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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

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

In many applications, nodes in a network desire not only a consensus, but an optimal one. To date, a family of subgradient algorithms have been proposed to solve this problem under general convexity assumptions. This paper shows that, for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2011-02-11 Jie Lu , Choon Yik Tang , Paul R. Regier , Travis D. Bow

This paper studies the problem of multi-agent computation under the differential privacy requirement of the agents' local datasets against eavesdroppers having node-to-node communications. We first propose for the network equipped with…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-01-06 Lei Wang , Yang Liu , Ian Manchester , Guodong Shi

In this paper we show how the stochastic heavy ball method (SHB) -- a popular method for solving stochastic convex and non-convex optimization problems --operates as a randomized gossip algorithm. In particular, we focus on two special…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-09-25 Nicolas Loizou , Peter Richtárik

Differential privacy is a formal mathematical {stand-ard} for quantifying the degree of that individual privacy in a statistical database is preserved. To guarantee differential privacy, a typical method is adding random noise to the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-08 Jianping He , Lin Cai

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

Motivated by the large expansion in the study of social networks, this paper deals with the problem of multiple messages spreading over the same network using gossip algorithms. Given two messages distributed over some nodes of the graph,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-02-04 Amine Semma , Ismail Elouafiq

This paper aims at secure and privacy preserving consensus algorithms of networked systems. Due to the technical challenges behind decentralized design of such algorithms, the existing results are mainly restricted to a network of systems…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2021-09-01 Wentuo Fang , Mohsen Zamani , Zhiyong Chen

Privacy-preserving data aggregation in ad hoc networks is a challenging problem, considering the distributed communication and control requirement, dynamic network topology, unreliable communication links, etc. Different from the widely…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-02-07 Jianping He , Lin Cai , Peng Cheng , Jianping Pan , Ling Shi

This paper addresses the problem of robust estimation in gossip algorithms over arbitrary communication graphs. Gossip algorithms are fully decentralized, relying only on local neighbor-to-neighbor communication, making them well-suited for…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-01-01 Anna Van Elst , Igor Colin , Stephan Clémençon

The iterative consensus problem requires a set of processes or agents with different initial values, to interact and update their states to eventually converge to a common value. Protocols solving iterative consensus serve as building…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2012-08-10 Zhenqi Huang , Sayan Mitra , Geir Dullerud

Efficient and robust algorithms for decentralized estimation in networks are essential to many distributed systems. Whereas distributed estimation of sample mean statistics has been the subject of a good deal of attention, computation of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-01-25 Igor Colin , Aurélien Bellet , Joseph Salmon , Stéphan Clémençon

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

By the distributed averaging problem is meant the problem of computing the average value of a set of numbers possessed by the agents in a distributed network using only communication between neighboring agents. Gossiping is a well-known…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-12-28 Ji Liu , Shaoshuai Mou , A. Stephen Morse , Brian D. O. Anderson , Changbin Yu

Achieving differential privacy (DP) guarantees in fully decentralized machine learning is challenging due to the absence of a central aggregator and varying trust assumptions among nodes. We present a framework for DP analysis of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Antti Koskela , Tejas Kulkarni

Due to their flexibility, battery powered or energy-harvesting wireless networks are employed in diverse applications. Securing data transmissions between wireless devises is of critical importance in order to avoid privacy-sensitive user…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-19 Apostolos I. Rikos , Christoforos N. Hadjicostis , Karl H. Johansson

This paper presents greedy gossip with eavesdropping (GGE), a novel randomized gossip algorithm for distributed computation of the average consensus problem. In gossip algorithms, nodes in the network randomly communicate with their…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-05-14 Deniz Ustebay , Boris Oreshkin , Mark Coates , Michael Rabbat

Increasingly more attention is paid to the privacy in online applications due to the widespread data collection for various analysis purposes. Sensitive information might be mined from the raw data during the analysis, and this led to a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-11-23 Taeho Jung , Xiang-Yang Li , Lan Zhang

Average consensus is extensively used in distributed networks for computation and control, where all the agents constantly communicate with each other and update their states in order to reach an agreement. Under a general average consensus…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-17 Xiaomeng Chen , Lingying Huang , Kemi Ding , Subhrakanti Dey , Ling Shi