SketchGuard: Scaling Byzantine-Robust Decentralized Federated Learning via Sketch-Based Screening

SketchGuard scales Byzantine-robust decentralized federated learning by screening neighbors via compact Count Sketches and introducing commit-then-sketch to defeat a null-space attack, matching state-of-the-art robustness while cutting on-the-wire communication by up to 42%.

August 2026 · 5 citations · Murtaza Rangwala, Farag Azzedin, Richard O. Sinnott, Rajkumar Buyya