Research Article

D-(DP)2SGD: Decentralized Parallel SGD with Differential Privacy in Dynamic Networks

Table 1

Frequently used notations.

NotationDescription

The vector norm or the matrix spectral norm depending on the argument
The matrix Frobenius norm
The optimization function
The gradient of a function
The column vector in with for all elements
The optimal solution of problem
The th largest eigenvalue of a matrix
The network topology at iterate
The set of nodes
The set of edges at iterate
The total number of iterations
The set of neighbors of node at iterate
The local variable in node at iterate
The average local variable with all nodes at iterate
The sampled training data in node at iterate
The perturbed variable in node at iterate
The Laplace noise drawn from
The concatenation of all local variables
The concatenation of all perturbed variables
The concatenation of all Laplace noises
The concatenation of all random samples
The concatenation of all stochastic gradients