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In this paper, we analyze the problem of optimally allocating resources in a distributed and privacy-preserving manner. We propose a novel distributed optimal resource allocation algorithm with privacy-preserving guarantees, which operates…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-19 Jakob Nylöf , Apostolos I. Rikos , Sebin Gracy , Karl H. Johansson

In the context of goal-oriented communications, this paper addresses the achievable rate versus generalization error region of a learning task applied on compressed data. The study focuses on the distributed setup where a source is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-07-10 Jiahui Wei , Philippe Mary , Elsa Dupraz

We consider the problem of optimally compressing and caching data across a communication network. Given the data generated at edge nodes and a routing path, our goal is to determine the optimal data compression ratios and caching decisions…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-01-25 Jian Li , Faheem Zafari , Don Towsley , Kin K. Leung , Ananthram Swami

Data privacy is an important concern in learning, when datasets contain sensitive information about individuals. This paper considers consensus-based distributed optimization under data privacy constraints. Consensus-based optimization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-20 Mehrdad Showkatbakhsh , Can Karakus , Suhas Diggavi

The data broadcast problem is to find a schedule for broadcasting a given set of messages over multiple channels. The goal is to minimize the cost of the broadcast plus the expected response time to clients who periodically and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-01-19 Claire Kenyon , Nicolas Schabanel , Neal Young

This paper considers the communication for omniscience (CO) problem: A set of users observe a discrete memoryless multiple source and want to recover the entire multiple source via noise-free broadcast communications. We study the problem…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-11-26 Ni Ding , Chung Chan , Qiaoqiao Zhou , Rodney A. Kennedy , Parastoo Sadeghi

In this paper, we consider a full duplex wireless powered communication network where multiple users with radio frequency energy harvesting capability communicate to an energy broadcasting hybrid access point. We investigate the minimum…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-11 Muhammad Shahid Iqbal , Yalcin Sadi , Sinem Coleri

Many resource allocation problems can be formulated as an optimization problem whose constraints contain sensitive information about participating users. This paper concerns solving this kind of optimization problem in a distributed manner…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-11-17 Shuo Han , Ufuk Topcu , George J. Pappas

Pliable index coding considers a server with m messages, and n clients where each has as side information a subset of the messages. We seek to minimize the number of transmissions the server should make, so that each client receives (any)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-01-22 Linqi Song , Christina Fragouli

In this paper, we focus on the problem of data sharing over a wireless computer network (i.e., a wireless grid). Given a set of available data, we present a distributed algorithm which operates over a dynamically changing network, and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-19 Apostolos I. Rikos , Christoforos N. Hadjicostis , Karl H. Johansson

We study the mean estimation problem under communication and local differential privacy constraints. While previous work has proposed \emph{order}-optimal algorithms for the same problem (i.e., asymptotically optimal as we spend more bits),…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Berivan Isik , Wei-Ning Chen , Ayfer Ozgur , Tsachy Weissman , Albert No

In this paper we consider a novel partitioned framework for distributed optimization in peer-to-peer networks. In several important applications the agents of a network have to solve an optimization problem with two key features: (i) the…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-05-23 Ivano Notarnicola , Ruggero Carli , Giuseppe Notarstefano

We study the problem of rate-distortion-equivocation with side-information only available at the decoder when an independent private random key is shared between the sender and the receiver. The sender compresses the sequence, and the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Hamid Ghourchian , Photios A. Stavrou , Tobias J. Oechtering , Mikael Skoglund

Privacy and communication constraints are two major bottlenecks in federated learning (FL) and analytics (FA). We study the optimal accuracy of mean and frequency estimation (canonical models for FL and FA respectively) under joint…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-04-05 Wei-Ning Chen , Dan Song , Ayfer Ozgur , Peter Kairouz

This paper considers a problem where multiple users make repeated decisions based on their own observed events. The events and decisions at each time step determine the values of a utility function and a collection of penalty functions. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-05-13 Michael J. Neely

This paper proposes a new distributed nonconvex stochastic optimization algorithm that can achieve privacy protection, communication efficiency and convergence simultaneously. Specifically, each node adds general privacy noises to its local…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-06 Jialong Chen , Jimin Wang , Ji-Feng Zhang

Feature subset selection, as a special case of the general subset selection problem, has been the topic of a considerable number of studies due to the growing importance of data-mining applications. In the feature subset selection problem…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-11-13 Tofigh Naghibi , Sarah Hoffmann , Beat Pfister

This paper presents new solutions for Private Information Retrieval (PIR) with side information. This problem is motivated by PIR settings in which a client has side information about the data held by the servers and would like to leverage…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-31 Ningze Wang , Anoosheh Heidarzadeh , Alex Sprintson

Semantic communication is deemed as a revolution of Shannon's paradigm in the six-generation (6G) wireless networks. It aims at transmitting the extracted information rather than the original data, which receivers will try to recover.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-08 Yang Li , Xinyu Zhou , Jun Zhao

In this paper, we study the resource allocation algorithm design for multiuser orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) downlink systems with simultaneous wireless information and power transfer. The algorithm design is formulated…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Ernest S. Lo , Robert Schober