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Collaboration among multiple large language model (LLM) agents is a promising approach to overcome inherent limitations of single-agent systems, such as hallucinations and single points of failure. As LLM agents are increasingly deployed on…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Yongrae Jo , Chanik Park

Large language model (LLM) agents increasingly collaborate over peer-to-peer networks to improve their reliability. However, these same interactions can also become a source of vulnerability, as unreliable or Byzantine agents may sway…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Haejoon Lee , Vincent-Daniel Yun , Hyeonho Oh , Dimitra Panagou , Sai Praneeth Karimireddy

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

In this paper, we consider a resilient consensus problem for the multi-agent network where some of the agents are subject to Byzantine attacks and may transmit erroneous state values to their neighbors. In particular, we develop an…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Liwei Yuan , Hideaki Ishii

Ensuring the reliability of agent architectures and effectively identifying problematic agents when failures occur are crucial challenges in multi-agent systems (MAS). Advances in large language models (LLMs) have established LLM-based…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Lifan Zheng , Jiawei Chen , Qinghong Yin , Jingyuan Zhang , Xinyi Zeng , Yu Tian

This paper studies the problem of cooperative control of heterogeneous multi-agent systems (MASs) against Byzantine attacks. The agent affected by Byzantine attacks sends different wrong values to all neighbors while applying wrong input…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-28 Xin Gong , Yiwen Liang , Yukang Cui , Shi Liang , Tingwen Huang

Recent advances in generative AI have enabled sophisticated multi-agent architectures for healthcare, where large language models power collaborative clinical decision-making. However, these distributed systems face critical challenges in…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Nihir Chadderwala

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

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

Large language models are increasingly deployed as cooperating agents, yet their behavior in adversarial consensus settings has not been systematically studied. We evaluate LLM-based agents on a Byzantine consensus game over scalar values…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Frédéric Berdoz , Leonardo Rugli , Roger Wattenhofer

This work considers resilient, cooperative state estimation in unreliable multi-agent networks. A network of agents aims to collaboratively estimate the value of an unknown vector parameter, while an {\em unknown} subset of agents suffer…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-10-25 Lili Su , Shahin Shahrampour

Machine Learning (ML) solutions are nowadays distributed, according to the so-called server/worker architecture. One server holds the model parameters while several workers train the model. Clearly, such architecture is prone to various…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-06-03 El-Mahdi El-Mhamdi , Rachid Guerraoui , Arsany Guirguis , Lê Nguyên Hoang , Sébastien Rouault

This paper considers a distributed optimization problem in the presence of Byzantine agents capable of introducing untrustworthy information into the communication network. A resilient distributed subgradient algorithm is proposed based on…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-03-22 Jingxuan Zhu , Yixuan Lin , Alvaro Velasquez , Ji Liu

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

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

This paper considers the multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) problem for a networked (peer-to-peer) system in the presence of Byzantine agents. We build on an existing distributed $Q$-learning algorithm, and allow certain agents in…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-08 Yijing Xie , Shaoshuai Mou , Shreyas Sundaram

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

We consider the following problem: two nodes want to reliably communicate in a dynamic multihop network where some nodes have been compromised, and may have a totally arbitrary and unpredictable behavior. These nodes are called Byzantine.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-02-17 Alexandre Maurer , Sébastien Tixeuil , Xavier Défago

This paper studies the distributed multi-agent resilient optimization problem under the f-total Byzantine attacks. Compared with the previous work on Byzantineresilient multi-agent exact optimization problems, we do not require the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-03-29 Yang Zhai , Zhi-Wei Liu , Dong Yue , Songlin Hu , Xiangpeng Xie

We study Byzantine-resilient distributed multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL), where agents must collaboratively learn optimal value functions over a compromised communication network. Existing resilient MARL approaches typically…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Haejoon Lee , Dimitra Panagou
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