Efficient Distributed Optimization: ZoPro Algorithm for Consensus Convergence

This paper considers a consensus optimization problem, where all the nodes in a network, with access to the zeroth-order information of its local objective function only, attempt to cooperatively achieve a common minimizer of the sum of their local objectives. To address this problem, we develop \texttt{ZoPro}, a zeroth-order proximal algorithm, which incorporates a zeroth-order … Read more