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Byzantine robustness is an essential feature of algorithms for certain distributed optimization problems, typically encountered in collaborative/federated learning. These problems are usually huge-scale, implying that communication…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-12 Ahmad Rammal , Kaja Gruntkowska , Nikita Fedin , Eduard Gorbunov , Peter Richtárik

We study a distributed computation problem in the presence of Byzantine workers where a central node wishes to solve a task that is divided into independent sub-tasks, each of which needs to be solved correctly. The distributed computation…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Aayush Rajesh , Nikhil Karamchandani , Vinod M. Prabhakaran

Decentralized Learning (DL) is a peer--to--peer learning approach that allows a group of users to jointly train a machine learning model. To ensure correctness, DL should be robust, i.e., Byzantine users must not be able to tamper with the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-08 Mathilde Raynal , Dario Pasquini , Carmela Troncoso

In this paper, we propose a zeroth-order resilient distributed online algorithm for networks under Byzantine edge attacks. We assume that both the edges attacked by Byzantine adversaries and the objective function are time-varying.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-10 Yuhang Liu , Wenjun Mei

As the network scale increases, existing fully distributed solutions start to lag behind the real-world challenges such as (1) slow information propagation, (2) network communication failures, and (3) external adversarial attacks. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-28 Connor Mclaughlin , Matthew Ding , Denis Edogmus , Lili Su

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…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-06 Younghan Lee , Yungi Cho , Woorim Han , Ho Bae , Yunheung Paek

Distributed Federated Learning (DFL) enables decentralized model training across large-scale systems without a central parameter server. However, DFL faces three critical challenges: privacy leakage from honest-but-curious neighbors, slow…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Nuocheng Yang , Sihua Wang , Zhaohui Yang , Mingzhe Chen , Changchuan Yin , Kaibin Huang

When implementing hierarchical federated learning over wireless networks, scalability assurance and the ability to handle both interference and device data heterogeneity are crucial. This work introduces a learning method designed to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-04 Seyed Mohammad Azimi-Abarghouyi , Viktoria Fodor

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…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Jie Peng , Weiyu Li , Stefan Vlaski , Qing Ling

While machine learning is going through an era of celebrated success, concerns have been raised about the vulnerability of its backbone: stochastic gradient descent (SGD). Recent approaches have been proposed to ensure the robustness of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-07-19 El Mahdi El Mhamdi , Rachid Guerraoui , Sébastien Rouault

We propose PRISM-FCP (Partial shaRing and robust calIbration with Statistical Margins for Federated Conformal Prediction), a Byzantine-resilient federated conformal prediction framework that utilizes partial model sharing to improve…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Ehsan Lari , Reza Arablouei , Stefan Werner

Secure federated learning is a privacy-preserving framework to improve machine learning models by training over large volumes of data collected by mobile users. This is achieved through an iterative process where, at each iteration, users…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Jinhyun So , Basak Guler , A. Salman Avestimehr

Modern ML applications increasingly rely on complex deep learning models and large datasets. There has been an exponential growth in the amount of computation needed to train the largest models. Therefore, to scale computation and data,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Hamidreza Almasi , Harsh Mishra , Balajee Vamanan , Sathya N. Ravi

Federated learning allows collaborative workers to solve a machine learning problem while preserving data privacy. Recent studies have tackled various challenges in federated learning, but the joint optimization of communication overhead,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-13 Kai Yue , Richeng Jin , Chau-Wai Wong , Huaiyu Dai

Federated learning (FL) is a promising learning paradigm that can tackle the increasingly prominent isolated data islands problem while keeping users' data locally with privacy and security guarantees. However, FL could result in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Peng Yang , Yuning Jiang , Ting Wang , Yong Zhou , Yuanming Shi , Colin N. Jones

In Byzantine collaborative learning, $n$ clients in a peer-to-peer network collectively learn a model without sharing their data by exchanging and aggregating stochastic gradient estimates. Byzantine clients can prevent others from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Mélanie Cambus , Darya Melnyk , Tijana Milentijević , Stefan Schmid

Federated Learning (FL) allows collaborative model training across distributed clients without sharing raw data, thus preserving privacy. However, the system remains vulnerable to privacy leakage from gradient updates and Byzantine attacks…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Xian Qin , Xue Yang , Xiaohu Tang

Federated learning (FL) is a promising privacy-preserving distributed machine learning methodology that allows multiple clients (i.e., workers) to collaboratively train statistical models without disclosing private training data. Due to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-19 Bo Zhao , Peng Sun , Liming Fang , Tao Wang , Keyu Jiang

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

Byzantine agreement is a fundamental problem in fault-tolerant distributed computing that has been studied intensively for the last four decades. Much of the research has focused on a static Byzantine adversary, where the adversary is…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Fabien Dufoulon , Gopal Pandurangan