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Decentralized systems are a subset of distributed systems where multiple authorities control different components and no authority is fully trusted by all. This implies that any component in a decentralized system is potentially…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-01-17 Carmela Troncoso , Marios Isaakidis , George Danezis , Harry Halpin

Decentralized optimization is a common paradigm used in distributed signal processing and sensing as well as privacy-preserving and large-scale machine learning. It is assumed that several computational entities locally hold objective…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-01-12 Alexander Rogozin , Demyan Yarmoshik , Ksenia Kopylova , Alexander Gasnikov

Decentralized optimization is widely used in large scale and privacy preserving machine learning and various distributed control and sensing systems. It is assumed that every agent in the network possesses a local objective function, and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-01-31 Savelii Chezhegov , Anton Novitskii , Alexander Rogozin , Sergei Parsegov , Pavel Dvurechensky , Alexander Gasnikov

Availability of both massive datasets and computing resources have made machine learning and predictive analytics extremely pervasive. In this work we present a synchronous algorithm and architecture for distributed optimization motivated…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-12-20 Shripad Gade , Nitin H. Vaidya

We study a class of distributed convex constrained optimization problems where a group of agents aim to minimize the sum of individual objective functions while each desires that any information about its objective function is kept private.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-09-30 Erfan Nozari , Pavankumar Tallapragada , Jorge Cortés

This paper presents a novel distributed formulation of the min-max optimization problem. Such a formulation enables enhanced flexibility among agents when optimizing their maximization variables. To address the problem, we propose two…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-19 Runze You , Kun Huang , Shi Pu

Decentralized algorithms for stochastic optimization and learning rely on the diffusion of information as a result of repeated local exchanges of intermediate estimates. Such structures are particularly appealing in situations where agents…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-26 Stefan Vlaski , Ali H. Sayed

Training generative models with differential privacy (DP) typically involves injecting noise into gradient updates or adapting the discriminator's training procedure. As a result, such approaches often struggle with hyper-parameter tuning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Kristjan Greenewald , Yuancheng Yu , Hao Wang , Kai Xu

The popularity of federated learning comes from the possibility of better scalability and the ability for participants to keep control of their data, improving data security and sovereignty. Unfortunately, sharing model updates also creates…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Edwige Cyffers , Aurélien Bellet , Jalaj Upadhyay

This paper studies a policy optimization problem arising from collaborative multi-agent reinforcement learning in a decentralized setting where agents communicate with their neighbors over an undirected graph to maximize the sum of their…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-09-07 Jinchi Chen , Jie Feng , Weiguo Gao , Ke Wei

In this paper, an adjustment to the original differentially private stochastic gradient descent (DPSGD) algorithm for deep learning models is proposed. As a matter of motivation, to date, almost no state-of-the-art machine learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Mehdi Amian

We consider the problem of communication-constrained collaborative personalized mean estimation under a privacy constraint in an environment of several agents continuously receiving data according to arbitrary unknown agent-specific…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Yauhen Yakimenka , Hsuan-Yin Lin , Eirik Rosnes , Jörg Kliewer

Privacy preservation emphasize on authorization of data, which signifies that data should be accessed only by authorized users. Ensuring the privacy of data is considered as one of the challenging task in data management. The generalization…

Databases · Computer Science 2014-03-03 S kumarasawamy , Srikanth P L , Manjula S H , K R Venugopal , L M Patnaik

Decentralized multi-agent systems have shown promise in enabling autonomous collaboration among LLM-based agents. While AgentNet demonstrated the feasibility of fully decentralized coordination through dynamic DAG topologies, several…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Goutham Nalagatla

We consider decentralized machine learning over a network where the training data is distributed across $n$ agents, each of which can compute stochastic model updates on their local data. The agent's common goal is to find a model that…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-02-09 Anastasia Koloskova , Tao Lin , Sebastian U. Stich

In this paper, we study unconstrained distributed optimization strongly convex problems, in which the exchange of information in the network is captured by a directed graph topology over digital channels that have limited capacity (and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-12 Apostolos I. Rikos , Wei Jiang , Themistoklis Charalambous , Karl H. Johansson

We propose a general privacy-preserving optimization-based framework for real-time environments without requiring trusted data curators. In particular, we introduce a noisy stochastic gradient descent algorithm for online statistical…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-06-11 Jinhan Xie , Enze Shi , Bei Jiang , Linglong Kong , Xuming He

We consider the problem of decentralized optimization where a collection of agents, each having access to a local cost function, communicate over a time-varying directed network and aim to minimize the sum of those functions. In practice,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-01 Yiyue Chen , Abolfazl Hashemi , Haris Vikalo

In this paper, we focus on solving a distributed convex optimization problem in a network, where each agent has its own convex cost function and the goal is to minimize the sum of the agents' cost functions while obeying the network…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-08-02 Shi Pu , Wei Shi , Jinming Xu , Angelia Nedić

Consensus optimization enables autonomous agents to solve joint tasks through peer-to-peer exchanges alone. Classical decentralized gradient descent is appealing for its minimal state but fails to achieve exact consensus with fixed…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-02 Hong Wang