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Decentralized multi-agent systems have shown promise in enabling autonomous collaboration among LLM-based agents. While AgentNet demonstrated the feasibility of fully decentralized coordination through dynamic DAG topologies, several…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Goutham Nalagatla

We analyze how the sparsity of a typical aggregate social relation impacts the network overhead of online communication systems designed to provide k-anonymity. Once users are grouped in anonymity sets there will likely be few related pairs…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2014-08-19 Ewa J. Infeld

Data publishing under privacy constraints can be achieved with mechanisms that add randomness to data points when released to an untrusted party, thereby decreasing the data's utility. In this paper, we analyze this privacy-utility tradeoff…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-28 Leonhard Grosse , Sara Saeidian , Tobias Oechtering

In this work, fundamental limits and optimal mechanisms of privacy-preserving data release that aims to minimize the privacy leakage under utility constraints of a set of multiple tasks are investigated. While the private feature to be…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Ta-Yuan Liu , I-Hsiang Wang

Decentralized algorithms for stochastic optimization and learning rely on the diffusion of information as a result of repeated local exchanges of intermediate estimates. Such structures are particularly appealing in situations where agents…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-26 Stefan Vlaski , Ali H. Sayed

Multi-agent coordination problems often require agents to exchange state information in order to reach some collective goal, such as agreement on a final state value. In some cases, it is feasible that opportunistic agents may deceptively…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-11-09 M. T. Hale , M. Egerstedt

In distributed networks, calculating the maximum element is a fundamental task in data analysis, known as the distributed maximum consensus problem. However, the sensitive nature of the data involved makes privacy protection essential.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Wenrui Yu , Richard Heusdens , Jun Pang , Qiongxiu Li

We address nonconvex learning problems over undirected networks. In particular, we focus on the challenge of designing an algorithm that is both communication-efficient and that guarantees the privacy of the agents' data. The first goal is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Xiaoxing Ren , Yuwen Ma , Nicola Bastianello , Karl H. Johansson , Thomas Parisini , Andreas A. Malikopoulos

The presence of symmetries imposes a stringent set of constraints on a system. This constrained structure allows intelligent agents interacting with such a system to drastically improve the efficiency of learning and generalization, through…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-03 Hippolyte Charvin , Nicola Catenacci Volpi , Daniel Polani

Dynamical complex systems composed of interactive heterogeneous agents are prevalent in the world, including urban traffic systems and social networks. Modeling the interactions among agents is the key to understanding and predicting the…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Siyuan Chen , Jiahai Wang

Our interest is in the design of software systems involving a human-expert interacting -- using natural language -- with a large language model (LLM) on data analysis tasks. For complex problems, it is possible that LLMs can harness human…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Harshvardhan Mestha , Karan Bania , Shreyas V Sathyanarayana , Sidong Liu , Ashwin Srinivasan

Bilevel optimization have gained growing interests, with numerous applications found in meta learning, minimax games, reinforcement learning, and nested composition optimization. This paper studies the problem of distributed bilevel…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-06-23 Shuoguang Yang , Xuezhou Zhang , Mengdi Wang

This work investigates the problem of analyzing privacy of abrupt changes for general Markov processes. These processes may be affected by changes, or exogenous signals, that need to remain private. Privacy refers to the disclosure of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-04 Alessio Russo , Alexandre Proutiere

In this paper, we study the privacy-preserving distributed optimization problem, aiming to prevent attackers from stealing the private information of agents. For this purpose, we propose a novel privacy-preserving algorithm based on the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-05-15 Bing Liu , Furan Xie , Li Chai

This paper tackles a multi-agent bandit setting where $M$ agents cooperate together to solve the same instance of a $K$-armed stochastic bandit problem. The agents are \textit{heterogeneous}: each agent has limited access to a local subset…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-18 Lin Yang , Yu-zhen Janice Chen , Mohammad Hajiesmaili , John CS Lui , Don Towsley

AI agents are increasingly deployed to interact with other agents on behalf of users and organizations. We ask whether two such agents, operated by different entities, can carry out a parallel secret conversation while still producing a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Vinod Vaikuntanathan , Or Zamir

Location-based services (LBSs) have become widely popular. Despite their utility, these services raise concerns for privacy since they require sharing location information with untrusted third parties. In this work, we study privacy-utility…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-10-07 Ecenaz Erdemir , Pier Luigi Dragotti , Deniz Gunduz

Extracting higher-order structures from multivariate data has become an area of intensive study in complex systems science, as these multipartite interactions can reveal insights into fundamental features of complex systems like emergent…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Thomas F. Varley

A key task in managing distributed, sensitive data is to measure the extent to which a distribution changes. Understanding this drift can effectively support a variety of federated learning and analytics tasks. However, in many practical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Mary Scott , Sayan Biswas , Graham Cormode , Carsten Maple

Multi-agent Large Language Model (LLM) systems create privacy risks that current benchmarks cannot measure. When agents coordinate on tasks, sensitive data passes through inter-agent messages, shared memory, and tool arguments, all pathways…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Faouzi El Yagoubi , Godwin Badu-Marfo , Ranwa Al Mallah