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Federated learning is an emerging technique used to prevent the leakage of private information. Unlike centralized learning that needs to collect data from users and store them collectively on a cloud server, federated learning makes it…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-11 Hangyu Zhu , Yaochu Jin

In the evolving landscape of Federated Learning (FL), a new type of attacks concerns the research community, namely Data Poisoning Attacks, which threaten the model integrity by maliciously altering training data. This paper introduces a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-22 Nick Galanis

Federated Learning (FL) has emerged as a promising distributed learning paradigm with an added advantage of data privacy. With the growing interest in having collaboration among data owners, FL has gained significant attention of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Afsana Khan , Marijn ten Thij , Anna Wilbik

Federated learning allows multiple users to collaboratively train a shared classification model while preserving data privacy. This approach, where model updates are aggregated by a central server, was shown to be vulnerable to poisoning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-17 Chien-Lun Chen , Leana Golubchik , Marco Paolieri

Federated learning (FL) has recently emerged as an attractive decentralized solution for wireless networks to collaboratively train a shared model while keeping data localized. As a general approach, existing FL methods tend to assume…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-02 Francesco Pase , Marco Giordani , Michele Zorzi

Federated Learning (FL) enables decentralized model training while preserving privacy. Recently, the integration of Foundation Models (FMs) into FL has enhanced performance but introduced a novel backdoor attack mechanism. Attackers can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Xiaohuan Bi , Xi Li

Traditional machine learning systems were designed in a centralized manner. In such designs, the central entity maintains both the machine learning model and the data used to adjust the model's parameters. As data centralization yields…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Alexandre Pham , Maria Potop-Butucaru , Sébastien Tixeuil , Serge Fdida

Federated Learning (FL) allows multiple clients to collaboratively train a Neural Network (NN) model on their private data without revealing the data. Recently, several targeted poisoning attacks against FL have been introduced. These…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-01-04 Phillip Rieger , Thien Duc Nguyen , Markus Miettinen , Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi

Federated Learning (FL) is one of the hot research topics, and it utilizes Machine Learning (ML) in a distributed manner without directly accessing private data on clients. However, FL faces many challenges, including the difficulty to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-05-02 Shadha Tabatabai , Ihab Mohammed , Basheer Qolomany , Abdullatif Albasser , Kashif Ahmad , Mohamed Abdallah , Ala Al-Fuqaha

Federated Learning (FL) is a machine learning approach that enables the creation of shared models for powerful applications while allowing data to remain on devices. This approach provides benefits such as improved data privacy, security,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Jieming Bian , Cong Shen , Jie Xu

Federated learning (FL) is a distributed training paradigm that enables collaborative learning across clients without sharing local data, thereby preserving privacy. However, the increasing scale and complexity of modern deep models often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Honggu Kang , Seohyeon Cha , Joonhyuk Kang

Federated learning (FL) was proposed to achieve collaborative machine learning among various clients without uploading private data. However, due to model aggregation strategies, existing frameworks require strict model homogeneity,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Shaoming Song , Yunfeng Shao , Jian Li

With the emergence of data silos and popular privacy awareness, the traditional centralized approach of training artificial intelligence (AI) models is facing strong challenges. Federated learning (FL) has recently emerged as a promising…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-03-05 Lingjuan Lyu , Han Yu , Qiang Yang

Despite the promise of Federated Learning (FL) for privacy-preserving model training on distributed data, it remains susceptible to backdoor attacks. These attacks manipulate models by embedding triggers (specific input patterns) in the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Tuan Nguyen , Dung Thuy Nguyen , Khoa D Doan , Kok-Seng Wong

Federated learning (FL) enables multiple participants to collaboratively train machine learning models using decentralized data sources, alleviating privacy concerns that arise from directly sharing local data. However, the lack of model…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Chenhe Dong , Yuexiang Xie , Bolin Ding , Ying Shen , Yaliang Li

Federated learning is a distributed framework designed to address privacy concerns. However, it introduces new attack surfaces, which are especially prone when data is non-Independently and Identically Distributed. Existing approaches fail…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Hyejun Jeong , Hamin Son , Seohu Lee , Jayun Hyun , Tai-Myoung Chung

Federated learning (FL) can help promote data privacy by training a shared model in a de-centralized manner on the physical devices of clients. In the presence of highly heterogeneous distributions of local data, personalized FL strategy…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-10-12 Zhe Liu , Yue Hui , Fuchun Peng

Federated learning (FL) is an emerging technology that enables the training of machine learning models from multiple clients while keeping the data distributed and private. Based on the participating clients and the model training scale,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Chao Huang , Jianwei Huang , Xin Liu

Federated Learning (FL) seeks to train a model collaboratively without sharing private training data from individual clients. Despite its promise, FL encounters challenges such as high communication costs for large-scale models and the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-15 Lin Li , Jianping Gou , Baosheng Yu , Lan Du , Zhang Yiand Dacheng Tao

Federated Learning (FL) is a collaborative method for training machine learning models while preserving the confidentiality of the participants' training data. Nevertheless, FL is vulnerable to reconstruction attacks that exploit shared…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Enrico Sorbera , Federica Zanetti , Giacomo Brandi , Alessandro Tomasi , Roberto Doriguzzi-Corin , Silvio Ranise