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This work considers two related learning problems in a federated attack prone setting: federated principal components analysis (PCA) and federated low rank column-wise sensing (LRCS). The node attacks are assumed to be Byzantine which means…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-12 Ankit Pratap Singh , Namrata Vaswani

We consider a distributed reinforcement learning setting where multiple agents separately explore the environment and communicate their experiences through a central server. However, $\alpha$-fraction of agents are adversarial and can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-02 Yiding Chen , Xuezhou Zhang , Kaiqing Zhang , Mengdi Wang , Xiaojin Zhu

Federated Learning (FL) trains a global model across decentralized clients while preserving data privacy, but at scale it is vulnerable to malicious updates. Byzantine-resilient aggregation methods such as MultiKrum score gradients against…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Andras Ferenczi , Sutapa Samanta , Dagen Wang , Jason Qizhe Qin

To defend against Byzantine attacks in decentralized learning, most existing methods rely on robust aggregation rules to mitigate the influence of malicious machines. However, these strategies inherently introduce bias, leading to inexact…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-04-20 Siyuan Zhang , Chengde Qian , Xin Liu , Changliang Zou

Federated learning (FL) has enabled training models collaboratively from multiple data owning parties without sharing their data. Given the privacy regulations of patient's healthcare data, learning-based systems in healthcare can greatly…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-09-18 Matei Grama , Maria Musat , Luis Muñoz-González , Jonathan Passerat-Palmbach , Daniel Rueckert , Amir Alansary

Recommender systems have been shown to be vulnerable to poisoning attacks, where malicious data is injected into the dataset to cause the recommender system to provide biased recommendations. To defend against such attacks, various robust…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-02 Yichang Xu , Chenwang Wu , Defu Lian

The advancement of AI models, especially those powered by deep learning, faces significant challenges in data-sensitive industries like healthcare and finance due to the distributed and private nature of data. Federated Learning (FL) and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Yongming Fan , Rui Zhu , Zihao Wang , Chenghong Wang , Haixu Tang , Ye Dong , Hyunghoon Cho , Lucila Ohno-Machado

As a distributed learning, Federated Learning (FL) faces two challenges: the unbalanced distribution of training data among participants, and the model attack by Byzantine nodes. In this paper, we consider the long-tailed distribution with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Yanna Jiang , Baihe Ma , Xu Wang , Guangsheng Yu , Caijun Sun , Wei Ni , Ren Ping Liu

This paper focuses on decentralized stochastic optimization in the presence of Byzantine attacks. During the optimization process, an unknown number of malfunctioning or malicious workers, termed as Byzantine workers, disobey the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-04-13 Zhaoxian Wu , Tianyi Chen , Qing Ling

Distributed model training is vulnerable to byzantine system failures and adversarial compute nodes, i.e., nodes that use malicious updates to corrupt the global model stored at a parameter server (PS). To guarantee some form of robustness,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-06-25 Lingjiao Chen , Hongyi Wang , Zachary Charles , Dimitris Papailiopoulos

Federated Learning (FL) enables multiple clients to collaboratively train a model without sharing their local data. Yet the FL system is vulnerable to well-designed Byzantine attacks, which aim to disrupt the model training process by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-05 Jiahao Xu , Zikai Zhang , Rui Hu

Federated learning (FL) is a feasible technique to learn personalized recommendation models from decentralized user data. Unfortunately, federated recommender systems are vulnerable to poisoning attacks by malicious clients. Existing…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-02-11 Chuhan Wu , Fangzhao Wu , Tao Qi , Yongfeng Huang , Xing Xie

In decentralized machine learning, different devices communicate in a peer-to-peer manner to collaboratively learn from each other's data. Such approaches are vulnerable to misbehaving (or Byzantine) devices. We introduce F-RG, a general…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-12 Renaud Gaucher , Aymeric Dieuleveut , Hadrien Hendrikx

This paper proposes a general spectral analysis framework that thwarts a security risk in federated Learning caused by groups of malicious Byzantine attackers or colluders, who conspire to upload vicious model updates to severely debase…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Hanlin Gu , Lixin Fan , Xingxing Tang , Qiang Yang

Smart meter measurements, though critical for accurate demand forecasting, face several drawbacks including consumers' privacy, data breach issues, to name a few. Recent literature has explored Federated Learning (FL) as a promising…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-03-29 Muhammad Akbar Husnoo , Adnan Anwar , Nasser Hosseinzadeh , Shama Naz Islam , Abdun Naser Mahmood , Robin Doss

Distributed Learning often suffers from Byzantine failures, and there have been a number of works studying the problem of distributed stochastic optimization under Byzantine failures, where only a portion of workers, instead of all the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Kaiyun Li , Xiaojun Chen , Ye Dong , Peng Zhang , Dakui Wang , Shuai Zen

The privacy-preserving federated learning schemes based on the setting of two honest-but-curious and non-colluding servers offer promising solutions in terms of security and efficiency. However, our investigation reveals that these schemes…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Jiahui Wu , Fucai Luo , Tiecheng Sun , Haiyan Wang , Weizhe Zhang

Modern machine learning (ML) models are capable of impressive performances. However, their prowess is not due only to the improvements in their architecture and training algorithms but also to a drastic increase in computational power used…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-04-27 Andrei Kucharavy , Matteo Monti , Rachid Guerraoui , Ljiljana Dolamic

Distributed learning has become the standard approach for training large-scale machine learning models across private data silos. While distributed learning enhances privacy preservation and training efficiency, it faces critical challenges…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-16 Changxin Liu , Yanghao Li , Yuhao Yi , Karl H. Johansson

How to achieve precise distributed optimization despite unknown attacks, especially the Byzantine attacks, is one of the critical challenges for multiagent systems. This paper addresses a distributed resilient optimization for linear…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-18 Chenhang Yan , Liping Yan , Yuezu Lv , Bolei Dong , Yuanqing Xia