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In decentralized optimization over networks, each node in the network has a portion of the global objective function and the aim is to collectively optimize this function. Gradient tracking methods have emerged as a popular alternative for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-12-13 Albert S. Berahas , Raghu Bollapragada , Shagun Gupta

As machine learning becomes more widespread throughout society, aspects including data privacy and fairness must be carefully considered, and are crucial for deployment in highly regulated industries. Unfortunately, the application of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-24 Maria S. Esipova , Atiyeh Ashari Ghomi , Yaqiao Luo , Jesse C. Cresswell

Distributed algorithms can be efficiently used for solving economic dispatch problem (EDP) in power systems. To implement a distributed algorithm, a communication network is required, making the algorithm vulnerable to noise which may cause…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-18 Wenwen Wu , Shuai Liu , Shanying Zhu

We present an optimization framework for solving multi-agent nonlinear programs subject to inequality constraints while keeping the agents' state trajectories private. Each agent has an objective function depending only upon its own state…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-08-03 Matthew Hale , Magnus Egerstedt

The Deep Leakage from Gradient (DLG) attack has emerged as a prevalent and highly effective method for extracting sensitive training data by inspecting exchanged gradients. This approach poses a substantial threat to the privacy of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-27 Chenyang Li , Zhao Song , Weixin Wang , Chiwun Yang

Privacy protection and nonconvexity are two challenging problems in decentralized optimization and learning involving sensitive data. Despite some recent advances addressing each of the two problems separately, no results have been reported…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-12-16 Yongqiang Wang , Tamer Basar

Federated learning enables collaborative model training across distributed clients while preserving data privacy. However, in practical deployments, device heterogeneity, non-independent, and identically distributed (Non-IID) data often…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Jin Wang , Hui Ma , Fei Xing , Ming Yan

Privacy-preserving training on sensitive data commonly relies on differentially private stochastic optimization with gradient clipping and Gaussian noise. The clipping threshold is a critical control knob: if set too small, systematic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Mohammad Partohaghighi , Roummel Marcia , Bruce J. West , YangQuan Chen

We propose an adaptive (stochastic) gradient perturbation method for differentially private empirical risk minimization. At each iteration, the random noise added to the gradient is optimally adapted to the stepsize; we name this process…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Xiaoxia Wu , Lingxiao Wang , Irina Cristali , Quanquan Gu , Rebecca Willett

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

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

Deep learning models have been extensively adopted in various regions due to their ability to represent hierarchical features, which highly rely on the training set and procedures. Thus, protecting the training process and deep learning…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Haodi Wang , Tangyu Jiang , Yu Guo , Chengjun Cai , Cong Wang , Xiaohua Jia

This paper proposes a locally differentially private federated learning algorithm for strongly convex but possibly nonsmooth problems that protects the gradients of each worker against an honest but curious server. The proposed algorithm…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-03 Jiaojiao Zhang , Dominik Fay , Mikael Johansson

Federated learning, as a distributed architecture, shows great promise for applications in Cyber-Physical-Social Systems (CPSS). In order to mitigate the privacy risks inherent in CPSS, the integration of differential privacy with federated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Jiayi Wan , Xiang Zhu , Fanzhen Liu , Wei Fan , Xiaolong Xu

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

This paper investigates the differentially private bipartite consensus algorithm over signed networks. The proposed algorithm protects each agent's sensitive information by adding noise with time-varying variances to the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-04 Jimin Wang , Jieming Ke , Ji-Feng Zhang

This paper studies how to apply differential privacy to constrained optimization problems whose inputs are sensitive. This task raises significant challenges since random perturbations of the input data often render the constrained…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-01-07 Terrence W. K. Mak , Ferdinando Fioretto , Pascal Van Hentenryck

Decentralized solutions to finite-sum minimization are of significant importance in many signal processing, control, and machine learning applications. In such settings, the data is distributed over a network of arbitrarily-connected nodes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-14 Ran Xin , Soummya Kar , Usman A. Khan

User-level differentially private stochastic convex optimization (DP-SCO) has garnered significant attention due to the paramount importance of safeguarding user privacy in modern large-scale machine learning applications. Current methods,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Badih Ghazi , Ravi Kumar , Daogao Liu , Pasin Manurangsi

Distributed optimization is manifesting great potential in multiple fields, e.g., machine learning, control, and resource allocation. Existing decentralized optimization algorithms require sharing explicit state information among the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-28 Huqiang Cheng , Xiaofeng Liao , Huaqing Li , You Zhao