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We consider a resource allocation problem involving a large number of agents with individual constraints subject to privacy, and a central operator whose objective is to optimize a global, possibly nonconvex, cost while satisfying the…

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This paper addresses the problem of differentially private distributed optimization under limited communication, where each agent aims to keep their cost function private while minimizing the sum of all agents' cost functions. In response,…

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In this paper, we study a distributed privacy-preserving learning problem in social networks with general topology. The agents can communicate with each other over the network, which may result in privacy disclosure, since the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-01-30 Youming Tao , Shuzhen Chen , Feng Li , Dongxiao Yu , Jiguo Yu , Hao Sheng

This paper studies the distributed least-squares optimization problem with differential privacy requirement of local cost functions, for which two differentially private distributed solvers are proposed. The first is established on the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-05 Weijia Liu , Lei Wang , Fanghong Guo , Zhengguang Wu , Hongye Su

Availability of both massive datasets and computing resources have made machine learning and predictive analytics extremely pervasive. In this work we present a synchronous algorithm and architecture for distributed optimization motivated…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-12-20 Shripad Gade , Nitin H. Vaidya

This paper considers the problem of privacy-preservation in decentralized optimization, in which $N$ agents cooperatively minimize a global objective function that is the sum of $N$ local objective functions. We assume that each local…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-09-19 Chunlei Zhang , Huan Gao , Yongqiang Wang

Distributed control/optimization is a promising approach for network systems due to its advantages over centralized schemes, such as robustness, cost-effectiveness, and improved privacy. However, distributed methods can have drawbacks, such…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-15 Chin-Yao Chang

Distributed online learning is gaining increased traction due to its unique ability to process large-scale datasets and streaming data. To address the growing public awareness and concern on privacy protection, plenty of algorithms have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Ziqin Chen , Yongqiang Wang

Asynchronous computation and gradient compression have emerged as two key techniques for achieving scalability in distributed optimization for large-scale machine learning. This paper presents a unified analysis framework for distributed…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-11-30 Sarit Khirirat , Hamid Reza Feyzmahdavian , Mikael Johansson

This paper addresses the problem of distributed optimization, where a network of agents represented as a directed graph (digraph) aims to collaboratively minimize the sum of their individual cost functions. Existing approaches for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-07-06 Xiaomeng Chen , Wei Jiang , Themistoklis Charalambous , Ling Shi

Privacy preservation has become a critical concern in high-dimensional data analysis due to the growing prevalence of data-driven applications. Since its proposal, sliced inverse regression has emerged as a widely utilized statistical…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-04-08 Xintao Xia , Linjun Zhang , Zhanrui Cai

With changes in privacy laws, there is often a hard requirement for client data to remain on the device rather than being sent to the server. Therefore, most processing happens on the device, and only an altered element is sent to the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-12-27 Ajinkya K Mulay

Distributed model predictive control (DMPC) has attracted extensive attention as it can explicitly handle system constraints and achieve optimal control in a decentralized manner. However, the deployment of DMPC strategies generally…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-21 Kaixiang Zhang , Yongqiang Wang , Ziyou Song , Zhaojian Li

Differentially private distributed stochastic optimization has become a hot topic due to the urgent need of privacy protection in distributed stochastic optimization. In this paper, two-time scale stochastic approximation-type algorithms…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-19 Jimin Wang , Ji-Feng Zhang

In this brief, we present an enhanced privacy-preserving distributed estimation algorithm, referred to as the ``Double-Private Algorithm," which combines the principles of both differential privacy (DP) and cryptography. The proposed…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-19 Mehdi Korki , Fatemehsadat Hosseiniamin , Hadi Zayyani , Mehdi Bekrani

Communication efficiency and privacy protection are two critical issues in distributed machine learning. Existing methods tackle these two issues separately and may have a high implementation complexity that constrains their application in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-27 Guangfeng Yan , Tan Li , Kui Wu , Linqi Song

Online collaborative medical prediction platforms offer convenience and real-time feedback by leveraging massive electronic health records. However, growing concerns about privacy and low prediction quality can deter patient participation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Shao-Bo Lin , Xiaotong Liu , Yao Wang

We develop and analyze an asynchronous algorithm for distributed convex optimization when the objective writes a sum of smooth functions, local to each worker, and a non-smooth function. Unlike many existing methods, our distributed…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-12-13 Konstantin Mishchenko , Franck Iutzeler , Jérôme Malick

The distributed subgradient method (DSG) is a widely discussed algorithm to cope with large-scale distributed optimization problems in the arising machine learning applications. Most exisiting works on DSG focus on ideal communication…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-24 Zhaoyue Xia , Jun Du , Yong Ren

Online learning has been in the spotlight from the machine learning society for a long time. To handle massive data in Big Data era, one single learner could never efficiently finish this heavy task. Hence, in this paper, we propose a novel…

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