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Federated learning has emerged as a popular paradigm for collaboratively training a model from data distributed among a set of clients. This learning setting presents, among others, two unique challenges: how to protect privacy of the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-05-07 Hanieh Hashemi , Yongqin Wang , Chuan Guo , Murali Annavaram

This paper aims at jointly addressing two seemly conflicting issues in federated learning: differential privacy (DP) and Byzantine-robustness, which are particularly challenging when the distributed data are non-i.i.d. (independent and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-03 Heng Zhu , Qing Ling

One of the most common defense strategies against Byzantine clients in federated learning (FL) is to employ a robust aggregator mechanism that makes the training more resilient. While many existing Byzantine robust aggregators provide…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-10 Joseph Geo Benjamin , Mothilal Asokan , Mohammad Yaqub , Karthik Nandakumar

Edge computing is emerging as a new paradigm to allow processing data at the edge of the network, where data is typically generated and collected, by exploiting multiple devices at the edge collectively. However, offloading tasks to other…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-08-16 Yasaman Keshtkarjahromi , Rawad Bitar , Venkat Dasari , Salim El Rouayheb , Hulya Seferoglu

Secure federated learning is a privacy-preserving framework to improve machine learning models by training over large volumes of data collected by mobile users. This is achieved through an iterative process where, at each iteration, users…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Jinhyun So , Basak Guler , A. Salman Avestimehr

Federated Learning (FL) is a promising distributed learning framework designed for privacy-aware applications. FL trains models on client devices without sharing the client's data and generates a global model on a server by aggregating…

Privacy and Byzantine resilience are two indispensable requirements for a federated learning (FL) system. Although there have been extensive studies on privacy and Byzantine security in their own track, solutions that consider both remain…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-03 Zihang Xiang , Tianhao Wang , Wanyu Lin , Di Wang

Decentralized machine learning (DL) has been receiving an increasing interest recently due to the elimination of a single point of failure, present in Federated learning setting. Yet, it is threatened by the looming threat of Byzantine…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Ali Reza Ghavamipour , Benjamin Zi Hao Zhao , Oguzhan Ersoy , Fatih Turkmen

Federated Learning (FL) is a decentralized machine learning approach where client devices train models locally and send them to a server that performs aggregation to generate a global model. FL is vulnerable to model inversion attacks,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-05-03 Niousha Nazemi , Omid Tavallaie , Shuaijun Chen , Albert Y. Zomaya , Ralph Holz

We consider the federated learning problem where data on workers are not independent and identically distributed (i.i.d.). During the learning process, an unknown number of Byzantine workers may send malicious messages to the central node,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-31 Jie Peng , Zhaoxian Wu , Qing Ling , Tianyi Chen

Federated learning is a novel framework that enables resource-constrained edge devices to jointly learn a model, which solves the problem of data protection and data islands. However, standard federated learning is vulnerable to Byzantine…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Kun Zhai , Qiang Ren , Junli Wang , Chungang Yan

Given sufficient data from multiple edge devices, federated learning (FL) enables training a shared model without transmitting private data to the central server. However, FL is generally vulnerable to Byzantine attacks from compromised…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Youngjoon Lee , Jinu Gong , Joonhyuk Kang

Federated learning (FL) enables collaborative model training without sharing raw data, but individual model updates may still leak sensitive information. Secure aggregation (SecAgg) mitigates this risk by allowing the server to access only…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Takumi Suimon , Yuki Koizumi , Junji Takemasa , Toru Hasegawa

Federated learning (FL) is designed to preserve data privacy during model training, where the data remains on the client side (i.e., IoT devices), and only model updates of clients are shared iteratively for collaborative learning. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-08 Zikai Zhang , Rui Hu

This paper jointly considers privacy preservation and Byzantine-robustness in decentralized learning. In a decentralized network, honest-but-curious agents faithfully follow the prescribed algorithm, but expect to infer their neighbors'…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Haoxiang Ye , Heng Zhu , Qing Ling

Stragglers, Byzantine workers, and data privacy are the main bottlenecks in distributed cloud computing. Some prior works proposed coded computing strategies to jointly address all three challenges. They require either a large number of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Tingting Tang , Ramy E. Ali , Hanieh Hashemi , Tynan Gangwani , Salman Avestimehr , Murali Annavaram

Over-the-air computation (AirComp) has emerged as an essential approach for enabling communication-efficient federated learning (FL) over wireless networks. Nonetheless, the inherent analog transmission mechanism in AirComp-based FL (AirFL)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Jiacheng Yao , Wei Shi , Wei Xu , Zhaohui Yang , A. Lee Swindlehurst , Dusit Niyato

Federated learning has exhibited vulnerabilities to Byzantine attacks, where the Byzantine attackers can send arbitrary gradients to a central server to destroy the convergence and performance of the global model. A wealth of robust…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Yuchen Liu , Chen Chen , Lingjuan Lyu , Fangzhao Wu , Sai Wu , Gang Chen

Federated Learning (FL) enables collaborative model training across multiple clients while preserving data privacy by keeping local datasets on-device. In this work, we address FL settings where clients may behave adversarially, exhibiting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Emmanouil Kritharakis , Antonios Makris , Dusan Jakovetic , Konstantinos Tserpes

Distributed learning has become a promising computational parallelism paradigm that enables a wide scope of intelligent applications from the Internet of Things (IoT) to autonomous driving and the healthcare industry. This paper studies…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-28 Yuhan Yang , Youlong Wu , Yuning Jiang , Yuanming Shi