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This paper investigates the task-driven exploration of unknown environments with mobile sensors communicating compressed measurements. The sensors explore the area and transmit their compressed data to another robot, assisting it to reach…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Evangelos Psomiadis , Dipankar Maity , Panagiotis Tsiotras

The multi-agent system (MAS) enables the sharing of capabilities among agents, such that collaborative tasks can be accomplished with high scalability and efficiency. MAS is increasingly widely applied in various fields. Meanwhile, the…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2022-09-16 Guojun He

Statistical agencies face a dual mandate to publish accurate statistics while protecting respondent privacy. Increasing privacy protection requires decreased accuracy. Recognizing this as a resource allocation problem, we propose an…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-03-12 John M. Abowd , Ian M. Schmutte

A mechanism for releasing information about a statistical database with sensitive data must resolve a trade-off between utility and privacy. Privacy can be rigorously quantified using the framework of {\em differential privacy}, which…

Databases · Computer Science 2009-03-20 Arpita Ghosh , Tim Roughgarden , Mukund Sundararajan

Large language models (LLMs) have enabled multi-agent systems (MAS) in which multiple agents argue, critique, and coordinate to solve complex tasks, making communication topology a first-class design choice. Yet most existing LLM-based MAS…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Boxuan Wang , Zhuoyun Li , Xiaowei Huang , Yi Dong

LLM-based Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in solving complex tasks. Central to MAS is the communication topology which governs how agents exchange information internally. Consequently, the security of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Yongxuan Wu , Xixun Lin , He Zhang , Nan Sun , Kun Wang , Chuan Zhou , Shirui Pan , Yanan Cao

Enterprise adoption of cloud-based AI agents faces a fundamental privacy dilemma: leveraging powerful cloud models requires sharing sensitive data, while local processing limits capability. Current agent frameworks like MCP and A2A assume…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Jianshu She

This paper studies the problem of safe and optimal continuum deformation of a large-scale multi-agent system (MAS). We present a novel approach for MAS continuum deformation coordination that aims to achieve safe and efficient agent…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-04-17 Harshvardhan Uppaluru , Hossein Rastgoftar

Distributed optimization finds many applications in machine learning, signal processing, and control systems. In these real-world applications, the constraints of communication networks, particularly limited bandwidth, necessitate…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-29 Mohammadreza Doostmohammadian , Sérgio Pequito

In this work, fundamental limits and optimal mechanisms of privacy-preserving data release that aims to minimize the privacy leakage under utility constraints of a set of multiple tasks are investigated. While the private feature to be…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Ta-Yuan Liu , I-Hsiang Wang

Network data needs to be shared for distributed security analysis. Anonymization of network data for sharing sets up a fundamental tradeoff between privacy protection versus security analysis capability. This privacy/analysis tradeoff has…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2011-11-10 William Yurcik , Clay Woolam , Greg Hellings , Latifur Khan , Bhavani Thuraisingham

In Privacy Preserving Data Publishing, various privacy models have been developed for employing anonymization operations on sensitive individual level datasets, in order to publish the data for public access while preserving the privacy of…

Databases · Computer Science 2019-01-09 Marmar Orooji , Gerald M. Knapp

We consider multi-agent systems interacting over directed network topologies where a subset of agents is adversary/faulty and where the non-faulty agents have the goal of reaching consensus, while fulfilling a differential privacy…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2020-03-18 Davide Fiore , Giovanni Russo

This paper introduces a multi-round interaction problem with privacy constraints between two agents that observe correlated data. The agents alternately share data with one another for a total of K rounds such that each agent initiates…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-10-04 Bahman Moraffah , Lalitha Sankar

We consider a database $\vec{X} = (X_1,\cdots,X_n)$ containing the data of $n$ users. The data aggregator wants to publicise the database, but wishes to sanitise the dataset to hide sensitive data $S_i$ correlated to $X_i$. This setting is…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-03-10 Milan Lopuhaä-Zwakenberg

This paper considers the optimal distributed control problem for a linear stochastic multi-agent system (MAS). Due to the distributed nature of MAS network, the information available to an individual agent is limited to its vicinity. From…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-15 Hojin Lee , Cheolhyeon Kwon

Managing one's digital footprint is overwhelming, as it spans multiple platforms and involves countless context-dependent decisions. Recent advances in agentic AI offer ways forward by enabling holistic, contextual privacy-enhancing…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Eryue Xu , Tianshi Li

Movable antennas (MAs) have drawn increasing attention in wireless communications due to their capability to create favorable channel conditions via local movement within a confined region. In this letter, we investigate its application in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Xuanlin Shen , Xin Wei , Weidong Mei , Zhi Chen , Jun Fang , Boyu Ning

Big data is a term used for a very large data sets that have many difficulties in storing and processing the data. Analysis this much amount of data will lead to information loss. The main goal of this paper is to share data in a way that…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-08-14 Jalpesh Vasa , Panthini Modi

We present an optimization framework that solves constrained multi-agent optimization problems while keeping each agent's state differentially private. The agents in the network seek to optimize a local objective function in the presence of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-08-29 Matthew Hale , Magnus Egerstedt