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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

In this work, we explore iterative approximate Byzantine consensus algorithms that do not make explicit use of the global parameter of the graph, i.e., the upper-bound on the number of faults, f.

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2012-08-27 Lewis Tseng , Nitin H. Vaidya

This paper presents a proof of correctness of an iterative approximate Byzantine consensus (IABC) algorithm for directed graphs. The iterative algorithm allows fault- free nodes to reach approximate conensus despite the presence of up to f…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-11-26 Nitin Vaidya

We consider the problem of approximate consensus in mobile networks containing Byzantine nodes. We assume that each correct node can communicate only with its neighbors and has no knowledge of the global topology. As all nodes have moving…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2012-06-04 Chuanyou Li , Michel Hurfin , Yun Wang

In this paper we present an open source, fully asynchronous, leaderless algorithm for reaching consensus in the presence of Byzantine faults in an asynchronous network. We prove the algorithm's correctness provided that less than a third of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-07-29 Pierre Chevalier , Bartlomiej Kaminski , Fraser Hutchison , Qi Ma , Spandan Sharma , Andreas Fackler , William J Buchanan

In Byzantine collaborative learning, $n$ clients in a peer-to-peer network collectively learn a model without sharing their data by exchanging and aggregating stochastic gradient estimates. Byzantine clients can prevent others from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Mélanie Cambus , Darya Melnyk , Tijana Milentijević , Stefan Schmid

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

Approximate Agreement ($\mathcal{AA}$) is a fundamental primitive that, even in the presence of Byzantine faults, allows honest parties to obtain close (but not necessarily identical) outputs that lie within the range of their inputs. While…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Marc Fuchs , Diana Ghinea , Zahra Parsaeian , Joel Rybicki

Byzantine fault-tolerant (BFT) consensus algorithms are at the core of providing safety and liveness guarantees for distributed systems that must operate in the presence of arbitrary failures. Recently, numerous new BFT algorithms have been…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-12-06 Gengrui Zhang , Fei Pan , Yunhao Mao , Sofia Tijanic , Michael Dang'ana , Shashank Motepalli , Shiquan Zhang , Hans-Arno Jacobsen

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

Approximate agreement is one of the few variants of consensus that can be solved in a wait-free manner in asynchronous systems where processes communicate by reading and writing to shared memory. In this work, we consider a natural…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-03-17 Dan Alistarh , Faith Ellen , Joel Rybicki

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

The Byzantine agreement problem is considered to be a core problem in distributed systems. For example, Byzantine agreement is needed to build a blockchain, a totally ordered log of records. Blockchains are asynchronous distributed systems,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-05-27 Ye Wang , Roger Wattenhofer

We consider the gathering task by a team of $m$ synchronous mobile robots in a graph of $n$ nodes. Each robot has an identifier (ID) and runs its own deterministic algorithm, i.e., there is no centralized coordinator. We consider a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-09-04 Avery Miller , Ullash Saha

We analyze the impact of transient and Byzantine faults on the construction of a maximal independent set in a general network. We adapt the self-stabilizing algorithm presented by Turau `for computing such a vertex set. Our algorithm is…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Johanne Cohen , Laurence Pilard , François Pirot , Jonas Sénizergues

In this paper, we study the Byzantine lattice agreement problem in synchronous systems. The lattice agreement problem in crash failure model has been studied both in synchronous and asynchronous systems, which leads to the current best…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-02-18 Xiong Zheng , Vijay Garg

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 Byzantine fault-tolerant distributed optimization of a sum of convex (cost) functions with real-valued scalar input/ouput. In particular, the goal is to optimize a global cost function $\frac{1}{|\mathcal{N}|}\sum_{i\in…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-08-03 Lili Su , Nitin Vaidya

Given a set of robots with arbitrary initial location and no agreement on a global coordinate system, convergence requires that all robots asymptotically approach the exact same, but unknown beforehand, location. Robots are oblivious-- they…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2009-05-26 Zohir Bouzid , Maria Potop-Butucaru , Sébastien Tixeuil

We analyze the impact of transient and Byzantine faults on the construction of a maximal independent set in a general network. We adapt the self-stabilizing algorithm presented by Turau \cite{turau2007linear} for computing such a vertex…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-11-17 Johanne Cohen , Laurence Pilard , Jonas Sénizergues