IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Vol.66, No.3, 1223-1230, 2021
Distributed Proximal Algorithms for Multiagent Optimization With Coupled Inequality Constraints
This article aims to address distributed optimization problems over directed and time-varying networks, where the global objective function consists of a sum of locally accessible convex objective functions subject to a feasible set constraint and coupled inequality constraints whose information is only partially accessible to each agent. For this problem, a distributed proximal-based algorithm, called distributed proximal primal-dual algorithm, is proposed based on the celebrated centralized proximal point algorithm. It is shown that the proposed algorithm can lead to the global optimal solution with a general step size, which is diminishing and nonsummable, but not necessarily square summable, and the saddle-point running evaluation error vanishes proportionally to O(1/root k), where k > 0 is the iteration number. Finally, a simulation example is presented to corroborate the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm.
Keywords:Coupled inequality constraints;distributed optimization;multiagent networks;proximal point algorithm (PPA)