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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…

Motivated by the ever-increasing concerns on personal data privacy and the rapidly growing data volume at local clients, federated learning (FL) has emerged as a new machine learning setting. An FL system is comprised of a central parameter…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-08-04 Xiang Ma , Haijian Sun , Rose Qingyang Hu , Yi Qian

Federated learning (FL) emerged as a promising learning paradigm to enable a multitude of participants to construct a joint ML model without exposing their private training data. Existing FL designs have been shown to exhibit…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Lingjuan Lyu , Chen Chen

Federated Learning (FL) remains highly vulnerable to poisoning attacks, especially under real-world hyper-heterogeneity, where clients differ significantly in data distributions, communication capabilities, and model architectures. Such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Weiyao Zhang , Jinyang Li , Qi Song , Miao Wang , Chungang Lin , Haitong Luo , Xuying Meng , Yujun Zhang

Federated Learning (FL) algorithms using Knowledge Distillation (KD) have received increasing attention due to their favorable properties with respect to privacy, non-i.i.d. data and communication cost. These methods depart from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Christophe Roux , Max Zimmer , Sebastian Pokutta

Distributed model training is vulnerable to byzantine system failures and adversarial compute nodes, i.e., nodes that use malicious updates to corrupt the global model stored at a parameter server (PS). To guarantee some form of robustness,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-06-25 Lingjiao Chen , Hongyi Wang , Zachary Charles , Dimitris Papailiopoulos

This work investigates fault-resilient federated learning when the data samples are non-uniformly distributed across workers, and the number of faulty workers is unknown to the central server. In the presence of adversarially faulty workers…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-20 Yanjie Dong , Georgios B. Giannakis , Tianyi Chen , Julian Cheng , Md. Jahangir Hossain , Victor C. M. Leung

In decentralized machine learning, different devices communicate in a peer-to-peer manner to collaboratively learn from each other's data. Such approaches are vulnerable to misbehaving (or Byzantine) devices. We introduce F-RG, a general…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-12 Renaud Gaucher , Aymeric Dieuleveut , Hadrien Hendrikx

We address the challenges of Byzantine-robust training in asynchronous distributed machine learning systems, aiming to enhance efficiency amid massive parallelization and heterogeneous computing resources. Asynchronous systems, marked by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Tehila Dahan , Kfir Y. Levy

Federated Learning enables collaborative training of machine learning models on decentralized data. This scheme, however, is vulnerable to adversarial attacks, when some of the clients submit corrupted model updates. In real-world…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Aleksandr Karakulev , Usama Zafar , Salman Toor , Prashant Singh

This paper develops a comprehensive framework to address three critical trustworthy challenges in federated learning (FL): robustness against Byzantine attacks, fairness, and privacy preservation. To improve the system's defense against…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Alina Basharat , Yijun Bian , Ping Xu , Zhi Tian

Machine learning has begun to play a central role in many applications. A multitude of these applications typically also involve datasets that are distributed across multiple computing devices/machines due to either design constraints…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-06-16 Cheng Fang , Zhixiong Yang , Waheed U. Bajwa

We propose a novel robust aggregation rule for distributed synchronous Stochastic Gradient Descent~(SGD) under a general Byzantine failure model. The attackers can arbitrarily manipulate the data transferred between the servers and the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-05-25 Cong Xie , Oluwasanmi Koyejo , Indranil Gupta

Federated learning (FL) is a privacy-preserving machine learning technique that facilitates collaboration among participants across demographics. FL enables model sharing, while restricting the movement of data. Since FL provides…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Harsh Kasyap , Minghong Fang , Zhuqing Liu , Carsten Maple , Somanath Tripathy

In Byzantine collaborative learning, $n$ clients in a peer-to-peer network collectively learn a model without sharing their data by exchanging and aggregating stochastic gradient estimates. Byzantine clients can prevent others from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Mélanie Cambus , Darya Melnyk , Tijana Milentijević , Stefan Schmid

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

Byzantine-robust federated learning aims to enable a service provider to learn an accurate global model when a bounded number of clients are malicious. The key idea of existing Byzantine-robust federated learning methods is that the service…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-04-13 Xiaoyu Cao , Minghong Fang , Jia Liu , Neil Zhenqiang Gong

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

Federated learning (FL) has enabled training models collaboratively from multiple data owning parties without sharing their data. Given the privacy regulations of patient's healthcare data, learning-based systems in healthcare can greatly…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-09-18 Matei Grama , Maria Musat , Luis Muñoz-González , Jonathan Passerat-Palmbach , Daniel Rueckert , Amir Alansary

Federated learning is an efficient machine learning tool for dealing with heterogeneous big data and privacy protection. Federated learning methods with regularization can control the level of communications between the central and local…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Langming Liu , Dingxuan Zhou