Screen Before You Fetch: Compressed Byzantine Screening for Decentralized Learning on the Edge-Cloud Continuum

SketchGuard makes Byzantine-robust decentralized federated learning communication-efficient by screening neighbors on compact sketches, with three rules that provably close the attacks sketching opens, matching the accuracy of the defenses it wraps while cutting bytes by up to 41% and emulated edge-cloud round time by 39%

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