Byzantine-Robust Federated RAG via Aligned Calibration and Fixed-Membership Conformal Prediction
Read the original on arXiv Machine Learning →This paper introduces a Byzantine‑robust federated retrieval‑augmented generation (RAG) framework that uses aligned calibration and fixed‑membership conformal prediction to ensure that the answer set contains the correct answer with a chosen probability, even when some nodes are compromised. By having all nodes score the same calibration questions and retaining only candidates that could be kept by a plausible group of honest nodes, the method guarantees correctness in finite samples and produces smaller answer sets than simpler approaches. Experiments on medical exam question‑answering tasks with language‑model nodes demonstrate that the method meets the target coverage whenever the number of misbehaving nodes does not exceed the declared bound, while plain averaging often fails.
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