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A reliable application of deep neural network classifiers requires robustness certificates against adversarial perturbations. Gaussian smoothing is a widely analyzed approach to certifying robustness against norm-bounded perturbations,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-23 Hossein Goli , Farzan Farnia

Neural networks are vulnerable to small adversarial perturbations. Existing literature largely focused on understanding and mitigating the vulnerability of learned models. In this paper, we demonstrate an intriguing phenomenon about the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-25 Gavin Weiguang Ding , Kry Yik Chau Lui , Xiaomeng Jin , Luyu Wang , Ruitong Huang

We propose a framework for distributed robust statistical learning on {\em big contaminated data}. The Distributed Robust Learning (DRL) framework can reduce the computational time of traditional robust learning methods by several orders of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-02-10 Jiashi Feng , Huan Xu , Shie Mannor

Federated sequential recommendation distributes model training across user devices so that behavioural data remains local, reducing privacy risks. Yet, this setting introduces two intertwined difficulties. On the one hand, individual…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Minh Hieu Nguyen

Privacy and regulatory barriers often hinder centralized machine learning solutions, particularly in sectors like healthcare where data cannot be freely shared. Federated learning has emerged as a powerful paradigm to address these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Alexandre Cotorobai , Jorge Miguel Silva , Jose Luis Oliveira

Federated Learning (FL) is emerging as a promising paradigm of privacy-preserving machine learning, which trains an algorithm across multiple clients without exchanging their data samples. Recent works highlighted several privacy and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Yaowei Han , Yang Cao , Masatoshi Yoshikawa

Randomized smoothing has become a leading approach for certifying adversarial robustness in machine learning models. However, a persistent gap remains between theoretical certified robustness and empirical robustness accuracy. This paper…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-10 Blaise Delattre , Paul Caillon , Quentin Barthélemy , Erwan Fagnou , Alexandre Allauzen

This paper studies a challenging robust federated learning task with model heterogeneous and data corrupted clients, where the clients have different local model structures. Data corruption is unavoidable due to factors such as random…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Xiuwen Fang , Mang Ye , Bo Du

Machine learning is a powerful tool enabling full automation of a huge number of tasks without explicit programming. Despite recent progress of machine learning in different domains, these models have shown vulnerabilities when they are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Mohammad Meymani , Roozbeh Razavi-Far

Federated learning is a learning method for training models over multiple participants without directly sharing their raw data, and it has been expected to be a privacy protection method for training data. In contrast, attack methods have…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-08-02 Rei Aso , Sayaka Shiota , Hitoshi Kiya

Federated learning is a communication-efficient training process that alternates between local training at the edge devices and averaging the updated local model at the central server. Nevertheless, it is impractical to achieve a perfect…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-04 Fan Ang , Li Chen , Nan Zhao , Yunfei Chen , Weidong Wang , F. Richard Yu

Although large language models (LLMs) have achieved significant success, their vulnerability to adversarial perturbations, including recent jailbreak attacks, has raised considerable concerns. However, the increasing size of these models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-19 Jiabao Ji , Bairu Hou , Zhen Zhang , Guanhua Zhang , Wenqi Fan , Qing Li , Yang Zhang , Gaowen Liu , Sijia Liu , Shiyu Chang

Aiming at privacy preservation, Federated Learning (FL) is an emerging machine learning approach enabling model training on decentralized devices or data sources. The learning mechanism of FL relies on aggregating parameter updates from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Jiayan Chen , Zhirong Qian , Tianhui Meng , Xitong Gao , Tian Wang , Weijia Jia

Robust federated learning aims to maintain reliable performance despite the presence of adversarial or misbehaving workers. While state-of-the-art (SOTA) robust distributed gradient descent (Robust-DGD) methods were proven theoretically…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-12 Youssef Allouah , Rachid Guerraoui , Nirupam Gupta , Ahmed Jellouli , Geovani Rizk , John Stephan

Certified defense using randomized smoothing is a popular technique to provide robustness guarantees for deep neural networks against l2 adversarial attacks. Existing works use this technique to provably secure a pretrained non-robust model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Gaurav Kumar Nayak , Ruchit Rawal , Anirban Chakraborty

Federated learning is promising for its capability to collaboratively train models with multiple clients without accessing their data, but vulnerable when clients' data distributions diverge from each other. This divergence further leads to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Hong-You Chen , Wei-Lun Chao

Federated learning enables learning from decentralized data sources without compromising privacy, which makes it a crucial technique. However, it is vulnerable to model poisoning attacks, where malicious clients interfere with the training…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Sungwon Park , Sungwon Han , Fangzhao Wu , Sundong Kim , Bin Zhu , Xing Xie , Meeyoung Cha

Federated learning facilitates the collaborative training of models without the sharing of raw data. However, recent attacks demonstrate that simply maintaining data locality during training processes does not provide sufficient privacy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-16 Stacey Truex , Nathalie Baracaldo , Ali Anwar , Thomas Steinke , Heiko Ludwig , Rui Zhang , Yi Zhou

Federated learning offers a privacy-preserving framework for medical image analysis but exposes the system to adversarial attacks. This paper aims to evaluate the vulnerabilities of federated learning networks in medical image analysis…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Erfan Darzi , Florian Dubost , N. M. Sijtsema , P. M. A van Ooijen

Federated learning has recently gained popularity as a framework for distributed clients to collaboratively train a machine learning model using local data. While traditional federated learning relies on a central server for model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-03 I-Cheng Lin , Osman Yagan , Carlee Joe-Wong