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While there exist mixnets that can anonymously route large amounts of data packets with end to end latency that can be as low as a second, %making them attractive for a variety of applications, combining this level of performance with…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-12-04 Claudia Diaz , Harry Halpin , Aggelos Kiayias

The development of fault-tolerant distributed systems that can tolerate Byzantine behavior has traditionally been focused on consensus protocols, which support fully-replicated designs. For the development of more sophisticated…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-08-06 Jelle Hellings , Mohammad Sadoghi

Many areas of deep learning benefit from using increasingly larger neural networks trained on public data, as is the case for pre-trained models for NLP and computer vision. Training such models requires a lot of computational resources…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-03 Eduard Gorbunov , Alexander Borzunov , Michael Diskin , Max Ryabinin

This paper explores the problem good-case latency of Byzantine fault-tolerant broadcast, motivated by the real-world latency and performance of practical state machine replication protocols. The good-case latency measures the time it takes…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-03-14 Ittai Abraham , Kartik Nayak , Ling Ren , Zhuolun Xiang

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

The paper presents three self-stabilizing protocols for basic fair and reliable link communication primitives. We assume a link-register communication model under read/write atomicity, where every process can read from but cannot write into…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2013-12-12 Colette Johnen , Ivan Lavallee , Christian Lavault

This paper considers the good-case latency of Byzantine Reliable Broadcast (BRB), i.e., the time taken by correct processes to deliver a message when the initial sender is correct. This time plays a crucial role in the performance of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-03-13 Timothé Albouy , Davide Frey , Michel Raynal , François Taïani

We explore the correctness of the Certified Propagation Algorithm (CPA) [6, 1, 8, 5] in solving broadcast with locally bounded Byzantine faults. CPA allows the nodes to use only local information regarding the network topology. We provide a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2013-10-25 Lewis Tseng , Nitin Vaidya , Vartika Bhandari

A wireless network in which packets are broadcast to a group of receivers through use of a random access protocol is considered in this work. The relation to previous work on networks of interacting queues is discussed and subsequently, the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-11-05 Brooke Shrader , Anthony Ephremides

Byzantine broadcast (BB) and Byzantine agreement (BA) are two most fundamental problems and essential building blocks in distributed computing, and improving their efficiency is of interest to both theoreticians and practitioners. In this…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-10-07 Kartik Nayak , Ling Ren , Elaine Shi , Nitin H. Vaidya , Zhuolun Xiang

We study several questions in the reliable agnostic learning framework of Kalai et al. (2009), which captures learning tasks in which one type of error is costlier than others. A positive reliable classifier is one that makes no false…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-02-25 Varun Kanade , Justin Thaler

Conformal prediction offers a distribution-free framework for constructing prediction sets with coverage guarantees. In practice, multiple valid conformal prediction sets may be available, arising from different models or methodologies.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-06-26 Mahmoud Hegazy , Liviu Aolaritei , Michael I. Jordan , Aymeric Dieuleveut

We investigate coin-flipping protocols for multiple parties in a quantum broadcast setting: (1) We propose and motivate a definition for quantum broadcast. Our model of quantum broadcast channel is new. (2) We discovered that quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-11-17 Andris Ambainis , Harry Buhrman , Yevgeniy Dodis , Hein Roehrig

The ability to perform repeated Byzantine agreement lies at the heart of important applications such as blockchain price oracles or replicated state machines. Any such protocol requires the following properties: (1) \textit{Byzantine…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Shlomi Dolev , Amit Hendin , Maurice Herlihy , Maria Potop Butucaru , Elad Michael Schiller

Classical information theory typically assumes reliable receiver-side processing. We study remote inference when communication is noisy and the receiver itself is built from unreliable components under a finite redundancy budget. Under a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Zhenyu Liu , Yi Ma , Rahim Tafazolli

Agreement plays a central role in distributed systems working on a common task. The increasing size of modern distributed systems makes them more susceptible to single component failures. Fault-tolerant distributed agreement protocols rely…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-08-17 Marius Poke , Colin W. Glass

In this paper, we present a Byzantine fault tolerant distributed commit protocol for transactions running over untrusted networks. The traditional two-phase commit protocol is enhanced by replicating the coordinator and by running a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Wenbing Zhao

A confidence distribution is a complete tool for making frequentist inference for a parameter of interest $\psi$ based on an assumed parametric model. Indeed, it allows to reach point estimates, to assess their precision, to set up tests…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-12-20 Elena Bortolato , Laura Ventura

We consider scheduled message communication over a discrete memoryless degraded broadcast channel. The framework we consider here models both the random message arrivals and the subsequent reliable communication by suitably combining…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 KCV Kalyanarama Sesha Sayee , Utpal Mukherji

We propose a novel relaxation of the classic asynchronous network model, called the random asynchronous model, which removes adversarial message scheduling while preserving unbounded message delays and Byzantine faults. Instead of an…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-05-27 George Danezis , Jovan Komatovic , Lefteris Kokoris-Kogias , Alberto Sonnino , Igor Zablotchi