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We study a distributed computation problem in the presence of Byzantine workers where a central node wishes to solve a task that is divided into independent sub-tasks, each of which needs to be solved correctly. The distributed computation…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Aayush Rajesh , Nikhil Karamchandani , Vinod M. Prabhakaran

Since the mid-1980s it has been known that Byzantine Agreement can be solved with probability 1 asynchronously, even against an omniscient, computationally unbounded adversary that can adaptively \emph{corrupt} up to $f<n/3$ parties.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-07-01 Shang-En Huang , Seth Pettie , Leqi Zhu

In stable matching, one must find a matching between two sets of agents, commonly men and women, or job applicants and job positions. Each agent has a preference ordering over who they want to be matched with. Moreover a matching is said to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Andrei Constantinescu , Marc Dufay , Diana Ghinea , Roger Wattenhofer

We study the problem of distributed hypothesis testing over a network of mobile agents with limited communication and sensing ranges to infer the true hypothesis collaboratively. In particular, we consider a scenario where there is an…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-20 Bo Wu , Steven Carr , Suda Bharadwaj , Zhe Xu , Ufuk Topcu

We consider game-theoretically secure distributed protocols for coalition games that approximate the Shapley value with small multiplicative error. Since all known existing approximation algorithms for the Shapley value are randomized, it…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-12-30 T-H. Hubert Chan , Qipeng Kuang , Quan Xue

In this paper, the problem of distributed detection in tree networks in the presence of Byzantines is considered. Closed form expressions for optimal attacking strategies that minimize the miss detection error exponent at the fusion center…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2014-10-23 Bhavya Kailkhura , Swastik Brahma , Berkan Dulek , Yunghsiang S Han , Pramod K. Varshney

In this paper, we study the problem of \emph{Byzantine Agreement with predictions}. Along with a proposal, each process is also given a prediction, i.e., extra information which is not guaranteed to be true. For example, one might imagine…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Naama Ben-David , Muhammad Ayaz Dzulfikar , Faith Ellen , Seth Gilbert

The dominant theories of rational choice assume logical omniscience. That is, they assume that when facing a decision problem, an agent can perform all relevant computations and determine the truth value of all relevant logical/mathematical…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-07-12 Caspar Oesterheld , Abram Demski , Vincent Conitzer

It has been known since the early 1980s that Byzantine Agreement in the full information, asynchronous model is impossible to solve deterministically against even one crash fault [FLP85], but that it can be solved with probability 1…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Shang-En Huang , Seth Pettie , Leqi Zhu

This report considers the problem of Byzantine fault-tolerance in multi-agent collaborative optimization. In this problem, each agent has a local cost function. The goal of a collaborative optimization algorithm is to compute a minimum of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-04-01 Nirupam Gupta , Nitin H. Vaidya

In this paper, we consider the problem of generating fair randomness in a deterministic, multi-agent context (for instance, a decentralised game built on a blockchain). The existing state-of-the-art approaches are either susceptible to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-01-21 Daniel Kraft

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…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-04-12 Sourav Sahoo , Anand Gokhale , Rachel Kalpana Kalaimani

In this paper, we consider the problem of distributed Bayesian detection in the presence of Byzantines in the network. It is assumed that a fraction of the nodes in the network are compromised and reprogrammed by an adversary to transmit…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-07-17 Bhavya Kailkhura , Yunghsiang S. Han , Swastik Brahma , Pramod K. Varshney

Byzantine reliable broadcast is a fundamental primitive in distributed systems that allows a set of processes to agree on a message broadcast by a dedicated process, even when some of them are malicious (Byzantine). It guarantees that no…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Veronika Anikina , João Paulo Bezerra , Petr Kuznetsov , Liron Schiff , Stefan Schmid

Distributed multi-task learning provides significant advantages in multi-agent networks with heterogeneous data sources where agents aim to learn distinct but correlated models simultaneously.However, distributed algorithms for learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-11 Jiani Li , Waseem Abbas , Xenofon Koutsoukos

When robots share the same workspace with other intelligent agents (e.g., other robots or humans), they must be able to reason about the behaviors of their neighboring agents while accomplishing the designated tasks. In practice,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Junhong Xu , Durgakant Pushp , Kai Yin , Lantao Liu

Byzantine agreement (BA) is a distributed consensus problem where $n$ processors want to reach agreement on an $\ell$-bit message or value, but up to $t$ of the processors are dishonest or faulty. The challenge of this BA problem lies in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Jinyuan Chen

We consider an optimal partition of resources (e.g. consumers) between several agents (e.g. experts), given utility functions ("wisdoms") for the agents and their capacities. This problem is a variant of optimal transport…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-04-07 Gershon Wolansky

We study the distributed function computation problem with $k$ users of which at most $s$ may be controlled by an adversary and characterize the set of functions of the sources the decoder can reconstruct robustly in the following sense --…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Hari Krishnan P. Anilkumar , Neha Sangwan , Varun Narayanan , Vinod M. Prabhakaran

This paper presents a resilient distributed algorithm for solving a system of linear algebraic equations over a multi-agent network in the presence of Byzantine agents capable of arbitrarily introducing untrustworthy information in…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-04 Jingxuan Zhu , Alvaro Velasquez , Ji Liu