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Federated learning (FL) is an appealing paradigm that allows a group of machines (a.k.a. clients) to learn collectively while keeping their data local. However, due to the heterogeneity between the clients' data distributions, the model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Youssef Allouah , Abdellah El Mrini , Rachid Guerraoui , Nirupam Gupta , Rafael Pinot

Federated Learning (FL) enables collaborative model training across multiple clients without sharing private data. We consider FL scenarios wherein FL clients are subject to adversarial (Byzantine) attacks, while the FL server is trusted…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Emmanouil Kritharakis , Dusan Jakovetic , Antonios Makris , Konstantinos Tserpes

Federated learning (FL) is a distributed machine learning paradigm that enables training models on decentralized data. The field of FL security against poisoning attacks is plagued with confusion due to the proliferation of research that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Hamid Mozaffari , Sunav Choudhary , Amir Houmansadr

Federated Learning (FL) enables collaborative model training across multiple clients while preserving data privacy by keeping local datasets on-device. In this work, we address FL settings where clients may behave adversarially, exhibiting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Emmanouil Kritharakis , Antonios Makris , Dusan Jakovetic , Konstantinos Tserpes

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

Federated learning (FL) is a powerful distributed machine learning framework where a server aggregates models trained by different clients without accessing their private data. Hierarchical FL, with a client-edge-cloud aggregation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-10 Lumin Liu , Jun Zhang , Shenghui Song , Khaled B. Letaief

Federated Learning (FL) enables collaborative machine learning across decentralized data sources without sharing raw data. It offers a promising approach to privacy-preserving AI. However, FL remains vulnerable to adversarial threats from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Kun Yang , Neena Imam

Federated Learning (FL) enables multiple distributed clients (e.g., mobile devices) to collaboratively train a centralized model while keeping the training data locally on the client. Compared to traditional centralized machine learning, FL…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-29 Zhuohang Li , Luyang Liu , Jiaxin Zhang , Jian Liu

Federated learning (FL) has emerged as a promising paradigm in machine learning, enabling collaborative model training across decentralized devices without the need for raw data sharing. In FL, a global model is trained iteratively on local…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Kanishka Ranaweera , Azadeh Ghari Neiat , Xiao Liu , Bipasha Kashyap , Pubudu N. Pathirana

Federated learning (FL) is a privacy-preserving machine learning technique that facilitates collaboration among participants across demographics. FL enables model sharing, while restricting the movement of data. Since FL provides…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Harsh Kasyap , Minghong Fang , Zhuqing Liu , Carsten Maple , Somanath Tripathy

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), a distributed machine learning paradigm, has been adapted to mitigate privacy concerns for customers. Despite their appeal, there are various inference attacks that can exploit shared-plaintext model updates to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-07-20 Hua Ma , Qun Li , Yifeng Zheng , Zhi Zhang , Xiaoning Liu , Yansong Gao , Said F. Al-Sarawi , Derek Abbott

Federated Learning is a distributed machine learning framework designed for data privacy preservation i.e., local data remain private throughout the entire training and testing procedure. Federated Learning is gaining popularity because it…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-02 Hyejun Jeong , Joonyong Hwang , Tai Myung Chung

Federated learning (FL) enables distributed clients to collaboratively train a global model using local private data. Nevertheless, recent studies show that conventional FL algorithms still exhibit deficiencies in privacy protection, and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Ruiyang Wang , Rong Pan , Zhengan Yao

Non-IID data distribution across clients and poisoning attacks are two main challenges in real-world federated learning (FL) systems. While both of them have attracted great research interest with specific strategies developed, no known…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Yueqi Xie , Weizhong Zhang , Renjie Pi , Fangzhao Wu , Qifeng Chen , Xing Xie , Sunghun Kim

Federated Learning (FL) can be vulnerable to attacks, such as model poisoning, where adversaries send malicious local weights to compromise the global model. Federated Unlearning (FU) is emerging as a solution to address such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Nicolò Romandini , Cristian Borcea , Rebecca Montanari , Luca Foschini

With the wealth of information produced by social networks, smartphones, medical or financial applications, speculations have been raised about the sensitivity of such data in terms of users' personal privacy and data security. To address…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-21 Vito Walter Anelli , Yashar Deldjoo , Tommaso Di Noia , Antonio Ferrara

Federated Learning (FL) enables clients to collaboratively train a global model without sharing their private data. However, the presence of malicious (Byzantine) clients poses significant challenges to the robustness of FL, particularly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Javad Parsa , Amir Hossein Daghestani , André M. H. Teixeira , Mikael Johansson

Current defense mechanisms against model poisoning attacks in federated learning (FL) systems have proven effective up to a certain threshold of malicious clients. In this work, we introduce FLANDERS, a novel pre-aggregation filter for FL…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Edoardo Gabrielli , Dimitri Belli , Zoe Matrullo , Vittorio Miori , Gabriele Tolomei

Federated learning (FL) enables clients to collaboratively train machine learning models under the coordination of a server in a privacy-preserving manner. One of the main challenges in FL is that the server may not receive local updates…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Chutian Jiang , Hansong Zhou , Xiaonan Zhang , Shayok Chakraborty