Repository logo

Infoscience

  • English
  • French
Log In
Logo EPFL, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne

Infoscience

  • English
  • French
Log In
  1. Home
  2. Academic and Research Output
  3. Journal articles
  4. Differentially private multi-agent constraint optimization
 
research article

Differentially private multi-agent constraint optimization

Damle, Sankarshan
•
Triastcyn, Aleksei  
•
Faltings, Boi  
Show more
June 1, 2024
Autonomous Agents And Multi-Agent Systems

Distributed constraint optimization (DCOP) is a framework in which multiple agents with private constraints (or preferences) cooperate to achieve a common goal optimally. DCOPs are applicable in several multi-agent coordination/allocation problems, such as vehicle routing, radio frequency assignments, and distributed scheduling of meetings. However, optimization scenarios may involve multiple agents wanting to protect their preferences' privacy. Researchers propose privacy-preserving algorithms for DCOPs that provide improved privacy protection through cryptographic primitives such as partial homomorphic encryption, secret-sharing, and secure multiparty computation. These privacy benefits come at the expense of high computational complexity. Moreover, such an approach does not constitute a rigorous privacy guarantee for optimization outcomes, as the result of the computation may compromise agents' preferences. In this work, we show how to achieve privacy, specifically Differential Privacy, by randomizing the solving process. In particular, we present P-Gibbs, which adapts the current state-of-the-art algorithm for DCOPs, namely SD-Gibbs, to obtain differential privacy guarantees with much higher computational efficiency. Experiments on benchmark problems such as Ising, graph-coloring, and meeting-scheduling show P-Gibbs' privacy and performance trade-off for varying privacy budgets and the SD-Gibbs algorithm. More concretely, we empirically show that P-Gibbs provides fair solutions for competitive privacy budgets.

  • Details
  • Metrics
Type
research article
DOI
10.1007/s10458-024-09636-x
Web of Science ID

WOS:001171549600001

Author(s)
Damle, Sankarshan
Triastcyn, Aleksei  
Faltings, Boi  
Gujar, Sujit
Date Issued

2024-06-01

Publisher

Springer

Published in
Autonomous Agents And Multi-Agent Systems
Volume

38

Issue

1

Start page

8

Subjects

Technology

•

Distributed Constrain Optimization

•

Differential Privacy

•

Sd-Gibbs

Editorial or Peer reviewed

REVIEWED

Written at

EPFL

EPFL units
LIA  
Available on Infoscience
April 3, 2024
Use this identifier to reference this record
https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/206823
Logo EPFL, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne
  • Contact
  • infoscience@epfl.ch

  • Follow us on Facebook
  • Follow us on Instagram
  • Follow us on LinkedIn
  • Follow us on X
  • Follow us on Youtube
AccessibilityLegal noticePrivacy policyCookie settingsEnd User AgreementGet helpFeedback

Infoscience is a service managed and provided by the Library and IT Services of EPFL. © EPFL, tous droits réservés