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This paper addresses a distributed nonconvex optimization problem over multi-agent networks, where each agent exchanges its local information solely with its neighbors. Given that most existing distributed nonconvex optimization algorithms…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-27 Zichong Ou , Jie Lu

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

Modern multi-layer networks are commonly stored and analyzed in a local and distributed fashion because of the privacy, ownership, and communication costs. The literature on the model-based statistical methods for community detection based…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Xiao Guo , Xiang Li , Xiangyu Chang , Shujie Ma

A privacy-preserving dynamic average consensus (DAC) algorithm is proposed that achieves consensus while preventing external eavesdroppers from inferring the reference signals and their derivatives. During the initialization phase, each…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-11 Mihitha Maithripala , Chenyang Qiu , Zongli Lin

This paper considers the problem of privacy preservation against passive internal and external malicious agents in the continuous-time Laplacian average consensus algorithm over strongly connected and weight-balanced digraphs. For this…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2021-09-28 Navid Rezazadeh , Solmaz S. Kia

In this paper we consider the problem of privacy preservation in the static average consensus problem. This problem normally is solved by proposing privacy preservation augmentations for the popular first order Laplacian-based algorithm.…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2020-12-09 Amir-Salar Esteki , Solmaz S. Kia

Average consensus is extensively used in distributed networks for computation and control, where all the agents constantly communicate with each other and update their states in order to reach an agreement. Under a general average consensus…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-17 Xiaomeng Chen , Lingying Huang , Kemi Ding , Subhrakanti Dey , Ling Shi

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

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

This paper considers the multi-dimensional consensus in networked systems, where some of the agents might be misbehaving (or faulty). Despite the influence of these misbehaviors, the benign agents aim to reach an agreement while avoiding…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-25 Jiaqi Yan , Xiuxian Li , Yilin Mo , Changyun Wen

In distributed networks, calculating the maximum element is a fundamental task in data analysis, known as the distributed maximum consensus problem. However, the sensitive nature of the data involved makes privacy protection essential.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Wenrui Yu , Richard Heusdens , Jun Pang , Qiongxiu Li

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

Dynamic average consensus is a decentralized control/estimation framework where a group of agents cooperatively track the average of local time-varying reference signals. In this paper, we develop a novel state decomposition-based privacy…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-15 Kaixiang Zhang , Zhaojian Li , Yongqiang Wang , Ali Louati , Jian Chen

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 present a distributed average consensus protocol that preserves the privacy of agents' inputs. Unlike the differential privacy mechanisms, the presented protocol does not affect the accuracy of the output. It is shown that the protocol…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2020-04-14 Nirupam Gupta , Jonathan Katz , Nikhil Chopra

A generalized family of Adversary Robust Consensus protocols is proposed and analyzed. These are distributed algorithms for multi-agents systems seeking to agree on a common value of a shared variable, even in the presence of faulty or…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-20 David Angeli , Sabato Manfredi

This paper introduces a novel continuous-time dynamic average consensus algorithm for networks whose interaction is described by a strongly connected and weight-balanced directed graph. The proposed distributed algorithm allows agents to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-01-28 Solmaz S. Kia , Jorge Cortes , Sonia Martinez

The Probably Approximately Correct (PAC) Privacy framework [46] provides a powerful instance-based methodology to preserve privacy in complex data-driven systems. Existing PAC Privacy algorithms (we call them Auto-PAC) rely on a Gaussian…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Tao Zhang , Yevgeniy Vorobeychik

Consensus and leader election are fundamental problems in distributed systems. Consensus is the problem in which all processes in a distributed computation must agree on some value. Average consensus is a popular form of consensus, where…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-01-30 Luke Sperling , Sandeep S Kulkarni

Due to the wide application of average consensus algorithm, its security and privacy problems have attracted great attention. In this paper, we consider the system threatened by a set of unknown agents that are both "malicious" and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-07 Shuai Sun , Yilin Mo