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The cooperative bandit problem is a multi-agent decision problem involving a group of agents that interact simultaneously with a multi-armed bandit, while communicating over a network with delays. The central idea in this problem is to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-05-31 Abhimanyu Dubey , Alex Pentland

This paper studies the distributed multi-agent resilient optimization problem under the f-total Byzantine attacks. Compared with the previous work on Byzantineresilient multi-agent exact optimization problems, we do not require the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-03-29 Yang Zhai , Zhi-Wei Liu , Dong Yue , Songlin Hu , Xiangpeng Xie

We consider the problem of reliably broadcasting information in a multihop asyn- chronous network that is subject to Byzantine failures. That is, some nodes of the network can exhibit arbitrary (and potentially malicious) behavior. Existing…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-01-30 Alexandre Maurer , Sébastien Tixeuil

The problem of distributed optimization requires a group of networked agents to compute a parameter that minimizes the average of their local cost functions. While there are a variety of distributed optimization algorithms that can solve…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Kananart Kuwaranancharoen , Lei Xin , Shreyas Sundaram

This report considers the problem of Byzantine fault-tolerance in synchronous parallelized learning that is founded on the parallelized stochastic gradient descent (parallelized-SGD) algorithm. The system comprises a master, and $n$…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-12-23 Nirupam Gupta , Nitin H. Vaidya

We study local stochastic gradient descent methods for solving federated optimization over a network of agents communicating indirectly through a centralized coordinator. We are interested in the Byzantine setting where there is a subset of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-09-06 Amit Dutta , Thinh T. Doan

Modern networks assemble an ever growing number of nodes. However, it remains difficult to increase the number of channels per node, thus the maximal degree of the network may be bounded. This is typically the case in grid topology…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2012-10-18 Alexandre Maurer , Sébastien Tixeuil

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

We propose the first deterministic algorithm that tolerates up to $f$ byzantine faults in $3f+1$-sized networks and performs in the asynchronous CORDA model. Our solution matches the previously established lower bound for the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-05-13 Zohir Bouzid , Maria Potop-Butucaru , Sébastien Tixeuil

Approximate byzantine consensus is a fundamental problem of distributed computing. This paper presents a novel algorithm for approximate byzantine consensus, called Relay-ABC. The algorithm allows machines to achieve approximate consensus…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Matthew Ding

A set of mutually distrusting participants that want to agree on a common opinion must solve an instance of a Byzantine agreement problem. These problems have been extensively studied in the literature. However, most of the existing…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Pankaj Khanchandani , Roger Wattenhofer

We study a framework for modeling distributed network systems assisted by a reliable and powerful cloud service. Our framework aims at capturing hybrid systems based on a point to point message passing network of machines, with the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-09-29 John Augustine , Jeffin Biju , Shachar Meir , David Peleg , Srikkanth Ramachandran , Aishwarya Thiruvengadam

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

We propose Zeno++, a new robust asynchronous Stochastic Gradient Descent~(SGD) procedure which tolerates Byzantine failures of the workers. In contrast to previous work, Zeno++ removes some unrealistic restrictions on worker-server…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Cong Xie , Sanmi Koyejo , Indranil Gupta

As large language model (LLM) agents increasingly integrate into our infrastructure, their robust coordination and message synchronization become vital. The Byzantine Generals Problem (BGP) is a critical model for constructing resilient…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Yihuan Mao , Yipeng Kang , Peilun Li , Ning Zhang , Wei Xu , Chongjie Zhang

The problem of dispersion of mobile robots on a graph asks that $n$ robots initially placed arbitrarily on the nodes of an $n$-node anonymous graph, autonomously move to reach a final configuration where exactly each node has at most one…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-09-04 Anisur Rahaman Molla , Kaushik Mondal , William K. Moses

We present an algorithm for synchronous deterministic Byzantine consensus, tolerant to links failures and links asynchrony. It cares for a class of networks with specific needs, where both safety and liveness are essential, and timely…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Ivan Klianev

We show that asynchronous $t$ faults Byzantine system is equivalent to asynchronous $t$-resilient system, where unbeknownst to all, the private inputs of at most $t$ processors were altered and installed by a malicious oracle. The immediate…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-08-04 Danny Dolev , Eli Gafni

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…

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