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This paper presents a resilient distributed algorithm for solving a system of linear algebraic equations over a multi-agent network in the presence of Byzantine agents capable of arbitrarily introducing untrustworthy information in…

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Modular methods to transform Byzantine consensus protocols into ones that are fast and communication efficient in the common cases are presented. Small and short protocol segments called layers are custom designed to optimize performance in…

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In this paper, we propose a class of robust stochastic subgradient methods for distributed learning from heterogeneous datasets at presence of an unknown number of Byzantine workers. The Byzantine workers, during the learning process, may…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-12 Liping Li , Wei Xu , Tianyi Chen , Georgios B. Giannakis , Qing Ling

We study local stochastic gradient descent methods for solving federated optimization over a network of agents communicating indirectly through a centralized coordinator. We are interested in the Byzantine setting where there is a subset of…

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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…

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Distributed learning has emerged as a leading paradigm for training large machine learning models. However, in real-world scenarios, participants may be unreliable or malicious, posing a significant challenge to the integrity and accuracy…

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Decentralized learning has gained great popularity to improve learning efficiency and preserve data privacy. Each computing node makes equal contribution to collaboratively learn a Deep Learning model. The elimination of centralized…

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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

How to achieve precise distributed optimization despite unknown attacks, especially the Byzantine attacks, is one of the critical challenges for multiagent systems. This paper addresses a distributed resilient optimization for linear…

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This paper addresses the problem of non-Bayesian learning over multi-agent networks, where agents repeatedly collect partially informative observations about an unknown state of the world, and try to collaboratively learn the true state. We…

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In Byzantine collaborative learning, $n$ clients in a peer-to-peer network collectively learn a model without sharing their data by exchanging and aggregating stochastic gradient estimates. Byzantine clients can prevent others from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Mélanie Cambus , Darya Melnyk , Tijana Milentijević , Stefan Schmid

A plethora of modern machine learning tasks require the utilization of large-scale distributed clusters as a critical component of the training pipeline. However, abnormal Byzantine behavior of the worker nodes can derail the training and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Konstantinos Konstantinidis , Namrata Vaswani , Aditya Ramamoorthy

Byzantine fault-tolerant (BFT) web services provide critical integrity guarantees for distributed applications but face significant latency challenges that hinder interactive user experiences. We propose a novel two-layer architecture that…

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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

This paper investigates the problem of decentralized resource allocation in the presence of Byzantine attacks. Such attacks occur when an unknown number of malicious agents send random or carefully crafted messages to their neighbors,…

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This paper proposes a belief-updating scheme in a human-machine collaborative decision-making network to combat Byzantine attacks. A hierarchical framework is used to realize the network where local decisions from physical sensors act as…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-27 Chen Quan , Baocheng Geng , Yunghsiang S. Han , Pramod K. Varshney

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

Byzantine-robust federated learning aims at mitigating Byzantine failures during the federated training process, where malicious participants may upload arbitrary local updates to the central server to degrade the performance of the global…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-15 Shenghui Li , Edith C. -H. Ngai , Thiemo Voigt

The success of an agent mediated e-market system lies in the underlying reputation management system to improve the quality of services in an information asymmetric e-market. Reputation provides an operatable metric for establishing…

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