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Byzantine Agreement is a key component in many distributed systems. While Dolev and Reischuk have proven a long time ago that quadratic communication complexity is necessary for worst-case runs, the question of what can be done in…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-01-12 Shir Cohen , Idit Keidar , Alexander Spiegelman

We consider a simple, yet widely studied, set-up in which a Fusion Center (FC) is asked to make a binary decision about a sequence of system states by relying on the possibly corrupted decisions provided by byzantine nodes, i.e. nodes which…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-02-28 Andrea Abrardo , Mauro Barni , Kassem Kallas , Benedetta Tondi

In this paper, we consider the problem of maximizing the throughput of Byzantine agreement, given that the sum capacity of all links in between nodes in the system is finite. We have proposed a highly efficient Byzantine agreement algorithm…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2010-06-15 Guanfeng Liang , Nitin Vaidya

We study fault-tolerant distributed optimization of a sum of convex (cost) functions with real-valued scalar input/output in the presence of crash faults or Byzantine faults. In particular, the goal is to optimize a global cost function…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-09-08 Lili Su , Nitin Vaidya

Leader election is one of the fundamental and well-studied problems in distributed computing. In this paper, we initiate the study of leader election using mobile agents. Suppose $n$ agents are positioned initially arbitrarily on the nodes…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Ajay D. Kshemkalyani , Manish Kumar , Anisur Rahaman Molla , Gokarna Sharma

Two mobile agents (robots) with distinct labels have to meet in an arbitrary, possibly infinite, unknown connected graph or in an unknown connected terrain in the plane. Agents are modeled as points, and the route of each of them only…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-11-25 Jurek Czyzowicz , Arnaud Labourel , Andrzej Pelc

In this paper, we investigate: ``How can a group of initially co-located mobile agents perpetually explore an unknown graph, when one stationary node occasionally behaves maliciously, under an adversary's control?'' We call this node a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Adri Bhattacharya , Pritam Goswami , Evangelos Bampas , Partha Sarathi Mandal

Byzantine machine learning (ML) aims to ensure the resilience of distributed learning algorithms to misbehaving (or Byzantine) machines. Although this problem received significant attention, prior works often assume the data held by the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-06 Youssef Allouah , Sadegh Farhadkhani , Rachid Guerraoui , Nirupam Gupta , Rafael Pinot , John Stephan

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

Federated Learning (FL) emerges as a distributed machine learning approach that addresses privacy concerns by training AI models locally on devices. Decentralized Federated Learning (DFL) extends the FL paradigm by eliminating the central…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Diego Cajaraville-Aboy , Ana Fernández-Vilas , Rebeca P. Díaz-Redondo , Manuel Fernández-Veiga

We study a distributed computation problem in the presence of Byzantine workers where a central node wishes to solve a task that is divided into independent sub-tasks, each of which needs to be solved correctly. The distributed computation…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Aayush Rajesh , Nikhil Karamchandani , Vinod M. Prabhakaran

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

Byzantine reliable broadcast is a fundamental problem in distributed computing, which has been studied extensively over the past decades. State-of-the-art algorithms are predominantly based on the approach to share encoded fragments of the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-01-06 Thomas Locher

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 mobile robots is placed at points of an infinite line. The robots are equipped with GPS devices and they may communicate their positions on the line to a central authority. The collection contains an unknown subset of "spies",…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-07-24 Huda Chuangpishit , Jurek Czyzowicz , Evangelos Kranakis , Danny Krizanc

Network coding is an elegant technique where, instead of simply relaying the packets of information they receive, the nodes of a network are allowed to combine \emph{several} packets together for transmission and this technique can be used…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2013-03-12 Jen-Yeu Chen , Yi-ying Tseng

The recent advances in sensor technologies and smart devices enable the collaborative collection of a sheer volume of data from multiple information sources. As a promising tool to efficiently extract useful information from such big data,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-08 Richeng Jin , Xiaofan He , Huaiyu Dai

Network coding increases throughput and is robust against failures and erasures. However, since it allows mixing of information within the network, a single corrupted packet generated by a Byzantine attacker can easily contaminate the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-03-27 MinJi Kim , Muriel Medard , Joao Barros

In Federated Reinforcement Learning (FRL), agents aim to collaboratively learn a common task, while each agent is acting in its local environment without exchanging raw trajectories. Existing approaches for FRL either (a) do not provide any…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Philip Jordan , Florian Grötschla , Flint Xiaofeng Fan , Roger Wattenhofer

In this letter, we consider the problem of distributed Bayesian detection in the presence of data falsifying Byzantines in the network. The problem of distributed detection is formulated as a binary hypothesis test at the fusion center (FC)…

Applications · Statistics 2015-06-22 Bhavya Kailkhura , Yunghsiang S. Han , Swastik Brahma , Pramod K. Varshney