Decentralized nonconvex optimization with guaranteed privacy and accuracy

Y Wang, T Başar - Automatica, 2023 - Elsevier
Privacy protection and nonconvexity are two challenging problems in decentralized
optimization and learning involving sensitive data. Despite some recent advances …

Dynamics based privacy preservation in decentralized optimization

H Gao, Y Wang, A Nedić - Automatica, 2023 - Elsevier
With decentralized optimization having increased applications in various domains ranging
from machine learning, control, to robotics, its privacy is also receiving increased attention …

Gradient-tracking based differentially private distributed optimization with enhanced optimization accuracy

Y Xuan, Y Wang - Automatica, 2023 - Elsevier
Privacy protection has become an increasingly pressing requirement in distributed
optimization. However, equipping distributed optimization with differential privacy, the state …

Private stochastic dual averaging for decentralized empirical risk minimization

C Liu, KH Johansson, Y Shi - IFAC-PapersOnLine, 2022 - Elsevier
In this work, we study the decentralized empirical risk minimization problem under the
constraint of differential privacy (DP). Based on the algorithmic framework of dual averaging …

Local differential privacy in decentralized optimization

H Xiao, Y Ye, S Devadas - arXiv preprint arXiv:1902.06101, 2019 - arxiv.org
Privacy concerns with sensitive data are receiving increasing attention. In this paper, we
study local differential privacy (LDP) in interactive decentralized optimization. By …

Efficient privacy-preserving stochastic nonconvex optimization

L Wang, B Jayaraman, D Evans… - Uncertainty in Artificial …, 2023 - proceedings.mlr.press
While many solutions for privacy-preserving convex empirical risk minimization (ERM) have
been developed, privacy-preserving nonconvex ERM remains a challenge. We study …

[HTML][HTML] Distributed empirical risk minimization with differential privacy

C Liu, KH Johansson, Y Shi - Automatica, 2024 - Elsevier
This work studies the distributed empirical risk minimization (ERM) problem under
differential privacy (DP) constraint. Standard distributed algorithms achieve DP typically by …

Quantization enabled privacy protection in decentralized stochastic optimization

Y Wang, T Başar - IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
By enabling multiple agents to cooperatively solve a global optimization problem in the
absence of a central coordinator, decentralized stochastic optimization is gaining increasing …

Decentralized stochastic optimization with inherent privacy protection

Y Wang, HV Poor - IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Decentralized stochastic optimization is the basic building block of modern collaborative
machine learning, distributed estimation and control, and large-scale sensing. Since …

Gradient descent with linearly correlated noise: Theory and applications to differential privacy

A Koloskova, R McKenna, Z Charles… - Advances in …, 2023 - proceedings.neurips.cc
We study gradient descent under linearly correlated noise. Our work is motivated by recent
practical methods for optimization with differential privacy (DP), such as DP-FTRL, which …