Differentially private distributed optimization with an event-triggered mechanism

Shuai Mao, Minglei Yang, Wen Yang, Yang Tang, Wei Xing Zheng, Juping Gu, Herbert Werner

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Abstract

This study concentrates on the differential private distributed optimization problem with an event-triggered mechanism, whose goals include preserving the privacy of agents' initial states and local cost functions and improving communication efficiency. A distributed event-triggered mechanism is integrated into the differentially private subgradient-push distributed optimization algorithm and then a new algorithm named as DP-ETSP is designed, where the real-time information propagation among agents is avoided. Additionally, under the proposed event-triggered mechanism, an analysis of mean-square consensus and optimality over time-varying directed networks is made when the added Laplace noises meet some specific decaying conditions. Convergence rate results are further established under a specific stepsize, which are equal to the rate of stochastic gradient-push algorithm without event-triggered communication. Moreover, the differential privacy preservation performance is analyzed and the rule for selecting privacy level is discussed. Finally, the feasibility and effectiveness of DP-ETSP are verified in two simulation cases.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)2943-2956
Number of pages14
JournalIEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers
Volume70
Issue number7
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Jul 2023

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