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An information-theoretic privacy mechanism design is studied, where an agent observes useful data $Y$ which is correlated with the private data $X$. The agent wants to reveal the information to a user, hence, the agent utilizes a privacy…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Amirreza Zamani , Parastoo Sadeghi , Mikael Skoglund

We propose a novel problem formulation to address the privacy-utility tradeoff, specifically when dealing with two distinct user groups characterized by unique sets of private and utility attributes. Unlike previous studies that primarily…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-12 Bishwas Mandal , George Amariucai , Shuangqing Wei

We develop a privacy-preserving distributed projection least mean squares (LMS) strategy over linear multitask networks, where agents' local parameters of interest or tasks are linearly related. Each agent is interested in not only…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2022-01-05 Chengcheng Wang , Wee Peng Tay , Ye Wei , Yuan Wang

We consider a multi-agent consensus problem in the presence of adversarial agents. The adversaries are able to listen to the inter-agent communications and try to estimate the state of the agents. The agents have a limited bit-rate for…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-09 Dipankar Maity , Panagiotis Tsiotras

In multiagent systems (MASs), agents' observation upon system behaviours may improve the overall team performance, but may also leak sensitive information to an observer. A quantified observability analysis can thus be useful to assist…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-10-05 Chunyan Mu , Jun Pang

Federated data analytics is a framework for distributed data analysis where a server compiles noisy responses from a group of distributed low-bandwidth user devices to estimate aggregate statistics. Two major challenges in this framework…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-10 Kamalika Chaudhuri , Chuan Guo , Mike Rabbat

Data sharing between different organizations is an essential process in today's connected world. However, recently there were many concerns about data sharing as sharing sensitive information can jeopardize users' privacy. To preserve the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-01 Abdelrahman Eldosouky , Tapadhir Das , Anuraag Kotra , Shamik Sengupta

We consider a resource allocation problem involving a large number of agents with individual constraints subject to privacy, and a central operator whose objective is to optimize a global, possibly nonconvex, cost while satisfying the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-06-24 Olivier Beaude , Pascal Benchimol , Stéphane Gaubert , Paulin Jacquot , Nadia Oudjane

Preserving the individuals' privacy in sharing spatial-temporal datasets is critical to prevent re-identification attacks based on unique trajectories. Existing privacy techniques tend to propose ideal privacy-utility tradeoffs, however,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-14 Yuting Zhan , Hamed Haddadi , Afra Mashhadi

As multi-agent systems proliferate and share more user data, new approaches are needed to protect sensitive data while still enabling system operation. To address this need, this paper presents a private multi-agent LQ control framework.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-02-15 Kasra Yazdani , Austin Jones , Kevin Leahy , Matthew Hale

LLM-based Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) have proven highly effective in solving complex problems by integrating multiple agents, each performing different roles. However, in sensitive domains, they face emerging privacy protection challenges.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Zitong Shi , Guancheng Wan , Wenke Huang , Guibin Zhang , Jiawei Shao , Mang Ye , Carl Yang

In multi-agent systems, dynamic average consensus (DAC) is a decentralized estimation strategy in which a set of agents tracks the average of time-varying reference signals. Because DAC requires exchanging state information with neighbors,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-06 Mihitha Maithripala , Zongli Lin

Human mobility data is a crucial resource for urban mobility management, but it does not come without personal reference. The implementation of security measures such as anonymization is thus needed to protect individuals' privacy. Often, a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Alexandra Kapp

Real-time data-driven optimization and control problems over networks may require sensitive information of participating users to calculate solutions and decision variables, such as in traffic or energy systems. Adversaries with access to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-05-25 Roel Dobbe , Ye Pu , Jingge Zhu , Kannan Ramchandran , Claire Tomlin

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

This paper considers a distributed multi-agent optimization problem, with the global objective consisting of the sum of local objective functions of the agents. The agents solve the optimization problem using local computation and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-11-07 Shripad Gade , Nitin H. Vaidya

We consider the privacy problem of statistical estimation from distributed data, where users communicate to a central processor over a Gaussian multiple-access channel(MAC). To avoid the inevitable sacrifice of data utility for privacy in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Wenhao Zhan

The recent rapid advances in machine learning technologies largely depend on the vast richness of data available today, in terms of both the quantity and the rich content contained within. For example, biometric data such as images and…

Data collecting agents in large networks, such as the electric power system, need to share information (measurements) for estimating the system state in a distributed manner. However, privacy concerns may limit or prevent this exchange…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-10-28 E. Veronica Belmega , Lalitha Sankar , H. Vincent Poor

Smart Meters (SMs) are able to share the power consumption of users with utility providers almost in real-time. These fine-grained signals carry sensitive information about users, which has raised serious concerns from the privacy…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-29 Mohammadhadi Shateri , Francisco Messina , Pablo Piantanida , Fabrice Labeau