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Federated learning (FL) shows great promise in large-scale machine learning but introduces new privacy and security challenges. We propose ByITFL and LoByITFL, two novel FL schemes that enhance resilience against Byzantine users while…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Yue Xia , Christoph Hofmeister , Maximilian Egger , Rawad Bitar

Federated Learning (FL) has gained significant attention for its privacy-preserving capabilities, enabling distributed devices to collaboratively train a global model without sharing raw data. However, its distributed nature forces the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Chaoyu Zhang , Heng Jin , Shanghao Shi , Hexuan Yu , Sydney Johns , Y. Thomas Hou , Wenjing Lou

Privacy-preserving federated learning allows multiple users to jointly train a model with coordination of a central server. The server only learns the final aggregation result, thus the users' (private) training data is not leaked from the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Zahra Ghodsi , Mojan Javaheripi , Nojan Sheybani , Xinqiao Zhang , Ke Huang , Farinaz Koushanfar

Decentralized machine learning (DL) has been receiving an increasing interest recently due to the elimination of a single point of failure, present in Federated learning setting. Yet, it is threatened by the looming threat of Byzantine…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Ali Reza Ghavamipour , Benjamin Zi Hao Zhao , Oguzhan Ersoy , Fatih Turkmen

Decentralized learning involves training machine learning models over remote mobile devices, edge servers, or cloud servers while keeping data localized. Even though many studies have shown the feasibility of preserving privacy, enhancing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-01-07 Minghui Xu , Zongrui Zou , Ye Cheng , Qin Hu , Dongxiao Yu , Xiuzhen Cheng

Federated learning systems that jointly preserve Byzantine robustness and privacy have remained an open problem. Robust aggregation, the standard defense for Byzantine attacks, generally requires server access to individual updates or…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-10-07 Raj Kiriti Velicheti , Derek Xia , Oluwasanmi Koyejo

Federated Learning (FL) enables decentralized model training without sharing raw data, offering strong privacy guarantees. However, existing FL protocols struggle to defend against Byzantine participants, maintain model utility under…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Charuka Herath , Yogachandran Rahulamathavan , Varuna De Silva , Sangarapillai Lambotharan

Smart meter measurements, though critical for accurate demand forecasting, face several drawbacks including consumers' privacy, data breach issues, to name a few. Recent literature has explored Federated Learning (FL) as a promising…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-03-29 Muhammad Akbar Husnoo , Adnan Anwar , Nasser Hosseinzadeh , Shama Naz Islam , Abdun Naser Mahmood , Robin Doss

Motivated by the ever-increasing concerns on personal data privacy and the rapidly growing data volume at local clients, federated learning (FL) has emerged as a new machine learning setting. An FL system is comprised of a central parameter…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-08-04 Xiang Ma , Haijian Sun , Rose Qingyang Hu , Yi Qian

In sectors such as finance and healthcare, where data governance is subject to rigorous regulatory requirements, the exchange and utilization of data are particularly challenging. Federated Learning (FL) has risen as a pioneering…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Siyang Jiang , Hao Yang , Qipeng Xie , Chuan Ma , Sen Wang , Guoliang Xing

Federated learning is a newly emerging distributed learning framework that facilitates the collaborative training of a shared global model among distributed participants with their privacy preserved. However, federated learning systems are…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-10-14 Minghui Li , Wei Wan , Jianrong Lu , Shengshan Hu , Junyu Shi , Leo Yu Zhang , Man Zhou , Yifeng Zheng

Federated learning is a distributed training framework vulnerable to Byzantine attacks, particularly when over 50% of clients are malicious or when datasets are highly non-independent and identically distributed (non-IID). Additionally,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Haocheng Jiang , Hua Shen , Jixin Zhang , Willy Susilo , Mingwu Zhang

Federated learning (FL), an emerging distributed machine learning paradigm, has been applied to various privacy-preserving scenarios. However, due to its distributed nature, FL faces two key issues: the non-independent and identical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-18 Youpeng Li , Xinda Wang , Fuxun Yu , Lichao Sun , Wenbin Zhang , Xuyu Wang

Federated learning (FL) facilitates distributed training across different IoT and edge devices, safeguarding the privacy of their data. The inherent distributed structure of FL introduces vulnerabilities, especially from adversarial devices…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-11-13 Shenghui Li , Edith Ngai , Fanghua Ye , Li Ju , Tianru Zhang , Thiemo Voigt

The decentralized nature of federated learning, that often leverages the power of edge devices, makes it vulnerable to attacks against privacy and security. The privacy risk for a peer is that the model update she computes on her private…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-08-05 Josep Domingo-Ferrer , Alberto Blanco-Justicia , Jesús Manjón , David Sánchez

Federated Learning trains machine learning models on distributed devices by aggregating local model updates instead of local data. However, privacy concerns arise as the aggregated local models on the server may reveal sensitive personal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Weizhao Jin , Yuhang Yao , Shanshan Han , Jiajun Gu , Carlee Joe-Wong , Srivatsan Ravi , Salman Avestimehr , Chaoyang He

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 (FL) paradigms enable large numbers of clients to collaboratively train Machine Learning models on private data. However, due to their multi-party nature, traditional FL schemes are left vulnerable to Byzantine attacks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Atharv Deshmukh

We propose Byzantine-robust federated learning protocols with nearly optimal statistical rates. In contrast to prior work, our proposed protocols improve the dimension dependence and achieve a tight statistical rate in terms of all the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Banghua Zhu , Lun Wang , Qi Pang , Shuai Wang , Jiantao Jiao , Dawn Song , Michael I. Jordan

With the increasing importance of machine learning, the privacy and security of training data have become critical. Federated learning, which stores data in distributed nodes and shares only model parameters, has gained significant…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Yang Li , Chunhe Xia , Chang Li , Tianbo Wang