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This paper studies how a system operator and a set of agents securely execute a distributed projected gradient-based algorithm. In particular, each participant holds a set of problem coefficients and/or states whose values are private to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-05-24 Yang Lu , Minghui Zhu

This paper studies distributed stochastic nonconvex optimization problems with compressed communication and differential privacy, in which each agent aims to minimize the sum of all agents' cost functions by using local compressed…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-24 Antai Xie , Xiaoqiang Ren , Xinlei Yi , Tao Yang , Xiaofan 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

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 paper studies the privacy-preserving distributed optimization problem under limited communication, where each agent aims to keep its cost function private while minimizing the sum of all agents' cost functions. To this end, we propose…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-05-02 Antai Xie , Xinlei Yi , Xiaofan Wang , Ming Cao , Xiaoqiang Ren

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

Distributed aggregative optimization underpins many cooperative optimization and multi-agent control systems, where each agent's objective function depends both on its local optimization variable and an aggregate of all agents' optimization…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-30 Ziqin Chen , Yongqiang Wang

Real-time data-driven optimization and control problems over networks may require sensitive information of participating users to calculate solutions and decision variables, such as in traffic or energy systems. Adversaries with access to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-05-25 Roel Dobbe , Ye Pu , Jingge Zhu , Kannan Ramchandran , Claire Tomlin

Decentralized optimization is crucial for multi-agent systems, with significant concerns about communication efficiency and privacy. This paper explores the role of efficient communication in decentralized stochastic gradient descent…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-10 Wei Huo , Changxin Liu , Kemi Ding , Karl Henrik Johansson , Ling Shi

We develop a privacy-preserving distributed projection least mean squares (LMS) strategy over linear multitask networks, where agents' local parameters of interest or tasks are linearly related. Each agent is interested in not only…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2022-01-05 Chengcheng Wang , Wee Peng Tay , Ye Wei , Yuan Wang

In this paper, we design user-centric obfuscation mechanisms that impose the minimum utility loss for guaranteeing user's privacy. We optimize utility subject to a joint guarantee of differential privacy (indistinguishability) and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-05-29 Reza Shokri

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

Average consensus protocols emerge with a central role in distributed systems and decision-making such as distributed information fusion, distributed optimization, distributed estimation, and control. A key advantage of these protocols is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-12-21 Guilherme Ramos , A. Pedro Aguiar , Soummya Kar , Sérgio Pequito

Continual data collection and widespread deployment of machine learning algorithms, particularly the distributed variants, have raised new privacy challenges. In a distributed machine learning scenario, the dataset is stored among several…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-12-16 Shripad Gade , Nitin H. Vaidya

In this paper, we propose a fully distributed algorithm for second-order continuous-time multi-agent systems to solve the distributed optimization problem. The global objective function is a sum of private cost functions associated with the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-04-15 Xinlei Yi , Lisha Yao , Tao Yang , Jemin George , Karl H. Johansson

Decentralized stochastic optimization is the basic building block of modern collaborative machine learning, distributed estimation and control, and large-scale sensing. Since involved data usually contain sensitive information like user…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Yongqiang Wang , H. Vincent Poor

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

Privacy-preserving distributed processing has received considerable attention recently. The main purpose of these algorithms is to solve certain signal processing tasks over a network in a decentralised fashion without revealing…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-14 Sebastian O. Jordan , Qiongxiu Li , Richard Heusdens

Although distributed Gaussian process regression (GPR) enables multiple agents with separate datasets to jointly learn a model of the target function, its collaborative nature poses risks of private data leakage. To address this, we propose…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-08 Yeongjun Jang , Kaoru Teranishi , Jihoon Suh , Takashi Tanaka

A problem of distributed state estimation at multiple agents that are physically connected and have competitive interests is mapped to a distributed source coding problem with additional privacy constraints. The agents interact to estimate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-07-10 Lalitha Sankar , H. Vincent Poor