Byzantine machine learning: A primer

R Guerraoui, N Gupta, R Pinot - ACM Computing Surveys, 2024 - dl.acm.org
The problem of Byzantine resilience in distributed machine learning, aka Byzantine machine
learning, consists of designing distributed algorithms that can train an accurate model …

Byzantine machine learning made easy by resilient averaging of momentums

S Farhadkhani, R Guerraoui, N Gupta… - International …, 2022 - proceedings.mlr.press
Byzantine resilience emerged as a prominent topic within the distributed machine learning
community. Essentially, the goal is to enhance distributed optimization algorithms, such as …

SPDL: A blockchain-enabled secure and privacy-preserving decentralized learning system

M Xu, Z Zou, Y Cheng, Q Hu, D Yu… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Decentralized learning involves training machine learning models over remote mobile
devices, edge servers, or cloud servers while keeping data localized. Even though many …

Threats and Defenses in Federated Learning Life Cycle: A Comprehensive Survey and Challenges

Y Li, J Hu, Z Guo, N Yang, H Chen, D Yuan… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Federated Learning (FL) offers innovative solutions for privacy-preserving collaborative
machine learning (ML). Despite its promising potential, FL is vulnerable to various attacks …

Collaborative learning in the jungle (decentralized, byzantine, heterogeneous, asynchronous and nonconvex learning)

EM El-Mhamdi, S Farhadkhani… - Advances in neural …, 2021 - proceedings.neurips.cc
We study\emph {Byzantine collaborative learning}, where $ n $ nodes seek to collectively
learn from each others' local data. The data distribution may vary from one node to another …

Distributed momentum for byzantine-resilient stochastic gradient descent

EM El Mhamdi, R Guerraoui… - … Conference on Learning …, 2021 - infoscience.epfl.ch
Abstract Byzantine-resilient Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD) aims at shielding model
training from Byzantine faults, be they ill-labeled training datapoints, exploited …

[HTML][HTML] Enhancing federated learning robustness in adversarial environment through clustering Non-IID features

Y Li, D Yuan, AS Sani, W Bao - Computers & Security, 2023 - Elsevier
Federated Learning (FL) enables many clients to train a joint model without sharing the raw
data. While many byzantine-robust FL methods have been proposed, FL remains vulnerable …

An equivalence between data poisoning and byzantine gradient attacks

S Farhadkhani, R Guerraoui… - … on Machine Learning, 2022 - proceedings.mlr.press
To study the resilience of distributed learning, the “Byzantine" literature considers a strong
threat model where workers can report arbitrary gradients to the parameter server. Whereas …

Multidimensional approximate agreement with asynchronous fallback

D Ghinea, CD Liu-Zhang, R Wattenhofer - Proceedings of the 35th ACM …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Multidimensional Approximate Agreement considers a setting of n parties, where each party
holds a vector in ℝD as input. The honest parties are required to obtain very close outputs in …

CRACAU: Byzantine machine learning meets industrial edge computing in industry 5.0

A Du, Y Shen, Q Zhang, L Tseng… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Industry 5.0 is emerging as a result of the advancement in networking and communication
technologies, artificial intelligence, distributed computing, and beyond 5G. Among the …