We invite submissions to the 1st Workshop on Byzantine Fault Tolerance and Artificial Intelligence Systems (BFT-AI), co-located with SRDS 2025, to be held on September 29, 2025 in Porto, Portugal.

Scope and Topics

We welcome contributions at the intersection of distributed systems and AI, including but not limited to:

  • Fault-Tolerant AI Systems
  • Byzantine-resilient distributed training and inference
  • AI for Fault Tolerance in Systems
  • AI-assisted fault detection and mitigation in distributed systems
  • Theoretical Foundations including bounds on convergence and correctness under Byzantine adversaries;
  • Adversarial and probabilistic models in distributed AI
  • Evaluation and Benchmarks

Submission Types

  • Research Papers (up to 6 pages): Original, unpublished work that may include novel research contributions, system architectures, experimental results, experience reports or work in progress with initial validation.
  • Fast Abstracts (up to 2 pages): Early-stage research, position papers, or preliminary ideas and findings, intended to stimulate discussion and receive early feedback from the community.-

All papers must be submitted in PDF format and follow the IEEE SRDS formatting guidelines.

Important Dates

(All deadlines are at 23:59 AOE)

Event Date
Paper Submission July 4, 2025
Author Notification July 25, 2025
Camera-ready Deadline July 31, 2025
Workshop Date September 29, 2025

Dissemination

  • Accepted Research papers are eligible for inclusion in the SRDS 2025 proceedings (optional) in the SRDS supplementary volume.
  • Accepted Fast Abstracts will (optionally) be made available at the workshop website.