• ADMM for Sparse-Penalized Quantile Regression with Non-Convex Penalties 

      Werner, Stefan; Gogineni, Vinay Chakravarthi; Dasanadoddi Venkategowda, Naveen Kumar (Chapter, 2022)
      This paper studies quantile regression with non-convex and non-smooth sparse-penalties, such as minimax concave penalty (MCP) and smoothly clipped absolute deviation (SCAD). Although iterative coordinate descent and local ...
    • Communication-efficient and privacy-aware distributed learning 

      Gogineni, Vinay Chakravarthi; Moradi, Ashkan; Dasanadoddi Venkategowda, Naveen Kumar; Werner, Anders Stefan (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Communication efficiency and privacy are two key concerns in modern distributed computing systems. Towards this goal, this article proposes partial sharing private distributed learning (PPDL) algorithms that offer communication ...
    • Consensus-based Distributed Total Least-squares Estimation Using Parametric Semidefinite Programming 

      Gratton, Cristiano; Dasanadoddi Venkategowda, Naveen Kumar; Arablouei, Reza; Werner, Stefan (Chapter, 2019)
      We propose a new distributed algorithm to solve the total least-squares (TLS) problem when data are distributed over a multi-agent network. To develop the proposed algorithm, named distributed ADMM TLS (DA-TLS), we reformulate ...
    • Coordinated Data-Falsification Attacks in Consensus-based Distributed Kalman Filtering 

      Moradi, Ashkan; Dasanadoddi Venkategowda, Naveen Kumar; Werner, Stefan (Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      Abstract—This paper considers consensus-based distributed Kalman filtering subject to data-falsification attack, where Byzan- tine agents share manipulated data with their neighboring agents. The attack is assumed to be ...
    • Cost-Aware Dual Prediction Scheme for Reducing Transmissions at IoT Sensor Nodes 

      Håkansson, Victor Wattin; Dasanadoddi Venkategowda, Naveen Kumar; Kraemer, Frank Alexander; Werner, Stefan (Chapter, 2019)
      This paper develops a method for deciding when to update the prediction model or transmit a set of measurements from the sensor to the fusion centre (FC) to achieve minimal data transmission in a dual prediction scheme ...
    • Distributed Kalman Filtering with Privacy against Honest-but-Curious Adversaries 

      Moradi, Ashkan; Dasanadoddi Venkategowda, Naveen Kumar; Talebi, Sayedpouria; Werner, Stefan (Chapter, 2021)
      This paper proposes a privacy-preserving distributed Kalman filter (PP-DKF) to protect the private information of individual network agents from being acquired by honest-but-curious (HBC) adversaries. The proposed approach ...
    • Distributed Learning with Non-Smooth Objective Functions 

      Gratton, Cristiano; Dasanadoddi Venkategowda, Naveen Kumar; Arablouei, Reza; Werner, Stefan (Chapter, 2020)
      We develop a new distributed algorithm to solve a learning problem with non-smooth objective functions when data are distributed over a multi-agent network. We employ a zeroth-order method to minimize the associated augmented ...
    • Distributed Ridge Regression with Feature Partitioning 

      Gratton, Cristiano; Dasanadoddi Venkategowda, Naveen Kumar; Arablouei, Reza; Werner, Stefan (Chapter, 2019)
      We develop a new distributed algorithm to solve the ridge regression problem with feature partitioning of the observation matrix. The proposed algorithm, named D-Ridge, is based on the alternating direction method of ...
    • Dynamic Graph Topology Learning with Non-Convex Penalties 

      Gogineni, Vinay Chakravarthi; Dasanadoddi Venkategowda, Naveen Kumar; Werner, Stefan (Chapter, 2022)
      This paper presents a majorization-minimization-based framework for learning time-varying graphs from spatial-temporal measurements with non-convex penalties. The proposed approach infers time-varying graphs by using the ...
    • Linear MMSE Precoder Combiner Designs for Decentralized Estimation in Wireless Sensor Networks 

      Rajput, Kunwar; Verma, Yogesh; Dasanadoddi Venkategowda, Naveen Kumar; Jagannatham, Aditya; Varshney, Pramod K. (Chapter, 2020)
      This work considers the design of linear minimum mean square error (MMSE) precoders and combiners for the estimation of an unknown vector parameter in a coherent multiple access channel (MAC)-based multiple-input multiple-output ...
    • Optimal scheduling of multiple spatio-temporally dependent observations for remote estimation using age-of-information 

      Håkansson, Victor Wattin; Dasanadoddi Venkategowda, Naveen Kumar; Werner, Stefan; Varshney, Pramod K. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)
      This article proposes an optimal scheduling policy for a system where spatiotemporally dependent sensor observations are broadcast to remote estimators over a resource-limited broadcast channel. We consider a system with ...
    • Optimal scheduling of multiple spatio-temporally dependent observations using age-of-information 

      Håkansson, Victor Wattin; Dasanadoddi Venkategowda, Naveen Kumar; Werner, Stefan (Chapter, 2020)
      This paper proposes an optimal scheduling policy for a remote estimation problem, where spatio-temporally dependent sensor observations are broadcasted to remote estimators. At each time instant only observations from a ...
    • Optimal Scheduling Policy for Spatio-temporally Dependent Observations using Age-of-Information 

      Håkansson, Victor Wattin; Dasanadoddi Venkategowda, Naveen Kumar; Werner, Stefan (Chapter, 2020)
      This paper proposes an optimal scheduling policy for a remote estimation problem, where sensor observations of two spatio-temporally correlated processes are broadcasted to two remote estimators. At each time instant only ...
    • Optimal transmission-constrained scheduling of spatio-temporally dependent observations using age-of-information 

      Håkansson, Victor Wattin; Dasanadoddi Venkategowda, Naveen Kumar; Werner, Stefan; Varshney, Pramod K. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      This paper proposes an optimal scheduling policy for broadcasting spatio-temporally dependent observations to two remote estimators over a finite time horizon. The system comprises a scheduler that can broadcast one ...
    • Privacy-preserving distributed Kalman filtering 

      Moradi, Ashkan; Dasanadoddi Venkategowda, Naveen Kumar; Talebi, Sayedpouria; Werner, Stefan (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)
    • Privacy-Preserving Distributed Learning with Nonsmooth Objective Functions 

      Gauthier, Francois; Gratton, Cristiano; Dasanadoddi Venkategowda, Naveen Kumar; Werner, Stefan (Chapter, 2021)
      This paper develops a fully distributed differentially-private learning algorithm based on the alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) to solve nonsmooth optimization problems. We employ an approximation of the ...
    • Privacy-Preserving Distributed Maximum Consensus 

      Dasanadoddi Venkategowda, Naveen Kumar; Werner, Stefan (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      We propose a privacy-preserving distributed maximum consensus algorithm where the local state of the agents and identity of the maximum state owner is kept private from adversaries. To that end, we reformulate the maximum ...
    • Privacy-preserving distributed precoder design for decentralized estimation 

      Dasanadoddi Venkategowda, Naveen Kumar; Werner, Stefan (Chapter, 2018)
      We study privacy-preserving precoder design for decentralized estimation in wireless sensor networks where the sensor nodes want their local information such as the channel state information, observation matrices, and ...
    • Robust phase retrieval with non-convex penalties 

      Mirzaeifard, Reza; Dasanadoddi Venkategowda, Naveen Kumar; Werner, Anders Stefan (Journal article, 2023)
      This paper proposes an alternating direction method of multiplier (ADMM) based algorithm for solving the sparse robust phase retrieval with non-convex and non-smooth sparse penalties, such as minimax concave penalty (MCP). ...
    • Securing the Distributed Kalman Filter Against Curious Agents 

      Moradi, Ashkan; Dasanadoddi Venkategowda, Naveen Kumar; Talebi, Sayedpouria; Werner, Stefan (Chapter, 2021)
      Distributed filtering techniques have emerged as the dominant and most prolific class of filters used in modern monitoring and surveillance applications, such as smart grids. As these techniques rely on information sharing ...