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Byzantine attacks present a critical challenge to Federated Learning (FL), where malicious participants can disrupt the training process, degrade model accuracy, and compromise system reliability. Traditional FL frameworks typically rely on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Yufei Xia , Wenrui Yu , Qiongxiu Li

Federated Learning (FL) faces two major issues: privacy leakage and poisoning attacks, which may seriously undermine the reliability and security of the system. Overcoming them simultaneously poses a great challenge. This is because privacy…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Yisheng Zhong , Li-Ping Wang

Federated Learning (FL) emerges as a distributed machine learning approach that addresses privacy concerns by training AI models locally on devices. Decentralized Federated Learning (DFL) extends the FL paradigm by eliminating the central…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Diego Cajaraville-Aboy , Ana Fernández-Vilas , Rebeca P. Díaz-Redondo , Manuel Fernández-Veiga

Privacy leakage and Byzantine failures are two adverse factors to the intelligent decision-making process of multi-agent systems (MASs). Considering the presence of these two issues, this paper targets the resolution of a class of nonconvex…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-23 Jinhui Hu , Guo Chen , Huaqing Li , Huqiang Cheng , Xiaoyu Guo , Tingwen Huang

Distributed learning has many computational benefits but is vulnerable to attacks from a subset of devices transmitting incorrect information. This paper investigates Byzantine-resilient algorithms in a decentralized setting, where devices…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Renaud Gaucher , Aymeric Dieuleveut , Hadrien Hendrikx

Federated learning (FL) has emerged as a promising collaboration paradigm by enabling a multitude of parties to construct a joint model without exposing their private training data. Three main challenges in FL are efficiency, privacy, and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-05-12 Lingjuan Lyu

Federated Learning (FL) aims to train a collaborative model while preserving data privacy. However, the distributed nature of this approach still raises privacy and security issues, such as the exposure of sensitive data due to inference…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Adda Akram Bendoukha , Aymen Boudguiga , Nesrine Kaaniche , Renaud Sirdey , Didem Demirag , Sébastien Gambs

Federated learning (FL) enables multiple participants to train a global machine learning model without sharing their private training data. Peer-to-peer (P2P) FL advances existing centralized FL paradigms by eliminating the server that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-12 Zhangchen Xu , Fengqing Jiang , Luyao Niu , Jinyuan Jia , Radha Poovendran

We study stochastic gradient descent (SGD) with local iterations in the presence of malicious/Byzantine clients, motivated by the federated learning. The clients, instead of communicating with the central server in every iteration, maintain…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-08-18 Deepesh Data , Suhas Diggavi

Federated learning is a newly emerging distributed learning framework that facilitates the collaborative training of a shared global model among distributed participants with their privacy preserved. However, federated learning systems are…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-10-14 Minghui Li , Wei Wan , Jianrong Lu , Shengshan Hu , Junyu Shi , Leo Yu Zhang , Man Zhou , Yifeng Zheng

Distributed Learning often suffers from Byzantine failures, and there have been a number of works studying the problem of distributed stochastic optimization under Byzantine failures, where only a portion of workers, instead of all the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Kaiyun Li , Xiaojun Chen , Ye Dong , Peng Zhang , Dakui Wang , Shuai Zen

We propose Byzantine-robust federated learning protocols with nearly optimal statistical rates. In contrast to prior work, our proposed protocols improve the dimension dependence and achieve a tight statistical rate in terms of all the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Banghua Zhu , Lun Wang , Qi Pang , Shuai Wang , Jiantao Jiao , Dawn Song , Michael I. Jordan

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

We consider the problem of distributed statistical machine learning in adversarial settings, where some unknown and time-varying subset of working machines may be compromised and behave arbitrarily to prevent an accurate model from being…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-10-24 Yudong Chen , Lili Su , Jiaming Xu

Distributed training of deep neural networks faces three critical challenges: privacy preservation, communication efficiency, and robustness to fault and adversarial behaviors. Although significant research efforts have been devoted to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-19 Richeng Jin , Yujie Gu , Kai Yue , Xiaofan He , Zhaoyang Zhang , Huaiyu Dai

The recent advances in sensor technologies and smart devices enable the collaborative collection of a sheer volume of data from multiple information sources. As a promising tool to efficiently extract useful information from such big data,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-08 Richeng Jin , Xiaofan He , Huaiyu Dai

Recently emerged federated learning (FL) is an attractive distributed learning framework in which numerous wireless end-user devices can train a global model with the data remained autochthonous. Compared with the traditional machine…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-10-10 Junyu Shi , Wei Wan , Shengshan Hu , Jianrong Lu , Leo Yu Zhang

As the scale of federated learning (FL) systems expands, their inherent performance limitations like communication overhead, Byzantine vulnerability, and privacy leakage have become increasingly critical. This paper considers a personalized…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Muhang Lan , Song Xiao , Wenyi Zhang

Decentralized learning involves training machine learning models over remote mobile devices, edge servers, or cloud servers while keeping data localized. Even though many studies have shown the feasibility of preserving privacy, enhancing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-01-07 Minghui Xu , Zongrui Zou , Ye Cheng , Qin Hu , Dongxiao Yu , Xiuzhen Cheng

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