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We propose three new robust aggregation rules for distributed synchronous Stochastic Gradient Descent~(SGD) under a general Byzantine failure model. The attackers can arbitrarily manipulate the data transferred between the servers and the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-03-28 Cong Xie , Oluwasanmi Koyejo , Indranil Gupta

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

Adversarial attacks pose a major challenge to distributed learning systems, prompting the development of numerous robust learning methods. However, most existing approaches suffer from the curse of dimensionality, i.e. the error increases…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Wenyu Liu , Tianqiang Huang , Pengfei Zhang , Zong Ke , Minghui Min , Puning Zhao

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) allows multiple clients to collaboratively train a global machine learning model through a server, without exchanging their private training data. However, the decentralized aspect of FL makes it susceptible to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-01-30 Minghong Fang , Seyedsina Nabavirazavi , Zhuqing Liu , Wei Sun , Sundararaja Sitharama Iyengar , Haibo Yang

We propose two novel stochastic gradient descent algorithms, ByGARS and ByGARS++, for distributed machine learning in the presence of any number of Byzantine adversaries. In these algorithms, reputation scores of workers are computed using…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-09 Jayanth Regatti , Hao Chen , Abhishek Gupta

Federated learning enables training collaborative machine learning models at scale with many participants whilst preserving the privacy of their datasets. Standard federated learning techniques are vulnerable to Byzantine failures, biased…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-09-12 Luis Muñoz-González , Kenneth T. Co , Emil C. Lupu

One of the most common defense strategies against Byzantine clients in federated learning (FL) is to employ a robust aggregator mechanism that makes the training more resilient. While many existing Byzantine robust aggregators provide…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-10 Joseph Geo Benjamin , Mothilal Asokan , Mohammad Yaqub , Karthik Nandakumar

Network coding is an elegant technique where, instead of simply relaying the packets of information they receive, the nodes of a network are allowed to combine \emph{several} packets together for transmission and this technique can be used…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2013-03-12 Jen-Yeu Chen , Yi-ying Tseng

Byzantine-robust distributed optimization relies on robust aggregation rules to mitigate the influence of malicious Byzantine workers. Despite the proliferation of such rules, a unified convergence analysis framework that accommodates…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-14 Boyuan Ruan , Xiaoyu Wang , Ya-Feng Liu

Robust distributed learning algorithms aim to maintain reliable performance despite the presence of misbehaving workers. Such misbehaviors are commonly modeled as Byzantine failures, allowing arbitrarily corrupted communication, or as data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Thomas Boudou , Batiste Le Bars , Nirupam Gupta , Aurélien Bellet

To improve the resilience of distributed training to worst-case, or Byzantine node failures, several recent approaches have replaced gradient averaging with robust aggregation methods. Such techniques can have high computational costs,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-10 Shashank Rajput , Hongyi Wang , Zachary Charles , Dimitris Papailiopoulos

In decentralized machine learning, different devices communicate in a peer-to-peer manner to collaboratively learn from each other's data. Such approaches are vulnerable to misbehaving (or Byzantine) devices. We introduce F-RG, a general…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-12 Renaud Gaucher , Aymeric Dieuleveut , Hadrien Hendrikx

In this work, we consider the resilience of distributed algorithms based on stochastic gradient descent (SGD) in distributed learning with potentially Byzantine attackers, who could send arbitrary information to the parameter server to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-11 Haibo Yang , Xin Zhang , Minghong Fang , Jia Liu

We study the problem of Byzantine fault tolerance in a distributed optimization setting, where there is a group of $N$ agents communicating with a trusted centralized coordinator. Among these agents, there is a subset of $f$ agents that may…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-12-19 Amit Dutta , Thinh T. Doan , Jeffrey H. Reed

Federated learning (FL) enables collaborative model training across distributed clients without sharing raw data, but its robustness is threatened by Byzantine behaviors such as data and model poisoning. Existing defenses face fundamental…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Usama Zafar , André M. H. Teixeira , Salman Toor

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 tackle the problem of Byzantine errors in distributed gradient descent within the Byzantine-resilient gradient coding framework. Our proposed solution can recover the exact full gradient in the presence of $s$ malicious workers with a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-31 Shreyas Jain , Luis Maßny , Christoph Hofmeister , Eitan Yaakobi , Rawad Bitar

Byzantine-robust learning has emerged as a prominent fault-tolerant distributed machine learning framework. However, most techniques focus on the static setting, wherein the identity of Byzantine workers remains unchanged throughout the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Ron Dorfman , Naseem Yehya , Kfir Y. Levy

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
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