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Federated learning is a promising direction to tackle the privacy issues related to sharing patients' sensitive data. Often, federated systems in the medical image analysis domain assume that the participating local clients are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-16 Indu Joshi , Priyank Upadhya , Gaurav Kumar Nayak , Peter Schüffler , Nassir Navab

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

In vertical federated learning (VFL), commercial entities collaboratively train a model while preserving data privacy. However, a malicious participant's poisoning attack may degrade the performance of this collaborative model. The main…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Xiaolin Chen , Daoguang Zan , Wei Li , Bei Guan , Yongji Wang

Multi-stage threats like advanced persistent threats (APT) pose severe risks by stealing data and destroying infrastructure, with detection being challenging. APTs use novel attack vectors and evade signature-based detection by obfuscating…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Florian Nelles , Abbas Yazdinejad , Ali Dehghantanha , Reza M. Parizi , Gautam Srivastava

Data poisoning is a training-time attack that undermines the trustworthiness of learned models. In a targeted data poisoning attack, an adversary manipulates the training dataset to alter the classification of a targeted test point. Given…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Nakshatra Gupta , Sumanth Prabhu , Supratik Chakraborty , R Venkatesh

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

Data poisoning attacks compromise the integrity of machine-learning models by introducing malicious training samples to influence the results during test time. In this work, we investigate backdoor data poisoning attack on deep neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-04 Mahesh Subedar , Nilesh Ahuja , Ranganath Krishnan , Ibrahima J. Ndiour , Omesh Tickoo

This paper presents the design and implementation of a Federated Learning (FL) testbed, focusing on its application in cybersecurity and evaluating its resilience against poisoning attacks. Federated Learning allows multiple clients to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Hao Jian Huang , Hakan T. Otal , M. Abdullah Canbaz

Federated Learning (FL) is a distributed training paradigm wherein participants collaborate to build a global model while ensuring the privacy of the involved data, which remains stored on participant devices. However, proposals aiming to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Nicolas Riccieri Gardin Assumpcao , Leandro Villas

Security issues are crucial in a number of machine learning applications, especially in scenarios dealing with human activity rather than natural phenomena (e.g., information ranking, spam detection, malware detection, etc.). It is to be…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2010-03-02 Marius Kloft , Pavel Laskov

Federated learning, i.e., a mobile edge computing framework for deep learning, is a recent advance in privacy-preserving machine learning, where the model is trained in a decentralized manner by the clients, i.e., data curators, preventing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-06 Zhibo Wang , Mengkai Song , Zhifei Zhang , Yang Song , Qian Wang , Hairong Qi

Federated Learning (FL) is a distributed learning paradigm designed to address privacy concerns. However, FL is vulnerable to poisoning attacks, where Byzantine clients compromise the integrity of the global model by submitting malicious…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Ryan McGaughey , Jesus Martinez del Rincon , Ihsen Alouani

The growing scale and sophistication of cyberattacks pose critical challenges to network security, particularly in detecting diverse intrusion types within imbalanced datasets. Traditional intrusion detection systems (IDS) often struggle to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Nisith Dissanayake , Uthayasanker Thayasivam

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

In adversarial machine learning, new defenses against attacks on deep learning systems are routinely broken soon after their release by more powerful attacks. In this context, forensic tools can offer a valuable complement to existing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-06-17 Shawn Shan , Arjun Nitin Bhagoji , Haitao Zheng , Ben Y. Zhao

This demo paper examines the susceptibility of Federated Learning (FL) systems to targeted data poisoning attacks, presenting a novel system for visualizing and mitigating such threats. We simulate targeted data poisoning attacks via label…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Xueqing Zhang , Junkai Zhang , Ka-Ho Chow , Juntao Chen , Ying Mao , Mohamed Rahouti , Xiang Li , Yuchen Liu , Wenqi Wei

The efficacy of availability poisoning, a method of poisoning data by injecting imperceptible perturbations to prevent its use in model training, has been a hot subject of investigation. Previous research suggested that it was difficult to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Tianrui Qin , Xitong Gao , Juanjuan Zhao , Kejiang Ye , Cheng-Zhong Xu

We propose a Universal Defence against backdoor attacks based on Clustering and Centroids Analysis (CCA-UD). The goal of the defence is to reveal whether a Deep Neural Network model is subject to a backdoor attack by inspecting the training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Wei Guo , Benedetta Tondi , Mauro Barni

Data poisoning attacks, in which an adversary corrupts a training set with the goal of inducing specific desired mistakes, have raised substantial concern: even just the possibility of such an attack can make a user no longer trust the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-09 Maria-Florina Balcan , Avrim Blum , Steve Hanneke , Dravyansh Sharma

Federated learning (FL) provides a high efficient decentralized machine learning framework, where the training data remains distributed at remote clients in a network. Though FL enables a privacy-preserving mobile edge computing framework…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-11 Xingyu Li , Zhe Qu , Shangqing Zhao , Bo Tang , Zhuo Lu , Yao Liu