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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

Machine Learning (ML) solutions are nowadays distributed, according to the so-called server/worker architecture. One server holds the model parameters while several workers train the model. Clearly, such architecture is prone to various…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-06-03 El-Mahdi El-Mhamdi , Rachid Guerraoui , Arsany Guirguis , Lê Nguyên Hoang , Sébastien Rouault

We study adversary-resilient stochastic distributed optimization, in which $m$ machines can independently compute stochastic gradients, and cooperate to jointly optimize over their local objective functions. However, an $\alpha$-fraction of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-05 Zeyuan Allen-Zhu , Faeze Ebrahimian , Jerry Li , Dan Alistarh

In distributed learning, sign-based compression algorithms such as signSGD with majority vote provide a lightweight alternative to SGD with an additional advantage: fault tolerance (almost) for free. However, for signSGD with majority vote,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Emanuele Mengoli , Luzius Moll , Virgilio Strozzi , El-Mahdi El-Mhamdi

Robustness to Byzantine attacks is a necessity for various distributed training scenarios. When the training reduces to the process of solving a minimization problem, Byzantine robustness is relatively well-understood. However, other…

Distributed algorithms for multi-agent resource allocation can provide privacy and scalability over centralized algorithms in many cyber-physical systems. However, the distributed nature of these algorithms can render these systems…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-12-08 Berkay Turan , Cesar A. Uribe , Hoi-To Wai , Mahnoosh Alizadeh

We consider the federated learning problem where data on workers are not independent and identically distributed (i.i.d.). During the learning process, an unknown number of Byzantine workers may send malicious messages to the central node,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-31 Jie Peng , Zhaoxian Wu , Qing Ling , Tianyi Chen

In this paper, we investigate the problem of decentralized online resource allocation in the presence of Byzantine attacks. In this problem setting, some agents may be compromised due to external manipulations or internal failures, causing…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-27 Runhua Wang , Qing Ling , Hoi-To Wai , Zhi Tian

Distributed learning has become a promising computational parallelism paradigm that enables a wide scope of intelligent applications from the Internet of Things (IoT) to autonomous driving and the healthcare industry. This paper studies…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-28 Yuhan Yang , Youlong Wu , Yuning Jiang , Yuanming Shi

How to achieve precise distributed optimization despite unknown attacks, especially the Byzantine attacks, is one of the critical challenges for multiagent systems. This paper addresses a distributed resilient optimization for linear…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-18 Chenhang Yan , Liping Yan , Yuezu Lv , Bolei Dong , Yuanqing Xia

We study robust distributed learning that involves minimizing a non-convex loss function with saddle points. We consider the Byzantine setting where some worker machines have abnormal or even arbitrary and adversarial behavior. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-30 Dong Yin , Yudong Chen , Kannan Ramchandran , Peter Bartlett

In this paper, we propose a class of robust stochastic subgradient methods for distributed learning from heterogeneous datasets at presence of an unknown number of Byzantine workers. The Byzantine workers, during the learning process, may…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-12 Liping Li , Wei Xu , Tianyi Chen , Georgios B. Giannakis , Qing Ling

Decentralized federated learning (DFL) enables collaborative model training without centralized trust, but it remains vulnerable to Byzantine clients that poison gradients under heterogeneous (Non-IID) data. Existing defenses face a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Animesh Mishra

This paper focuses on decentralized stochastic optimization in the presence of Byzantine attacks. During the optimization process, an unknown number of malfunctioning or malicious workers, termed as Byzantine workers, disobey the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-04-13 Zhaoxian Wu , Tianyi Chen , Qing Ling

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

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

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

Distributed learning has become a hot research topic due to its wide application in clusterbased large-scale learning, federated learning, edge computing and so on. Most traditional distributed learning methods typically assume no failure…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-01 Yi-Rui Yang , Wu-Jun Li

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…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-11-05 Deepesh Data , Linqi Song , Suhas Diggavi

Distributed multi-task learning provides significant advantages in multi-agent networks with heterogeneous data sources where agents aim to learn distinct but correlated models simultaneously.However, distributed algorithms for learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-11 Jiani Li , Waseem Abbas , Xenofon Koutsoukos