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In this paper, we investigate the problem of decentralized online resource allocation in the presence of Byzantine attacks. In this problem setting, some agents may be compromised due to external manipulations or internal failures, causing…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-27 Runhua Wang , Qing Ling , Hoi-To Wai , Zhi Tian

Federated learning (FL) is a privacy-friendly type of machine learning where devices locally train a model on their private data and typically communicate model updates with a server. In decentralized FL (DFL), peers communicate model…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Joost Verbraeken , Martijn de Vos , Johan Pouwelse

Federated recommendation systems can provide good performance without collecting users' private data, making them attractive. However, they are susceptible to low-cost poisoning attacks that can degrade their performance. In this paper, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-16 Chen Chen , Jingfeng Zhang , Anthony K. H. Tung , Mohan Kankanhalli , Gang Chen

Decentralized machine learning (DL) has been receiving an increasing interest recently due to the elimination of a single point of failure, present in Federated learning setting. Yet, it is threatened by the looming threat of Byzantine…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Ali Reza Ghavamipour , Benjamin Zi Hao Zhao , Oguzhan Ersoy , Fatih Turkmen

Federated Learning (FL) has become a powerful technique for training Machine Learning (ML) models in a decentralized manner, preserving the privacy of the training datasets involved. However, the decentralized nature of FL limits the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Enrique Mármol Campos , Aurora González Vidal , José Luis Hernández Ramos , Antonio Skarmeta

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

We study a recently proposed large-scale distributed learning paradigm, namely Federated Learning, where the worker machines are end users' own devices. Statistical and computational challenges arise in Federated Learning particularly in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-11 Avishek Ghosh , Justin Hong , Dong Yin , Kannan Ramchandran

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

Modern distributed systems face growing security threats, as attackers continuously enhance their skills and vulnerabilities span across the entire system stack, from hardware to the application layer. In the system design phase, fault…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Silvia Bonomi , Giovanni Farina , Roy Friedman , Eviatar B. Procaccia , Sebastien Tixeuil

This paper investigates the robustness of over-the-air federated learning to Byzantine attacks. The simple averaging of the model updates via over-the-air computation makes the learning task vulnerable to random or intended modifications of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-24 Houssem Sifaou , Geoffrey Ye Li

Byzantine machine learning (ML) aims to ensure the resilience of distributed learning algorithms to misbehaving (or Byzantine) machines. Although this problem received significant attention, prior works often assume the data held by the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-06 Youssef Allouah , Sadegh Farhadkhani , Rachid Guerraoui , Nirupam Gupta , Rafael Pinot , John Stephan

This paper focuses on the problem of adversarial attacks from Byzantine machines in a Federated Learning setting where non-Byzantine machines can be partitioned into disjoint clusters. In this setting, non-Byzantine machines in the same…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-06-02 Zhixu Tao , Kun Yang , Sanjeev R. Kulkarni

This paper aims to solve a distributed learning problem under Byzantine attacks. In the underlying distributed system, a number of unknown but malicious workers (termed as Byzantine workers) can send arbitrary messages to the master and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-15 Feng Lin , Weiyu Li , Qing Ling

Federated Learning (FL) is increasingly applied in sectors like healthcare, finance, and IoT, enabling collaborative model training while safeguarding user privacy. However, FL systems are susceptible to Byzantine adversaries that inject…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Reek Das , Biplab Kanti Sen

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

The proliferation of Internet of Things devices in critical infrastructure has created unprecedented cybersecurity challenges, necessitating collaborative threat detection mechanisms that preserve data privacy while maintaining robustness…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Milad Rahmati , Nima Rahmati

Federated Learning (FL) enables multiple clients to collaboratively train models without sharing raw data, but it is highly vulnerable to Byzantine attacks. Existing robust approaches can neutralize these threats but incur substantial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Shiyuan Zuo , Jiashuo Li , Rongfei Fan , Han Hu , Jie Xu

Traditional statistical methods need to be updated to work with modern distributed data storage paradigms. A common approach is the split-and-conquer framework, which involves learning models on local machines and averaging their parameter…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-04-22 Qiong Zhang , Yan Shuo Tan , Jiahua Chen

Federated learning (FL), an emerging distributed machine learning paradigm, has been applied to various privacy-preserving scenarios. However, due to its distributed nature, FL faces two key issues: the non-independent and identical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-18 Youpeng Li , Xinda Wang , Fuxun Yu , Lichao Sun , Wenbin Zhang , Xuyu Wang

Ensuring resilience to Byzantine clients while maintaining the privacy of the clients' data is a fundamental challenge in federated learning (FL). When the clients' data is homogeneous, suitable countermeasures were studied from an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Maximilian Egger , Rawad Bitar
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