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In this paper we present an open source, fully asynchronous, leaderless algorithm for reaching consensus in the presence of Byzantine faults in an asynchronous network. We prove the algorithm's correctness provided that less than a third of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-07-29 Pierre Chevalier , Bartlomiej Kaminski , Fraser Hutchison , Qi Ma , Spandan Sharma , Andreas Fackler , William J Buchanan

The problem of distributed optimization requires a group of agents to reach agreement on a parameter that minimizes the average of their local cost functions using information received from their neighbors. While there are a variety of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-05 Kananart Kuwaranancharoen , Lei Xin , Shreyas Sundaram

Byzantine agreement allows n processes to decide on a common value, in spite of arbitrary failures. The seminal Dolev-Reischuk bound states that any deterministic solution to Byzantine agreement exchanges Omega(n^2) bits. In synchronous…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-10-25 Pierre Civit , Muhammad Ayaz Dzulfikar , Seth Gilbert , Rachid Guerraoui , Jovan Komatovic , Manuel Vidigueira , Igor Zablotchi

In this paper, we study the Byzantine lattice agreement problem in synchronous systems. The lattice agreement problem in crash failure model has been studied both in synchronous and asynchronous systems, which leads to the current best…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-02-18 Xiong Zheng , Vijay Garg

Traditional Byzantine resilient algorithms use 2f+1 vertex disjoint paths to ensure message delivery in the presence of up to f Byzantine nodes. The question of how these paths are identified is related to the fundamental problem of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2013-01-31 Shlomi Dolev , Omri Liba , Elad M. Schiller

We consider the problem of reliably broadcasting information in a multihop asynchronous network, despite the presence of Byzantine failures: some nodes are malicious and behave arbitrarly. We focus on non-cryptographic solutions. Most…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2013-12-10 Alexandre Maurer , Sébastien Tixeuil

Ensuring that an AI system behaves reliably and as intended, especially in the presence of unexpected faults or adversarial conditions, is a complex challenge. Inspired by the field of Byzantine Fault Tolerance (BFT) from distributed…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-30 John deVadoss , Matthias Artzt

Consensus algorithms provide strategies to solve problems in a distributed system with the added constraint that data can only be shared between adjacent computing nodes. We find these algorithms in applications for wireless and sensor…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Michel Toulouse , Hai Le , Cao Vien Phung , Denis Hock

This paper introduces a deterministic Byzantine consensus algorithm that relies on a new weak coordinator. As opposed to previous algorithms that cannot terminate in the presence of a faulty or slow coordinator, our algorithm can terminate…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-07-26 Tyler Crain , Vincent Gramoli , Mikel Larrea , Michel Raynal

In the renaming problem, a set of $n$ nodes, each with a unique identity from a large namespace $[N]$, needs to obtain new unique identities in a smaller namespace $[M]$. A renaming algorithm is strong if $M=n$. Renaming is a classical…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Sirui Bai , Xinyu Fu , Yuheng Wang , Yuyi Wang , Chaodong Zheng

This report considers the problem of Byzantine fault-tolerance in synchronous parallelized learning that is founded on the parallelized stochastic gradient descent (parallelized-SGD) algorithm. The system comprises a master, and $n$…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-12-23 Nirupam Gupta , Nitin H. Vaidya

Byzantine agreement, the underlying core of blockchain, aims to make every node in a decentralized network reach consensus. Classical Byzantine agreements unavoidably face two major problems. One is $1/3$ fault-tolerance bound, which means…

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

Consider a complete communication network of $n$ nodes, where the nodes receive a common clock pulse. We study the synchronous $c$-counting problem: given any starting state and up to $f$ faulty nodes with arbitrary behaviour, the task is…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-12-24 Christoph Lenzen , Joel Rybicki , Jukka Suomela

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…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-04 Jingxuan Zhu , Alvaro Velasquez , Ji Liu

Consider an asynchronous system with private channels and $n$ processes, up to $t$ of which may be faulty. We settle a longstanding open question by providing a Byzantine agreement protocol that simultaneously achieves three properties: 1.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2008-08-12 Ittai Abraham , Danny Dolev , Joseph Y. Halpern

In this paper, a fully distributed averaging algorithm in the presence of adversarial Byzantine agents is proposed. The algorithm is based on a resilient retrieval procedure, where all non-Byzantine nodes send their own initial values and…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2021-07-28 Mostafa Safi , Seyed Mehran Dibaji

This paper considers the problem of detection in distributed networks in the presence of data falsification (Byzantine) attacks. Detection approaches considered in the paper are based on fully distributed consensus algorithms, where all of…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-09-29 Bhavya Kailkhura , Swastik Brahma , Pramod K. Varshney

In this report, we investigate the multi-valued Byzantine consensus problem. We introduce two algorithms: the first one achieves traditional validity requirement for consensus, and the second one achieves a stronger "q-validity"…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2011-06-10 Guanfeng Liang , Nitin Vaidya

Consider a distributed system with $n$ processors out of which $f$ can be Byzantine faulty. In the approximate agreement task, each processor $i$ receives an input value $x_i$ and has to decide on an output value $y_i$ such that - the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-11-20 Thomas Nowak , Joel Rybicki