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The iterative consensus problem requires a set of processes or agents with different initial values, to interact and update their states to eventually converge to a common value. Protocols solving iterative consensus serve as building…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2012-08-10 Zhenqi Huang , Sayan Mitra , Geir Dullerud

In this article, we investigate the distributed privacy preserving weighted consensus control problem for linear continuous-time multi-agent systems under the event-triggering communication mode. A novel event-triggered privacy preserving…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Limei Liang , Ruiqi Ding , Shuai Liu

Privacy-preserving distributed average consensus has received significant attention recently due to its wide applicability. Based on the achieved performances, existing approaches can be broadly classified into perfect accuracy-prioritized…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Qiongxiu Li , Jaron Skovsted Gundersen , Milan Lopuhaa-Zwakenberg , Richard Heusdens

We study the problem of resilient average consensus in multi-agent systems where some of the agents are subject to failures or attacks. The objective of resilient average consensus is for non-faulty/normal agents to converge to the average…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-05-30 Liwei Yuan , Hideaki Ishii

Privacy-preserving data aggregation in ad hoc networks is a challenging problem, considering the distributed communication and control requirement, dynamic network topology, unreliable communication links, etc. Different from the widely…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-02-07 Jianping He , Lin Cai , Peng Cheng , Jianping Pan , Ling Shi

The problem of consensus in the presence of misbehaving agents has increasingly attracted attention in the literature. Prior results have established algorithms and graph structures for multi-agent networks which guarantee the consensus of…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-02-28 James Usevitch , Dimitra Panagou

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

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

Average consensus underpins key functionalities of distributed systems ranging from distributed information fusion, decision-making, distributed optimization, to load balancing and decentralized control. Existing distributed average…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-03-05 Yongqiang Wang

Distributed median consensus has emerged as a critical paradigm in multi-agent systems due to the inherent robustness of the median against outliers and anomalies in measurement. Despite the sensitivity of the data involved, the development…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-14 Wenrui Yu , Qiongxiu Li , Richard Heusdens , Sokol Kosta

This paper addresses the problem of privacy-preserving consensus control for multi-agent systems (MAS) using differential privacy. We propose a novel distributed finite-horizon linear quadratic regulator (LQR) framework, in which agents…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-16 Yuwen Ma , Yongqiang Wang , Sarah K. Spurgeon , Boli Chen

This paper presents continuous dynamic average consensus (DAC) algorithms for a group of agents to estimate the average of their time-varying reference signals cooperatively. We propose consensus algorithms that are robust to agents joining…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-07 Solomon Gudeta , Ali Karimoddini , Mohammadreza Davoodi

This paper studies the average consensus problem with differential privacy of initial states, for which it is widely recognized that there is a trade-off between the mean-square computation accuracy and privacy level. Considering the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-07 Lei Wang , Weijia Liu , Fanghong Guo , Zixin Qiao , Zhengguang Wu

This article aims to improve the performance of networked multi-agent systems, which are common representations of cyber-physical systems. The rate of convergence to consensus of multi-agent networks is critical to ensure cohesive, rapid…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2020-10-12 Santosh Devasia

In this paper, we address the distributed average consensus problem over directed networks in open multi-agent systems (OMAS), where the stability of the network is disrupted by frequent agent arrivals and departures, leading to a…

Cyber and cyber-physical systems equipped with machine learning algorithms such as autonomous cars share environments with humans. In such a setting, it is important to align system (or agent) behaviors with the preferences of one or more…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Arezoo Rajabi , Bhaskar Ramasubramanian , Abdullah Al Maruf , Radha Poovendran

Average consensus is key for distributed networks, with applications ranging from network synchronization, distributed information fusion, decentralized control, to load balancing for parallel processors. Existing average consensus…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-12-07 Huan Gao , Yongqiang Wang

Machine learning systems can produce personalized outputs that allow an adversary to infer sensitive input attributes at inference time. We introduce Robust Privacy (RP), an inference-time privacy notion inspired by certified robustness: if…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Jiankai Jin , Xiangzheng Zhang , Zhao Liu , Deyue Zhang , Quanchen Zou

We propose the Consensus-Based Privacy-Preserving Data Distribution (CPPDD) framework, a lightweight and post-setup autonomous protocol for secure multi-client data aggregation. The framework enforces unanimous-release confidentiality…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Prajwal Panth , Sahaj Raj Malla

Privacy preservation is addressed for decentralized optimization, where $N$ agents cooperatively minimize the sum of $N$ convex functions private to these individual agents. In most existing decentralized optimization approaches,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-07-03 Chunlei Zhang , Muaz Ahmad , Yongqiang Wang