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Federated Learning (FL) enables collaborative model training across multiple devices while preserving data privacy. However, it remains susceptible to backdoor attacks, where malicious participants can compromise the global model. Existing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-26 Ebtisaam Alharbi , Leandro Soriano Marcolino , Qiang Ni , Antonios Gouglidis

The goal of federated learning (FL) is to train one global model by aggregating model parameters updated independently on edge devices without accessing users' private data. However, FL is susceptible to backdoor attacks where a small…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-02-24 Yein Kim , Huili Chen , Farinaz Koushanfar

Vertical Federated Learning (VFL) is a category of Federated Learning in which models are trained collaboratively among parties with vertically partitioned data. Typically, in a VFL scenario, the labels of the samples are kept private from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-27 Marco Arazzi , Serena Nicolazzo , Antonino Nocera

Federated learning (FL), which aims to facilitate data collaboration across multiple organizations without exposing data privacy, encounters potential security risks. One serious threat is backdoor attacks, where an attacker injects a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Yuexin Xuan , Xiaojun Chen , Zhendong Zhao , Bisheng Tang , Ye Dong

Federated learning (FL) is vulnerable to backdoor attacks, where adversaries alter model behavior on target classification labels by embedding triggers into data samples. While these attacks have received considerable attention in…

Data heterogeneity among Federated Learning (FL) users poses a significant challenge, resulting in reduced global model performance. The community has designed various techniques to tackle this issue, among which Knowledge Distillation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Momin Ahmad Khan , Yasra Chandio , Fatima Muhammad Anwar

Federated learning (FL) allows a set of agents to collaboratively train a model without sharing their potentially sensitive data. This makes FL suitable for privacy-preserving applications. At the same time, FL is susceptible to adversarial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-02 Mustafa Safa Ozdayi , Murat Kantarcioglu , Yulia R. Gel

Machine learning makes multimedia data (e.g., images) more attractive, however, multimedia data is usually distributed and privacy sensitive. Multiple distributed multimedia clients can resort to federated learning (FL) to jointly learn a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-26 Hong Huang , Xinyu Lei , Tao Xiang

Knowledge distillation has become a cornerstone in modern machine learning systems, celebrated for its ability to transfer knowledge from a large, complex teacher model to a more efficient student model. Traditionally, this process is…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Chen Wu , Qian Ma , Prasenjit Mitra , Sencun Zhu

Federated learning is a distributed learning paradigm that facilitates the collaborative training of a global model across multiple clients while preserving the privacy of local datasets. To address inherent challenges related to data…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Chengcheng Zhu , Jiale Zhang , Di Wu , Guodong Long

Federated Learning (FL) is a popular distributed machine learning paradigm that enables jointly training a global model without sharing clients' data. However, its repetitive server-client communication gives room for backdoor attacks with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-20 Pei Fang , Jinghui Chen

Although existing backdoor defenses have gained success in mitigating backdoor attacks, they still face substantial challenges. In particular, most of them rely on large amounts of clean data to weaken the backdoor mapping but generally…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Zhengxian Wu , Juan Wen , Wanli Peng , Yinghan Zhou , Changtong dou , Yiming Xue

Federated Learning (FL) is a promising approach enabling multiple clients to train Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) collaboratively without sharing their local training data. However, FL is susceptible to backdoor (or targeted poisoning)…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-08-23 Phillip Rieger , Torsten Krauß , Markus Miettinen , Alexandra Dmitrienko , Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi

Federated Learning (FL) is a distributed and privacy-preserving machine learning paradigm that coordinates multiple clients to train a model while keeping the raw data localized. However, this traditional FL poses some challenges, including…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Laiqiao Qin , Tianqing Zhu , Wanlei Zhou , Philip S. Yu

Federated learning (FL) is a decentralized collaborative machine learning (ML) technique. It provides a solution to the issues of isolated data islands and data privacy leakage in industrial ML practices. One major challenge in FL is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-26 Yushan Zhao , Jinyuan He , Donglai Chen , Weijie Luo , Chong Xie , Ri Zhang , Yonghong Chen , Yan Xu

As a distributed machine learning paradigm, Federated Learning (FL) enables large-scale clients to collaboratively train a model without sharing their raw data. However, due to the lack of data auditing for untrusted clients, FL is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Yanxin Yang , Ming Hu , Xiaofei Xie , Yue Cao , Pengyu Zhang , Yihao Huang , Mingsong Chen

Federated learning (FL) operates in heterogeneous environments, where variations in data distributions and asymmetric model design often result in negative transfer. While federated knowledge distillation (FKD) avoids direct model parameter…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Quang-Huy Nguyen , Jiaqi Wang , Wei-shinn Ku

Knowledge distillation (KD) can enable collaborative learning among distributed clients that have different model architectures and do not share their local data and model parameters with others. Each client updates its local model using…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Pengchao Han , Xingyan Shi , Jianwei Huang

Federated Learning (FL) is designed to protect the data privacy of each client during the training process by transmitting only models instead of the original data. However, the trained model may memorize certain information about the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Chen Wu , Sencun Zhu , Prasenjit Mitra

Federated Learning (FL) is a decentralized machine learning method that enables participants to collaboratively train a model without sharing their private data. Despite its privacy and scalability benefits, FL is susceptible to backdoor…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-11 Yujie Zhang , Neil Gong , Michael K. Reiter
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