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In recent years, the growth of data across various sectors, including healthcare, security, finance, and education, has created significant opportunities for analysis and informed decision-making. However, these datasets often contain…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-04-30 Utsab Saha , Tanvir Muntakim Tonoy , Hafiz Imtiaz

The existing cryptosystem based approaches for privacy-preserving consensus of networked systems are usually limited to those with undirected topologies. This paper proposes a new privacy-preserving algorithm for networked systems with…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Wentuo Fang , Zhiyong Chen , Mohsen Zamani

Federated learning is a promising framework for learning over decentralized data spanning multiple regions. This approach avoids expensive central training data aggregation cost and can improve privacy because distributed sites do not have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Beomyeol Jeon , S. M. Ferdous , Muntasir Raihan Rahman , Anwar Walid

Privacy-preserving distributed average consensus has received significant attention recently due to its wide applicability. Based on the achieved performances, existing approaches can be broadly classified into perfect accuracy-prioritized…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Qiongxiu Li , Jaron Skovsted Gundersen , Milan Lopuhaa-Zwakenberg , Richard Heusdens

In this paper, we develop an algorithm for federated principal component analysis (PCA) with emphases on both communication efficiency and data privacy. Generally speaking, federated PCA algorithms based on direct adaptations of classic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-29 Lei Wang , Xin Liu , Yin Zhang

We present a distributed average consensus protocol that preserves the privacy of agents' inputs. Unlike the differential privacy mechanisms, the presented protocol does not affect the accuracy of the output. It is shown that the protocol…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2020-04-14 Nirupam Gupta , Jonathan Katz , Nikhil Chopra

We propose the Consensus-Based Privacy-Preserving Data Distribution (CPPDD) framework, a lightweight and post-setup autonomous protocol for secure multi-client data aggregation. The framework enforces unanimous-release confidentiality…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Prajwal Panth , Sahaj Raj Malla

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

Data aggregation in intermediate nodes (called aggregator nodes) is an effective approach for optimizing consumption of scarce resources like bandwidth and energy in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). However, in-network processing poses a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Jaydip Sen

Average consensus underpins key functionalities of distributed systems ranging from distributed information fusion, decision-making, distributed optimization, to load balancing and decentralized control. Existing distributed average…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-03-05 Yongqiang Wang

During Financial Cryptography 2012 Chan et al. presented a novel privacy-protection fault-tolerant data aggregation protocol. Comparing to previous work, their scheme guaranteed provable privacy of individuals and could work even if some…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-06-01 Krzysztof Grining , Marek Klonowski , Piotr Syga

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

Distributed median consensus has emerged as a critical paradigm in multi-agent systems due to the inherent robustness of the median against outliers and anomalies in measurement. Despite the sensitivity of the data involved, the development…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-14 Wenrui Yu , Qiongxiu Li , Richard Heusdens , Sokol Kosta

This paper introduces a novel continuous-time dynamic average consensus algorithm for networks whose interaction is described by a strongly connected and weight-balanced directed graph. The proposed distributed algorithm allows agents to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-01-28 Solmaz S. Kia , Jorge Cortes , Sonia Martinez

In this paper we consider the problem of privacy preservation in the static average consensus problem. This problem normally is solved by proposing privacy preservation augmentations for the popular first order Laplacian-based algorithm.…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2020-12-09 Amir-Salar Esteki , Solmaz S. Kia

Privacy-preserving distributed processing has recently attracted considerable attention. It aims to design solutions for conducting signal processing tasks over networks in a decentralized fashion without violating privacy. Many algorithms…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-09-03 Qiongxiu Li , Jaron Skovsted Gundersen , Richard Heusdens , Mads Græsbøll Christensen

In order to remain competitive, Internet companies collect and analyse user data for the purpose of improving user experiences. Frequency estimation is a widely used statistical tool which could potentially conflict with the relevant…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-04-14 Mengmeng Yang , Ivan Tjuawinata , Kwok-Yan Lam , Tianqing Zhu , Jun Zhao

In this paper a homomorphic privacy preserving association rule mining algorithm is proposed which can be deployed in resource constrained devices (RCD). Privacy preserved exchange of counts of itemsets among distributed mining sites is a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2010-05-07 Md. Golam Kaosar , Xun Yi

In this paper, we consider the problem of privacy preservation in the average consensus problem when communication among nodes is quantized. More specifically, we consider a setting where some nodes in the network are curious but not…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-16 Apostolos I. Rikos , Themistoklis Charalambous , Karl H. Johansson , Christoforos N. Hadjicostis

We consider training models on private data that are distributed across user devices. To ensure privacy, we add on-device noise and use secure aggregation so that only the noisy sum is revealed to the server. We present a comprehensive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-12 Peter Kairouz , Ziyu Liu , Thomas Steinke