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To defend against Byzantine attacks in decentralized learning, most existing methods rely on robust aggregation rules to mitigate the influence of malicious machines. However, these strategies inherently introduce bias, leading to inexact…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-04-20 Siyuan Zhang , Chengde Qian , Xin Liu , Changliang Zou

We investigate the asymptotic security of one-way continuous variable quantum key distribution against Gaussian two-mode coherent attacks. The one-way protocol is implemented by arranging the channel uses in two-mode blocks. By applying…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-05-10 Carlo Ottaviani , Stefano Mancini , Stefano Pirandola

We study distributed optimization over networks with Byzantine agents that may send arbitrary adversarial messages. We propose \emph{Gradient Tracking with Probabilistic Edge Dropout} (GT-PD), a stochastic gradient tracking method that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Amirhossein Dezhboro , Fateme Maleki , Arman Adibi , Erfan Amini , Jose E. Ramirez-Marquez

This paper considers a general Gaussian relay network where a source transmits a message to a destination with the help of N half-duplex relays. It proves that the information theoretic cut-set upper bound to the capacity can be achieved to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Martina Cardone , Daniela Tuninetti , Raymond Knopp , Umer Salim

In this paper, we investigate the problem of distributed learning (DL) in the presence of Byzantine attacks. For this problem, various robust bounded aggregation (RBA) rules have been proposed at the central server to mitigate the impact of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Chengxi Li , Ming Xiao , Mikael Skoglund

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

This paper studies incremental relay strategies for a two-user Gaussian relay-interference channel with an in-band-reception and out-of-band-transmission relay, where the link between the relay and the two receivers is modelled as a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-12-13 Lei Zhou , Wei Yu

In this paper, we study a diamond-relay channel where the source is connected to $M$ relays through orthogonal links and the relays transmit to the destination over a wireless multiple-access channel in the presence of an eavesdropper. The…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-06-21 Si-Hyeon Lee , Ashish Khisti

We study a setting where a group of agents, each receiving partially informative private observations, seek to collaboratively learn the true state (among a set of hypotheses) that explains their joint observation profiles over time. To…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-03-15 Aritra Mitra , John A. Richards , Shreyas Sundaram

In this report, we study the problem of Byzantine fault-tolerant distributed set intersection and the importance of redundancy in solving this problem. Specifically, consider a distributed system with $n$ agents, each of which has a local…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-02-15 Shuo Liu , Nitin H. Vaidya

We investigate the Byzantine attack problem within the context of model training in distributed learning systems. While ensuring the convergence of current model training processes, common solvers (e.g. SGD, Adam, RMSProp, etc.) can be…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Kun Yang , Tianyi Luo , Yanjie Dong , Aohan Li

We consider two-way relaying in a Gaussian diamond channel, where two terminal nodes wish to exchange information using two relays. A simple baseline protocol is obtained by time-sharing between two one-way protocols. To improve upon the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-10-07 Prathyusha V , Srikrishna Bhashyam , Andrew Thangaraj

We present a flexible stochastic model for a class of cooperative wireless relay networks, in which the relay processing functionality is not known at the destination. In addressing this problem we develop efficient algorithms to perform…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Gareth W. Peters , Ido Nevat , Jinhong Yuan , Ian B. Collings

This paper considers distributed estimation of linear systems when the state observations are corrupted with Gaussian noise of unbounded support and under possible random adversarial attacks. We consider sensors equipped with single…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-25 Mohammadreza Doostmohammadian , Themistoklis Charalambous , Miadreza Shafie-khah , Nader Meskin , Usman A. Khan

For many coupled dynamical systems, the interaction is the outcome of the measurement that each unit has of the others as e.g. in modern inverter-based power grids, autonomous vehicular platoons or swarms of drones, or it is the results of…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2023-11-06 Melvyn Tyloo

This work concerns minimizing the achievable distortion of a Gaussian source over a two-hop block fading channel under mean square-error criterion. It is assumed that there is not a direct link between transmission ends and the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-05-31 Sayed Ali Khodam Hoseini , Soroush Akhlaghi , Mina Baghani

The capacity region of multi-pair bidirectional relay networks, in which a relay node facilitates the communication between multiple pairs of users, is studied. This problem is first examined in the context of the linear shift deterministic…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Aydin Sezgin , A. Salman Avestimehr , M. Amin Khajehnejad , Babak Hassibi

We propose a secure scheme for wireless network coding, called the algebraic watchdog. By enabling nodes to detect malicious behaviors probabilistically and use overheard messages to police their downstream neighbors locally, the algebraic…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-11-15 MinJi Kim , Muriel Medard , Joao Barros

Distributed model training is vulnerable to byzantine system failures and adversarial compute nodes, i.e., nodes that use malicious updates to corrupt the global model stored at a parameter server (PS). To guarantee some form of robustness,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-06-25 Lingjiao Chen , Hongyi Wang , Zachary Charles , Dimitris Papailiopoulos

This work considers secure transmission protocol for flexible load-balance control in two-hop relay wireless networks without the information of both eavesdropper channels and locations. The available secure transmission protocols via relay…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2013-01-10 Yulong Shen , Xiaohong Jiang , Jianfeng Ma