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Recent advances in generative AI have enabled sophisticated multi-agent architectures for healthcare, where large language models power collaborative clinical decision-making. However, these distributed systems face critical challenges in…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Nihir Chadderwala

The two-user Gaussian interference channel with a shared out-of-band relay is considered. The relay observes a linear combination of the source signals and broadcasts a common message to the two destinations, through a perfect link of fixed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Peyman Razaghi , Song Nam Hong. Lei Zhou , Wei Yu , Giuseppe Caire

A plethora of modern machine learning tasks require the utilization of large-scale distributed clusters as a critical component of the training pipeline. However, abnormal Byzantine behavior of the worker nodes can derail the training and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Konstantinos Konstantinidis , Namrata Vaswani , Aditya Ramamoorthy

Secure networks rely upon players to maintain security and reliability. However not every player can be assumed to have total loyalty and one must use methods to uncover traitors in such networks. We use the original concept of the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Liam Wagner , Stuart McDonald

How to achieve precise distributed optimization despite unknown attacks, especially the Byzantine attacks, is one of the critical challenges for multiagent systems. This paper addresses a distributed resilient optimization for linear…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-18 Chenhang Yan , Liping Yan , Yuezu Lv , Bolei Dong , Yuanqing Xia

This paper proposes a belief-updating scheme in a human-machine collaborative decision-making network to combat Byzantine attacks. A hierarchical framework is used to realize the network where local decisions from physical sensors act as…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-27 Chen Quan , Baocheng Geng , Yunghsiang S. Han , Pramod K. Varshney

In federated learning (FL), profiling and verifying each client is inherently difficult, which introduces a significant security vulnerability: malicious clients, commonly referred to as Byzantines, can degrade the accuracy of the global…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Emre Ozfatura , Kerem Ozfatura , Baturalp Buyukates , Mert Coskuner , Alptekin Kupcu , Deniz Gunduz

In this paper, the problem of distributed detection in tree networks in the presence of Byzantines is considered. Closed form expressions for optimal attacking strategies that minimize the miss detection error exponent at the fusion center…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2014-10-23 Bhavya Kailkhura , Swastik Brahma , Berkan Dulek , Yunghsiang S Han , Pramod K. Varshney

Recently emerged federated learning (FL) is an attractive distributed learning framework in which numerous wireless end-user devices can train a global model with the data remained autochthonous. Compared with the traditional machine…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-10-10 Junyu Shi , Wei Wan , Shengshan Hu , Jianrong Lu , Leo Yu Zhang

The authenticated broadcast is simulated in the bounded-degree networks to provide efficient broadcast primitives for building efficient higher-layer Byzantine protocols. A general abstraction of the relay-based broadcast system is…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Shaolin Yu , Jihong Zhu , Jiali Yang , Yue Ma

Byzantine attacks hinder the deployment of federated learning algorithms. Although we know that the benign gradients and Byzantine attacked gradients are distributed differently, to detect the malicious gradients is challenging due to (1)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Wanchuang Zhu , Benjamin Zi Hao Zhao , Simon Luo , Tongliang Liu , Ke Deng

In communication theory, attacks like eavesdropping or jamming are typically assumed to occur at the channel level, while communication parties are expected to follow established protocols. But what happens if one of the parties turns…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Minglai Cai , Christian Deppe

We introduce the problem of determining the identity of a byzantine user (internal adversary) in a communication system. We consider a two-user discrete memoryless multiple access channel where either user may deviate from the prescribed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-05-10 Neha Sangwan , Mayank Bakshi , Bikash Kumar Dey , Vinod M. Prabhakaran

We demonstrate that the Byzantine Agreement (detectable broadcast) is also solvable in the continuous-variable scenario with multipartite entangled Gaussian states and Gaussian operations (homodyne detection). Within this scheme we find…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-06-09 Rodion Neigovzen , C. Rodó , Gerardo Adesso , A. Sanpera

We consider systems in which the transmitter conveys messages to the receiver through a capacity-limited relay station. The channel between the transmitter and the relay-station is assumed to be a frequency selective additive Gaussian noise…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-01-08 Adi Homri , Michael Peleg , Shlomo Shamai

In this paper, we propose a class of robust stochastic subgradient methods for distributed learning from heterogeneous datasets at presence of an unknown number of Byzantine workers. The Byzantine workers, during the learning process, may…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-12 Liping Li , Wei Xu , Tianyi Chen , Georgios B. Giannakis , Qing Ling

This paper investigates the problem of resilient control for multi-agent systems in the presence of Byzantine adversaries via an active secure neighbor selection framework. A pre-discriminative graph is first constructed to characterize the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-26 Jinming Gao , Yijing Wang , Wentao Zhang , Rui Zhao , Yang Shi , Zhiqiang Zuo

We study how to efficiently diffuse updates to a large distributed system of data replicas, some of which may exhibit arbitrary (Byzantine) failures. We assume that strictly fewer than $t$ replicas fail, and that each update is initially…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Dahlia Malkhi , Yishay Mansour , Michael Reiter

Lossy transmission over a relay channel in which the relay has access to correlated side information is considered. First, a joint source-channel decode-and-forward scheme is proposed for general discrete memoryless sources and channels.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Deniz Gunduz , Elza Erkip , Andrea J. Goldsmith , H. Vincent Poor

This paper considers the problem of Byzantine fault tolerance in distributed linear regression in a multi-agent system. However, the proposed algorithms are given for a more general class of distributed optimization problems, of which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-05 Nirupam Gupta , Nitin H. Vaidya