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We study a multi-agent resilient consensus problem, where some agents are of the Byzantine type and try to prevent the normal ones from reaching consensus. In our setting, normal agents communicate with each other asynchronously over…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-03-13 Liwei Yuan , Hideaki Ishii

Byzantine consensus is a classical problem in distributed computing. Each node in a synchronous system starts with a binary input. The goal is to reach agreement in the presence of Byzantine faulty nodes. We consider the setting where…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-09-06 Muhammad Samir Khan , Nitin H. Vaidya

In this report, we investigate the multi-valued Byzantine consensus problem. We introduce two algorithms: the first one achieves traditional validity requirement for consensus, and the second one achieves a stronger "q-validity"…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2011-06-10 Guanfeng Liang , Nitin Vaidya

This paper considers the problem of achieving exact Byzantine consensus in a synchronous system under a local-broadcast communication model. The nodes communicate with each other via message-passing. The communication network is modeled as…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-11-22 Syed Shalan Naqvi , Muhammad Samir Khan , Nitin H. Vaidya

This work performs an experimental evaluation of four asynchronous binary Byzantine consensus algorithms [11,16,18] in various configurations. In addition to being asynchronous these algorithms run in rounds, tolerate up to one third of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-04-24 Tyler Crain

This paper describes a simple and efficient asynchronous Binary Byzantine faulty tolerant consensus algorithm. In the algorithm, non-faulty nodes perform an initial broadcast followed by a executing a series of rounds each consisting of a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-02-12 Tyler Crain

In this paper we address Approximate Agreement problem in the Mobile Byzantine faults model. Our contribution is threefold. First, we propose the the first mapping from the existing variants of Mobile Byzantine models to the Mixed-Mode…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-04-14 Silvia Bonomi , Antonella Del Pozzo , Maria Potop-Butucaru , Sébastien Tixeuil

The problem of designing distributed optimization algorithms that are resilient to Byzantine adversaries has received significant attention. For the Byzantine-resilient distributed optimization problem, the goal is to (approximately)…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-30 Kananart Kuwaranancharoen , Shreyas Sundaram

Randomized algorithm that achieves multi-valued Byzantine agreement with high probability, and achieves optimal complexity.

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2010-07-29 Guanfeng Liang , Nitin Vaidya

Consider a network of n processes each of which has a d-dimensional vector of reals as its input. Each process can communicate directly with all the processes in the system; thus the communication network is a complete graph. All the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2013-02-12 Nitin H. Vaidya , Vijay K. Garg

Given a network in which some pairs of nodes can communicate freely, and some subsets of the nodes could be faulty and colluding to disrupt communication, when can messages reliably be sent from one given node to another? We give a new…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-03-11 Adam Hesterberg , Andrea Lincoln , Jayson Lynch

This paper considers the Byzantine consensus problem for nodes with binary inputs. The nodes are interconnected by a network represented as an undirected graph, and the system is assumed to be synchronous. Under the classical point-to-point…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-05-29 Muhammad Samir Khan , Syed Shalan Naqvi , Nitin H. Vaidya

This paper considers the problem of Byzantine dispersion and extends previous work along several parameters. The problem of Byzantine dispersion asks: given $n$ robots, up to $f$ of which are Byzantine, initially placed arbitrarily on an…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-09-28 Anisur Rahaman Molla , Kaushik Mondal , William K. Moses

Byzantine robustness has received significant attention recently given its importance for distributed and federated learning. In spite of this, we identify severe flaws in existing algorithms even when the data across the participants is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-30 Sai Praneeth Karimireddy , Lie He , Martin Jaggi

In the Byzantine agreement problem, n nodes with possibly different input values aim to reach agreement on a common value in the presence of t < n/3 Byzantine nodes which represent arbitrary failures in the system. This paper introduces a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-03-08 Darya Melnyk , Yuyi Wang , Roger Wattenhofer

In Byzantine collaborative learning, $n$ clients in a peer-to-peer network collectively learn a model without sharing their data by exchanging and aggregating stochastic gradient estimates. Byzantine clients can prevent others from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Mélanie Cambus , Darya Melnyk , Tijana Milentijević , Stefan Schmid

Much of the past work on asynchronous approximate Byzantine consensus has assumed scalar inputs at the nodes [4, 8]. Recent work has yielded approximate Byzantine consensus algorithms for the case when the input at each node is a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2013-07-10 Lewis Tseng , Nitin Vaidya

We propose the first deterministic algorithm that tolerates up to $f$ byzantine faults in $3f+1$-sized networks and performs in the asynchronous CORDA model. Our solution matches the previously established lower bound for the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-05-13 Zohir Bouzid , Maria Potop-Butucaru , Sébastien Tixeuil

Augustine et al. [DISC 2022] initiated the study of distributed graph algorithms in the presence of Byzantine nodes in the congested clique model. In this model, there is a set $B$ of Byzantine nodes, where $|B|$ is less than a third of the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-11-03 David Cifuentes-Núñez , Pedro Montealegre , Ivan Rapaport

Distributed control systems require high reliability and availability guarantees despite often being deployed at the edge of network infrastructure. Edge computing resources are less secure and less reliable than centralized resources in…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-02-21 Roy Shadmon , Daniel Spencer , Owen Arden