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Federated recommender systems (FedRecs) have been widely explored recently due to their ability to protect user data privacy. In FedRecs, a central server collaboratively learns recommendation models by sharing model public parameters with…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Wei Yuan , Shilong Yuan , Chaoqun Yang , Quoc Viet Hung Nguyen , Hongzhi Yin

Federated Learning (FL) enables collaborative model training across decentralised clients while keeping local data private, making it a widely adopted privacy-enhancing technology (PET). Despite its privacy benefits, FL remains vulnerable…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Soumia Zohra El Mestari , Maciej Krzysztof Zuziak , Gabriele Lenzini

Decentralized federated learning (DFL) enables clients (e.g., hospitals and banks) to jointly train machine learning models without a central orchestration server. In each global training round, each client trains a local model on its own…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Yuqi Jia , Minghong Fang , Neil Zhenqiang Gong

Federated learning (FL) has been widely adopted as a decentralized training paradigm that enables multiple clients to collaboratively learn a shared model without exposing their local data. As concerns over data privacy and regulatory…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Bingguang Lu , Hongsheng Hu , Yuantian Miao , Shaleeza Sohail , Chaoxiang He , Shuo Wang , Xiao Chen

We introduce a feature scattering-based adversarial training approach for improving model robustness against adversarial attacks. Conventional adversarial training approaches leverage a supervised scheme (either targeted or non-targeted) in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-25 Haichao Zhang , Jianyu Wang

We consider the recent privacy preserving methods that train the models not on original images, but on mixed images that look like noise and hard to trace back to the original images. We explain that those mixed images will be samples on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Roozbeh Yousefzadeh

Federated Learning (FL) facilitates collaborative model training among distributed clients while ensuring that raw data remains on local devices.Despite this advantage, FL systems are still exposed to risks from malicious or unreliable…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Deepthy K Bhaskar , Minimol B , Binu V P

Federated learning---multi-party, distributed learning in a decentralized environment---is vulnerable to model poisoning attacks, even more so than centralized learning approaches. This is because malicious clients can collude and send in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-20 Atul Sharma , Wei Chen , Joshua Zhao , Qiang Qiu , Somali Chaterji , Saurabh Bagchi

Machine learning classifiers are known to be vulnerable to inputs maliciously constructed by adversaries to force misclassification. Such adversarial examples have been extensively studied in the context of computer vision applications. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-02-09 Sandy Huang , Nicolas Papernot , Ian Goodfellow , Yan Duan , Pieter Abbeel

Property inference attacks consider an adversary who has access to the trained model and tries to extract some global statistics of the training data. In this work, we study property inference in scenarios where the adversary can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-28 Melissa Chase , Esha Ghosh , Saeed Mahloujifar

Federated Learning (FL) has emerged as a potentially powerful privacy-preserving machine learning methodology, since it avoids exchanging data between participants, but instead exchanges model parameters. FL has traditionally been applied…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-10-17 Han Wu , Zilong Zhao , Lydia Y. Chen , Aad van Moorsel

Machine learning models used for distributed architectures consisting of servers and clients require large amounts of data to achieve high accuracy. Data obtained from clients are collected on a central server for model training. However,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Ozer Ozturk , Busra Buyuktanir , Gozde Karatas Baydogmus , Kazim Yildiz

Federated learning (FL) is vulnerable to model poisoning attacks, in which malicious clients corrupt the global model via sending manipulated model updates to the server. Existing defenses mainly rely on Byzantine-robust FL methods, which…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Zaixi Zhang , Xiaoyu Cao , Jinyuan Jia , Neil Zhenqiang Gong

In the era of deep learning, federated learning (FL) presents a promising approach that allows multi-institutional data owners, or clients, to collaboratively train machine learning models without compromising data privacy. However, most…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-13 Nanqing Dong , Zhipeng Wang , Jiahao Sun , Michael Kampffmeyer , William Knottenbelt , Eric Xing

Federated Learning (FL) can be vulnerable to attacks, such as model poisoning, where adversaries send malicious local weights to compromise the global model. Federated Unlearning (FU) is emerging as a solution to address such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Nicolò Romandini , Cristian Borcea , Rebecca Montanari , Luca Foschini

The main premise of federated learning (FL) is that machine learning model updates are computed locally to preserve user data privacy. This approach avoids by design user data to ever leave the perimeter of their device. Once the updates…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-15 Simon Queyrut , Valerio Schiavoni , Pascal Felber

Federated learning (FL) is inherently susceptible to privacy breaches and poisoning attacks. To tackle these challenges, researchers have separately devised secure aggregation mechanisms to protect data privacy and robust aggregation…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Runhua Xu , Shiqi Gao , Chao Li , James Joshi , Jianxin Li

Deep learning models are vulnerable to various adversarial manipulations of their training data, parameters, and input sample. In particular, an adversary can modify the training data and model parameters to embed backdoors into the model,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-09 Te Juin Lester Tan , Reza Shokri

Due to its distributed nature, federated learning is vulnerable to poisoning attacks, in which malicious clients poison the training process via manipulating their local training data and/or local model updates sent to the cloud server,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-10-05 Xiaoyu Cao , Zaixi Zhang , Jinyuan Jia , Neil Zhenqiang Gong

Federated learning (FL) allows mutually untrusted clients to collaboratively train a common machine learning model without sharing their private/proprietary training data among each other. FL is unfortunately susceptible to poisoning by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-18 Hamid Mozaffari , Virat Shejwalkar , Amir Houmansadr