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Motivated by the needs of resiliency, scalability, and plug-and-play operation, distributed decision-making is becoming increasingly prevalent. The problem of achieving consensus in a multi-agent system is at the core of distributed…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-11-21 Vivek Khatana , Murti V. Salapaka

In this paper, we study a distributed privacy-preserving learning problem in social networks with general topology. The agents can communicate with each other over the network, which may result in privacy disclosure, since the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-01-30 Youming Tao , Shuzhen Chen , Feng Li , Dongxiao Yu , Jiguo Yu , Hao Sheng

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

In this paper, we study the relationship between resilience and accuracy in the resilient distributed multi-dimensional consensus problem. We consider a network of agents, each of which has a state in $\mathbb{R}^d$. Some agents in the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-08 Waseem Abbas , Mudassir Shabbir , Jiani Li , Xenofon Koutsoukos

We study the distributed average consensus problem in multi-agent systems with directed communication links that are subject to quantized information flow. The goal of distributed average consensus is for the nodes, each associated with…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-01 Apostolos I. Rikos , Christoforos N. Hadjicostis

This paper proposes a privacy-preserving algorithm to solve the average consensus problem based on Shamir's secret sharing scheme, in which a network of agents reach an agreement on their states without exposing their individual state until…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-11-20 Silun Zhang , Thomas Ohlson Timoudas , Munther Dahleh

We propose a new decentralized average consensus algorithm with compressed communication that scales linearly with the network size n. We prove that the proposed method converges to the average of the initial values held locally by the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-09-16 Mohammad Taha Toghani , César A. Uribe

This paper studies the problem of multi-agent computation under the differential privacy requirement of the agents' local datasets against eavesdroppers having node-to-node communications. We first propose for the network equipped with…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-01-06 Lei Wang , Yang Liu , Ian Manchester , Guodong Shi

This paper studies the consensus problem of general linear discrete-time multi-agent systems (MAS) with input constraints and bounded time-varying communication delays. We propose a robust distributed model predictive control (DMPC)…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-20 Henglai Wei , Changxin Liu , Yang Shi

In this work, inspired by secret sharing schemes, we introduce a privacy-preserving approach for network consensus, by which all nodes in a network can reach an agreement on their states without exposing the individual state to neighbors.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-08 Silun Zhang , Thomas Ohlson Timoudas , Munther Dahleh

When networked systems of autonomous agents carry out complex tasks, the control and coordination sought after generally depend on a few fundamental control primitives. Chief among these primitives is consensus, where agents are to converge…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Bernadette Charron-Bost , Patrick Lambein-Monette

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

We consider a multi-agent consensus problem in the presence of adversarial agents. The adversaries are able to listen to the inter-agent communications and try to estimate the state of the agents. The agents have a limited bit-rate for…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-09 Dipankar Maity , Panagiotis Tsiotras

This paper proposes a deterministic distributed algorithm, referred to as PP-ACDC, that achieves exact average consensus over possibly unbalanced directed graphs using only a fixed and a priori specified number of quantization bits. The…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-01 Evagoras Makridis , Gabriele Oliva , Apostolos I. Rikos , Themistoklis Charalambous

Volt-VAR control (VVC) is a critical application in active distribution network management system to reduce network losses and improve voltage profile. To remove dependency on inaccurate and incomplete network models and enhance resiliency…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-08 Yuanqi Gao , Wei Wang , Nanpeng Yu

We consider the problem of multi-agent consensus where some agents are subject to faults/attacks and might make updates arbitrarily. The network consists of agents taking integer-valued (i.e., quantized) states under directed communication…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-10-20 Seyed Mehran Dibaji , Hideaki Ishii , Roberto Tempo

We are entering an era in which individuals and organizations increasingly deploy dedicated AI agents that interact and collaborate with other agents. However, the dynamics of multi-agent collaboration under privacy constraints remain…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Minjun Park , Donghyun Kim , Hyeonjong Ju , Seungwon Lim , Dongwook Choi , Taeyoon Kwon , Minju Kim , Jinyoung Yeo

This article investigates discrete-time matrix-weighted consensus of multi-agent networks over undirected and connected graphs. We first present consensus protocols for the agents in common networks of symmetric matrix weights with possibly…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-03-25 Quoc Van Tran , Minh Hoang Trinh , Hyo-Sung Ahn

Given a network of agents, we study the problem of designing a distributed algorithm that computes k independent weighted means of the network's initial conditions (namely, the agents agree on a k-dimensional space). Akin to average…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-23 Gianluca Bianchin , Miguel Vaquero , Jorge Cortes , Emiliano Dall'Anese

This paper proposes a distributed algorithm for average consensus in a multi-agent system under a fixed bidirectional communication topology, in the presence of malicious agents (nodes) that may try to influence the average consensus…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Christoforos N. Hadjicostis , Alejandro D. Dominguez-Garcia