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Clock synchronization is ubiquitous in wireless systems for communication, sensing and control. In this paper we design a scalable system in which an indefinite number of passively receiving wireless units can synchronize to a single master…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-10-04 Dave Zachariah , Satyam Dwivedi , Peter Händel , Petre Stoica

Time synchronization in any distributed network can be achieved by using application layer protocols for time correction. Time synchronization method proposed in this article uses symbol timing recovery at the physical layer to correct…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-02-01 S. M. Usman Hashmi , Muntazir Hussain , Fahad Bin Muslim , Kashif Inayat , Seong Oun Hwang

Quantum Error Correction (QEC) codes store information reliably in logical qubits by encoding them in a larger number of less reliable qubits. The surface code, known for its high resilience to physical errors, is a leading candidate for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-13 Satvik Maurya , Swamit Tannu

We consider the clock synchronization problem in the (discrete) beeping model: Given a network of $n$ nodes with each node having a clock value $\delta(v) \in \{0,\ldots T-1\}$, the goal is to synchronize the clock values of all nodes such…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-05-18 Michael Feldmann , Ardalan Khazraei , Christian Scheideler

Recent years, graph contrastive learning (GCL), which aims to learn representations from unlabeled graphs, has made great progress. However, the existing GCL methods mostly adopt human-designed graph augmentations, which are sensitive to…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-06-30 Xiao Shen , Dewang Sun , Shirui Pan , Xi Zhou , Laurence T. Yang

The contradiction between the fact that many empirical networks possess power-law degree distribution and the finding that network of heterogeneous degree distribution is difficult to synchronize has been a paradox in the study of network…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 Xingang Wang , Ying-Cheng Lai , Choy Heng Lai

Contrastive learning methods based on InfoNCE loss are popular in node representation learning tasks on graph-structured data. However, its reliance on data augmentation and its quadratic computational complexity might lead to inconsistency…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-12 Hengrui Zhang , Qitian Wu , Yu Wang , Shaofeng Zhang , Junchi Yan , Philip S. Yu

We address the challenges of Byzantine-robust training in asynchronous distributed machine learning systems, aiming to enhance efficiency amid massive parallelization and heterogeneous computing resources. Asynchronous systems, marked by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Tehila Dahan , Kfir Y. Levy

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have recently emerged as an effective approach to model neighborhood signals in collaborative filtering. Towards this research line, graph contrastive learning (GCL) demonstrates robust capabilities to address…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-07-22 Xinzhou Jin , Jintang Li , Liang Chen , Chenyun Yu , Yuanzhen Xie , Tao Xie , Chengxiang Zhuo , Zang Li , Zibin Zheng

Graph Convolutional Networks (GCNs) show promising results for semi-supervised learning tasks on graphs, thus become favorable comparing with other approaches. Despite the remarkable success of GCNs, it is difficult to train GCNs with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-14 Xianfeng Tang , Huaxiu Yao , Yiwei Sun , Yiqi Wang , Jiliang Tang , Charu Aggarwal , Prasenjit Mitra , Suhang Wang

In this paper, we study the graph realization problem in the Congested Clique model of distributed computing under crash faults. We consider {\em degree-sequence realization}, in which each node $v$ is associated with a degree value $d(v)$,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Anisur Rahaman Molla , Manish Kumar , Sumathi Sivasubramaniam

This paper proposes Asynchronous Triggered Gradient Tracking, i.e., a distributed optimization algorithm to solve consensus optimization over networks with asynchronous communication. As a building block, we devise the continuous-time…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-09-13 Guido Carnevale , Ivano Notarnicola , Lorenzo Marconi , Giuseppe Notarstefano

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

Continuous-variable measurement-based quantum computation, which requires deterministically generated large-scale cluster state, is a promising candidate for practical, scalable, universal, and fault-tolerant quantum computation. In this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-03 Peilin Du , Jing Zhang , Tiancai Zhang , Rongguo Yang , Jiangrui Gao

In distributed optimization problems, a technique called gradient coding, which involves replicating data points, has been used to mitigate the effect of straggling machines. Recent work has studied approximate gradient coding, which…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-08-09 Margalit Glasgow , Mary Wootters

We study distributed stochastic gradient descent (SGD) in the master-worker architecture under Byzantine attacks. We consider the heterogeneous data model, where different workers may have different local datasets, and we do not make any…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-05-19 Deepesh Data , Suhas Diggavi

With the advancement of blockchain technology, chained Byzantine Fault Tolerant (BFT) protocols have been increasingly adopted in practical systems, making their performance a crucial aspect of the study. In this paper, we introduce a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-01-08 Yining Tang , Qihang Luo , Runchao Han , Jianyu Niu , Chen Feng , Yinqian Zhang

This paper proposes a novel class of distributed continuous-time coordination algorithms to solve network optimization problems whose cost function is a sum of local cost functions associated to the individual agents. We establish the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-08-25 Solmaz S. Kia , Jorge Cortes , Sonia Martinez

The safety-critical scenarios of artificial intelligence (AI), such as autonomous driving, Internet of Things, smart healthcare, etc., have raised critical requirements of trustworthy AI to guarantee the privacy and security with reliable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Zhanpeng Yang , Yuanming Shi , Yong Zhou , Zixin Wang , Kai Yang

This paper considers the problem of Byzantine fault-tolerance in distributed multi-agent optimization. In this problem, each agent has a local cost function, and in the fault-free case, the goal is to design a distributed algorithm that…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-05-22 Shuo Liu , Nirupam Gupta , Nitin H. Vaidya