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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

Decentralized learning, which facilitates joint model training across geographically scattered agents, has gained significant attention in the field of signal and information processing in recent years. While the optimization errors of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Haoxiang Ye , Tao Sun , Qing Ling

Byzantine resilience emerged as a prominent topic within the distributed machine learning community. Essentially, the goal is to enhance distributed optimization algorithms, such as distributed SGD, in a way that guarantees convergence…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-25 Sadegh Farhadkhani , Rachid Guerraoui , Nirupam Gupta , Rafael Pinot , John Stephan

With the increasing importance of machine learning, the privacy and security of training data have become critical. Federated learning, which stores data in distributed nodes and shares only model parameters, has gained significant…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Yang Li , Chunhe Xia , Chang Li , Tianbo Wang

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

Given a set of robots with arbitrary initial location and no agreement on a global coordinate system, convergence requires that all robots asymptotically approach the exact same, but unknown beforehand, location. Robots are oblivious-- they…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2009-05-26 Zohir Bouzid , Maria Potop-Butucaru , Sébastien Tixeuil

We propose a novel relaxation of the classic asynchronous network model, called the random asynchronous model, which removes adversarial message scheduling while preserving unbounded message delays and Byzantine faults. Instead of an…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-05-27 George Danezis , Jovan Komatovic , Lefteris Kokoris-Kogias , Alberto Sonnino , Igor Zablotchi

Privacy and Byzantine resilience (BR) are two crucial requirements of modern-day distributed machine learning. The two concepts have been extensively studied individually but the question of how to combine them effectively remains…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-06 Rachid Guerraoui , Nirupam Gupta , Rafael Pinot , Sebastien Rouault , John Stephan

While being an effective framework of learning a shared model across multiple edge devices, federated learning (FL) is generally vulnerable to Byzantine attacks from adversarial edge devices. While existing works on FL mitigate such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Youngjoon Lee , Sangwoo Park , Joonhyuk Kang

This paper deals with distributed finite-sum optimization for learning over networks in the presence of malicious Byzantine attacks. To cope with such attacks, most resilient approaches so far combine stochastic gradient descent (SGD) with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Zhaoxian Wu , Qing Ling , Tianyi Chen , Georgios B. Giannakis

Byzantine agreement is a fundamental problem in fault-tolerant distributed computing that has been studied intensively for the last four decades. Much of the research has focused on a static Byzantine adversary, where the adversary is…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Fabien Dufoulon , Gopal Pandurangan

In Byzantine agreement with predictions each process begins with an input value and some (unreliable) prediction bits. Recently, it has been shown that with \emph{classification predictions} -- where the predictions predict each process to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Muhammad Ayaz Dzulfikar , Seth Gilbert

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

The Byzantine agreement problem is considered to be a core problem in distributed systems. For example, Byzantine agreement is needed to build a blockchain, a totally ordered log of records. Blockchains are asynchronous distributed systems,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-05-27 Ye Wang , Roger Wattenhofer

Federated Learning (FL) emerges as a distributed machine learning approach that addresses privacy concerns by training AI models locally on devices. Decentralized Federated Learning (DFL) extends the FL paradigm by eliminating the central…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Diego Cajaraville-Aboy , Ana Fernández-Vilas , Rebeca P. Díaz-Redondo , Manuel Fernández-Veiga

In this paper, we propose BR-MTRL, a Byzantine-resilient multi-task representation learning framework that handles faulty or malicious agents. Our approach leverages representation learning through a shared neural network model, where all…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Tuan Le , Shana Moothedath

In federated learning, most existing robust aggregation rules (AGRs) combat Byzantine attacks in the IID setting, where client data is assumed to be independent and identically distributed. In this paper, we address label skewness, a more…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Wenxuan Bao , Jun Wu , Jingrui He

In this paper, we study Byzantine-resilient federated online learning for Gaussian process regression (GPR). We develop a Byzantine-resilient federated GPR algorithm that allows a cloud and a group of agents to collaboratively learn a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Xu Zhang , Zhenyuan Yuan , Minghui Zhu

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

We address the problem of reaching consensus in the presence of Byzantine faults. In particular, we are interested in investigating the impact of messages relay on the network connectivity for a correct iterative approximate Byzantine…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-04-17 Lili Su , Nitin Vaidya