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Privacy leakage and Byzantine failures are two adverse factors to the intelligent decision-making process of multi-agent systems (MASs). Considering the presence of these two issues, this paper targets the resolution of a class of nonconvex…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-23 Jinhui Hu , Guo Chen , Huaqing Li , Huqiang Cheng , Xiaoyu Guo , Tingwen Huang

As the modern world becomes increasingly digitized and interconnected, distributed signal processing has proven to be effective in processing its large volume of data. However, a main challenge limiting the broad use of distributed signal…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-23 Qiongxiu Li , Richard Heusdens , Mads Græsbøll Christensen

Cloud computing has been a dominant paradigm for a variety of information processing platforms, particularly for enabling various popular applications of sharing economy. However, there is a major concern regarding data privacy on these…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Lingjuan Lyu , Sid Chi-Kin Chau , Nan Wang , Yifeng Zheng

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

Scientific collaborations benefit from collaborative learning of distributed sources, but remain difficult to achieve when data are sensitive. In recent years, privacy preserving techniques have been widely studied to analyze distributed…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-06-30 Guanhong Miao , A. Adam Ding , Samuel S. Wu

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

Cooperative behavior design for multi-agent systems with collective tasks is a critical issue in promoting swarm intelligence. This paper investigates cooperative control for a multi-channel system, where each channel is managed by an agent…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-11 Peihu Duan , Tao Liu , Yuezu Lv , Guanghui Wen

Planning is one of the main approaches used to improve agents' working efficiency by making plans beforehand. However, during planning, agents face the risk of having their private information leaked. This paper proposes a novel strong…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Dayong Ye , Tianqing Zhu , Sheng Shen , Wanlei Zhou , Philip S. Yu

In this paper, we analyze the problem of optimally allocating resources in a distributed and privacy-preserving manner. We propose a novel distributed optimal resource allocation algorithm with privacy-preserving guarantees, which operates…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-19 Jakob Nylöf , Apostolos I. Rikos , Sebin Gracy , Karl H. Johansson

We consider a cooperative multi-agent system consisting of a team of agents with decentralized information. Our focus is on the design of symmetric (i.e. identical) strategies for the agents in order to optimize a finite horizon team…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-07-17 Sagar Sudhakara , Ashutosh Nayyar

Multi-agent coordination problems often require agents to exchange state information in order to reach some collective goal, such as agreement on a final state value. In some cases, it is feasible that opportunistic agents may deceptively…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-11-09 M. T. Hale , M. Egerstedt

We present an optimization framework that solves constrained multi-agent optimization problems while keeping each agent's state differentially private. The agents in the network seek to optimize a local objective function in the presence of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-08-29 Matthew Hale , Magnus Egerstedt

In this work, we study the problem of privacy preserving computation on PageRank algorithm. The idea is to enforce the secure multi party computation of the algorithm iteratively using homomorphic encryption based on Paillier scheme. In the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-11-08 Ferhat Ozgur Catak

The massive integration of uncertain distributed renewable energy resources into power systems raises power imbalance concerns. Peer-to-peer (P2P) energy trading provides a promising way to balance the prosumers' volatile energy power…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-28 Junhong Liu , Qinfei Long , Rong-Peng Liu , Wenjie Liu , Xin Cui , Yunhe Hou

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

This paper investigates the privacy-preserving distributed optimization problem, aiming to protect agents' private information from potential attackers during the optimization process. Gradient tracking, an advanced technique for improving…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Furan Xie , Bing Liu , Li Chai

Nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF) is an effective data representation tool with numerous applications in signal processing and machine learning. However, deploying NMF in a decentralized manner over ad-hoc networks introduces privacy…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-03-28 Ehsan Lari , Reza Arablouei , Stefan Werner

We consider the decentralized exploration problem: a set of players collaborate to identify the best arm by asynchronously interacting with the same stochastic environment. The objective is to insure privacy in the best arm identification…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Raphaël Féraud , Réda Alami , Romain Laroche

In recent years, several studies proposed privacy-preserving algorithms for solving Distributed Constraint Optimization Problems (DCOPs). All of those studies assumed that agents do not collude. In this study we propose the first…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-05-23 Tamir Tassa , Tal Grinshpoun , Avishay Yanai

Online collaborative medical prediction platforms offer convenience and real-time feedback by leveraging massive electronic health records. However, growing concerns about privacy and low prediction quality can deter patient participation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Shao-Bo Lin , Xiaotong Liu , Yao Wang