Online distributed algorithms for mixed equilibrium problems in dynamic environments

Fuente: arXiv
Salvato in:
Dettagli Bibliografici
Autori principali: Xu, Hang, Lu, Kaihong, Wang, Yu-Long, Zhu, Qixin
Natura: Preprint
Pubblicazione: 2024
Soggetti:
Accesso online:
Tags: Aggiungi Tag
Nessun Tag, puoi essere il primo ad aggiungerne!!
_version_ 1866910764832391168
author Xu, Hang
Lu, Kaihong
Wang, Yu-Long
Zhu, Qixin
author_facet Xu, Hang
Lu, Kaihong
Wang, Yu-Long
Zhu, Qixin
contents In this paper, the mixed equilibrium problem with coupled inequality constraints in dynamic environments is solved by employing a multi-agent system, where each agent only has access to its own bifunction, its own constraint function, and can only communicate with its immediate neighbors via a time-varying digraph. At each time, the goal of agents is to cooperatively find a point in the constraint set such that the sum of local bifunctions with a free variable is non-negative. Different from existing works, here the bifunctions and the constraint functions are time-varying and only available to agents after decisions are made. To tackle this problem, first, an online distributed algorithm involving accurate gradient information is proposed based on mirror descent algorithms and primal-dual strategies. Of particular interest is that dynamic regrets, whose offline benchmarks are to find the solution at each time, are employed to measure the performance of the algorithm. Under mild assumptions on the graph and the bifunctions, we prove that if the deviation in the solution sequence grows within a certain rate, then both the dynamic regret and the violation of coupled inequality constraints increase sublinearly. Second, considering the case where each agent only has access to a noisy estimate on the accurate gradient, we propose an online distributed algorithm involving the stochastic gradients. The result shows that under the same conditions as in the first case, if the noise distribution satisfies the sub-Gaussian condition, then dynamic regrets, as well as constraint violations, increase sublinearly with high probability. Finally, several simulation examples are presented to corroborate the validity of our results.
format Preprint
id arxiv_https___arxiv_org_abs_2412_19399
institution arXiv
publishDate 2024
record_format arxiv
spellingShingle Online distributed algorithms for mixed equilibrium problems in dynamic environments
Xu, Hang
Lu, Kaihong
Wang, Yu-Long
Zhu, Qixin
Systems and Control
In this paper, the mixed equilibrium problem with coupled inequality constraints in dynamic environments is solved by employing a multi-agent system, where each agent only has access to its own bifunction, its own constraint function, and can only communicate with its immediate neighbors via a time-varying digraph. At each time, the goal of agents is to cooperatively find a point in the constraint set such that the sum of local bifunctions with a free variable is non-negative. Different from existing works, here the bifunctions and the constraint functions are time-varying and only available to agents after decisions are made. To tackle this problem, first, an online distributed algorithm involving accurate gradient information is proposed based on mirror descent algorithms and primal-dual strategies. Of particular interest is that dynamic regrets, whose offline benchmarks are to find the solution at each time, are employed to measure the performance of the algorithm. Under mild assumptions on the graph and the bifunctions, we prove that if the deviation in the solution sequence grows within a certain rate, then both the dynamic regret and the violation of coupled inequality constraints increase sublinearly. Second, considering the case where each agent only has access to a noisy estimate on the accurate gradient, we propose an online distributed algorithm involving the stochastic gradients. The result shows that under the same conditions as in the first case, if the noise distribution satisfies the sub-Gaussian condition, then dynamic regrets, as well as constraint violations, increase sublinearly with high probability. Finally, several simulation examples are presented to corroborate the validity of our results.
title Online distributed algorithms for mixed equilibrium problems in dynamic environments
topic Systems and Control
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.19399