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Adversarial attacks during training can strongly influence the performance of multi-agent reinforcement learning algorithms. It is, thus, highly desirable to augment existing algorithms such that the impact of adversarial attacks on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-19 Martin Figura , Yixuan Lin , Ji Liu , Vijay Gupta

In large-scale distributed learning, security issues have become increasingly important. Particularly in a decentralized environment, some computing units may behave abnormally, or even exhibit Byzantine failures -- arbitrary and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-26 Dong Yin , Yudong Chen , Kannan Ramchandran , Peter Bartlett

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

In distributed learning systems, robustness issues may arise from two sources. On one hand, due to distributional shifts between training data and test data, the trained model could exhibit poor out-of-sample performance. On the other hand,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Guanqiang Zhou , Ping Xu , Yue Wang , Zhi Tian

This paper investigates the problem of decentralized resource allocation in the presence of Byzantine attacks. Such attacks occur when an unknown number of malicious agents send random or carefully crafted messages to their neighbors,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-09-10 Runhua Wang , Qing Ling , Zhi Tian

The resilient consensus problem is investigated in this paper for a class of networked Euler-Lagrange systems with event-triggered communication in the presence of Byzantine attacks. One challenge that we face in addressing the considered…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-22 Yuliang Fu , Guanghui Wen , Dan Zhao , Wei Xing Zheng , Xiaolei Li

We study a multi-agent resilient consensus problem, where some agents are of the Byzantine type and try to prevent the normal ones from reaching consensus. In our setting, normal agents communicate with each other asynchronously over…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-03-13 Liwei Yuan , Hideaki Ishii

This paper proposes distributed algorithms for multi-agent networks to achieve a solution in finite time to a linear equation $Ax=b$ where $A$ has full row rank, and with the minimum $l_1$-norm in the underdetermined case (where $A$ has…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-10-02 Jingqiu Zhou , Wang Xuan , Shaoshuai Mou , Brian. D. O. Anderson

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

Both Byzantine resilience and communication efficiency have attracted tremendous attention recently for their significance in edge federated learning. However, most existing algorithms may fail when dealing with real-world irregular data…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Youming Tao , Sijia Cui , Wenlu Xu , Haofei Yin , Dongxiao Yu , Weifa Liang , Xiuzhen Cheng

This paper investigates the problem of resilient control for multi-agent systems in the presence of Byzantine adversaries via an active secure neighbor selection framework. A pre-discriminative graph is first constructed to characterize the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-26 Jinming Gao , Yijing Wang , Wentao Zhang , Rui Zhao , Yang Shi , Zhiqiang Zuo

This paper introduces a deep learning-based framework for resilient decision fusion in adversarial multi-sensor networks, providing a unified mathematical setup that encompasses diverse scenarios, including varying Byzantine node…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Kassem Kallas

The alternating direction of multipliers method (ADMM) is a popular method to solve distributed consensus optimization utilizing efficient communication among various nodes in the network. However, in the presence of faulty or attacked…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-10 Vishnu Vijay , Kartik A. Pant , Minhyun Cho , Inseok Hwang

This report considers the problem of Byzantine fault-tolerance in multi-agent collaborative optimization. In this problem, each agent has a local cost function. The goal of a collaborative optimization algorithm is to compute a minimum of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-04-01 Nirupam Gupta , Nitin H. Vaidya

This paper deals with linear algebraic equations where the global coefficient matrix and constant vector are given respectively, by the summation of the coefficient matrices and constant vectors of the individual agents. Our approach is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-05-28 Priyank Srivastava , Jorge Cortes

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

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…

Standard federated learning algorithms are vulnerable to adversarial nodes, a.k.a. Byzantine failures. To solve this issue, robust distributed learning algorithms have been developed, which typically replace parameter averaging by robust…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Renaud Gaucher , Aymeric Dieuleveut , Hadrien Hendrikx

In this paper, we consider the Byzantine-robust stochastic optimization problem defined over decentralized static and time-varying networks, where the agents collaboratively minimize the summation of expectations of stochastic local cost…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-12-21 Jie Peng , Weiyu Li , Qing Ling

This paper studies the Byzantine Agreement problem where the nodes have access to a predictor that flags nodes for suspicion of faulty (Byzantine) behavior. We focus on algorithmic resilience -- the maximum number of faulty nodes an…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Julien Dallot , Darya Melnyk , Tijana Milentijevic , Stefan Schmid , Patrik Welters