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Federated Learning (FL) has emerged as a potentially powerful privacy-preserving machine learning methodology, since it avoids exchanging data between participants, but instead exchanges model parameters. FL has traditionally been applied…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-10-17 Han Wu , Zilong Zhao , Lydia Y. Chen , Aad van Moorsel

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 (FL) is a heavily promoted approach for training ML models on sensitive data, e.g., text typed by users on their smartphones. FL is expressly designed for training on data that are unbalanced and non-iid across the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-07 Tao Yu , Eugene Bagdasaryan , Vitaly Shmatikov

Federated learning (FL) provides a privacy-preserving solution for distributed machine learning tasks. One challenging problem that severely damages the performance of FL models is the co-occurrence of data heterogeneity and long-tail…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-29 Xinyi Shang , Yang Lu , Gang Huang , Hanzi Wang

Federated Learning (FL), a privacy-preserving decentralized machine learning framework, has been shown to be vulnerable to backdoor attacks. Current research primarily focuses on the Single-Label Backdoor Attack (SBA), wherein adversaries…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Ye Li , Yanchao Zhao , Chengcheng Zhu , Jiale Zhang

Split learning is a collaborative learning design that allows several participants (clients) to train a shared model while keeping their datasets private. Recent studies demonstrate that collaborative learning models, specifically federated…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Behrad Tajalli , Oguzhan Ersoy , Stjepan Picek

Federated learning (FL) is a distributed machine learning approach involving multiple clients collaboratively training a shared model. Such a system has the advantage of more training data from multiple clients, but data can be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Sone Kyaw Pye , Han Yu

Federated Learning (FL) emerged as a learning method to enable the server to train models over data distributed among various clients. These clients are protective about their data being leaked to the server, any other client, or an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-27 Uday Bhaskar , Varul Srivastava , Avyukta Manjunatha Vummintala , Naresh Manwani , Sujit Gujar

Existing approaches defend against backdoor attacks in federated learning (FL) mainly through a) mitigating the impact of infected models, or b) excluding infected models. The former negatively impacts model accuracy, while the latter…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Zhen Qin , Feiyi Chen , Chen Zhi , Xueqiang Yan , Shuiguang Deng

Federated Learning (FL) is a distributed machine learning technique that allows model training among multiple devices or organizations by sharing training parameters instead of raw data. However, adversaries can still infer individual…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-27 Xinpeng Ling , Jie Fu , Kuncan Wang , Haitao Liu , Zhili Chen

Federated learning (FL) is an emerging paradigm for facilitating multiple organizations' data collaboration without revealing their private data to each other. Recently, vertical FL, where the participating organizations hold the same set…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-15 Xinjian Luo , Yuncheng Wu , Xiaokui Xiao , Beng Chin Ooi

Federated learning (FL) has become an emerging machine learning technique lately due to its efficacy in safeguarding the client's confidential information. Nevertheless, despite the inherent and additional privacy-preserving mechanisms…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-09-22 Md Tamjid Hossain , Shafkat Islam , Shahriar Badsha , Haoting Shen

Vertical Federated Learning (VFL) focuses on handling vertically partitioned data over FL participants. Recent studies have discovered a significant vulnerability in VFL to backdoor attacks which specifically target the distinct…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-30 Yungi Cho , Woorim Han , Miseon Yu , Younghan Lee , Ho Bae , Yunheung Paek

Machine Learning (ML) techniques have shown strong potential for network traffic analysis; however, their effectiveness depends on access to representative, up-to-date datasets, which is limited in cybersecurity due to privacy and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Roberto Doriguzzi-Corin , Petr Sabel , Silvio Cretti , Silvio Ranise

Federated learning (FL) is a distributed learning paradigm that allows multiple decentralized clients to collaboratively learn a common model without sharing local data. Although local data is not exposed directly, privacy concerns…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-02 Tongxin Yin , Xuwei Tan , Xueru Zhang , Mohammad Mahdi Khalili , Mingyan Liu

Insider threats usually occur from within the workplace, where the attacker is an entity closely associated with the organization. The sequence of actions the entities take on the resources to which they have access rights allows us to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-23 R G Gayathri , Atul Sajjanhar , Md Palash Uddin , Yong Xiang

Federated learning (FL) naturally faces the problem of data heterogeneity in real-world scenarios, but this is often overlooked by studies on FL security and privacy. On the one hand, the effectiveness of backdoor attacks on FL may drop…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Haochen Mei , Gaolei Li , Jun Wu , Longfei Zheng

Federated learning (FL) has been demonstrated to be susceptible to backdoor attacks. However, existing academic studies on FL backdoor attacks rely on a high proportion of real clients with main task-related data, which is impractical. In…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Minghui Li , Wei Wan , Yuxuan Ning , Shengshan Hu , Lulu Xue , Leo Yu Zhang , Yichen Wang

Federated Learning (FL) enables collaborative model training without centralizing client data, making it attractive for privacy-sensitive domains. While existing approaches employ cryptographic techniques such as homomorphic encryption,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Sahar Ghoflsaz Ghinani , Elaheh Sadredini

Federated Learning (FL) has emerged as a machine learning approach able to preserve the privacy of user's data. Applying FL, clients train machine learning models on a local dataset and a central server aggregates the learned parameters…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Luiz Leite , Yuri Santo , Bruno L. Dalmazo , André Riker