Privacy-Preserving Distributed Optimization Under Time Constraints Using Secure Multi-Party Computation and Evolutionary Algorithms

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2605.20944v1
• Date: Wed, 20 May 2026 09:29:50 GMT
• Title: Privacy-Preserving Distributed Optimization Under Time Constraints Using Secure Multi-Party Computation and Evolutionary Algorithms
• Abstract summary: In distributed optimization, multiple parties collaborate to find an optimal solution to a problem.<n>In time-critical settings, the runtime overhead introduced by privacy-preserving computations may prevent the optimization from finishing within the deadline.<n>This paper presents an approach for privacy-preserving distributed optimization in time-critical settings that combines evolutionary algorithms for solution search and MPC for the evaluation of solutions.
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• Abstract: In distributed optimization, multiple parties collaborate to find an optimal solution to a problem. Privacy-preserving distributed optimization uses techniques, such as secure multi-party computation (MPC), to protect the private inputs of each party. In time-critical settings, the runtime overhead introduced by privacy-preserving computations may prevent the optimization from finishing within the deadline. This paper presents an approach for privacy-preserving distributed optimization in time-critical settings that combines evolutionary algorithms for solution search and MPC for the evaluation of solutions. The approach reduces the impact of privacy-preserving computations on runtime and allows to return solution within the deadline. Obfuscation of evaluation results provides additional protection for private inputs from an honest-but-curious platform provider, but introduces a potential trade-off between protection and solution quality. This trade-off is investigated in experiments using a genetic algorithm for both the single-objective assignment problem and the traveling salesperson problem, as well as NSGA-II for the multi-objective assignment problem.

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