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We consider a class of distributed submodular maximization problems in which each agent must choose a single strategy from its strategy set. The global objective is to maximize a submodular function of the strategies chosen by each agent.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-06-14 Bahman Gharesifard , Stephen L. Smith

Existing data-driven control methods generally do not address False Data Injection (FDI) and Denial-of-Service (DoS) attacks simultaneously. This letter introduces a distributed data-driven attack-resilient consensus problem under both FDI…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-03 Yi Zhang , Bin Lei , Mohamadamin Rajabinezhad , Caiwen Ding , Shan Zuo

The conventional solutions for fault-detection, identification, and reconstruction (FDIR) require centralized decision-making mechanisms which are typically combinatorial in their nature, necessitating the design of an efficient distributed…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-20 Shiraz Khan , Inseok Hwang

This paper studies the vulnerability of phasor measurement units (PMUs) to false data injection (FDI) attacks. Prior work demonstrated that unobservable FDI attacks that can bypass traditional bad data detectors based on measurement…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-05-08 Jiazi Zhang , Zhigang Chu , Lalitha Sankar , Oliver Kosut

Federated learning is a technique that allows multiple entities to collaboratively train models using their data without compromising data privacy. However, despite its advantages, federated learning can be susceptible to false data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Or Shalom , Amir Leshem , Waheed U. Bajwa

We provide theoretical bounds on the worst case performance of the greedy algorithm in seeking to maximize a normalized, monotone, but not necessarily submodular objective function under a simple partition matroid constraint. We also…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-19 Benjamin Biggs , James McMahon , Philip Baldoni , Daniel J. Stilwell

Deep Neural Networks have proven to be highly accurate at a variety of tasks in recent years. The benefits of Deep Neural Networks have also been embraced in power grids to detect False Data Injection Attacks (FDIA) while conducting…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-10 Farhin Farhad Riya , Shahinul Hoque , Yingyuan Yang , Jiangnan Li , Jinyuan Stella Sun , Hairong Qi

We consider the optimal coverage problem where a multi-agent network is deployed in an environment with obstacles to maximize a joint event detection probability. The objective function of this problem is non-convex and no global optimum is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-08-15 Xinmiao Sun , Christos G. Cassandras , Xiangyu Meng

The advent of smart power grid which plays a vital role in the upcoming smart city era is accompanied with the implementation of a monitoring tool, called state estimation. For the case of the unbalanced residential distribution grid, the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-02-02 Nam N. Tran , Hemanshu R. Pota , Quang N. Tran , Jiankun Hu

In this letter, we consider a distributed submodular maximization problem for multi-robot systems when attacked by adversaries. One of the major challenges for multi-robot systems is to increase resilience against failures or attacks. This…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-11-19 Jun Liu , Lifeng Zhou , Pratap Tokekar , Ryan K. Williams

Multi-agent distributed consensus optimization problems arise in many signal processing applications. Recently, the alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) has been used for solving this family of problems. ADMM based distributed…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2015-06-18 Tsung-Hui Chang , Mingyi Hong , Xiangfeng Wang

The rise of cyber-security concerns has brought significant attention to the analysis and design of cyber-physical systems (CPSs). Among the various types of cyberattacks, denial-of-service (DoS) attacks and false data injection (FDI)…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-06 Wenjie Liu , Lidong Li , Jian Sun , Fang Deng , Gang Wang , Jie Chen

We address the problem of constructing false data injection (FDI) attacks that can bypass the bad data detector (BDD) of a power grid. The attacker is assumed to have access to only power flow measurement data traces (collected over a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-07-22 Subhash Lakshminarayana , Abla Kammoun , Merouane Debbah , H. Vincent Poor

Adversarial attacks on stochastic bandits have traditionally relied on some unrealistic assumptions, such as per-round reward manipulation and unbounded perturbations, limiting their relevance to real-world systems. We propose a more…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Qirun Zeng , Eric He , Richard Hoffmann , Xuchuang Wang , Jinhang Zuo

The false data injection (FDI) attack cannot be detected by the traditional anomaly detection techniques used in the energy system state estimators. In this paper, we demonstrate how FDI attacks can be constructed blindly, i.e., without…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-05-23 Adnan Anwar , Abdun Naser Mahmood , Mark Pickering

This paper presents a novel Jacobi-style iteration algorithm for solving the problem of distributed submodular maximization, in which each agent determines its own strategy from a finite set so that the global submodular objective function…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-28 Bin Du , Kun Qian , Christian Claudel , Dengfeng Sun

This paper addresses the problem of detecting false data injection (FDI) attacks in a distributed network without a fusion center, represented by a connected graph among multiple agent nodes. Each agent node is equipped with a sensor, and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-16 Saqib Abbas Baba , Arpan Chattopadhyay

False Data Injection (FDI) attacks against powersystem state estimation are a growing concern for operators.Previously, most works on FDI attacks have been performedunder the assumption of the attacker having full knowledge ofthe underlying…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-25 Martin Higgins , Jiawei Zhang , Ning Zhang , Fei Teng

Multi-agent debate (MAD) systems leverage collaborative interactions among large language models (LLMs) agents to improve reasoning capabilities. While recent studies have focused on increasing the accuracy and scalability of MAD systems,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Yu Cui , Hongyang Du

In this paper, we propose a new framework for designing fast parallel algorithms for fundamental statistical subset selection tasks that include feature selection and experimental design. Such tasks are known to be weakly submodular and are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-02 Sharon Qian , Yaron Singer