English
Related papers

Related papers: Byzantine Gathering in Polynomial Time

200 papers

In this paper, we study the problem of \emph{Byzantine Agreement with predictions}. Along with a proposal, each process is also given a prediction, i.e., extra information which is not guaranteed to be true. For example, one might imagine…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Naama Ben-David , Muhammad Ayaz Dzulfikar , Faith Ellen , Seth Gilbert

The gathering problem requires a set of mobile agents, arbitrarily positioned at different nodes of a network to group within finite time at the same location, not fixed in advanced. The extensive existing literature on this problem shares…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-04-12 Giuseppe Antonio Di Luna , Paola Flocchini , Linda Pagli , Giuseppe Prencipe , Nicola Santoro , Giovanni Viglietta

We consider the problem of Byzantine fault-tolerance in the peer-to-peer (P2P) distributed gradient-descent method -- a prominent algorithm for distributed optimization in a P2P system. In this problem, the system comprises of multiple…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-02-01 Nirupam Gupta , Nitin H. Vaidya

This paper proposes the first implementation of a self-stabilizing regular register emulated by $n$ servers that is tolerant to both mobile Byzantine agents, and \emph{transient failures} in a round-free synchronous model. Differently from…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-10-24 Silvia Bonomi , Antonella Del Pozzo , Maria Potop-Butucaru , Sébastien Tixeuil

In Part I of this report, we introduced a Byzantine fault-tolerant distributed optimization problem whose goal is to optimize a sum of convex (cost) functions with real-valued scalar input/ouput. In this second part, we introduce a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-07-08 Lili Su , Nitin Vaidya

We study the fundamental problem of counting the number of nodes in a sparse network (of unknown size) under the presence of a large number of Byzantine nodes. We assume the full information model where the Byzantine nodes have complete…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-02-19 Soumyottam Chatterjee , Gopal Pandurangan , Peter Robinson

We study the problem of Byzantine fault tolerance in a distributed optimization setting, where there is a group of $N$ agents communicating with a trusted centralized coordinator. Among these agents, there is a subset of $f$ agents that may…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-12-19 Amit Dutta , Thinh T. Doan , Jeffrey H. Reed

For reaching efficient deterministic synchronous Byzantine agreement upon partially connected networks, the traditional broadcast primitive is extended and integrated with a general framework. With this, the Byzantine agreement is extended…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-03-09 Shaolin Yu , Jihong Zhu , Jiali Yang , Wei Lu

In the Byzantine agreement problem, n nodes with possibly different input values aim to reach agreement on a common value in the presence of t < n/3 Byzantine nodes which represent arbitrary failures in the system. This paper introduces a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-03-08 Darya Melnyk , Yuyi Wang , Roger Wattenhofer

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

This paper addresses the challenge of solving the generalized Nash Equilibrium seeking problem for decentralized stochastic online multi-cluster games amidst Byzantine agents. During the game process, each honest agent is influenced by both…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-31 Bingqian Liu , Guanghui Wen , Liyuan Chen , Yiguang Hong

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…

Achieving agreement among distributed parties is a fundamental task in modern systems, underpinning applications such as consensus in blockchains, coordination in cloud infrastructure, and fault tolerance in critical services. However, this…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Andrei Constantinescu , Marc Dufay , Anton Paramonov , Roger Wattenhofer

Over the years, much research involving mobile computational entities has been performed. From modeling actual microscopic (and smaller) robots, to modeling software processes on a network, many important problems have been studied in this…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-05-04 Anisur Rahaman Molla , Kaushik Mondal , William K. Moses

Both Byzantine resilience and communication efficiency have attracted tremendous attention recently for their significance in edge federated learning. However, most existing algorithms may fail when dealing with real-world irregular data…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Youming Tao , Sijia Cui , Wenlu Xu , Haofei Yin , Dongxiao Yu , Weifa Liang , Xiuzhen Cheng

In this paper, we show synchronization for a group of output passive agents that communicate with each other according to an underlying communication graph to achieve a common goal. We propose a distributed event-triggered control framework…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-10-02 Arash Rahnama , Panos J. Antsaklis

This paper considers the problem of Byzantine fault-tolerance in multi-agent decentralized optimization. In this problem, each agent has a local cost function. The goal of a decentralized optimization algorithm is to allow the agents to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-10-01 Nirupam Gupta , Thinh T. Doan , Nitin H. Vaidya

This paper introduces a deterministic Byzantine consensus algorithm that relies on a new weak coordinator. As opposed to previous algorithms that cannot terminate in the presence of a faulty or slow coordinator, our algorithm can terminate…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-07-26 Tyler Crain , Vincent Gramoli , Mikel Larrea , Michel Raynal

We examine the problem of gathering $k \geq 2$ agents (or multi-agent rendezvous) in dynamic graphs which may change in every synchronous round but remain always connected ($1$-interval connectivity) [KLO10]. The agents are identical and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-08-20 Othon Michail , Paul G. Spirakis , Michail Theofilatos

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