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Existing model poisoning attacks to federated learning assume that an attacker has access to a large fraction of compromised genuine clients. However, such assumption is not realistic in production federated learning systems that involve…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-05-09 Xiaoyu Cao , Neil Zhenqiang Gong

The main premise of federated learning (FL) is that machine learning model updates are computed locally to preserve user data privacy. This approach avoids by design user data to ever leave the perimeter of their device. Once the updates…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-15 Simon Queyrut , Valerio Schiavoni , Pascal Felber

Federated learning (FL) enables multiple clients to collaboratively train models without sharing their local data, and becomes an important privacy-preserving machine learning framework. However, classical FL faces serious security and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-07-27 Jingwei Yi , Fangzhao Wu , Huishuai Zhang , Bin Zhu , Tao Qi , Guangzhong Sun , Xing Xie

Most machine learning applications rely on centralized learning processes, opening up the risk of exposure of their training datasets. While federated learning (FL) mitigates to some extent these privacy risks, it relies on a trusted…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-18 Georgios Syros , Gokberk Yar , Simona Boboila , Cristina Nita-Rotaru , Alina Oprea

Federated Learning remains highly susceptible to backdoor attacks--malicious clients inject targeted behaviours into the global model. Existing defenses suffer from substantial false-positive rates under realistic non-independent and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Fatima Z. Abacha , Sin G. Teo , Yuanxiang Wu , Lucas C. Cordeiro , Mustafa A. Mustafa

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

Federated Learning (FL) as a distributed learning paradigm that aggregates information from diverse clients to train a shared global model, has demonstrated great success. However, malicious clients can perform poisoning attacks and model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-16 Chulin Xie , Minghao Chen , Pin-Yu Chen , Bo Li

Recent work has shown that gradient updates in federated learning (FL) can unintentionally reveal sensitive information about a client's local data. This risk becomes significantly greater when a malicious server manipulates the global…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-26 Fei Wang , Baochun Li

The rapid development of artificial intelligence systems has amplified societal concerns regarding their usage, necessitating regulatory frameworks that encompass data privacy. Federated Learning (FL) is posed as potential solution to data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Mario García-Márquez , Nuria Rodríguez-Barroso , M. Victoria Luzón , Francisco Herrera

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

Deep Learning-based image synthesis techniques have been applied in healthcare research for generating medical images to support open research and augment medical datasets. Training generative adversarial neural networks (GANs) usually…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Ruinan Jin , Xiaoxiao Li

Underground mining operations rely on distributed sensor networks to collect critical data daily, including mine temperature, toxic gas concentrations, and miner movements for hazard detection and operational decision-making. However,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Md Sazedur Rahman , Mohamed Elmahallawy , Sanjay Madria , Samuel Frimpong

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

As one kind of distributed machine learning technique, federated learning enables multiple clients to build a model across decentralized data collaboratively without explicitly aggregating the data. Due to its ability to break data silos,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Junchuan Lianga , Rong Wang , Chaosheng Feng , Chin-Chen Chang

Federated learning (FL) is gaining increasing attention as an emerging collaborative machine learning approach, particularly in the context of large-scale computing and data systems. However, the fundamental algorithm of FL, Federated…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Jianyi Zhang , Ziyin Zhou , Yilong Li , Qichao Jin

Federated learning is a decentralized machine learning approach where clients train models locally and share model updates to develop a global model. This enables low-resource devices to collaboratively build a high-quality model without…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Li Bai , Haibo Hu , Qingqing Ye , Haoyang Li , Leixia Wang , Jianliang Xu

Deep learning models have recently shown to be vulnerable to backdoor poisoning, an insidious attack where the victim model predicts clean images correctly but classifies the same images as the target class when a trigger poison pattern is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-20 Alvin Chan , Yew-Soon Ong

Federated Learning (FL) thrives in training a global model with numerous clients by only sharing the parameters of their local models trained with their private training datasets. Therefore, without revealing the private dataset, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-06 Younghan Lee , Yungi Cho , Woorim Han , Ho Bae , Yunheung Paek

Federated Prompt Learning has emerged as a communication-efficient and privacy-preserving paradigm for adapting large vision-language models like CLIP across decentralized clients. However, the security implications of this setup remain…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Momin Ahmad Khan , Yasra Chandio , Fatima Muhammad Anwar

Federated learning allows multiple clients to collaboratively train a global model with the assistance of a server. However, its distributed nature makes it susceptible to poisoning attacks, where malicious clients can compromise the global…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-01-30 Wenbin Wang , Qiwen Ma , Zifan Zhang , Yuchen Liu , Zhuqing Liu , Minghong Fang