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In this paper, we consider a resilient consensus problem for the multi-agent network where some of the agents are subject to Byzantine attacks and may transmit erroneous state values to their neighbors. In particular, we develop an…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Liwei Yuan , Hideaki Ishii

We consider the problem of multi-agent consensus where some agents are subject to faults/attacks and might make updates arbitrarily. The network consists of agents taking integer-valued (i.e., quantized) states under directed communication…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-10-20 Seyed Mehran Dibaji , Hideaki Ishii , Roberto Tempo

This paper presents the formulation of fault detection and accommodation schemes for a network of autonomous agents running internal model-based dynamic average consensus algorithms. We focus on two types of consensus algorithms, one that…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-03-09 Jemin George , Matthew L. Elwin , Randy A. Freeman , Kevin M. Lynch

In this work, we consider the consensus problem in which legitimate agents share their values over an undirected communication network in the presence of malicious or faulty agents. Different from the previous works, we characterize the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-27 Sarper Aydın , Orhan Eren Akgün , Stephanie Gil , Angelia Nedić

This work focuses on the problem of distributed optimization in multi-agent cyberphysical systems, where a legitimate agent's iterates are influenced both by the values it receives from potentially malicious neighboring agents, and by its…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-01-16 Michal Yemini , Angelia Nedić , Andrea J. Goldsmith , Stephanie Gil

This paper examines resilient dynamic leader-follower consensus within multi-agent systems, where agents share first-order or second-order dynamics. The aim is to develop distributed protocols enabling nonfaulty/normal followers to…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Liwei Yuan , Hideaki Ishii

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

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

This paper concerns the consensus of discrete-time multi-agent systems with linear or linearized dynamics. An observer-type protocol based on the relative outputs of neighboring agents is proposed. The consensus of such a multi-agent system…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2011-09-20 Zhongkui Li , Zhisheng Duan , Guanrong Chen

This paper presents a resilient distributed algorithm for solving a system of linear algebraic equations over a multi-agent network in the presence of Byzantine agents capable of arbitrarily introducing untrustworthy information in…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-04 Jingxuan Zhu , Alvaro Velasquez , Ji Liu

Distributed control systems require high reliability and availability guarantees despite often being deployed at the edge of network infrastructure. Edge computing resources are less secure and less reliable than centralized resources in…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-02-21 Roy Shadmon , Daniel Spencer , Owen Arden

This paper addresses the challenge of achieving private and resilient average consensus among a group of discrete-time networked agents without compromising accuracy. State-of-the-art solutions to attain privacy and resilient consensus…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-26 Guilherme Ramos , Daniel Silvestre , André M. H. Teixeira , Sérgio Pequito

A cyber security problem in a networked system formulated as a resilient graph problem based on a game-theoretic approach is considered. The connectivity of the underlying graph of the network system is reduced by an attacker who removes…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-14 Yurid Nugraha , Ahmet Cetinkaya , Tomohisa Hayakawa , Hideaki Ishii , Quanyan Zhu

This paper studies resilient multi-agent distributed estimation of an unknown vector parameter when a subset of the agents is adversarial. We present and analyze a Flag Raising Distributed Estimator ($\mathcal{FRDE}$) that allows the agents…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-05-09 Yuan Chen , Soummya Kar , José M. F. Moura

This article aims to improve the performance of networked multi-agent systems, which are common representations of cyber-physical systems. The rate of convergence to consensus of multi-agent networks is critical to ensure cohesive, rapid…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2020-10-12 Santosh Devasia

We consider a multi-agent consensus problem in the presence of adversarial agents. The adversaries are able to listen to the inter-agent communications and try to estimate the state of the agents. The agents have a limited bit-rate for…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-09 Dipankar Maity , Panagiotis Tsiotras

This paper studies the consensus problem of general linear discrete-time multi-agent systems (MAS) with input constraints and bounded time-varying communication delays. We propose a robust distributed model predictive control (DMPC)…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-20 Henglai Wei , Changxin Liu , Yang Shi

Recently, many cooperative distributed multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) algorithms have been proposed in the literature. In this work, we study the effect of adversarial attacks on a network that employs a consensus-based MARL…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-15 Martin Figura , Krishna Chaitanya Kosaraju , Vijay Gupta

In this study, we explore the robustness of cooperative multi-agent reinforcement learning (c-MARL) against Byzantine failures, where any agent can enact arbitrary, worst-case actions due to malfunction or adversarial attack. To address the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Simin Li , Jun Guo , Jingqiao Xiu , Ruixiao Xu , Xin Yu , Jiakai Wang , Aishan Liu , Yaodong Yang , Xianglong Liu

Large language model (LLM) agents increasingly collaborate over peer-to-peer networks to improve their reliability. However, these same interactions can also become a source of vulnerability, as unreliable or Byzantine agents may sway…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Haejoon Lee , Vincent-Daniel Yun , Hyeonho Oh , Dimitra Panagou , Sai Praneeth Karimireddy