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Adversarial attacks pose a major challenge to distributed learning systems, prompting the development of numerous robust learning methods. However, most existing approaches suffer from the curse of dimensionality, i.e. the error increases…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Wenyu Liu , Tianqiang Huang , Pengfei Zhang , Zong Ke , Minghui Min , Puning Zhao

We tackle the problem of Byzantine errors in distributed gradient descent within the Byzantine-resilient gradient coding framework. Our proposed solution can recover the exact full gradient in the presence of $s$ malicious workers with a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-31 Shreyas Jain , Luis Maßny , Christoph Hofmeister , Eitan Yaakobi , Rawad Bitar

This paper studies the problem of cooperative control of heterogeneous multi-agent systems (MASs) against Byzantine attacks. The agent affected by Byzantine attacks sends different wrong values to all neighbors while applying wrong input…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-28 Xin Gong , Yiwen Liang , Yukang Cui , Shi Liang , Tingwen Huang

In this work, we consider the distributed stochastic optimization problem of minimizing a non-convex function $f(x) = \mathbb{E}_{\xi \sim \mathcal{D}} f(x; \xi)$ in an adversarial setting, where the individual functions $f(x; \xi)$ can…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-12-11 Prashant Khanduri , Saikiran Bulusu , Pranay Sharma , Pramod K. Varshney

This report considers the problem of Byzantine fault-tolerance in multi-agent collaborative optimization. In this problem, each agent has a local cost function. The goal of a collaborative optimization algorithm is to compute a minimum of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-04-01 Nirupam Gupta , Nitin H. Vaidya

Federated learning (FL) enables a set of geographically distributed clients to collectively train a model through a server. Classically, the training process is synchronous, but can be made asynchronous to maintain its speed in presence of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Bart Cox , Abele Mălan , Lydia Y. Chen , Jérémie Decouchant

In this paper, we consider a resilient consensus problem for the multi-agent network where some of the agents are subject to Byzantine attacks and may transmit erroneous state values to their neighbors. In particular, we develop an…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Liwei Yuan , Hideaki Ishii

Federated learning has arisen as a mechanism to allow multiple participants to collaboratively train a model without sharing their data. In these settings, participants (workers) may not trust each other fully; for instance, a set of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-28 Kamala Varma , Yi Zhou , Nathalie Baracaldo , Ali Anwar

Network traffic prediction plays a crucial role in intelligent network operation. Traditional prediction methods often rely on centralized training, necessitating the transfer of vast amounts of traffic data to a central server. This…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Hui Ma , Kai Yang , Yang Jiao

Online learning with streaming data in a distributed and collaborative manner can be useful in a wide range of applications. This topic has been receiving considerable attention in recent years with emphasis on both single-task and…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2017-04-26 Jie Chen , Cédric Richard , Ali H. Sayed

Inherent client drifts caused by data heterogeneity, as well as vulnerability to Byzantine attacks within the system, hinder effective model training and convergence in federated learning (FL). This paper presents two new frameworks, named…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Bingnan Xiao , Feng Zhu , Jingjing Zhang , Wei Ni , Xin Wang

Adversarial attacks attempt to disrupt the training, retraining and utilizing of artificial intelligence and machine learning models in large-scale distributed machine learning systems. This causes security risks on its prediction outcome.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Yusen Wu , Hao Chen , Xin Wang , Chao Liu , Phuong Nguyen , Yelena Yesha

Recently, decentralized learning has emerged as a popular peer-to-peer signal and information processing paradigm that enables model training across geographically distributed agents in a scalable manner, without the presence of any central…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Haoxiang Ye , Qing Ling

In this paper, we investigate the problem of distributed learning (DL) in the presence of Byzantine attacks. For this problem, various robust bounded aggregation (RBA) rules have been proposed at the central server to mitigate the impact of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Chengxi Li , Ming Xiao , Mikael Skoglund

We study the problem of distributed hypothesis testing over a network of mobile agents with limited communication and sensing ranges to infer the true hypothesis collaboratively. In particular, we consider a scenario where there is an…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-20 Bo Wu , Steven Carr , Suda Bharadwaj , Zhe Xu , Ufuk Topcu

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

Implementations of SGD on distributed systems create new vulnerabilities, which can be identified and misused by one or more adversarial agents. Recently, it has been shown that well-known Byzantine-resilient gradient aggregation schemes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-26 Ali Ramezani-Kebrya , Iman Tabrizian , Fartash Faghri , Petar Popovski

The growth of data, the need for scalability and the complexity of models used in modern machine learning calls for distributed implementations. Yet, as of today, distributed machine learning frameworks have largely ignored the possibility…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-03-14 Peva Blanchard , El Mahdi El Mhamdi , Rachid Guerraoui , Julien Stainer

Federated learning has exhibited vulnerabilities to Byzantine attacks, where the Byzantine attackers can send arbitrary gradients to a central server to destroy the convergence and performance of the global model. A wealth of robust…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Yuchen Liu , Chen Chen , Lingjuan Lyu , Fangzhao Wu , Sai Wu , Gang Chen

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