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Communication compression techniques are of growing interests for solving the decentralized optimization problem under limited communication, where the global objective is to minimize the average of local cost functions over a multi-agent…

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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…

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In this paper, we propose a Differentially Private Stochastic Gradient Push with Compressed communication (termed DP-CSGP) for decentralized learning over directed graphs. Different from existing works, the proposed algorithm is designed to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Zehan Zhu , Heng Zhao , Yan Huang , Joey Tianyi Zhou , Shouling Ji , Jinming Xu

Communication compression techniques are of growing interests for solving the decentralized optimization problem under limited communication, where the global objective is to minimize the average of local cost functions over a multi-agent…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-21 Yiwei Liao , Zhuorui Li , Kun Huang , Shi Pu

This paper studies distributed stochastic nonconvex optimization problems with compressed communication and differential privacy, in which each agent aims to minimize the sum of all agents' cost functions by using local compressed…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-24 Antai Xie , Xiaoqiang Ren , Xinlei Yi , Tao Yang , Xiaofan Wang

This paper investigates privacy issues in distributed resource allocation over directed networks, where each agent holds a private cost function and optimizes its decision subject to a global coupling constraint through local interaction…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-08 Wei Huo , Xiaomeng Chen , Lingying Huang , Karl Henrik Johansson , Ling Shi

We address differential privacy for fully distributed optimization subject to a shared inequality constraint. By co-designing the distributed optimization mechanism and the differential-privacy noise injection mechanism, we propose the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-04 Yongqiang Wang , Angelia Nedic

Distributed stochastic gradient descent is an important subroutine in distributed learning. A setting of particular interest is when the clients are mobile devices, where two important concerns are communication efficiency and the privacy…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-05-29 Naman Agarwal , Ananda Theertha Suresh , Felix Yu , Sanjiv Kumar , H. Brendan Mcmahan

Communication efficiency is a major bottleneck in the applications of distributed networks. To address the problem, the problem of quantized distributed optimization has attracted a lot of attention. However, most of the existing quantized…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-11-01 Yongyang Xiong , Ligang Wu , Keyou You , Lihua Xie

This paper develops and analyzes an online distributed proximal-gradient method (DPGM) for time-varying composite convex optimization problems. Each node of the network features a local cost that includes a smooth strongly convex function…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-05-07 Nicola Bastianello , Emiliano Dall'Anese

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

Differential privacy enables organizations to collect accurate aggregates over sensitive data with strong, rigorous guarantees on individuals' privacy. Previous work has found that under differential privacy, computing multiple correlated…

Databases · Computer Science 2016-05-18 Ganzhao Yuan , Yin Yang , Zhenjie Zhang , Zhifeng Hao

This paper addresses two fundamental challenges in distributed online convex optimization: communication efficiency and optimization under limited feedback. We propose a unified framework named Online Compressed Gradient Tracking (OCGT),…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-08 Longkang Zhu , Xinli Shi , Xiangping Xu , Jinde Cao , Xiangyong Chen

This paper considers distributed optimization (DO) where multiple agents cooperate to minimize a global objective function, expressed as a sum of local objectives, subject to some constraints. In DO, each agent iteratively solves a local…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-03-01 Minseok Ryu , Kibaek Kim

In this paper, we study the problem of distributed multi-agent optimization over a network, where each agent possesses a local cost function that is smooth and strongly convex. The global objective is to find a common solution that…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-03-11 Shi Pu , Angelia Nedić

Decentralized optimization is crucial for multi-agent systems, with significant concerns about communication efficiency and privacy. This paper explores the role of efficient communication in decentralized stochastic gradient descent…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-10 Wei Huo , Changxin Liu , Kemi Ding , Karl Henrik Johansson , Ling Shi

Many resource allocation problems can be formulated as an optimization problem whose constraints contain sensitive information about participating users. This paper concerns solving this kind of optimization problem in a distributed manner…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-11-17 Shuo Han , Ufuk Topcu , George J. Pappas

In this paper, we study the distributed nonconvex optimization problem, which aims to minimize the average value of the local nonconvex cost functions using local information exchange. To reduce the communication overhead, we introduce…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-02-12 Lei Xu , Xinlei Yi , Guanghui Wen , Yang Shi , Karl H. Johansson , Tao Yang

Achieving communication efficiency in decentralized machine learning has been attracting significant attention, with communication compression recognized as an effective technique in algorithm design. This paper takes a first step to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Boyue Li , Yuejie Chi

This paper proposes a differentially private gradient-tracking-based distributed stochastic optimization algorithm over directed graphs. In particular, privacy noises are incorporated into each agent's state and tracking variable to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-15 Jialong Chen , Jimin Wang , Ji-Feng Zhang
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