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The growing availability of clinical data has increased the use of machine learning, yet centralized data aggregation is often infeasible for sensitive health information. Federated Learning (FL) offers a distributed alternative, but its…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Anisa Halimi , Liubov Nedoshivina , Kieran Fraser , Stefano Braghin

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

Currently the Dempster-Shafer based algorithm and Uniform Random Probability based algorithm are the preferred method of resolving security games, in which defenders are able to identify attackers and only strategy remained ambiguous.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2015-08-11 Hossein Khani , Mohsen Afsharchi

Secure multiparty computations enable the distribution of so-called shares of sensitive data to multiple parties such that the multiple parties can effectively process the data while being unable to glean much information about the data (at…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Chuan Guo , Awni Hannun , Brian Knott , Laurens van der Maaten , Mark Tygert , Ruiyu Zhu

We present an optimization framework for solving multi-agent nonlinear programs subject to inequality constraints while keeping the agents' state trajectories private. Each agent has an objective function depending only upon its own state…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-08-03 Matthew Hale , Magnus Egerstedt

A basic problem in the design of privacy-preserving algorithms is the private maximization problem: the goal is to pick an item from a universe that (approximately) maximizes a data-dependent function, all under the constraint of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-09-09 Kamalika Chaudhuri , Daniel Hsu , Shuang Song

Privacy preservation is becoming an increasingly important issue in data mining and machine learning. In this paper, we consider the privacy preserving features of distributed subgradient optimization algorithms. We first show that a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-12-31 Youcheng Lou , Lean Yu , Shouyang Wang

In distributed optimization, multiple parties collaborate to find an optimal solution to a problem. Privacy-preserving distributed optimization uses techniques, such as secure multi-party computation (MPC), to protect the private inputs of…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Sebastian Gruber , Tobias Harzfeld , Christoph G. Schuetz , Florian Wohner , Thomas Lorünser

Many multi-robot applications require tasks to be completed efficiently and in the correct order, so that downstream operations can proceed at the right time. Multi-agent path finding with precedence constraints (MAPF-PC) is a well-studied…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Viraj Parimi , Brian C. Williams

We present a novel algorithm for large-scale Multi-Agent Path Finding (MAPF) that enables fast, scalable planning in dynamic environments such as automated warehouses. Our approach introduces finite-horizon hierarchical factorization, a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Jiarui Li , Alessandro Zanardi , Gioele Zardini

We study the planning and acting phase for the problem of multi-agent path finding (MAPF) in this paper. MAPF is a problem of navigating agents from their start positions to specified individual goal positions so that agents do not collide…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-07-07 Matouš Kulhan , Pavel Surynek

Differential privacy mechanisms such as the Gaussian or Laplace mechanism have been widely used in data analytics for preserving individual privacy. However, they are mostly designed for continuous outputs and are unsuitable for scenarios…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Zhongteng Cai , Xueru Zhang , Mohammad Mahdi Khalili

Multi-agent path planning is a challenging problem with numerous real-life applications. Running a centralized search such as A* in the combined state space of all units is complete and cost-optimal, but scales poorly, as the state space…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-01-17 Ko-Hsin Cindy Wang , Adi Botea

Recommendation systems form the center piece of a rapidly growing trillion dollar online advertisement industry. Even with numerous optimizations and approximations, collaborative filtering (CF) based approaches require real-time…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-06-19 Theja Tulabandhula , Shailesh Vaya , Aritra Dhar

A Private Repetition algorithm takes as input a differentially private algorithm with constant success probability and boosts it to one that succeeds with high probability. These algorithms are closely related to private metaselection…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Kunal Talwar

Multi-agent path finding (MAPF) is the problem of planning conflict-free paths from the designated start locations to goal positions for multiple agents. It underlies a variety of real-world tasks, including multi-robot coordination,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Zhanjiang Yang , Yang Shen , Yueming Li , Meng Li , Lijun Sun

Multi-agent pathfinding (MAPF) has been widely used to solve large-scale real-world problems, e.g., automation warehouses. The learning-based, fully decentralized framework has been introduced to alleviate real-time problems and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-02-11 Wenhao Li , Hongjun Chen , Bo Jin , Wenzhe Tan , Hongyuan Zha , Xiangfeng Wang

This paper proposes an intent-aware multi-agent planning framework as well as a learning algorithm. Under this framework, an agent plans in the goal space to maximize the expected utility. The planning process takes the belief of other…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-03-07 Siyuan Qi , Song-Chun Zhu

Multi-agent active search requires autonomous agents to choose sensing actions that efficiently locate targets. In a realistic setting, agents also must consider the costs that their decisions incur. Previously proposed active search…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-06 Arundhati Banerjee , Ramina Ghods , Jeff Schneider

Multi-agent path finding (MAPF) is an indispensable component of large-scale robot deployments in numerous domains ranging from airport management to warehouse automation. In particular, this work addresses lifelong MAPF (LMAPF) - an online…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-03-05 Mehul Damani , Zhiyao Luo , Emerson Wenzel , Guillaume Sartoretti