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Large-scale multi-agent cooperative control problems have materially enjoyed the scalability, adaptivity, and flexibility of decentralized optimization. However, due to the mandatory iterative communications between the agents and the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-03-04 Xiang Huo , Mingxi Liu

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

In this paper, we develop and analyze a gossip-based average consensus algorithm that enables all of the components of a distributed system, each with some initial value, to reach (approximate) average consensus on their initial values…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-09 Nicolaos E. Manitara , Apostolos I. Rikos , Christoforos N. Hadjicostis

We propose a protocol based on mechanism design theory and encrypted control to solve average consensus problems among rational and strategic agents while preserving their privacy. The proposed protocol provides a mechanism that…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-27 Kaoru Teranishi , Kiminao Kogiso , Takashi Tanaka

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 this work, we focus on solving a decentralized consensus problem in a private manner. Specifically, we consider a setting in which a group of nodes, connected through a network, aim at computing the mean of their local values without…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Mohammad Fereydounian , Aryan Mokhtari , Ramtin Pedarsani , Hamed Hassani

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

In this work we present a randomized gossip algorithm for solving the average consensus problem while at the same time protecting the information about the initial private values stored at the nodes. We give iteration complexity bounds for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-20 Filip Hanzely , Jakub Konečný , Nicolas Loizou , Peter Richtárik , Dmitry Grishchenko

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

Networked system often relies on distributed algorithms to achieve a global computation goal with iterative local information exchanges between neighbor nodes. To preserve data privacy, a node may add a random noise to its original data for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-21 Jianping He , Lin Cai , Xinping Guan

Data privacy is an important concern in learning, when datasets contain sensitive information about individuals. This paper considers consensus-based distributed optimization under data privacy constraints. Consensus-based optimization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-20 Mehrdad Showkatbakhsh , Can Karakus , Suhas Diggavi

This paper addresses the challenge of achieving private and resilient average consensus among a group of discrete-time networked agents without compromising accuracy. State-of-the-art solutions to attain privacy and resilient consensus…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-26 Guilherme Ramos , Daniel Silvestre , André M. H. Teixeira , Sérgio Pequito

In this paper, we consider the privacy preservation problem in both discrete- and continuous-time average consensus algorithms with strongly connected and balanced graphs, against either internal honest-but-curious agents or external…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-07 Yi Xiong , Zhongkui Li

Distributed stochastic optimization enables multi-agent collaboration in applications such as distributed learning and sensor networks, but also raises critical privacy concerns due to the involvement of sensitive data. While existing…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-24 Haoqiang Zhou , Chi Chen , Yongfeng Zhi , Huan Gao

This study concentrates on preserving privacy in a network of agents where each agent seeks to evaluate a general polynomial function over the private values of her immediate neighbors. We provide an algorithm for the exact evaluation of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-06-08 Teimour Hosseinalizadeh , Fatih Turkmen , Nima Monshizadeh

In this work we present three different randomized gossip algorithms for solving the average consensus problem while at the same time protecting the information about the initial private values stored at the nodes. We give iteration…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-06-26 Filip Hanzely , Jakub Konečný , Nicolas Loizou , Peter Richtárik , Dmitry Grishchenko

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

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

In the first part of the paper, we have studied the computational privacy risks in distributed computing protocols against local or global dynamics eavesdroppers, and proposed a Privacy-Preserving-Summation-Consistent (PPSC) mechanism as a…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-02-20 Yang Liu , Junfeng Wu , Ian Manchester , Guodong Shi

Privacy-preserving applications allow users to perform on-line daily actions without leaking sensitive information. Privacy-preserving scalar product is one of the critical algorithms in many private applications. The state-of-the-art…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-08-21 Yogachandran Rahulamathavan , Safak Dogan , Xiyu Shi , Rongxing Lu , Muttukrishnan Rajarajan , Ahmet Kondoz