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Distributed optimization has gained significant attention in recent years, primarily fueled by the availability of a large amount of data and privacy-preserving requirements. This paper presents a fixed-time convergent optimization…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2022-05-30 Kunal Garg , Mayank Baranwal

The design of distributed algorithms is central to the study of multiagent systems control. In this paper, we consider a class of combinatorial cost-minimization problems and propose a framework for designing distributed algorithms with a…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-03-18 Rahul Chandan , Dario Paccagnan , Jason R. Marden

In this paper we prove lower and matching upper bounds for the number of servers required to implement a regular shared register that tolerates unsynchronized Mobile Byzantine failures. We consider the strongest model of Mobile Byzantine…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-07-18 Silvia Bonomi , Antonella Del Pozzo , Maria Potop-Butucaru , Sébastien Tixeuil

This paper presents a resilient distributed algorithm for solving a system of linear algebraic equations over a multi-agent network in the presence of Byzantine agents capable of arbitrarily introducing untrustworthy information in…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-04 Jingxuan Zhu , Alvaro Velasquez , Ji Liu

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

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

Byzantine fault-tolerant (BFT) consensus algorithms are at the core of providing safety and liveness guarantees for distributed systems that must operate in the presence of arbitrary failures. Recently, numerous new BFT algorithms have been…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-12-06 Gengrui Zhang , Fei Pan , Yunhao Mao , Sofia Tijanic , Michael Dang'ana , Shashank Motepalli , Shiquan Zhang , Hans-Arno Jacobsen

We consider the problem of distributed statistical machine learning in adversarial settings, where some unknown and time-varying subset of working machines may be compromised and behave arbitrarily to prevent an accurate model from being…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-10-24 Yudong Chen , Lili Su , Jiaming Xu

We investigate the impact of Byzantine attacks in distributed detection under binary hypothesis testing. It is assumed that a fraction of the transmitted sensor measurements are compromised by the injected data from a Byzantine attacker,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-05-27 Yuqing Ni , Kemi Ding , Yong Yang , Ling Shi

In this work, an $H_{\infty}$ performance fault recovery control problem for a team of multi-agent systems that is subject to actuator faults is studied. Our main objective is to design a distributed control reconfiguration strategy such…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-06-21 Zahra Gallehdari , Nader Meskin , Khashayar Khorasani

In this paper, we present a Byzantine fault tolerant distributed commit protocol for transactions running over untrusted networks. The traditional two-phase commit protocol is enhanced by replicating the coordinator and by running a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Wenbing Zhao

Standard federated learning algorithms are vulnerable to adversarial nodes, a.k.a. Byzantine failures. To solve this issue, robust distributed learning algorithms have been developed, which typically replace parameter averaging by robust…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Renaud Gaucher , Aymeric Dieuleveut , Hadrien Hendrikx

In this paper, we study the Byzantine lattice agreement problem in synchronous systems. The lattice agreement problem in crash failure model has been studied both in synchronous and asynchronous systems, which leads to the current best…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-02-18 Xiong Zheng , Vijay Garg

This paper considers the problem of multi-agent distributed optimization. In this problem, there are multiple agents in the system, and each agent only knows its local cost function. The objective for the agents is to collectively compute a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-03-31 Kushal Chakrabarti , Nirupam Gupta , Nikhil Chopra

We study dual-based algorithms for distributed convex optimization problems over networks, where the objective is to minimize a sum $\sum_{i=1}^{m}f_i(z)$ of functions over in a network. We provide complexity bounds for four different…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-03-17 César A. Uribe , Soomin Lee , Alexander Gasnikov , Angelia Nedić

This paper addresses the problem of collaboratively satisfying long-term spatial constraints in multi-agent systems. Each agent is subject to spatial constraints, expressed as inequalities, which may depend on the positions of other agents…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-23 Farhad Mehdifar , Mani H. Dhullipalla , Charalampos P. Bechlioulis , Dimos V. Dimarogonas

This paper studies distributed continuous-time optimization for time-varying quadratic cost functions with uncertain parameters. We first propose a centralized adaptive optimization algorithm using partial information of the cost function.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-30 Liangze Jiang , Zheng-Guang Wu , Lei Wang

We address the problem of reaching consensus in the presence of Byzantine faults. In particular, we are interested in investigating the impact of messages relay on the network connectivity for a correct iterative approximate Byzantine…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-04-17 Lili Su , Nitin Vaidya

In this work, we consider the consensus problem in which legitimate agents share their values over an undirected communication network in the presence of malicious or faulty agents. Different from the previous works, we characterize the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-27 Sarper Aydın , Orhan Eren Akgün , Stephanie Gil , Angelia Nedić

In this paper, a distributed subgradient-based algorithm is proposed for continuous-time multi-agent systems to search a feasible solution to convex inequalities. The algorithm involves each agent achieving a state constrained by its own…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-06-13 Kaihong Lu , Gangshan Jing , Long Wang