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Federated graph learning (FGL) enables multiple clients to collaboratively train powerful graph neural networks without sharing their private, decentralized graph data. Inherited from generic federated learning, FGL is critically challenged…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Xinrui Li , Qilin Fan , Tianfu Wang , Kaiwen Wei , Ke Yu , Xu Zhang

We propose a new adversarial attack to Deep Neural Networks for image classification. Different from most existing attacks that directly perturb input pixels, our attack focuses on perturbing abstract features, more specifically, features…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-17 Qiuling Xu , Guanhong Tao , Siyuan Cheng , Xiangyu Zhang

Domain generation algorithms (DGAs) are commonly used by botnets to generate domain names through which bots can establish a resilient communication channel with their command and control servers. Recent publications presented deep…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-02-26 Lior Sidi , Asaf Nadler , Asaf Shabtai

Though Deep Neural Networks (DNN) show excellent performance across various computer vision tasks, several works show their vulnerability to adversarial samples, i.e., image samples with imperceptible noise engineered to manipulate the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-11 Aditya Ganeshan , B. S. Vivek , R. Venkatesh Babu

Federated Learning (FL) is a distributed learning paradigm that enables different parties to train a model together for high quality and strong privacy protection. In this scenario, individual participants may get compromised and perform…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-03-01 Kaiyuan Zhang , Guanhong Tao , Qiuling Xu , Siyuan Cheng , Shengwei An , Yingqi Liu , Shiwei Feng , Guangyu Shen , Pin-Yu Chen , Shiqing Ma , Xiangyu Zhang

The goal of federated learning (FL) is to train one global model by aggregating model parameters updated independently on edge devices without accessing users' private data. However, FL is susceptible to backdoor attacks where a small…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-02-24 Yein Kim , Huili Chen , Farinaz Koushanfar

Recent tabular Foundational Models (FM) such as TabPFN and TabICL, leverage in-context learning to achieve strong performance without gradient updates or fine-tuning. However, their robustness to adversarial manipulation remains largely…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Mohamed Djilani , Thibault Simonetto , Karim Tit , Florian Tambon , Salah Ghamizi , Maxime Cordy , Mike Papadakis

Recent studies have revealed that federated learning (FL), once considered secure due to clients not sharing their private data with the server, is vulnerable to attacks such as client-side training data distribution inference, where a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-05 Yichang Xu , Ming Yin , Minghong Fang , Neil Zhenqiang Gong

It is well known that adversarial attacks can fool deep neural networks with imperceptible perturbations. Although adversarial training significantly improves model robustness, failure cases of defense still broadly exist. In this work, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-10 Boxi Wu , Heng Pan , Li Shen , Jindong Gu , Shuai Zhao , Zhifeng Li , Deng Cai , Xiaofei He , Wei Liu

Membership Inference Attacks (MIAs) are currently a dominant approach for evaluating privacy in machine learning applications. Despite their significance in identifying records belonging to the training dataset, several concerns remain…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Cristina Pêra , Tânia Carvalho , Maxime Cordy , Luís Antunes

The arms race between attacks and defenses for machine learning models has come to a forefront in recent years, in both the security community and the privacy community. However, one big limitation of previous research is that the security…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-08-27 Liwei Song , Reza Shokri , Prateek Mittal

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 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

Graph neural networks, a popular class of models effective in a wide range of graph-based learning tasks, have been shown to be vulnerable to adversarial attacks. While the majority of the literature focuses on such vulnerability in…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-11-05 Xingchen Wan , Henry Kenlay , Binxin Ru , Arno Blaas , Michael A. Osborne , Xiaowen Dong

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

We investigate a specific security risk in FL: a group of malicious clients has impacted the model during training by disguising their identities and acting as benign clients but later switching to an adversarial role. They use their data,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-22 Yijiang Li , Ying Gao , Haohan Wang

Federated Graph Learning (FedGL) is vulnerable to malicious attacks, yet developing a truly effective and stealthy attack method remains a significant challenge. Existing attack methods suffer from low attack success rates, high…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Jinshan Liu , Ken Li , Jiazhe Wei , Bin Shi , Bo Dong

We propose Floating Isogeometric Analysis (FLIGA), which extends the concepts of IGA to Lagrangian extreme deformation analysis. The method is based on a novel tensor-product construction of B-Splines for the update of the basis functions…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Helge C. Hille , Siddhant Kumar , Laura De Lorenzis

Federated Learning (FL) is a promising approach for training machine learning models on decentralized data while preserving privacy. However, privacy risks, particularly Membership Inference Attacks (MIAs), which aim to determine whether a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Gongxi Zhu , Donghao Li , Hanlin Gu , Yuan Yao , Lixin Fan , Yuxing Han

Federated Learning (FL) in 5G and edge network environments face severe security threats from adversarial clients. Malicious participants can perform label flipping, inject backdoor triggers, or launch Sybil attacks to corrupt the global…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Saeid Sheikhi , Panos Kostakos , Lauri Loven