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We propose a new dynamic average consensus algorithm that is robust to information-sharing noise arising from differential-privacy design. Not only is dynamic average consensus widely used in cooperative control and distributed tracking, it…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-07-13 Yongqiang Wang

We consider a convex unconstrained optimization problem that arises in a network of agents whose goal is to cooperatively optimize the sum of the individual agent objective functions through local computations and communications. For this…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2008-03-11 Angelia Nedić , Alex Olshevsky , Asuman Ozdaglar , John N. Tsitsiklis

In the past few years, the problem of distributed consensus has received a lot of attention, particularly in the framework of ad hoc sensor networks. Most methods proposed in the literature address the consensus averaging problem by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-11-13 Effrosyni Kokiopoulou , Pascal Frossard

We investigate self-correcting gossip protocols with errors. In distributed computing, protocols with errors have been widely investigated in temporal epistemic logics. Instead, we propose a dynamic epistemic logic. We show how to correct…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Giorgio Cignarale , Hans van Ditmarsch , Stephan Felber , Malvin Gattinger , Hugo Rincon Galeana , Vaishnavi Sundararajan

In this paper, we study random gossip processes in communication models that describe the peer-to-peer networking functionality included in standard smartphone operating systems. Random gossip processes spread information through the basic…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-02-08 Calvin Newport , Alex Weaver

As agentic platforms scale, agents are moving beyond fixed roles and predefined toolchains, creating an urgent need for flexible and decentralized coordination. Current structured communication protocols such as direct agent-to-agent…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Nafiul I. Khan , Mansura Habiba , Rafflesia Khan

Peer to peer (P2P) systems are moving from application specific architectures to a generic service oriented design philosophy. This raises interesting problems in connection with providing useful P2P middleware services capable of dealing…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2007-12-27 Antonio Fernandez , Vincent Gramoli , Ernesto Jimenez , Anne-Marie Kermarrec , Michel Raynal

We develop easily accessible quantities for bounding the almost sure exponential convergence rate of push-sum algorithms. We analyze the scenario of i.i.d. synchronous gossip, every agent communicating towards its single target at every…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-09-25 Balázs Gerencsér , Miklós Kornyik

We study the problem of decentralized optimization over time-varying networks with strongly convex smooth cost functions. In our approach, nodes run a multi-step gossip procedure after making each gradient update, thus ensuring approximate…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-11-08 Alexander Rogozin , Vladislav Lukoshkin , Alexander Gasnikov , Dmitry Kovalev , Egor Shulgin

The growing demands of remote detection and increasing amount of training data make distributed machine learning under communication constraints a critical issue. This work provides a communication-efficient quantum algorithm that tackles…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-04-26 Hao Tang , Boning Li , Guoqing Wang , Haowei Xu , Changhao Li , Ariel Barr , Paola Cappellaro , Ju Li

The problems discussed in this paper are motivated by general ratio consensus algorithms, introduced by Kempe, Dobra, and Gehrke (2003) in a simple form as the push-sum algorithm, later extended by B\'en\'ezit et al. (2010) under the name…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-05-19 Balázs Gerencsér , László Gerencsér

In this paper, we consider a network of processors aiming at cooperatively solving mixed-integer convex programs subject to uncertainty. Each node only knows a common cost function and its local uncertain constraint set. We propose a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-07-19 Mohammadreza Chamanbaz , Giuseppe Notarstefano , Francesco Sasso , Roland Bouffanais

Distributed consensus algorithm over networks of quantum systems has been the focus of recent studies in the context of quantum computing and distributed control. Most of the progress in this category have been on the convergence conditions…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-05-24 Saber Jafarizadeh

In this paper, we consider a distributed constrained optimization problem with delayed subgradient information over the time-varying communication network, where each agent can only communicate with its neighbors and the communication…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-16 Jie Liu , Zhan Yu , Daniel W. C. Ho

Recently, the privacy guarantees of information dissemination protocols have attracted increasing research interests, among which the gossip protocols assume vital importance in various information exchange applications. In this work, we…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-02-08 Richeng Jin , Yufan Huang , Huaiyu Dai

In this paper, randomized gossip-type matrix-weighted consensus algorithms are proposed for both leaderless and leader-follower topologies. First, we introduce the notion of expected matrix-weighted network, which captures the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-25 Nhat-Minh Le-Phan , Minh Hoang Trinh , Phuoc Doan Nguyen

This paper studies reliability of probabilistic neighbor-aware gossip algorithms over three well- known large-scale random topologies, namely Bernoulli (or Erd\H{o}s-R\'enyi) graph, the random geometric graph, and the scale-free graph. We…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-04-20 Ruijing Hu , Leander Jehl

We give a new technique to analyze the stopping time of gossip protocols that are based on random linear network coding (RLNC). Our analysis drastically simplifies, extends and strengthens previous results. We analyze RLNC gossip in a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2010-10-05 Bernhard Haeupler

We address differential privacy for fully distributed optimization subject to a shared inequality constraint. By co-designing the distributed optimization mechanism and the differential-privacy noise injection mechanism, we propose the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-04 Yongqiang Wang , Angelia Nedic

This paper studies distributed continuous-time optimization for time-varying quadratic cost functions with uncertain parameters. We first propose a centralized adaptive optimization algorithm using partial information of the cost function.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-30 Liangze Jiang , Zheng-Guang Wu , Lei Wang