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We consider a multi-agent system in which a decentralized team of agents controls a stochastic system in the presence of an adversary. Instead of committing to a fixed information sharing protocol, the agents can strategically decide at…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-09 Dhruva Kartik , Sagar Sudhakara , Rahul Jain , Ashutosh Nayyar

Privacy-preserving data release mechanisms aim to simultaneously minimize information-leakage with respect to sensitive data and distortion with respect to useful data. Dependencies between sensitive and useful data results in a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-10-26 Ye Wang , Yuksel Ozan Basciftci , Prakash Ishwar

Learning cooperative policies for multi-agent systems is often challenged by partial observability and a lack of coordination. In some settings, the structure of a problem allows a distributed solution with limited communication. Here, we…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-08-01 Roel Dobbe , David Fridovich-Keil , Claire Tomlin

Public blockchains, though renowned for their transparency and immutability, suffer from significant privacy concerns. Network-level analysis and long-term observation of publicly available transactions can often be used to infer user…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Boutaina Jebari , Khalil Ibrahimi , Hamidou Tembine , Mounir Ghogho

Differential privacy is a notion of privacy that has become very popular in the database community. Roughly, the idea is that a randomized query mechanism provides sufficient privacy protection if the ratio between the probabilities that…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2014-06-18 Mário S. Alvim , Miguel E. Andrés , Konstantinos Chatzikokolakis , Pierpaolo Degano , Catuscia Palamidessi

We propose a distributed algorithm for multiagent systems that aim to optimize a common objective when agents differ in their estimates of the objective-relevant state of the environment. Each agent keeps an estimate of the environment and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-10 Sina Arefizadeh , Ceyhun Eksin

We consider the problem of decentralized constrained optimization with multiple agents $E_1,\ldots,E_N$ who jointly wish to learn the optimal solution set while keeping their feasible sets $\mathcal{P}_1,\ldots,\mathcal{P}_N$ private from…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Shreya Meel , Sennur Ulukus

We consider the problem of collaborative personalized mean estimation under a privacy constraint in an environment of several agents continuously receiving data according to arbitrary unknown agent-specific distributions. In particular, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Yauhen Yakimenka , Chung-Wei Weng , Hsuan-Yin Lin , Eirik Rosnes , Jörg Kliewer

We study a statistical signal processing privacy problem, where an agent observes useful data $Y$ and wants to reveal the information to a user. Since the useful data is correlated with the private data $X$, the agent employs a privacy…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-07-16 Amirreza Zamani , Tobias J. Oechtering , Mikael Skoglund

We study data exchange among strategic agents without monetary transfers, motivated by domains such as research consortia and healthcare collaborations where payments are infeasible or restricted. The central challenge is to reap the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Rashida Hakim , Christos Papadimitriou , Mihalis Yannakakis

Imagine a group of citizens willing to collectively contribute their personal data for the common good to produce socially useful information, resulting from data analytics or machine learning computations. Sharing raw personal data with a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-12-24 Riad Ladjel , Nicolas Anciaux , Aurélien Bellet , Guillaume Scerri

Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) sharing is an important activity to reduce information asymmetries between attackers and defenders. However, this activity presents challenges due to the tension between data sharing and confidentiality, that…

Large language models (LLMs) and AI agents are increasingly integrated into enterprise systems to access internal databases and generate context-aware responses. While such integration improves productivity and decision support, the model…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Ya-Ting Yang , Quanyan Zhu

In this work, we focus on solving a decentralized consensus problem in a private manner. Specifically, we consider a setting in which a group of nodes, connected through a network, aim at computing the mean of their local values without…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Mohammad Fereydounian , Aryan Mokhtari , Ramtin Pedarsani , Hamed Hassani

The problem of data exchange involves a source schema, a target schema and a set of mappings from transforming the data between the two schemas. We study the problem of data exchange in the presence of privacy restrictions on the source.…

Databases · Computer Science 2019-03-25 Angela Bonifati , Ugo Comignani , Efthymia Tsamoura

Decentralized optimization is crucial for multi-agent systems, with significant concerns about communication efficiency and privacy. This paper explores the role of efficient communication in decentralized stochastic gradient descent…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-10 Wei Huo , Changxin Liu , Kemi Ding , Karl Henrik Johansson , Ling Shi

The spontaneous behavioral changes of the agents during an epidemic can have significant effects on the delay and the prevalence of its spread. In this work, we study a social distancing game among the agents of a population, who determine…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-07-13 A. -R. Lagos , I. Kordonis , G. P. Papavassilopoulos

Decentralized optimization is gaining increased traction due to its widespread applications in large-scale machine learning and multi-agent systems. The same mechanism that enables its success, i.e., information sharing among participating…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-02-07 Yongqiang Wang , Angelia Nedic

We consider the problem of cooperation in distributed wireless networks of selfish and free transmitters aiming at maximizing their energy-efficiency. The strategy of each transmitter consists in choosing his power control (PC) policy. Two…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2012-10-25 Maël Le Treust , Samson Lasaulce , Mérouane Debbah

Distributed energy resources (DERs) are gaining prominence due to their advantages in improving energy efficiency, reducing carbon emissions, and enhancing grid resilience. Despite the increasing deployment, the potential of DERs has yet to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-13 Xiang Huo , Hao Huang , Katherine R. Davis , H. Vincent Poor , Mingxi Liu
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