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We investigate the distributed online nonconvex optimization problem with differential privacy over time-varying networks. Each node minimizes the sum of several nonconvex functions while preserving the node's differential privacy. We…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-09 Yingjie Zhou , Tao Li

This paper considers the problem of releasing privacy-preserving load data of a decentralized operated power system. The paper focuses on data used to solve Optimal Power Flow (OPF) problems and proposes a distributed algorithm that…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-04-20 Terrence W. K. Mak , Ferdinando Fioretto , Pascal Van Hentenryck

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

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

Local differential privacy is a widely studied restriction on distributed algorithms that collect aggregates about sensitive user data, and is now deployed in several large systems. We initiate a systematic study of a fundamental limitation…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-09-23 Albert Cheu , Adam Smith , Jonathan Ullman

Imagine a group of citizens willing to collectively contribute their personal data for the common good to produce socially useful information, resulting from data analytics or machine learning computations. Sharing raw personal data with a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-12-24 Riad Ladjel , Nicolas Anciaux , Aurélien Bellet , Guillaume Scerri

Vertical Federated Learning (VFL) enables collaborative model training across feature-partitioned devices, yet its reliance on device-server information exchange introduces significant communication overhead and privacy risks. Downlink…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Jianing Zhang , Evan Chen , Dong-Jun Han , Chaoyue Liu , Christopher G. Brinton

Differential privacy (DP) is a popular mechanism for training machine learning models with bounded leakage about the presence of specific points in the training data. The cost of differential privacy is a reduction in the model's accuracy.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-29 Eugene Bagdasaryan , Vitaly Shmatikov

Distributed model predictive control (DMPC) has attracted extensive attention as it can explicitly handle system constraints and achieve optimal control in a decentralized manner. However, the deployment of DMPC strategies generally…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-21 Kaixiang Zhang , Yongqiang Wang , Ziyou Song , Zhaojian Li

Reinforcement learning (RL) is a powerful tool for sequential decision-making, but its application is often hindered by privacy concerns arising from its interaction data. This challenge is particularly acute in advanced networked systems,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Shaojie Bai , Mohammad Sadegh Talebi , Chengcheng Zhao , Peng Cheng , Jiming Chen

Local differential privacy (LDP) has become a central topic in data privacy research, offering strong privacy guarantees by perturbing user data at the source and removing the need for a trusted curator. However, the noise introduced by LDP…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Caihong Qin , Yang Bai

Privacy-preserving distributed processing has recently attracted considerable attention. It aims to design solutions for conducting signal processing tasks over networks in a decentralized fashion without violating privacy. Many algorithms…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-09-03 Qiongxiu Li , Jaron Skovsted Gundersen , Richard Heusdens , Mads Græsbøll Christensen

Differential Privacy (DP) provides an elegant mathematical framework for defining a provable disclosure risk in the presence of arbitrary adversaries; it guarantees that whether an individual is in a database or not, the results of a DP…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-08-19 Aleksandra Slavkovic , Roberto Molinari

Differential Privacy (DP) has received increasing attention as a rigorous privacy framework. Many existing studies employ traditional DP mechanisms (e.g., the Laplace mechanism) as primitives to continuously release private data for…

Databases · Computer Science 2019-08-01 Yang Cao , Masatoshi Yoshikawa , Yonghui Xiao , Li Xiong

There has been increasing demand for establishing privacy-preserving methodologies for modern statistics and machine learning. Differential privacy, a mathematical notion from computer science, is a rising tool offering robust privacy…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-05-09 Shurong Lin , Elliot Paquette , Eric D. Kolaczyk

Large organizations that collect data about populations (like the US Census Bureau) release summary statistics that are used by multiple stakeholders for resource allocation and policy making problems. These organizations are also legally…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-11-08 David Pujol , Yikai Wu , Brandon Fain , Ashwin Machanavajjhala

Federated learning (FL), where data remains at the federated clients, and where only gradient updates are shared with a central aggregator, was assumed to be private. Recent work demonstrates that adversaries with gradient-level access can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-13 Varun Chandrasekaran , Suman Banerjee , Diego Perino , Nicolas Kourtellis

In this paper, the problem of federated learning (FL) through digital communication between clients and a parameter server (PS) over a multiple access channel (MAC), also subject to differential privacy (DP) constraints, is studied. More…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Amir Sonee , Stefano Rini

Federated learning (FL) enhances privacy by keeping user data on local devices. However, emerging attacks have demonstrated that the updates shared by users during training can reveal significant information about their data. This has…

In this paper, to effectively prevent information leakage, we propose a novel framework based on the concept of differential privacy (DP), in which artificial noises are added to the parameters at the clients side before aggregating,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-11 Kang Wei , Jun Li , Ming Ding , Chuan Ma , Howard H. Yang , Farokhi Farhad , Shi Jin , Tony Q. S. Quek , H. Vincent Poor