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Federated learning provides a communication-efficient and privacy-preserving training process by enabling learning statistical models with massive participants while keeping their data in local clients. However, standard federated learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-15 Shenghui Li , Edith Ngai , Fanghua Ye , Thiemo Voigt

In this paper, we propose a first-order distributed optimization algorithm that is provably robust to Byzantine failures-arbitrary and potentially adversarial behavior, where all the participating agents are prone to failure. We model each…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-07-27 Berkay Turan , Cesar A. Uribe , Hoi-To Wai , Mahnoosh Alizadeh

This paper jointly considers privacy preservation and Byzantine-robustness in decentralized learning. In a decentralized network, honest-but-curious agents faithfully follow the prescribed algorithm, but expect to infer their neighbors'…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Haoxiang Ye , Heng Zhu , Qing Ling

Gradient-based training in federated learning is known to be vulnerable to faulty/malicious clients, which are often modeled as Byzantine clients. To this end, previous work either makes use of auxiliary data at parameter server to verify…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Jian Xu , Shao-Lun Huang , Linqi Song , Tian Lan

This paper studies distributed online learning under Byzantine attacks. The performance of an online learning algorithm is often characterized by (adversarial) regret, which evaluates the quality of one-step-ahead decision-making when an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-06 Xingrong Dong , Zhaoxian Wu , Qing Ling , Zhi Tian

We consider distributed optimization under Byzantine attacks in the presence of $(L_0,L_1)$-smoothness, a generalization of standard $L$-smoothness that captures functions with state-dependent gradient Lipschitz constants. We propose…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Arman Bolatov , Samuel Horváth , Martin Takáč , Eduard Gorbunov

Identifying clients with similar objectives and learning a model-per-cluster is an intuitive and interpretable approach to personalization in federated learning. However, doing so with provable and optimal guarantees has remained an open…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Mariel Werner , Lie He , Michael Jordan , Martin Jaggi , Sai Praneeth Karimireddy

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

Federated Learning (FL) enables collaborative model training across distributed medical institutions while preserving patient privacy, but remains vulnerable to Byzantine attacks and statistical heterogeneity. We present OptiGradTrust, a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Mohammad Karami , Fatemeh Ghassemi , Hamed Kebriaei , Hamid Azadegan

Adversarial attacks attempt to disrupt the training, retraining and utilizing of artificial intelligence and machine learning models in large-scale distributed machine learning systems. This causes security risks on its prediction outcome.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Yusen Wu , Hao Chen , Xin Wang , Chao Liu , Phuong Nguyen , Yelena Yesha

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

Distributed learning has many computational benefits but is vulnerable to attacks from a subset of devices transmitting incorrect information. This paper investigates Byzantine-resilient algorithms in a decentralized setting, where devices…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Renaud Gaucher , Aymeric Dieuleveut , Hadrien Hendrikx

Federated Learning (FL) trains a global model across decentralized clients while preserving data privacy, but at scale it is vulnerable to malicious updates. Byzantine-resilient aggregation methods such as MultiKrum score gradients against…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Andras Ferenczi , Sutapa Samanta , Dagen Wang , Jason Qizhe Qin

Federated learning (FL) has gained significant attention for enabling decentralized training on edge networks without exposing raw data. However, FL models remain susceptible to adversarial attacks and performance degradation in non-IID…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-10 Yu Qiao , Apurba Adhikary , Huy Q. Le , Eui-Nam Huh , Zhu Han , Choong Seon Hong

State-of-the-art machine learning models are routinely trained on large-scale distributed clusters. Crucially, such systems can be compromised when some of the computing devices exhibit abnormal (Byzantine) behavior and return arbitrary…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Konstantinos Konstantinidis , Aditya Ramamoorthy

Federated Learning (FL) enables decentralized model training without sharing raw data. However, it remains vulnerable to Byzantine attacks, which can compromise the aggregation of locally updated parameters at the central server.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Shiyuan Zuo , Rongfei Fan , Cheng Zhan , Jie Xu , Puning Zhao , Han Hu

Byzantine robustness is an essential feature of algorithms for certain distributed optimization problems, typically encountered in collaborative/federated learning. These problems are usually huge-scale, implying that communication…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-12 Ahmad Rammal , Kaja Gruntkowska , Nikita Fedin , Eduard Gorbunov , Peter Richtárik

Asynchronous distributed machine learning solutions have proven very effective so far, but always assuming perfectly functioning workers. In practice, some of the workers can however exhibit Byzantine behavior, caused by hardware failures,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-07-10 Georgios Damaskinos , El Mahdi El Mhamdi , Rachid Guerraoui , Rhicheek Patra , Mahsa Taziki

We present ByzFL, an open-source Python library for developing and benchmarking robust federated learning (FL) algorithms. ByzFL provides a unified and extensible framework that includes implementations of state-of-the-art robust…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Marc González , Rachid Guerraoui , Rafael Pinot , Geovani Rizk , John Stephan , François Taïani

Federated Learning (FL) represents a promising approach to typical privacy concerns associated with centralized Machine Learning (ML) deployments. Despite its well-known advantages, FL is vulnerable to security attacks such as Byzantine…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-16 Enrique Mármol Campos , Aurora González Vidal , José Luis Hernández Ramos , Antonio Skarmeta