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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…

The multi-valued byzantine agreement protocol (MVBA) in the authenticated setting has been widely used as a core to design atomic broadcast and fault-tolerant state machine replication protocols in asynchronous networks. Originating from…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Nasit S Sony , Xianzhong Ding

We consider the federated learning problem where data on workers are not independent and identically distributed (i.i.d.). During the learning process, an unknown number of Byzantine workers may send malicious messages to the central node,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-31 Jie Peng , Zhaoxian Wu , Qing Ling , Tianyi Chen

Byzantine fault tolerant protocols enable state replication in the presence of crashed, malfunctioning, or actively malicious processes. Designing such protocols without the assistance of verification tools, however, is remarkably…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-09-23 Joel Wanner , Laurent Chuat , Adrian Perrig

Self-stabilization is a versatile approach to fault-tolerance since it permits a distributed system to recover from any transient fault that arbitrarily corrupts the contents of all memories in the system. Byzantine tolerance is an…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2011-02-11 Swan Dubois , Toshimitsu Masuzawa , Sébastien Tixeuil

A self-stabilizing protocol tolerates by definition transient faults (faults of finite duration). Recently, a new class of self-stabilizing protocols that are able to tolerate a given number of permanent faults. In this paper, we focus on…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2012-04-23 Swan Dubois , Sébastien Tixeuil , Nini Zhu

Multi-valued validated Byzantine agreement (MVBA), a fundamental primitive of distributed computing, allows $n$ processes to agree on a valid $\ell$-bit value, despite $t$ faulty processes behaving maliciously. Among hash-based solutions…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Jovan Komatovic , Joachim Neu , Tim Roughgarden

This short paper presents a necessary condition for Byzantine $k$-set agreement in (synchronous or asynchronous) message-passing systems and asynchronous shared memory systems where the processes communicate through atomic single-writer…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-12-22 Zohir Bouzid , Damien Imbs , Michel Raynal

Byzantine Fault Tolerant (BFT) consensus protocols for dynamically available systems face a critical challenge: balancing latency and security in fluctuating node participation. Existing solutions often require multiple rounds of voting per…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Pengkun Ren , Hai Dong , Zahir Tari , Pengcheng Zhang

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

This paper investigates an open problem introduced in [14]. Two or more mobile agents start from different nodes of a network and have to accomplish the task of gathering which consists in getting all together at the same node at the same…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-04-28 Sébastien Bouchard , Yoann Dieudonné , Bertrand Ducourthial

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

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

PermitBFT establishes a permissioned byzantine ledger in the partially synchronous networking model. For n replicas, PermitBFT tolerates up to f < n/3 byzantine replicas. It is the first BFT protocol to achieve a latency of just 2 message…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Roland Schmid , Roger Wattenhofer

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

Renaming is a fundamental problem in distributed computing, which consists of a set of processes picking distinct names from a given namespace. The paper presents algorithms that solve order-preserving renaming in synchronous message…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-03-05 Oksana Denysyuk , Luis Rodrigues

In this paper, we consider a resilient consensus problem for the multi-agent network where some of the agents are subject to Byzantine attacks and may transmit erroneous state values to their neighbors. In particular, we develop an…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Liwei Yuan , Hideaki Ishii

In a recent paper, Jaggi et al. (INFOCOM 2007), presented a distributed polynomial-time rate-optimal network-coding scheme that works in the presence of Byzantine faults. We revisit their adversarial models and augment them with three,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2008-02-06 Leah Nutman , Michael Langberg

Byzantine agreement protocols in asynchronous networks have received renewed interest because they do not rely on network behavior to achieve termination. Conventional asynchronous Byzantine agreement protocols require every party to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Nasit S Sony , Xianzhong Ding

This is a correction by the authors to "Byzantine Agreement in Expected Polynomial Time" which appeared in the Journal of the ACM in 2016. It corrects a failure in the paper to consider the adversary's ability to decide the number of fair…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-08-09 Valerie King , Jared Saia