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In the fifth-generation (5G) networks and the beyond, communication latency and network bandwidth will be no more bottleneck to mobile users. Thus, almost every mobile device can participate in the distributed learning. That is, the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-12-18 Sicong Zhou , Huawei Huang , Wuhui Chen , Zibin Zheng , Song Guo

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

Federated Learning (FL) allows collaborative model training across distributed clients without sharing raw data, thus preserving privacy. However, the system remains vulnerable to privacy leakage from gradient updates and Byzantine attacks…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Xian Qin , Xue Yang , Xiaohu Tang

The rapid development of artificial intelligence systems has amplified societal concerns regarding their usage, necessitating regulatory frameworks that encompass data privacy. Federated Learning (FL) is posed as potential solution to data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Mario García-Márquez , Nuria Rodríguez-Barroso , M. Victoria Luzón , Francisco Herrera

Federated learning (FL) is an emerging distributed learning paradigm without sharing participating clients' private data. However, existing works show that FL is vulnerable to both Byzantine (security) attacks and data reconstruction…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Chenfei Nie , Qiang Li , Yuxin Yang , Yuede Ji , Binghui Wang

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

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

Increasingly machine learning systems are being deployed to edge servers and devices (e.g. mobile phones) and trained in a collaborative manner. Such distributed/federated/decentralized training raises a number of concerns about the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Lie He , Sai Praneeth Karimireddy , Martin Jaggi

Privacy and Byzantine resilience are two indispensable requirements for a federated learning (FL) system. Although there have been extensive studies on privacy and Byzantine security in their own track, solutions that consider both remain…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-03 Zihang Xiang , Tianhao Wang , Wanyu Lin , Di Wang

In this paper, we investigate the problem of distributed learning (DL) in the presence of Byzantine attacks. For this problem, various robust bounded aggregation (RBA) rules have been proposed at the central server to mitigate the impact of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Chengxi Li , Ming Xiao , Mikael Skoglund

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) shows great promise in large scale machine learning, but brings new risks in terms of privacy and security. We propose ByITFL, a novel scheme for FL that provides resilience against Byzantine users while keeping the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Yue Xia , Christoph Hofmeister , Maximilian Egger , Rawad Bitar

This paper investigates the robustness of over-the-air federated learning to Byzantine attacks. The simple averaging of the model updates via over-the-air computation makes the learning task vulnerable to random or intended modifications of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-24 Houssem Sifaou , Geoffrey Ye Li

Federated Learning (FL) aims to train a collaborative model while preserving data privacy. However, the distributed nature of this approach still raises privacy and security issues, such as the exposure of sensitive data due to inference…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Adda Akram Bendoukha , Aymen Boudguiga , Nesrine Kaaniche , Renaud Sirdey , Didem Demirag , Sébastien Gambs

Privacy-preserving federated averaging is a central approach for protecting client privacy in federated learning. In this paper, we study this problem in an asynchronous communications setting with malicious aggregators. We propose a new…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Antonella Del Pozzo , Achille Desreumaux , Mathieu Gestin , Alexandre Rapetti , Sara Tucci-Piergiovanni

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

Federated Learning (FL) enables heterogeneous clients to collaboratively train a shared model without centralizing their raw data, offering an inherent level of privacy. However, gradients and model updates can still leak sensitive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Rustem Islamov , Grigory Malinovsky , Alexander Gaponov , Aurelien Lucchi , Peter Richtárik , Eduard Gorbunov

Federated learning is a novel framework that enables resource-constrained edge devices to jointly learn a model, which solves the problem of data protection and data islands. However, standard federated learning is vulnerable to Byzantine…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Kun Zhai , Qiang Ren , Junli Wang , Chungang Yan

Federated learning (FL) enables multiple participants to train a global machine learning model without sharing their private training data. Peer-to-peer (P2P) FL advances existing centralized FL paradigms by eliminating the server that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-12 Zhangchen Xu , Fengqing Jiang , Luyao Niu , Jinyuan Jia , Radha Poovendran

Federated learning has exhibited vulnerabilities to Byzantine attacks, where the Byzantine attackers can send arbitrary gradients to a central server to destroy the convergence and performance of the global model. A wealth of robust…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Yuchen Liu , Chen Chen , Lingjuan Lyu , Fangzhao Wu , Sai Wu , Gang Chen