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Federated learning has emerged as a privacy-preserving technique for collaborative model training across heterogeneously distributed silos. Yet, its reliance on a single central server introduces potential bottlenecks and risks of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Huong Nguyen , Hong-Tri Nguyen , Praveen Kumar Donta , Susanna Pirttikangas , Lauri Lovén

We study a simple model of information propagation in social networks, where two quantities are introduced: the spread factor, which measures the average maximal fraction of neighbors of a given node that interchange information among each…

Physics and Society · Physics 2011-03-22 Pedro G. Lind , Luciano R. da Silva , José S. Andrade , Hans J. Herrmann

We study the problem of gossip in dynamic networks controlled by an adversary that can modify the network arbitrarily from one round to another, provided that the network is always connected. In the gossip problem, $n$ tokens are…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-07-20 John Augustine , Chen Avin , Mehraneh Liaee , Gopal Pandurangan , Rajmohan Rajaraman

Reputation aggregation in peer to peer networks is generally a very time and resource consuming process. Moreover, most of the methods consider that a node will have same reputation with all the nodes in the network, which is not true. This…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-08-23 Ruchir Gupta , Y. N. Singh

We consider a communication system where a group of users, interconnected in a bidirectional gossip network, wishes to follow a time-varying source, e.g., updates on an event, in real-time. The users wish to maintain their expected version…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-02 Priyanka Kaswan , Melih Bastopcu , Sennur Ulukus , S. Rasoul Etesami , Tamer Başar

We consider gossiping in a fully-connected wireless network consisting of $n$ nodes. The network receives Poisson updates from a source, which generates new information. The nodes gossip their available information with the neighboring…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-09 Purbesh Mitra , Sennur Ulukus

Gossip protocols are widely used to disseminate information in massive peer-to-peer networks. These protocols are often claimed to guarantee privacy because of the uncertainty they introduce on the node that started the dissemination. But…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-08-05 Aurélien Bellet , Rachid Guerraoui , Hadrien Hendrikx

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

The influence of node mobility on the convergence time of averaging gossip algorithms in networks is studied. It is shown that a small number of fully mobile nodes can yield a significant decrease in convergence time. A method is developed…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2011-06-22 Anand D. Sarwate , Alexandros G. Dimakis

In the classic gossip-based model of communication for disseminating information in a network, in each time unit, every node $u$ is allowed to contact a single random neighbor $v$. If $u$ knows the data (rumor) to be disseminated, it…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-09-24 Sebastian Daum , Fabian Kuhn , Yannic Maus

We consider a gossip network consisting of a source generating updates and $n$ nodes connected in a two-dimensional square grid. The source keeps updates of a process, that might be generated or observed, and shares them with the grid…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Arunabh Srivastava , Sennur Ulukus

Communication overhead hinders the scalability of large-scale distributed training. Gossip SGD, where each node averages only with its neighbors, is more communication-efficient than the prevalent parallel SGD. However, its convergence rate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-20 Yiming Chen , Kun Yuan , Yingya Zhang , Pan Pan , Yinghui Xu , Wotao Yin

We propose and analyze a quasirandom analogue of the classical push model for disseminating information in networks ("randomized rumor spreading"). In the classical model, in each round each informed vertex chooses a neighbor at random and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-03-17 Benjamin Doerr , Tobias Friedrich , Thomas Sauerwald

This paper investigates the problem of distributed network-wide averaging and proposes a new greedy gossip algorithm. Instead of finding the optimal path of each node in a greedy manner, the proposed approach utilises a suboptimal…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-08-20 Hyo-Sang Shin , Shaoming He , Antonios Tsourdos

This paper proposes and investigates a Boolean gossip model as a simplified but non-trivial probabilistic Boolean network. With positive node interactions, in view of standard theories from Markov chains, we prove that the node states…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-05-23 Bo Li , Junfeng Wu , Hongsheng Qi , Alexandre Proutiere , Guodong Shi

We empirically analyze two versions of the well-known "randomized rumor spreading" protocol to disseminate a piece of information in networks. In the classical model, in each round each informed node informs a random neighbor. In the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-03-17 Benjamin Doerr , Tobias Friedrich , Marvin Künnemann , Thomas Sauerwald

The gossip problem, in which information (known as secrets) must be shared among a certain number of agents using the minimum number of calls, is of interest in the conception of communication networks and protocols. We extend the gossip…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-06-15 Martin C. Cooper , Andreas Herzig , Faustine Maffre , Frédéric Maris , Pierre Régnier

This paper proposes and investigates a framework for clique gossip protocols. As complete subnetworks, the existence of cliques is ubiquitous in various social, computer, and engineering networks. By clique gossiping, nodes interact with…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-06-09 Yang Liu , Bo Li , Brian Anderson , Guodong Shi

Gossip has been shown to be a relatively efficient solution to problems of cooperation in reputation-based systems of exchange, but many studies don't conceptualize gossiping in a realistic way, often assuming near-perfect information or…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Jan Majewski , Francesca Giardini

As agentic platforms scale, agents are evolving beyond static roles and fixed toolchains, creating a growing need for flexible, decentralized coordination. Today's structured communication protocols (e.g., direct agent-to-agent messaging)…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Mansura Habiba , Nafiul I. Khan