“We introduce SABRE, a novel framework for robust variational Bayesian peer-to-peer federated learning. We analyze the robustness of the known variational Bayesian peer-to-peer federated learning framework (BayP2PFL) against poisoning attacks and subsequently show that BayP2PFL is not robust against those attacks. The new SABRE aggregation methodology is then devised to overcome the limitations of the existing frameworks. SABRE works well in non-IID settings, does not require the majority of the benign nodes over the compromised ones, and even outperforms the baseline algorithm in benign settings.”

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