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Federated sequential recommendation distributes model training across user devices so that behavioural data remains local, reducing privacy risks. Yet, this setting introduces two intertwined difficulties. On the one hand, individual…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Minh Hieu Nguyen

Privacy-preserving computing is crucial for multi-center machine learning in many applications such as healthcare and finance. In this paper a Multi-center Privacy Computing framework with Predictions Aggregation (MPCPA) based on denoising…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-03-13 Guibo Luo , Hanwen Zhang , Xiuling Wang , Mingzhi Chen , Yuesheng Zhu

The rapidly expanding number of Internet of Things (IoT) devices is generating huge quantities of data, but the data privacy and security exposure in IoT devices, especially in the automatic driving system. Federated learning (FL) is a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-09-15 Jiayin Li , Wenzhong Guo , Xingshuo Han , Jianping Cai , Ximeng Liu

A number of online services nowadays rely upon machine learning to extract valuable information from data collected in the wild. This exposes learning algorithms to the threat of data poisoning, i.e., a coordinate attack in which a fraction…

Asynchronous federated learning (AFL) is an effective method to address the challenge of device heterogeneity in cross-device federated learning. However, AFL is usually incompatible with existing secure aggregation protocols used to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-06-07 Kun Wang , Yi-Rui Yang , Wu-Jun Li

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

We consider data poisoning attacks, a class of adversarial attacks on machine learning where an adversary has the power to alter a small fraction of the training data in order to make the trained classifier satisfy certain objectives. While…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-08-29 Yizhen Wang , Kamalika Chaudhuri

Decentralized learning (DL) faces increased vulnerability to privacy breaches due to sophisticated attacks on machine learning (ML) models. Secure aggregation is a computationally efficient cryptographic technique that enables multiple…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-15 Sayan Biswas , Anne-Marie Kermarrec , Rafael Pires , Rishi Sharma , Milos Vujasinovic

Decentralized Federated Learning (DFL), a paradigm for managing big data in a privacy-preserved manner, is still vulnerable to poisoning attacks where malicious clients tamper with data or models. Current defense methods often assume…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-11-13 Chao Feng , Alberto Huertas Celdrán , Zien Zeng , Zi Ye , Jan von der Assen , Gerome Bovet , Burkhard Stiller

Federated Distillation (FD) is a novel and promising distributed machine learning paradigm, where knowledge distillation is leveraged to facilitate a more efficient and flexible cross-device knowledge transfer in federated learning. By…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Yuhan Tang , Zhiyuan Wu , Bo Gao , Tian Wen , Yuwei Wang , Sheng Sun

Diffusion models build a new milestone for image generation yet raising public concerns, for they can be fine-tuned on unauthorized images for customization. Protection based on adversarial attacks rises to encounter this unauthorized…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Boyang Zheng , Chumeng Liang , Xiaoyu Wu

Federated Learning (FL) is a distributed machine learning paradigm based on protecting data privacy of devices, which however, can still be broken by gradient leakage attack via parameter inversion techniques. Differential privacy (DP)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Pengcheng Sun , Erwu Liu , Wei Ni , Rui Wang , Yuanzhe Geng , Lijuan Lai , Abbas Jamalipour

Federated learning has become a widely used paradigm for collaboratively training a common model among different participants with the help of a central server that coordinates the training. Although only the model parameters or other model…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Raouf Kerkouche , Gergely Ács , Mario Fritz

Adversarial poisoning attacks pose huge threats to various machine learning applications. Especially, the recent accumulative poisoning attacks show that it is possible to achieve irreparable harm on models via a sequence of imperceptible…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Jianing Zhu , Xiawei Guo , Jiangchao Yao , Chao Du , Li He , Shuo Yuan , Tongliang Liu , Liang Wang , Bo Han

Model poisoning attacks greatly jeopardize the application of federated learning (FL). The effectiveness of existing defenses is susceptible to the latest model poisoning attacks, leading to a decrease in prediction accuracy. Besides, these…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Haonan Yan , Wenjing Zhang , Qian Chen , Xiaoguang Li , Wenhai Sun , Hui Li , Xiaodong Lin

Federated learning (FL) is vulnerable to model poisoning attacks due to its distributed nature. The current defenses start from all user gradients (model updates) in each communication round and solve for the optimal aggregation gradients…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Jinbo Wang , Ruijin Wang , Fengli Zhang

Federated learning enables the collaborative learning of a global model on diverse data, preserving data locality and eliminating the need to transfer user data to a central server. However, data privacy remains vulnerable, as attacks can…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-21 Yiwei Zhang , Rouzbeh Behnia , Attila A. Yavuz , Reza Ebrahimi , Elisa Bertino

Deep neural networks usually require large labeled datasets for training to achieve state-of-the-art performance in many tasks, such as image classification and natural language processing. Although a lot of data is created each day by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-03 Jing Lin , Ryan Luley , Kaiqi Xiong

Recent works have brought attention to the vulnerability of Federated Learning (FL) systems to gradient leakage attacks. Such attacks exploit clients' uploaded gradients to reconstruct their sensitive data, thereby compromising the privacy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Mingyuan Fan , Cen Chen , Chengyu Wang , Xiaodan Li , Wenmeng Zhou

Dataset sanitization is a widely adopted proactive defense against poisoning-based backdoor attacks, aimed at filtering out and removing poisoned samples from training datasets. However, existing methods have shown limited efficacy in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Jiachen Zhou , Peizhuo Lv , Yibing Lan , Guozhu Meng , Kai Chen , Hualong Ma