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We analyze the impact of transient and Byzantine faults on the construction of a maximal independent set in a general network. We adapt the self-stabilizing algorithm presented by Turau \cite{turau2007linear} for computing such a vertex…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-11-17 Johanne Cohen , Laurence Pilard , Jonas Sénizergues

In this article, we investigate the solvability of $k$-set agreement among $n$ processes in distributed systems prone to different types of process failures. Specifically, we explore two scenarios: synchronous message-passing systems prone…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Delporte-Gallet Carole , Fauconnier Hugues , Safir Mouna

Algorithms to solve fault-tolerant consensus in asynchronous systems often rely on primitives such as crusader agreement, adopt-commit, and graded broadcast, which provide weaker agreement properties than consensus. Although these…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-08-10 Hagit Attiya , Jennifer L. Welch

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

Canonical asynchronous rounds are a widely used abstraction for structuring distributed algorithms, making asynchronous executions appear synchronous and enabling modular reasoning. We show that this abstraction is fundamentally…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Hagit Attiya , Itay Flam , Jennifer L. Welch

Byzantine fault tolerance (BFT) consensus is a fundamental primitive for distributed computation. However, BFT protocols suffer from the ordering manipulation, in which an adversary can make front-running. Several protocols are proposed to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Guangren Wang , Liang Cai , Fangyu Gai , Jianyu Niu

It is well known that without randomization, Byzantine agreement (BA) requires a linear number of rounds in the synchronous setting, while it is flat out impossible in the asynchronous setting. The primitive which allows to bypass the above…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-12-25 Ran Cohen , Pouyan Forghani , Juan Garay , Rutvik Patel , Vassilis Zikas

Byzantine reliable broadcast is a fundamental problem in distributed computing, which has been studied extensively over the past decades. State-of-the-art algorithms are predominantly based on the approach to share encoded fragments of the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-01-06 Thomas Locher

Classical approaches for asymptotic convergence to the global average in a distributed fashion typically assume timely and reliable exchange of information between neighboring components of a given multi-component system. These assumptions…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2013-02-25 Christoforos N. Hadjicostis , Themistoklis Charalambous

The resilient consensus problem is investigated in this paper for a class of networked Euler-Lagrange systems with event-triggered communication in the presence of Byzantine attacks. One challenge that we face in addressing the considered…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-22 Yuliang Fu , Guanghui Wen , Dan Zhao , Wei Xing Zheng , Xiaolei Li

Consensus in decentralized systems that asynchronously receive events and which are subject to Byzantine faults is a common problem with many real-life applications. Advances in decentralized systems, such as distributed ledger (i.e.,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-09-05 Fedor Muratov , Andrei Lebedev , Nikolai Iushkevich , Bulat Nasrulin , Makoto Takemiya

We study Byzantine collaborative learning, where $n$ nodes seek to collectively learn from each others' local data. The data distribution may vary from one node to another. No node is trusted, and $f < n$ nodes can behave arbitrarily. We…

In this paper, we propose a first-order distributed optimization algorithm that is provably robust to Byzantine failures-arbitrary and potentially adversarial behavior, where all the participating agents are prone to failure. We model each…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-07-27 Berkay Turan , Cesar A. Uribe , Hoi-To Wai , Mahnoosh Alizadeh

We propose an asynchronous, decentralized algorithm for consensus optimization. The algorithm runs over a network in which the agents communicate with their neighbors and perform local computation. In the proposed algorithm, each agent can…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-03-06 Tianyu Wu , Kun Yuan , Qing Ling , Wotao Yin , Ali H. Sayed

Consensus, abstracting a myriad of problems in which processes have to agree on a single value, is one of the most celebrated problems of fault-tolerant distributed computing. Consensus applications include fundamental services for the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-11-16 Romaric Duvignau , Michel Raynal , Elad Michael Schiller

One of the most celebrated problems of fault-tolerant distributed computing is the consensus problem. It was shown to abstract a myriad of problems in which processes have to agree on a single value. Consensus applications include…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-09-13 Romaric Duvignau , Michel Raynal , Elad Michael Schiller

We analyze the impact of transient and Byzantine faults on the construction of a maximal independent set in a general network. We adapt the self-stabilizing algorithm presented by Turau `for computing such a vertex set. Our algorithm is…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Johanne Cohen , Laurence Pilard , François Pirot , Jonas Sénizergues

Approximate Bayesian computation performs approximate inference for models where likelihood computations are expensive or impossible. Instead simulations from the model are performed for various parameter values and accepted if they are…

Computation · Statistics 2015-12-16 Dennis Prangle

Distributed multi-task learning provides significant advantages in multi-agent networks with heterogeneous data sources where agents aim to learn distinct but correlated models simultaneously.However, distributed algorithms for learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-11 Jiani Li , Waseem Abbas , Xenofon Koutsoukos

Recent years have witnessed a growing interest in the topic of min-max optimization, owing to its relevance in the context of generative adversarial networks (GANs), robust control and optimization, and reinforcement learning. Motivated by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-08 Arman Adibi , Aritra Mitra , George J. Pappas , Hamed Hassani