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This paper presents a resilient distributed algorithm for solving a system of linear algebraic equations over a multi-agent network in the presence of Byzantine agents capable of arbitrarily introducing untrustworthy information in…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-04 Jingxuan Zhu , Alvaro Velasquez , Ji Liu

We revisit Byzantine robust distributed estimation for high-dimensional sparse linear models. By combining local $\ell_1$-regularized robust estimation with robust aggregation at the server, the framework applies to pseudo-Huber regression,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Yuxuan Wang , Lixin Zhang , Kangqiang Li

We consider the problem of Byzantine fault-tolerance in federated machine learning. In this problem, the system comprises multiple agents each with local data, and a trusted centralized coordinator. In fault-free setting, the agents…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-08-27 Nirupam Gupta , Thinh T. Doan , Nitin Vaidya

In this paper, we present distributed fault-tolerant algorithms that approximate the centroid (i.e., the average) of a set of $n$ data points in $\mathbb{R}^d$. Our work falls into the broader area of multidimensional Byzantine approximate…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Melanie Cambus , Darya Melnyk

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

Byzantine-robust federated learning aims at mitigating Byzantine failures during the federated training process, where malicious participants may upload arbitrary local updates to the central server to degrade the performance of the global…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-15 Shenghui Li , Edith C. -H. Ngai , Thiemo Voigt

In this paper, we study a linear bandit optimization problem in a federated setting where a large collection of distributed agents collaboratively learn a common linear bandit model. Standard federated learning algorithms applied to this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Ali Jadbabaie , Haochuan Li , Jian Qian , Yi Tian

In this paper we address Approximate Agreement problem in the Mobile Byzantine faults model. Our contribution is threefold. First, we propose the the first mapping from the existing variants of Mobile Byzantine models to the Mixed-Mode…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-04-14 Silvia Bonomi , Antonella Del Pozzo , Maria Potop-Butucaru , Sébastien Tixeuil

Modern ML applications increasingly rely on complex deep learning models and large datasets. There has been an exponential growth in the amount of computation needed to train the largest models. Therefore, to scale computation and data,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Hamidreza Almasi , Harsh Mishra , Balajee Vamanan , Sathya N. Ravi

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

Federated learning enables training collaborative machine learning models at scale with many participants whilst preserving the privacy of their datasets. Standard federated learning techniques are vulnerable to Byzantine failures, biased…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-09-12 Luis Muñoz-González , Kenneth T. Co , Emil C. Lupu

We develop a distributed second order optimization algorithm that is communication-efficient as well as robust against Byzantine failures of the worker machines. We propose COMRADE (COMunication-efficient and Robust Approximate Distributed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-19 Avishek Ghosh , Raj Kumar Maity , Arya Mazumdar

Multi-task learning is an effective way to address the challenge of model personalization caused by high data heterogeneity in federated learning. However, extending multi-task learning to the online decentralized federated learning setting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Olusola Odeyomi , Sofiat Olaosebikan , Ajibuwa Opeyemi , Oluwadoyinsola Ige

In this paper we prove lower and matching upper bounds for the number of servers required to implement a regular shared register that tolerates unsynchronized Mobile Byzantine failures. We consider the strongest model of Mobile Byzantine…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-07-18 Silvia Bonomi , Antonella Del Pozzo , Maria Potop-Butucaru , Sébastien Tixeuil

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 Weighted-Mean Subsequence Reduced (W-MSR) algorithm, the state-of-the-art method for Byzantine-resilient design of decentralized multi-robot systems, is based on discarding outliers received over Linear Consensus Protocol (LCP).…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Kacper Wardega , Max von Hippel , Roberto Tron , Cristina Nita-Rotaru , Wenchao Li

The alternating direction of multipliers method (ADMM) is a popular method to solve distributed consensus optimization utilizing efficient communication among various nodes in the network. However, in the presence of faulty or attacked…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-10 Vishnu Vijay , Kartik A. Pant , Minhyun Cho , Inseok Hwang

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

Byzantine reliable broadcast is a fundamental primitive in distributed systems that allows a set of processes to agree on a message broadcast by a dedicated process, even when some of them are malicious (Byzantine). It guarantees that no…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Veronika Anikina , João Paulo Bezerra , Petr Kuznetsov , Liron Schiff , Stefan Schmid

The concept of distributed consensus originated in the 1970s and gained widespread attention following Leslie Lamport's influential publication on the Byzantine Generals Problem in the 1980s. Over the past five decades, distributed…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Huanyu Wu , Chentao Yue , Yixuan Fan , Yonghui Li , Lei Zhang