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.

� Deadline Extended! Submission Deadline: July 4, 2025 → July 11, 2025

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  • Research Papers (up to 6 pages): Original, unpublished work that may include novel research contributions, system architectures, experimental results, experience reports or work in progress with initial validation.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 -> July 11, 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.