Local Acceptance without Global Agreement: Convergence of Decentralized Trust-Region Methods

We study decentralized smooth nonconvex optimization with a lower-bounded average objective and independent local trust-region acceptance decisions. Successful local trials can increase the average objective, while rejection produces a zero accepted inverse block at a nonzero gradient tracker. Our main contribution is a convergence analysis that permits such genuine local rejections. The method combines gradient … Read more

Decentralized Failure-Tolerant Optimization of Electric Vehicle Charging

We present a decentralized failure-tolerant algorithm for optimizing electric vehicle (EV) charging, using charging stations as computing agents. The algorithm is based on the alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) and it has the following features: (i) It handles capacity, peak demand, and ancillary services coupling constraints. (ii) It does not require a central agent … Read more