Guodong
Systems and Control
Distributed computing is fundamental to multi-agent systems, with solving distributed linear equations as a typical example. In this paper, we study distributed solvers for network linear equations over a network with node-to-node communication messages compressed as scalar values. Our key idea lies in a dimension compression scheme that includes a dimension-compressing vector and a data unfolding step. The compression vector applies to individual node states as an inner product to generate a real-valued message for node communication. In the unfolding step, such scalar message is then plotted along the subspace generated by the compression vector for the local computations. We first present a compressed consensus flow that relies only on such scalarized communication, and show that linear convergence can be achieved with well excited signals for the compression vector. We then employ such a compressed consensus flow as a fundamental consensus subroutine to develop distributed continuous-time and discrete-time solvers for network linear equations, and prove their linear convergence properties under scalar node communications. With scalar communications, a direct benefit would be the reduced node-to-node communication channel burden for distributed computing. Numerical examples are presented to illustrate the effectiveness of the established theoretical results.
title Distributed Solvers for Network Linear Equations with Scalarized Compression
topic Systems and Control
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.06332