“…While secure multi-party computation also deals with scenarios where no trust exists among agents, the maximum number of agents that can collude (without the privacy of others being breached) is bounded, whereas using differential privacy provides immunity against arbitrary collusions [Kairouz et al, 2015, Pettai andLaud, 2015]. As a result, differential privacy has been adopted by recent works in a number of areas pertaining to networked systems, such as control [Huang et al, 2012, estimation [Ny and Pappas, 2014], and optimization [Han et al, 2014, Huang et al, 2015, Nozari et al, 2017. Of relevance to our present work, the paper [Huang et al, 2012] studies the average consensus problem with differentially privacy guarantees and proposes an adjacency-based distributed algorithm with decaying Laplace noise and mean-square convergence.…”