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Federated learning is a versatile framework for training models in decentralized environments. However, the trust placed in clients makes federated learning vulnerable to backdoor attacks launched by malicious participants. While many…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-12-23 Borja Molina-Coronado

Gradient inversion attack enables recovery of training samples from model gradients in federated learning (FL), and constitutes a serious threat to data privacy. To mitigate this vulnerability, prior work proposed both principled defenses…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Ruihan Wu , Xiangyu Chen , Chuan Guo , Kilian Q. Weinberger

The raise of machine learning and deep learning led to significant improvement in several domains. This change is supported by both the dramatic rise in computation power and the collection of large datasets. Such massive datasets often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-24 Hamid Jalalzai , Elie Kadoche , Rémi Leluc , Vincent Plassier

In this paper we propose the federated learning algorithm Fed-PLT to overcome the challenges of (i) expensive communications and (ii) privacy preservation. We address (i) by allowing for both partial participation and local training, which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Nicola Bastianello , Changxin Liu , Karl H. Johansson

Advances in distributed machine learning can empower future communications and networking. The emergence of federated learning (FL) has provided an efficient framework for distributed machine learning, which, however, still faces many…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Zhilin Wang , Qiao Kang , Xinyi Zhang , Qin Hu

Malicious adversaries can attack machine learning models to infer sensitive information or damage the system by launching a series of evasion attacks. Although various work addresses privacy and security concerns, they focus on individual…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-22 Janvi Thakkar , Giulio Zizzo , Sergio Maffeis

In this paper, we experimentally analyze the robustness of selected Federated Learning (FL) systems in the presence of adversarial clients. We find that temporal attacks significantly affect model performance in the FL models tested,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Rohit Mapakshi , Sayma Akther , Mark Stamp

Federated Learning (FL) facilitates collaborative model training among distributed clients while ensuring that raw data remains on local devices.Despite this advantage, FL systems are still exposed to risks from malicious or unreliable…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Deepthy K Bhaskar , Minimol B , Binu V P

Federated Learning has been introduced as a new machine learning paradigm enhancing the use of local devices. At a server level, FL regularly aggregates models learned locally on distributed clients to obtain a more general model. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Anastasiia Usmanova , François Portet , Philippe Lalanda , German Vega

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

Federated learning is particularly susceptible to model poisoning and backdoor attacks because individual users have direct control over the training data and model updates. At the same time, the attack power of an individual user is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Yuxin Wen , Jonas Geiping , Liam Fowl , Hossein Souri , Rama Chellappa , Micah Goldblum , Tom Goldstein

In terms of artificial intelligence, there are several security and privacy deficiencies in the traditional centralized training methods of machine learning models by a server. To address this limitation, federated learning (FL) has been…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Yao Chen , Yijie Gui , Hong Lin , Wensheng Gan , Yongdong Wu

The decentralized nature of federated learning, that often leverages the power of edge devices, makes it vulnerable to attacks against privacy and security. The privacy risk for a peer is that the model update she computes on her private…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-08-05 Josep Domingo-Ferrer , Alberto Blanco-Justicia , Jesús Manjón , David Sánchez

Federated Learning is an emerging privacy-preserving distributed machine learning approach to building a shared model by performing distributed training locally on participating devices (clients) and aggregating the local models into a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-15 Sreya Francis , Irene Tenison , Irina Rish

With the emergence of data silos and popular privacy awareness, the traditional centralized approach of training artificial intelligence (AI) models is facing strong challenges. Federated learning (FL) has recently emerged as a promising…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-03-05 Lingjuan Lyu , Han Yu , Qiang Yang

Federated learning learns a neural network model by aggregating the knowledge from a group of distributed clients under the privacy-preserving constraint. In this work, we show that this paradigm might inherit the adversarial vulnerability…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Yao Zhou , Jun Wu , Haixun Wang , Jingrui He

Due to its distributed methodology alongside its privacy-preserving features, Federated Learning (FL) is vulnerable to training time adversarial attacks. In this study, our focus is on backdoor attacks in which the adversary's goal is to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-11 Omid Aramoon , Pin-Yu Chen , Gang Qu , Yuan Tian

Federated learning (FL) offers a promising paradigm for collaborative model training while preserving data privacy. However, its susceptibility to gradient inversion attacks poses a significant challenge, necessitating robust privacy…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Xiaojin Zhang , Mingcong Xu , Yiming Li , Wei Chen , Qiang Yang

Recent studies have revealed that federated learning (FL), once considered secure due to clients not sharing their private data with the server, is vulnerable to attacks such as client-side training data distribution inference, where a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-05 Yichang Xu , Ming Yin , Minghong Fang , Neil Zhenqiang Gong

As people pay more and more attention to privacy protection, Federated Learning (FL), as a promising distributed machine learning paradigm, is receiving more and more attention. However, due to the biased distribution of data on devices in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-27 Yuquan Zhang , Yongquan Zhang