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Existing anomaly and intrusion detection schemes of wireless sensor networks have mainly focused on the detection of intrusions. Once the intrusion is detected, an alerts or claims will be generated. However, any unidentified malicious…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2009-12-31 Riaz Ahmed Shaikh , Hassan Jameel , Brian J. d Auriol , Heejo Lee , Sungyoung Lee , Young-Jae Song

Consensus optimization enables autonomous agents to solve joint tasks through peer-to-peer exchanges alone. Classical decentralized gradient descent is appealing for its minimal state but fails to achieve exact consensus with fixed…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-02 Hong Wang

The gossip-based distributed algorithms are widely used to solve decentralized optimization problems in various multi-agent applications, while they are generally vulnerable to data injection attacks by internal malicious agents as each…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Sissi Xiaoxiao Wu , Gangqiang Li , Shengli Zhang , Xiaohui Lin

This paper studies system stability and performance of multi-agent systems in the context of consensus problems over wireless multiple-access channels (MAC). We propose a consensus algorithm that exploits the broadcast property of the…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-04-30 Fabio Molinari , Sławomir Stańczak , Jörg Raisch

This paper addresses novel consensus problems for multi-agent systems operating in an unreliable environment where adversaries are spreading. The dynamics of the adversarial spreading processes follows the susceptible-infected-recovered…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-12 Yuan Wang , Hideaki Ishii , François Bonnet , Xavier Défago

This paper considers a sensor attack and fault detection problem for linear cyber-physical systems, which are subject to system noise that can obey an unknown light-tailed distribution. We propose a new threshold-based detection mechanism…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2020-09-08 Dan Li , Sonia Martínez

It is well established that neural networks are vulnerable to adversarial examples, which are almost imperceptible on human vision and can cause the deep models misbehave. Such phenomenon may lead to severely inestimable consequences in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-09 Dengpan Ye , Chuanxi Chen , Changrui Liu , Hao Wang , Shunzhi Jiang

We theoretically analyse the limits of robustness to test-time adversarial and noisy examples in classification. Our work focuses on deriving bounds which uniformly apply to all classifiers (i.e all measurable functions from features to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-11-13 Elvis Dohmatob

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated strong capabilities as autonomous agents through tool use, planning, and decision-making abilities, leading to their widespread adoption across diverse tasks. As task complexity grows,…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Ishan Kavathekar , Hemang Jain , Ameya Rathod , Ponnurangam Kumaraguru , Tanuja Ganu

Over-the-air federated learning (OTA-FL) improves communication efficiency by exploiting the superposition property of wireless channels, but this same property also creates a critical security vulnerability: the parameter server (PS)…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Xiaoyan Ma , Seohyun Lee , Taejoon Kim , Christopher G. Brinton

Machine learning (ML) models are increasingly deployed in cybersecurity applications such as phishing detection and network intrusion prevention. However, these models remain vulnerable to adversarial perturbations small, deliberate input…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Mona Rajhans , Vishal Khawarey

Gradient tracking methods have emerged as one of the most popular approaches for solving decentralized optimization problems over networks. In this setting, each node in the network has a portion of the global objective function, and the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-11-27 Albert S. Berahas , Raghu Bollapragada , Shagun Gupta

In this paper, we study resilient distributed diffusion for multi-task estimation in the presence of adversaries where networked agents must estimate distinct but correlated states of interest by processing streaming data. We show that in…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2020-03-25 Jiani Li , Waseem Abbas , Xenofon Koutsoukos

An important role carried out by cyber-security experts is the assessment of proposed computer systems, during their design stage. This task is fraught with difficulties and uncertainty, making the knowledge provided by human experts…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-08-31 Simon Miller , Christian Wagner , Uwe Aickelin , Jonathan M. Garibaldi

One salient feature of cooperative formation tracking is its distributed nature that relies on localized control and information sharing over a sparse communication network. That is, a distributed control manner could be prone to malicious…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-07 Zhi Feng , Guoqiang Hu

This paper considers the problem of multi-agent distributed optimization. In this problem, there are multiple agents in the system, and each agent only knows its local cost function. The objective for the agents is to collectively compute a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-03-31 Kushal Chakrabarti , Nirupam Gupta , Nikhil Chopra

A resilient distributed algorithm is proposed to solve the distributed resource allocation problem of a first-order nonlinear multi-agent system who is subject to false data injection (FDI) attacks. An intelligent attacker injects false…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-12-07 Xin Cai , Xinyuan Nan , Binpeng Gao

As powerful Large Language Models (LLMs) are now widely used for numerous practical applications, their safety is of critical importance. While alignment techniques have significantly improved overall safety, LLMs remain vulnerable to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Samuel Jacob Chacko , Sajib Biswas , Chashi Mahiul Islam , Fatema Tabassum Liza , Xiuwen Liu

Scientific collaborations benefit from collaborative learning of distributed sources, but remain difficult to achieve when data are sensitive. In recent years, privacy preserving techniques have been widely studied to analyze distributed…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-06-30 Guanhong Miao , A. Adam Ding , Samuel S. Wu

Resonance is a well-known phenomenon that happens in systems with second order dynamics. In this paper we address the fundamental question of making a network robust to signal being periodically pumped into it at or near a resonant…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-01-30 Alp Sahin , Nicolas Kozachuk , Rick S. Blum , Subhrajit Bhattacharya