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Various attack methods against recommender systems have been proposed in the past years, and the security issues of recommender systems have drawn considerable attention. Traditional attacks attempt to make target items recommended to as…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Dazhong Rong , Qinming He , Jianhai Chen

Sybil attacks pose a significant threat to federated learning, as malicious nodes can collaborate and gain a majority, thereby overwhelming the system. Therefore, it is essential to develop countermeasures that ensure the security of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Qi Xiong , Hai Dong , Nasrin Sohrabi , Zahir Tari

Federated learning has recently emerged as a decentralized approach to learn a high-performance model without access to user data. Despite its effectiveness, federated learning gives malicious users opportunities to manipulate the model by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-28 Tianhang Zheng , Baochun Li

Federated learning is vulnerable to poisoning attacks by malicious adversaries. Existing methods often involve high costs to achieve effective attacks. To address this challenge, we propose a sybil-based virtual data poisoning attack, where…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-16 Changxun Zhu , Qilong Wu , Lingjuan Lyu , Shibei Xue

Federated Learning (FL) is a distributed learning paradigm designed to address privacy concerns. However, FL is vulnerable to poisoning attacks, where Byzantine clients compromise the integrity of the global model by submitting malicious…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Ryan McGaughey , Jesus Martinez del Rincon , Ihsen Alouani

The increasing access to data poses both opportunities and risks in deep learning, as one can manipulate the behaviors of deep learning models with malicious training samples. Such attacks are known as data poisoning. Recent advances in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-29 Wenxiao Wang , Soheil Feizi

Machine learning has become an important component for many systems and applications including computer vision, spam filtering, malware and network intrusion detection, among others. Despite the capabilities of machine learning algorithms…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-02-14 Andrea Paudice , Luis Muñoz-González , Andras Gyorgy , Emil C. Lupu

As machine learning models become increasingly complex, concerns about their robustness and trustworthiness have become more pressing. A critical vulnerability of these models is data poisoning attacks, where adversaries deliberately alter…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Isha Gupta , Hidde Lycklama , Emanuel Opel , Evan Rose , Anwar Hithnawi

Data poisoning is one of the most relevant security threats against machine learning and data-driven technologies. Since many applications rely on untrusted training data, an attacker can easily craft malicious samples and inject them into…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-12-01 Nicolas M. Müller , Simon Roschmann , Konstantin Böttinger

Data poisoning is an attack on machine learning models wherein the attacker adds examples to the training set to manipulate the behavior of the model at test time. This paper explores poisoning attacks on neural nets. The proposed attacks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-13 Ali Shafahi , W. Ronny Huang , Mahyar Najibi , Octavian Suciu , Christoph Studer , Tudor Dumitras , Tom Goldstein

Federated Learning is a popular paradigm that enables remote clients to jointly train a global model without sharing their raw data. However, FL has been shown to be vulnerable towards model poisoning attacks due to its distributed nature.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Xingyu Lyu , Ning Wang , Yang Xiao , Shixiong Li , Tao Li , Danjue Chen , Yimin Chen

Federated Instruction Tuning (FIT) enables collaborative instruction tuning of large language models across multiple organizations (clients) in a cross-silo setting without requiring the sharing of private instructions. Recent findings on…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Haodong Zhao , Jinming Hu , Zhaomin Wu , Zongru Wu , Wei Du , Junyi Hou , Caibei Zhao , Zhuosheng Zhang , Bingsheng He , Gongshen Liu

Federated learning has created a decentralized method to train a machine learning model without needing direct access to client data. The main goal of a federated learning architecture is to protect the privacy of each client while still…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-12-11 Marc Vucovich , Devin Quinn , Kevin Choi , Christopher Redino , Abdul Rahman , Edward Bowen

Federated learning (FL) is a popular distributed learning framework that trains a global model through iterative communications between a central server and edge devices. Recent works have demonstrated that FL is vulnerable to model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-27 Jingwei Sun , Ang Li , Louis DiValentin , Amin Hassanzadeh , Yiran Chen , Hai Li

Decentralized Federated Learning (DFL) emerges as an innovative paradigm to train collaborative models, addressing the single point of failure limitation. However, the security and trustworthiness of FL and DFL are compromised by poisoning…

We present a Federated Learning (FL) based solution for building a distributed classifier capable of detecting URLs containing GDPR-sensitive content related to categories such as health, sexual preference, political beliefs, etc. Although…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Tianyue Chu , Alvaro Garcia-Recuero , Costas Iordanou , Georgios Smaragdakis , Nikolaos Laoutaris

Many machine learning systems rely on data collected in the wild from untrusted sources, exposing the learning algorithms to data poisoning. Attackers can inject malicious data in the training dataset to subvert the learning process,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-10-04 Andrea Paudice , Luis Muñoz-González , Emil C. Lupu

Data Poisoning attacks modify training data to maliciously control a model trained on such data. In this work, we focus on targeted poisoning attacks which cause a reclassification of an unmodified test image and as such breach model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Jonas Geiping , Liam Fowl , W. Ronny Huang , Wojciech Czaja , Gavin Taylor , Michael Moeller , Tom Goldstein

Wireless ad hoc federated learning (WAFL) is a fully decentralized collaborative machine learning framework organized by opportunistically encountered mobile nodes. Compared to conventional federated learning, WAFL performs model training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Naoya Tezuka , Hideya Ochiai , Yuwei Sun , Hiroshi Esaki

Sparse training is often adopted in cross-device federated learning (FL) environments where constrained devices collaboratively train a machine learning model on private data by exchanging pseudo-gradients across heterogeneous networks.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Adriano Guastella , Lorenzo Sani , Alex Iacob , Alessio Mora , Paolo Bellavista , Nicholas D. Lane