English
Related papers

Related papers: FedDef: Defense Against Gradient Leakage in Federa…

200 papers

With massive data being generated daily and the ever-increasing interconnectivity of the world's Internet infrastructures, a machine learning based intrusion detection system (IDS) has become a vital component to protect our economic and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-08-20 Zachary Tauscher , Yushan Jiang , Kai Zhang , Jian Wang , Houbing Song

Traditional security protection methods struggle to address sophisticated attack vectors in large-scale distributed systems, particularly when balancing detection accuracy with data privacy concerns. This paper presents a novel distributed…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-26 Yuqing Wang , Xiao Yang

Federated learning (FL) enables collaborative intrusion detection without raw data exchange, but conventional FL incurs high communication overhead from full-precision gradient transmission and remains vulnerable to gradient inference…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Noor Islam S. Mohammad

This paper proposes PenTiDef, a fully decentralized, privacy-preserving, and poisoning-resilient framework for decentralized federated IDS (DFL-IDS). PenTiDef synergistically integrates three key components: (i) client-side Distributed…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Phan The Duy , Nghi Hoang Khoa , Nguyen Tran Anh Quan , Luong Ha Tien , Ngo Duc Hoang Son , Van-Hau Pham

Federated Learning (FL) faces two major issues: privacy leakage and poisoning attacks, which may seriously undermine the reliability and security of the system. Overcoming them simultaneously poses a great challenge. This is because privacy…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Yisheng Zhong , Li-Ping Wang

Federated Learning (FL) enables collaborative training of Deep Learning (DL) models where the data is retained locally. Like DL, FL has severe security weaknesses that the attackers can exploit, e.g., model inversion and backdoor attacks.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-03-01 Gorka Abad , Servio Paguada , Oguzhan Ersoy , Stjepan Picek , Víctor Julio Ramírez-Durán , Aitor Urbieta

Network intrusion detection systems (NIDSs) play an important role in computer network security. There are several detection mechanisms where anomaly-based automated detection outperforms others significantly. Amid the sophistication and…

Federated Learning (FL), a privacy-preserving machine learning framework, faces significant data-related challenges. For example, the lack of suitable public datasets leads to ineffective information exchange, especially in heterogeneous…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Xi Li , Chen Wu , Jiaqi Wang

Federated learning (FL) is a privacy-preserving collaborative learning framework, and differential privacy can be applied to further enhance its privacy protection. Existing FL systems typically adopt Federated Average (FedAvg) as the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Lumin Liu , Jun Zhang , Shenghui Song , Khaled B. Letaief

Network intrusion is a well-studied area of cyber security. Current machine learning-based network intrusion detection systems (NIDSs) monitor network data and the patterns within those data but at the cost of presenting significant issues…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-07-07 Jyoti Fakirah , Lauhim Mahfuz Zishan , Roshni Mooruth , Michael N. Johnstone , Wencheng Yang

Using dispersed data and training, federated learning (FL) moves AI capabilities to edge devices or does tasks locally. Many consider FL the start of a new era in AI, yet it is still immature. FL has not garnered the community's trust since…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Ghazaleh Shirvani , Saeid Ghasemshirazi , Behzad Beigzadeh

The growing concern over data privacy, the benefits of utilizing data from diverse sources for model training, and the proliferation of networked devices with enhanced computational capabilities have all contributed to the rise of federated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Rui Zhang , Ka-Ho Chow , Ping Li

Local differential privacy (LDP) gives a strong privacy guarantee to be used in a distributed setting like federated learning (FL). LDP mechanisms in FL protect a client's gradient by randomizing it on the client; however, how can we…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Marin Matsumoto , Tsubasa Takahashi , Seng Pei Liew , Masato Oguchi

Many existing privacy-enhanced speech emotion recognition (SER) frameworks focus on perturbing the original speech data through adversarial training within a centralized machine learning setup. However, this privacy protection scheme can…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Tiantian Feng , Raghuveer Peri , Shrikanth Narayanan

Federated learning (FL), a privacy-preserving distributed machine learning, has been rapidly applied in wireless communication networks. FL enables Internet of Things (IoT) clients to obtain well-trained models while preventing privacy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-14 Kangning Yin , Zhen Ding , Zhihua Dong , Dongsheng Chen , Jie Fu , Xinhui Ji , Guangqiang Yin , Zhiguo Wang

Federated learning (FL) is a promising technique for learning-based functions in wireless networks, thanks to its distributed implementation capability. On the other hand, distributed learning may increase the risk of exposure to malicious…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-28 Han Zhang , Hao Zhou , Medhat Elsayed , Majid Bavand , Raimundas Gaigalas , Yigit Ozcan , Melike Erol-Kantarci

In emerging networked systems, mobile edge devices such as ground vehicles and unmanned aerial system (UAS) swarms collectively aggregate vast amounts of data to make machine learning decisions such as threat detection in remote, dynamic,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Utku Demir , Tugba Erpek , Yalin E. Sagduyu , Sastry Kompella , Mengran Xue

Federated Learning (FL) in the Internet of Things (IoT) environments can enhance machine learning by utilising decentralised data, but at the same time, it might introduce significant privacy and security concerns due to the constrained…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-26 Adel ElZemity , Budi Arief

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 emerged as a promising approach to address data privacy and confidentiality concerns by allowing multiple participants to construct a shared model without centralizing sensitive data. However, this decentralized…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Jahid Hasan