English
Related papers

Related papers: How Potent are Evasion Attacks for Poisoning Feder…

200 papers

Federated learning (FL) is vulnerable to poisoning attacks, where adversaries corrupt the global aggregation results and cause denial-of-service (DoS). Unlike recent model poisoning attacks that optimize the amplitude of malicious…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Hangtao Zhang , Zeming Yao , Leo Yu Zhang , Shengshan Hu , Chao Chen , Alan Liew , Zhetao Li

Federated Learning (FL), as a popular distributed learning paradigm, has shown outstanding performance in improving computational efficiency and protecting data privacy, and is widely applied in industrial image classification. However, due…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Tao Liu , Jiguang Lv , Dapeng Man , Weiye Xi , Yaole Li , Feiyu Zhao , Kuiming Wang , Yingchao Bian , Chen Xu , Wu Yang

Federated learning combines local updates from clients to produce a global model, which is susceptible to poisoning attacks. Most previous defense strategies relied on vectors derived from projections of local updates on a Euclidean space;…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-19 Sungwon Han , Hyeonho Song , Sungwon Park , Meeyoung Cha

Federated Learning (FL) is a collaborative learning paradigm enabling participants to collectively train a shared machine learning model while preserving the privacy of their sensitive data. Nevertheless, the inherent decentralized and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-08 K Naveen Kumar , C Krishna Mohan , Aravind Machiry

Deep learning and federated learning (FL) are becoming powerful partners for next-generation weather forecasting. Deep learning enables high-resolution spatiotemporal forecasts that can surpass traditional numerical models, while FL allows…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Karina Chichifoi , Fabio Merizzi , Michele Colajanni

Federated learning (FL) enables collaborative model training while preserving data privacy, but its decentralized nature exposes it to client-side data poisoning attacks (DPAs) and model poisoning attacks (MPAs) that degrade global model…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-07 Heyi Zhang , Yule Liu , Xinlei He , Jun Wu , Tianshuo Cong , Xinyi Huang

Federated learning (FL) is a collaborative learning paradigm allowing multiple clients to jointly train a model without sharing their training data. However, FL is susceptible to poisoning attacks, in which the adversary injects manipulated…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Hossein Fereidooni , Alessandro Pegoraro , Phillip Rieger , Alexandra Dmitrienko , Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi

Federated learning (FL) is a distributed machine learning paradigm that enables training models on decentralized data. The field of FL security against poisoning attacks is plagued with confusion due to the proliferation of research that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Hamid Mozaffari , Sunav Choudhary , Amir Houmansadr

Federated learning (FL) offers a privacy-preserving collaborative approach for training models in wireless networks, with channel estimation emerging as a promising application. Despite extensive studies on FL-empowered channel estimation,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-31 Zexin Fang , Bin Han , Hans D. Schotten

The privacy-preserving federated learning schemes based on the setting of two honest-but-curious and non-colluding servers offer promising solutions in terms of security and efficiency. However, our investigation reveals that these schemes…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Jiahui Wu , Fucai Luo , Tiecheng Sun , Haiyan Wang , Weizhe Zhang

We investigate a specific security risk in FL: a group of malicious clients has impacted the model during training by disguising their identities and acting as benign clients but later switching to an adversarial role. They use their data,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-22 Yijiang Li , Ying Gao , Haohan Wang

This review paper takes a comprehensive look at malicious attacks against FL, categorizing them from new perspectives on attack origins and targets, and providing insights into their methodology and impact. In this survey, we focus on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-10 Xianghua Xie , Chen Hu , Hanchi Ren , Jingjing Deng

Federated learning (FL) has been widely deployed to enable machine learning training on sensitive data across distributed devices. However, the decentralized learning paradigm and heterogeneity of FL further extend the attack surface for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Haomin Zhuang , Mingxian Yu , Hao Wang , Yang Hua , Jian Li , Xu Yuan

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

Federated learning (FL) provides an efficient paradigm to jointly train a global model leveraging data from distributed users. As local training data comes from different users who may not be trustworthy, several studies have shown that FL…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-01-02 Chulin Xie , Yunhui Long , Pin-Yu Chen , Qinbin Li , Arash Nourian , Sanmi Koyejo , Bo Li

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

Machine learning algorithms are vulnerable to poisoning attacks: An adversary can inject malicious points in the training dataset to influence the learning process and degrade the algorithm's performance. Optimal poisoning attacks have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-26 Luis Muñoz-González , Bjarne Pfitzner , Matteo Russo , Javier Carnerero-Cano , Emil C. Lupu

Federated Learning (FL) allows multiple clients to collaboratively train a Neural Network (NN) model on their private data without revealing the data. Recently, several targeted poisoning attacks against FL have been introduced. These…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-01-04 Phillip Rieger , Thien Duc Nguyen , Markus Miettinen , Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi

Federated learning (FL) is a feasible technique to learn personalized recommendation models from decentralized user data. Unfortunately, federated recommender systems are vulnerable to poisoning attacks by malicious clients. Existing…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-02-11 Chuhan Wu , Fangzhao Wu , Tao Qi , Yongfeng Huang , Xing Xie

Various attack methods against recommender systems have been proposed in the past years, and the security issues of recommender systems have drawn considerable attention. Traditional attacks attempt to make target items recommended to as…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Dazhong Rong , Qinming He , Jianhai Chen