English

Byzantine Fault-Tolerant Min-Max Optimization

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing 2024-02-19 v5

Abstract

In this paper, we consider a min-max optimization problem under adversarial manipulation, where there are nn cost functions, up to ff of which may be replaced by arbitrary faulty functions by an adversary. The goal is to minimize the maximum cost over xx among the nn functions despite the faulty functions. The problem formulation could naturally extend to Byzantine fault-tolerant distributed min-max optimization. We present a simple algorithm for Byzantine min-max optimization, and provide bounds on the output of the algorithm. We also present an approximate algorithm for this problem. We then extend the problem to a distributed setting and present a distributed algorithm. To the best of our knowledge, we are the first to consider this problem.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.2205.14881,
  title  = {Byzantine Fault-Tolerant Min-Max Optimization},
  author = {Shuo Liu and Nitin Vaidya},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2205.14881},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

15 pages; Update with necessary citations and fixings in the proofs in Section 6

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