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Service replication distributes an application over many processes for tolerating faults, attacks, and misbehavior among a subset of the processes. The established state-machine replication paradigm inherently requires the application to be…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-12-20 Christian Cachin , Simon Schubert , Marko Vukolić

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

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 (FL) enables heterogeneous clients to collaboratively train a shared model without centralizing their raw data, offering an inherent level of privacy. However, gradients and model updates can still leak sensitive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Rustem Islamov , Grigory Malinovsky , Alexander Gaponov , Aurelien Lucchi , Peter Richtárik , Eduard Gorbunov

Detection and mitigation of Byzantine behaviors in a decentralized learning setting is a daunting task, especially when the data distribution at the users is heterogeneous. As our main contribution, we propose Basil, a fast and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-07 Ahmed Roushdy Elkordy , Saurav Prakash , A. Salman Avestimehr

Numerous distributed tasks have to be handled in a setting where a fraction of nodes behaves Byzantine, that is, deviates arbitrarily from the intended protocol. Resilient, deterministic protocols rely on the detection of majorities to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-02-10 Philipp Schneider

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

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

Self-stabilization is a versatile approach to fault-tolerance since it permits a distributed system to recover from any transient fault that arbitrarily corrupts the contents of all memories in the system. Byzantine tolerance is an…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2010-05-31 Swan Dubois , Toshimitsu Masuzawa , Sébastien Tixeuil

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

This paper proposes a Byzantine-resilient consensus framework that simultaneously pursues two tightly coupled objectives: actively identifying Byzantine agents and guaranteeing resilient consensus among normal agents. Unlike existing…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-13 Rui Huang , Changxin Liu , Wen-Hua Chen , Yang Shi

This paper considers the problem of Byzantine fault-tolerance in distributed multi-agent optimization. In this problem, each agent has a local cost function, and in the fault-free case, the goal is to design a distributed algorithm that…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-05-22 Shuo Liu , Nirupam Gupta , Nitin H. Vaidya

Distributed optimization with open collaboration is a popular field since it provides an opportunity for small groups/companies/universities, and individuals to jointly solve huge-scale problems. However, standard optimization algorithms…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-03-09 Nikita Fedin , Eduard Gorbunov

Jointly addressing Byzantine attacks and privacy leakage in distributed machine learning (DML) has become an important issue. A common strategy involves integrating Byzantine-resilient aggregation rules with differential privacy mechanisms.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Bing Liu , Chengcheng Zhao , Li Chai , Peng Cheng , Yaonan Wang

Machine Learning (ML) solutions are nowadays distributed, according to the so-called server/worker architecture. One server holds the model parameters while several workers train the model. Clearly, such architecture is prone to various…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-06-03 El-Mahdi El-Mhamdi , Rachid Guerraoui , Arsany Guirguis , Lê Nguyên Hoang , Sébastien Rouault

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

We investigate the distributed online economic dispatch problem for power systems with time-varying coupled inequality constraints. The problem is formulated as a distributed online optimization problem in a multi-agent system. At each time…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-25 Yingjie Zhou , Xiaoqian Wang , Tao Li

This paper proposes the first implementation of an atomic storage tolerant to mobile Byzantine agents. Our implementation is designed for the round-based synchronous model where the set of Byzantine nodes changes from round to round. In…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-05-27 Silvia Bonomi , Antonella Del Pozzo , Maria Potop-Butucaru

Inherent client drifts caused by data heterogeneity, as well as vulnerability to Byzantine attacks within the system, hinder effective model training and convergence in federated learning (FL). This paper presents two new frameworks, named…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Bingnan Xiao , Feng Zhu , Jingjing Zhang , Wei Ni , Xin Wang

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