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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

While the last few decades have witnessed a huge body of work devoted to inference and learning in distributed and decentralized setups, much of this work assumes a non-adversarial setting in which individual nodes---apart from occasional…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-06-03 Zhixiong Yang , Arpita Gang , Waheed U. Bajwa

To improve the resilience of distributed training to worst-case, or Byzantine node failures, several recent approaches have replaced gradient averaging with robust aggregation methods. Such techniques can have high computational costs,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-10 Shashank Rajput , Hongyi Wang , Zachary Charles , Dimitris Papailiopoulos

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

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

Distributed machine learning algorithms enable learning of models from datasets that are distributed over a network without gathering the data at a centralized location. While efficient distributed algorithms have been developed under the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-07 Zhixiong Yang , Waheed U. Bajwa

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

We consider gradient coding in the presence of an adversary controlling so-called malicious workers trying to corrupt the computations. Previous works propose the use of MDS codes to treat the responses from malicious workers as errors and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-08 Christoph Hofmeister , Luis Maßny , Eitan Yaakobi , Rawad Bitar

This paper considers the problem of Byzantine fault tolerance in distributed linear regression in a multi-agent system. However, the proposed algorithms are given for a more general class of distributed optimization problems, of which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-05 Nirupam Gupta , Nitin H. Vaidya

We investigate the Byzantine attack problem within the context of model training in distributed learning systems. While ensuring the convergence of current model training processes, common solvers (e.g. SGD, Adam, RMSProp, etc.) can be…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Kun Yang , Tianyi Luo , Yanjie Dong , Aohan Li

Decentralized learning has gained great popularity to improve learning efficiency and preserve data privacy. Each computing node makes equal contribution to collaboratively learn a Deep Learning model. The elimination of centralized…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Shangwei Guo , Tianwei Zhang , Han Yu , Xiaofei Xie , Lei Ma , Tao Xiang , Yang Liu

In this paper, we study the problem of distributed training (DT) under Byzantine attacks with communication constraints. While prior work has developed various robust aggregation rules at the server to enhance robustness to Byzantine…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Chengxi Li , Youssef Allouah , Rachid Guerraoui , Mikael Skoglund , Ming Xiao

We develop a communication-efficient distributed learning algorithm that is robust against Byzantine worker machines. We propose and analyze a distributed gradient-descent algorithm that performs a simple thresholding based on gradient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Avishek Ghosh , Raj Kumar Maity , Swanand Kadhe , Arya Mazumdar , Kannan Ramchandran

Byzantine machine learning has garnered considerable attention in light of the unpredictable faults that can occur in large-scale distributed learning systems. The key to secure resilience against Byzantine machines in distributed learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Yuhao Yi , Ronghui You , Hong Liu , Changxin Liu , Yuan Wang , Jiancheng Lv

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

Federated recommendation systems can provide good performance without collecting users' private data, making them attractive. However, they are susceptible to low-cost poisoning attacks that can degrade their performance. In this paper, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-16 Chen Chen , Jingfeng Zhang , Anthony K. H. Tung , Mohan Kankanhalli , Gang Chen

This paper studies distributed online learning under Byzantine attacks. The performance of an online learning algorithm is often characterized by (adversarial) regret, which evaluates the quality of one-step-ahead decision-making when an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-06 Xingrong Dong , Zhaoxian Wu , Qing Ling , Zhi Tian

Detection and mitigation of Byzantine behaviors in a decentralized learning setting is a daunting task, especially when the data distribution at the users is heterogeneous. As our main contribution, we propose Basil, a fast and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-07 Ahmed Roushdy Elkordy , Saurav Prakash , A. Salman Avestimehr

This paper proposes a Robust Gradient Classification Framework (RGCF) for Byzantine fault tolerance in distributed stochastic gradient descent. The framework consists of a pattern recognition filter which we train to be able to classify…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-19 Shashank Reddy Chirra , Kalyan Varma Nadimpalli , Shrisha Rao

This paper considers the problem of detection in distributed networks in the presence of data falsification (Byzantine) attacks. Detection approaches considered in the paper are based on fully distributed consensus algorithms, where all of…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-09-29 Bhavya Kailkhura , Swastik Brahma , Pramod K. Varshney