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In decision-making problems, the actions of an agent may reveal sensitive information that drives its decisions. For instance, a corporation's investment decisions may reveal its sensitive knowledge about market dynamics. To prevent this…

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Decentralized optimization enables a network of agents to cooperatively optimize an overall objective function without a central coordinator and is gaining increased attention in domains as diverse as control, sensor networks, data mining,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-12-27 Yongqiang Wang , Angelia Nedic

In this paper, we study the problem of consensus-based distributed optimization where a network of agents, abstracted as a directed graph, aims to minimize the sum of all agents' cost functions collaboratively. In existing distributed…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-30 Xiaomeng Chen , Lingying Huang , Lidong He , Subhrakanti Dey , Ling Shi

This paper investigates the autonomous synchronization problem for discrete-time heterogeneous multiagent systems. The synchronization problem is transformed into the asymptotic decoupling problem of stable modes in a class of discrete-time…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Wei Hu , Quanyi Liang

Differential privacy is a rigorous privacy condition achieved by randomizing query answers. This paper develops efficient algorithms for answering multiple queries under differential privacy with low error. We pursue this goal by advancing…

Databases · Computer Science 2011-03-08 Chao Li , Gerome Miklau

This paper presents a new method for achieving dynamic consensus in linear discrete-time homogeneous multi-agent systems (MAS) with marginally stable or unstable dynamics. The guarantee of consensus in this setting involves a set of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-21 Maryam Babazadeh , Naim Bajcinca

This paper addresses the bipartite consensus-control problem in open multi-agent systems containing both cooperative and antagonistic interactions. In these systems, new agents can join and new interactions can be formed over time.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-01 Pelin Sekercioglu , Angela Fontan , Dimos V. Dimarogonas

With the rapid advancement of Large Language Models (LLMs), LLM-based agents exhibit exceptional abilities in understanding and generating natural language, enabling human-like collaboration and information transmission in LLM-based…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Hailong Yang , Renhuo Zhao , Guanjin Wang , Zhaohong Deng

We consider open multi-agent systems. Unlike the systems usually studied in the literature, here agents may join or leave while the process studied takes place. The system composition and size evolve thus with time. We focus here on systems…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2017-09-18 Julien M. Hendrickx , Samuel Martin

Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) have become a prevalent paradigm for Large Language Model (LLM) applications. However, the complex multi-agent design in MAS introduces unique trustworthiness concerns: adversarial agents can inject misleading…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Chengcan Wu , Zhixin Zhang , Mingqian Xu , Zeming Wei , Meng Sun

In this paper, we propose a new architecture to enhance the privacy and security of networked control systems against malicious adversaries. We consider an adversary which first learns the system dynamics (privacy) using system…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-28 Mohamed Abdalmoaty , Sribalaji C. Anand , André M. H. Teixeira

This paper proposes a privacy protocol for distributed average consensus algorithms on bounded real-valued inputs that guarantees statistical privacy of honest agents' inputs against colluding (passive adversarial) agents, if the set of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-03-25 Nirupam Gupta , Jonathan Katz , Nikhil Chopra

We define a new interactive differentially private mechanism -- the median mechanism -- for answering arbitrary predicate queries that arrive online. Relative to fixed accuracy and privacy constraints, this mechanism can answer…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2011-01-20 Aaron Roth , Tim Roughgarden

Privacy concerns have led to a surge in the creation of synthetic datasets, with diffusion models emerging as a promising avenue. Although prior studies have performed empirical evaluations on these models, there has been a gap in providing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Rongzhe Wei , Eleonora Kreačić , Haoyu Wang , Haoteng Yin , Eli Chien , Vamsi K. Potluru , Pan Li

Multi-agent systems, when enhanced with Large Language Models (LLMs), exhibit profound capabilities in collective intelligence. However, the potential misuse of this intelligence for malicious purposes presents significant risks. To date,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-21 Zaibin Zhang , Yongting Zhang , Lijun Li , Hongzhi Gao , Lijun Wang , Huchuan Lu , Feng Zhao , Yu Qiao , Jing Shao

The purpose of this report is to define abstractions for multi-agent systems under coupled constraints. In the proposed decentralized framework, we specify a finite or countable transition system for each agent which only takes into account…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2015-03-02 Dimitris Boskos , Dimos V. Dimarogonas

The article is devoted to the issues of using discrete simulation models for modeling some basic technological processes. In the scientific work, models in the form of multi-agent systems have been investigated, which allow us to consider a…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2021-09-28 Sergey Petrovich Bobkov , Irina Aleksandrovna Astrakhantseva

This paper proposes a novel approach to addressing the output synchronization problem in unknown heterogeneous multi-agent systems (MASs) using noisy data. Unlike existing studies that focus on noiseless data, we introduce a distributed…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-17 Yifei Li , Wenjie Liu , Jian Sun , Gang Wang , Lihua Xie , Jie Chen

Modeling agent behavior is central to understanding the emergence of complex phenomena in multiagent systems. Prior work in agent modeling has largely been task-specific and driven by hand-engineering domain-specific prior knowledge. We…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2018-08-02 Aditya Grover , Maruan Al-Shedivat , Jayesh K. Gupta , Yura Burda , Harrison Edwards

We consider a resource allocation problem involving a large number of agents with individual constraints subject to privacy, and a central operator whose objective is to optimize a global, possibly nonconvex, cost while satisfying the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-06-24 Olivier Beaude , Pascal Benchimol , Stéphane Gaubert , Paulin Jacquot , Nadia Oudjane