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This paper aims at jointly addressing two seemly conflicting issues in federated learning: differential privacy (DP) and Byzantine-robustness, which are particularly challenging when the distributed data are non-i.i.d. (independent and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-03 Heng Zhu , Qing Ling

Federated learning allows each client to keep its data locally when training machine learning models in a distributed setting. Significant recent research established the requirements that the input must satisfy in order to guarantee…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Mélanie Cambus , Darya Melnyk , Tijana Milentijević , Stefan Schmid

Byzantine-robust Federated Learning (FL) aims to counter malicious clients and train an accurate global model while maintaining an extremely low attack success rate. Most existing systems, however, are only robust when most of the clients…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-11-17 Rui Wang , Xingkai Wang , Huanhuan Chen , Jérémie Decouchant , Stjepan Picek , Nikolaos Laoutaris , Kaitai Liang

Federated learning (FL) enables decentralized machine learning without sharing raw data, allowing multiple clients to collaboratively learn a global model. However, studies reveal that privacy leakage is possible under commonly adopted FL…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Kai Yue , Richeng Jin , Chau-Wai Wong , Huaiyu Dai

Federated Learning (FL) is a distributed learning paradigm designed to address privacy concerns. However, FL is vulnerable to poisoning attacks, where Byzantine clients compromise the integrity of the global model by submitting malicious…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Ryan McGaughey , Jesus Martinez del Rincon , Ihsen Alouani

Federated learning (FL) is a promising solution to enable many AI applications, where sensitive datasets from distributed clients are needed for collaboratively training a global model. FL allows the clients to participate in the training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-09 Houssem Sifaou , Geoffrey Ye Li

In this paper, we propose ByzSecAgg, an efficient secure aggregation scheme for federated learning that is resistant to Byzantine attacks and privacy leakages. Processing individual updates to manage adversarial behavior, while preserving…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Tayyebeh Jahani-Nezhad , Mohammad Ali Maddah-Ali , Giuseppe Caire

In federated learning, most existing robust aggregation rules (AGRs) combat Byzantine attacks in the IID setting, where client data is assumed to be independent and identically distributed. In this paper, we address label skewness, a more…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Wenxuan Bao , Jun Wu , Jingrui He

Federated learning enables clients to collaboratively learn a shared global model without sharing their local training data with a cloud server. However, malicious clients can corrupt the global model to predict incorrect labels for testing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-10-28 Xiaoyu Cao , Jinyuan Jia , Neil Zhenqiang Gong

Federated Learning has been recently proposed for distributed model training at the edge. The principle of this approach is to aggregate models learned on distributed clients to obtain a new more general "average" model (FedAvg). The…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-07-20 Adnan Ben Mansour , Gaia Carenini , Alexandre Duplessis , David Naccache

Decentralized learning has gained great popularity to improve learning efficiency and preserve data privacy. Each computing node makes equal contribution to collaboratively learn a Deep Learning model. The elimination of centralized…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Shangwei Guo , Tianwei Zhang , Han Yu , Xiaofei Xie , Lei Ma , Tao Xiang , Yang Liu

In machine learning security, one is often faced with the problem of removing outliers from a given set of high-dimensional vectors when computing their average. For example, many variants of data poisoning attacks produce gradient vectors…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-14 De Zhang Lee , Aashish Kolluri , Prateek Saxena , Ee-Chien Chang

Federated Learning (FL) allows multiple participating clients to train machine learning models collaboratively while keeping their datasets local and only exchanging the gradient or model updates with a coordinating server. Existing FL…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Xiaolan Gu , Ming Li , Li Xiong

As a distributed learning, Federated Learning (FL) faces two challenges: the unbalanced distribution of training data among participants, and the model attack by Byzantine nodes. In this paper, we consider the long-tailed distribution with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Yanna Jiang , Baihe Ma , Xu Wang , Guangsheng Yu , Caijun Sun , Wei Ni , Ren Ping Liu

Federated learning (FL) is a machine learning paradigm that enables multiple data holders to collaboratively train a machine learning model without sharing their training data with external parties. In this paradigm, workers locally update…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Johan Erbani , Sonia Ben Mokhtar , Pierre-Edouard Portier , Elod Egyed-Zsigmond , Diana Nurbakova

Federated Learning enables entities to collaboratively learn a shared prediction model while keeping their training data locally. It prevents data collection and aggregation and, therefore, mitigates the associated privacy risks. However,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-10-16 Raouf Kerkouche , Gergely Ács , Claude Castelluccia

As the scale of federated learning (FL) systems expands, their inherent performance limitations like communication overhead, Byzantine vulnerability, and privacy leakage have become increasingly critical. This paper considers a personalized…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Muhang Lan , Song Xiao , Wenyi Zhang

This paper jointly considers privacy preservation and Byzantine-robustness in decentralized learning. In a decentralized network, honest-but-curious agents faithfully follow the prescribed algorithm, but expect to infer their neighbors'…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Haoxiang Ye , Heng Zhu , Qing Ling

This paper introduces a deep learning-based framework for resilient decision fusion in adversarial multi-sensor networks, providing a unified mathematical setup that encompasses diverse scenarios, including varying Byzantine node…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Kassem Kallas

As collaborative learning allows joint training of a model using multiple sources of data, the security problem has been a central concern. Malicious users can upload poisoned data to prevent the model's convergence or inject hidden…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-01-21 Ximing Qiao , Yuhua Bai , Siping Hu , Ang Li , Yiran Chen , Hai Li