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Decentralized min-max optimization allows multi-agent systems to collaboratively solve global min-max optimization problems by facilitating the exchange of model updates among neighboring agents, eliminating the need for a central server.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Yueyang Quan , Chang Wang , Shengjie Zhai , Minghong Fang , Zhuqing Liu

In this paper, a cooperative Linear Quadratic Regulator (LQR) problem is investigated for multi-input systems, where each input is generated by an agent in a network. The input matrices are different and locally possessed by the…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2021-11-10 Peihu Duan , Lidong He , Zhisheng Duan , Ling Shi

We consider a federated data analytics problem in which a server coordinates the collaborative data analysis of multiple users with privacy concerns and limited communication capability. The commonly adopted compression schemes introduce…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-02-02 Richeng Jin , Zhonggen Su , Caijun Zhong , Zhaoyang Zhang , Tony Quek , Huaiyu Dai

Average consensus is fundamental for distributed systems since it underpins key functionalities of such systems ranging from distributed information fusion, decision-making, to decentralized control. In order to reach an agreement, existing…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-09-21 Minghao Ruan , Muaz Ahmad , Yongqiang Wang

In this paper, we study the privacy-preserving distributed optimization problem, aiming to prevent attackers from stealing the private information of agents. For this purpose, we propose a novel privacy-preserving algorithm based on the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-05-15 Bing Liu , Furan Xie , Li Chai

Establishing how a set of learners can provide privacy-preserving federated learning in a fully decentralized (peer-to-peer, no coordinator) manner is an open problem. We propose the first privacy-preserving consensus-based algorithm for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Yang Lu , Zhengxin Yu , Neeraj Suri

We study distributed estimation and learning problems in a networked environment where agents exchange information to estimate unknown statistical properties of random variables from their privately observed samples. The agents can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Marios Papachristou , M. Amin Rahimian

In the highly interconnected realm of Internet of Things, exchange of sensitive information raises severe privacy concerns. The Laplace mechanism -- adding Laplace-distributed artificial noise to sensitive data -- is one of the widely used…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-04-09 Fragkiskos Koufogiannis , Shuo Han , George J. Pappas

The primary goal of traditional federated learning is to protect data privacy by enabling distributed edge devices to collaboratively train a shared global model while keeping raw data decentralized at local clients. The rise of large…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Zhibo Xu , Jianhao Zhu , Jingwen Xu , Changze Lv , Zisu Huang , Xiaohua Wang , Muling Wu , Qi Qian , Xiaoqing Zheng , Xuanjing Huang

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

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

This paper proposes a differentially private recursive least squares algorithm to estimate the parameter of autoregressive systems with exogenous inputs and multi-participants (MP-ARX systems) and protect each participant's sensitive…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-03 Jianwei Tan , Jimin Wang , Ji-Feng Zhang

In this paper we propose a novel method for achieving average consensus in a continuous-time multiagent network while avoiding to disclose the initial states of the individual agents. In order to achieve privacy protection of the state…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2020-07-28 Claudio Altafini

We study a class of distributed convex constrained optimization problems where a group of agents aim to minimize the sum of individual objective functions while each desires that any information about its objective function is kept private.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-09-30 Erfan Nozari , Pavankumar Tallapragada , Jorge Cortés

Federated learning (FL) has emerged as a promising paradigm for distributed machine learning, enabling collaborative training of a global model across multiple local devices without requiring them to share raw data. Despite its…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Dang Qua Nguyen , Morteza Hashemi , Erik Perrins , Sergiy A. Vorobyov , David J. Love , Taejoon Kim

We propose a new dynamic average consensus algorithm that is robust to information-sharing noise arising from differential-privacy design. Not only is dynamic average consensus widely used in cooperative control and distributed tracking, it…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-07-13 Yongqiang Wang

There is an increasing demand to make data "open" to third parties, as data sharing has great benefits in data-driven decision making. However, with a wide variety of sensitive data collected, protecting privacy of individuals, communities…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-07-19 David B. Smith , Kanchana Thilakarathna , Mohamed Ali Kaafar

Average consensus protocols emerge with a central role in distributed systems and decision-making such as distributed information fusion, distributed optimization, distributed estimation, and control. A key advantage of these protocols is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-12-21 Guilherme Ramos , A. Pedro Aguiar , Soummya Kar , Sérgio Pequito

Distributed algorithms for both discrete-time and continuous-time linearly solvable optimal control (LSOC) problems of networked multi-agent systems (MASs) are investigated in this paper. A distributed framework is proposed to partition the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-19 Neng Wan , Aditya Gahlawat , Naira Hovakimyan , Evangelos A. Theodorou , Petros G. Voulgaris

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