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We present two distributed algorithms for the {\em Byzantine counting problem}, which is concerned with estimating the size of a network in the presence of a large number of Byzantine nodes. In an $n$-node network ($n$ is unknown), our…

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We study the problem of non-constrained, discrete-time, online distributed optimization in a multi-agent system where some of the agents do not follow the prescribed update rule either due to failures or malicious intentions. None of the…

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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 this paper, we study a linear bandit optimization problem in a federated setting where a large collection of distributed agents collaboratively learn a common linear bandit model. Standard federated learning algorithms applied to this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Ali Jadbabaie , Haochuan Li , Jian Qian , Yi Tian

This paper addresses the challenge of solving the generalized Nash Equilibrium seeking problem for decentralized stochastic online multi-cluster games amidst Byzantine agents. During the game process, each honest agent is influenced by both…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-31 Bingqian Liu , Guanghui Wen , Liyuan Chen , Yiguang Hong

Given a set of robots with arbitrary initial location and no agreement on a global coordinate system, convergence requires that all robots asymptotically approach the exact same, but unknown beforehand, location. Robots are oblivious-- they…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2009-05-26 Zohir Bouzid , Maria Potop-Butucaru , Sébastien Tixeuil

For reaching efficient deterministic synchronous Byzantine agreement upon partially connected networks, the traditional broadcast primitive is extended and integrated with a general framework. With this, the Byzantine agreement is extended…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-03-09 Shaolin Yu , Jihong Zhu , Jiali Yang , Wei Lu

In this work, we study the approximate consensus problem in asynchronous message-passing networks where some nodes may become Byzantine faulty. We answer an open problem raised by Tseng and Vaidya, 2012, proposing the first algorithm of…

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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

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

This paper proposes a new approach that enables multi-agent systems to achieve resilient \textit{constrained} consensus in the presence of Byzantine attacks, in contrast to existing literature that is only applicable to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-19 Xuan Wang , Shaoshuai Mou , Shreyas Sundaram

We tackle the problem of Byzantine errors in distributed gradient descent within the Byzantine-resilient gradient coding framework. Our proposed solution can recover the exact full gradient in the presence of $s$ malicious workers with a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-31 Shreyas Jain , Luis Maßny , Christoph Hofmeister , Eitan Yaakobi , Rawad Bitar

Byzantine agreement is a fundamental problem in fault-tolerant distributed computing that has been studied intensively for the last four decades. Much of the research has focused on a static Byzantine adversary, where the adversary is…

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Distributed learning has become the standard approach for training large-scale machine learning models across private data silos. While distributed learning enhances privacy preservation and training efficiency, it faces critical challenges…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-16 Changxin Liu , Yanghao Li , Yuhao Yi , Karl H. Johansson

A plethora of modern machine learning tasks require the utilization of large-scale distributed clusters as a critical component of the training pipeline. However, abnormal Byzantine behavior of the worker nodes can derail the training and…

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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

This paper considers the problem of detection in distributed networks in the presence of data falsification (Byzantine) attacks. Detection approaches considered in the paper are based on fully distributed consensus algorithms, where all of…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-09-29 Bhavya Kailkhura , Swastik Brahma , Pramod K. Varshney

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 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

We study a framework for modeling distributed network systems assisted by a reliable and powerful cloud service. Our framework aims at capturing hybrid systems based on a point to point message passing network of machines, with the…

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