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We study Byzantine-resilient distributed multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL), where agents must collaboratively learn optimal value functions over a compromised communication network. Existing resilient MARL approaches typically…
Given sufficient data from multiple edge devices, federated learning (FL) enables training a shared model without transmitting private data to the central server. However, FL is generally vulnerable to Byzantine attacks from compromised…
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…
Federated Learning (FL) thrives in training a global model with numerous clients by only sharing the parameters of their local models trained with their private training datasets. Therefore, without revealing the private dataset, the…
Federated Learning (FL) has become a powerful technique for training Machine Learning (ML) models in a decentralized manner, preserving the privacy of the training datasets involved. However, the decentralized nature of FL limits the…
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 inputs of the malicious workers as errors and…
We study distributed optimization in the presence of Byzantine adversaries, where both data and computation are distributed among $m$ worker machines, $t$ of which may be corrupt. The compromised nodes may collaboratively and arbitrarily…
Federated learning faces increasing threats from model poisoning attacks, which harms its application to improve privacy. Existing defense methods typically rely on fixed thresholds or perform clustering with a fixed number of clusters to…
Federated learning, as a distributed learning that conducts the training on the local devices without accessing to the training data, is vulnerable to Byzatine poisoning adversarial attacks. We argue that the federated learning model has to…
Federated learning systems are susceptible to adversarial attacks. To combat this, we introduce a novel aggregator based on Huber loss minimization, and provide a comprehensive theoretical analysis. Under independent and identically…
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…
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…
Federated learning (FL) is designed to preserve data privacy during model training, where the data remains on the client side (i.e., IoT devices), and only model updates of clients are shared iteratively for collaborative learning. However,…
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…
Federated Learning (FL) enables collaborative model training across multiple clients without sharing private data. We consider FL scenarios wherein FL clients are subject to adversarial (Byzantine) attacks, while the FL server is trusted…
Federated Learning (FL) enables collaborative model training across distributed medical institutions while preserving patient privacy, but remains vulnerable to Byzantine attacks and statistical heterogeneity. We present OptiGradTrust, a…
Robustness to malicious attacks is of paramount importance for distributed learning. Existing works usually consider the classical Byzantine attacks model, which assumes that some workers can send arbitrarily malicious messages to the…
Asynchronous distributed machine learning solutions have proven very effective so far, but always assuming perfectly functioning workers. In practice, some of the workers can however exhibit Byzantine behavior, caused by hardware failures,…
Prior efforts in enhancing federated learning (FL) security fall into two categories. At one end of the spectrum, some work uses secure aggregation techniques to hide the individual client's updates and only reveal the aggregated global…
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…