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Distributed optimization with open collaboration is a popular field since it provides an opportunity for small groups/companies/universities, and individuals to jointly solve huge-scale problems. However, standard optimization algorithms…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-03-09 Nikita Fedin , Eduard Gorbunov

This paper considers the problem of Byzantine fault-tolerance in distributed multi-agent optimization. In this problem, each agent has a local cost function, and in the fault-free case, the goal is to design a distributed algorithm that…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-05-22 Shuo Liu , Nirupam Gupta , Nitin H. Vaidya

Byzantine-robust distributed optimization relies on robust aggregation rules to mitigate the influence of malicious Byzantine workers. Despite the proliferation of such rules, a unified convergence analysis framework that accommodates…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-14 Boyuan Ruan , Xiaoyu Wang , Ya-Feng Liu

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

Byzantine robustness has received significant attention recently given its importance for distributed and federated learning. In spite of this, we identify severe flaws in existing algorithms even when the data across the participants is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-30 Sai Praneeth Karimireddy , Lie He , Martin Jaggi

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 this paper, we show synchronization for a group of output passive agents that communicate with each other according to an underlying communication graph to achieve a common goal. We propose a distributed event-triggered control framework…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-10-02 Arash Rahnama , Panos J. Antsaklis

Federated learning has exhibited vulnerabilities to Byzantine attacks, where the Byzantine attackers can send arbitrary gradients to a central server to destroy the convergence and performance of the global model. A wealth of robust…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Yuchen Liu , Chen Chen , Lingjuan Lyu , Fangzhao Wu , Sai Wu , Gang Chen

In this paper, we investigate the problem of distributed learning (DL) in the presence of Byzantine attacks. For this problem, various robust bounded aggregation (RBA) rules have been proposed at the central server to mitigate the impact of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Chengxi Li , Ming Xiao , Mikael Skoglund

Decentralized stochastic gradient algorithms efficiently solve large-scale finite-sum optimization problems when all agents in the network are reliable. However, most of these algorithms are not resilient to adverse conditions, such as…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-24 Jinhui Hu , Guo Chen , Huaqing Li , Xiaoyu Guo , Liang Ran , Tingwen Huang

Implementations of SGD on distributed systems create new vulnerabilities, which can be identified and misused by one or more adversarial agents. Recently, it has been shown that well-known Byzantine-resilient gradient aggregation schemes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-26 Ali Ramezani-Kebrya , Iman Tabrizian , Fartash Faghri , Petar Popovski

Recent advances in large-scale distributed learning algorithms have enabled communication-efficient training via SignSGD. Unfortunately, a major issue continues to plague distributed learning: namely, Byzantine failures may incur serious…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Jy-yong Sohn , Dong-Jun Han , Beongjun Choi , Jaekyun Moon

Byzantine-robust learning has emerged as a prominent fault-tolerant distributed machine learning framework. However, most techniques focus on the static setting, wherein the identity of Byzantine workers remains unchanged throughout the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Ron Dorfman , Naseem Yehya , Kfir Y. Levy

The growth of data, the need for scalability and the complexity of models used in modern machine learning calls for distributed implementations. Yet, as of today, distributed machine learning frameworks have largely ignored the possibility…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-03-14 Peva Blanchard , El Mahdi El Mhamdi , Rachid Guerraoui , Julien Stainer

The problem of distributed optimization requires a group of networked agents to compute a parameter that minimizes the average of their local cost functions. While there are a variety of distributed optimization algorithms that can solve…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Kananart Kuwaranancharoen , Lei Xin , Shreyas Sundaram

This paper studies distributed online learning under Byzantine attacks. The performance of an online learning algorithm is often characterized by (adversarial) regret, which evaluates the quality of one-step-ahead decision-making when an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-06 Xingrong Dong , Zhaoxian Wu , Qing Ling , Zhi Tian

Asynchronous distributed machine learning solutions have proven very effective so far, but always assuming perfectly functioning workers. In practice, some of the workers can however exhibit Byzantine behavior, caused by hardware failures,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-07-10 Georgios Damaskinos , El Mahdi El Mhamdi , Rachid Guerraoui , Rhicheek Patra , Mahsa Taziki

Communication between workers and the master node to collect local stochastic gradients is a key bottleneck in a large-scale federated learning system. Various recent works have proposed to compress the local stochastic gradients to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Heng Zhu , Qing Ling

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

In this paper, we propose a zeroth-order resilient distributed online algorithm for networks under Byzantine edge attacks. We assume that both the edges attacked by Byzantine adversaries and the objective function are time-varying.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-10 Yuhang Liu , Wenjun Mei