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Byzantine attacks during model aggregation in Federated Learning (FL) threaten training integrity by manipulating malicious clients' updates. Existing methods struggle with limited robustness under high malicious client ratios and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Yanhua Wen , Lu Ai , Gang Liu , Chuang Li , Jianhao Wei

Federated Learning (FL) enables multiple clients to collaboratively train models without sharing raw data, but is vulnerable to Byzantine attacks and data heterogeneity, which can severely degrade performance. Existing Byzantine-robust…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Shiyuan Zuo , Xingrun Yan , Rongfei Fan , Li Shen , Puning Zhao , Jie Xu , Han Hu

Byzantine attacks present a critical challenge to Federated Learning (FL), where malicious participants can disrupt the training process, degrade model accuracy, and compromise system reliability. Traditional FL frameworks typically rely on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Yufei Xia , Wenrui Yu , Qiongxiu Li

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

Both Byzantine resilience and communication efficiency have attracted tremendous attention recently for their significance in edge federated learning. However, most existing algorithms may fail when dealing with real-world irregular data…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Youming Tao , Sijia Cui , Wenlu Xu , Haofei Yin , Dongxiao Yu , Weifa Liang , Xiuzhen Cheng

Federated learning is designed to enhance data security and privacy, but faces challenges when dealing with heterogeneous data in long-tailed and non-IID distributions. This paper explores an overlooked scenario where tail classes are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-14 Zhuoxin Chen , Zhenyu Wu , Yang Ji

Federated learning (FL), an emerging distributed machine learning paradigm, has been applied to various privacy-preserving scenarios. However, due to its distributed nature, FL faces two key issues: the non-independent and identical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-18 Youpeng Li , Xinda Wang , Fuxun Yu , Lichao Sun , Wenbin Zhang , Xuyu Wang

Federated Learning (FL) enables multiple clients to collaboratively train a model without sharing their local data. Yet the FL system is vulnerable to well-designed Byzantine attacks, which aim to disrupt the model training process by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-05 Jiahao Xu , Zikai Zhang , Rui Hu

Distributed Federated Learning (DFL) enables decentralized model training across large-scale systems without a central parameter server. However, DFL faces three critical challenges: privacy leakage from honest-but-curious neighbors, slow…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Nuocheng Yang , Sihua Wang , Zhaohui Yang , Mingzhe Chen , Changchuan Yin , Kaibin Huang

Federated learning (FL) becomes vulnerable to Byzantine attacks where some of participators tend to damage the utility or discourage the convergence of the learned model via sending their malicious model updates. Previous works propose to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Fangyuan Zhao , Yuexiang Xie , Xuebin Ren , Bolin Ding , Shusen Yang , Yaliang Li

Federated Learning (FL) has become a popular distributed learning paradigm that involves multiple clients training a global model collaboratively in a data privacy-preserving manner. However, the data samples usually follow a long-tailed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-27 Wenkai Yang , Deli Chen , Hao Zhou , Fandong Meng , Jie Zhou , Xu Sun

Byzantine-robust federated learning aims at mitigating Byzantine failures during the federated training process, where malicious participants may upload arbitrary local updates to the central server to degrade the performance of the global…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-15 Shenghui Li , Edith C. -H. Ngai , Thiemo Voigt

While being an effective framework of learning a shared model across multiple edge devices, federated learning (FL) is generally vulnerable to Byzantine attacks from adversarial edge devices. While existing works on FL mitigate such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Youngjoon Lee , Sangwoo Park , Joonhyuk Kang

Federated Learning (FL) aims to train a collaborative model while preserving data privacy. However, the distributed nature of this approach still raises privacy and security issues, such as the exposure of sensitive data due to inference…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Adda Akram Bendoukha , Aymen Boudguiga , Nesrine Kaaniche , Renaud Sirdey , Didem Demirag , Sébastien Gambs

Federated learning (FL) facilitates distributed training across different IoT and edge devices, safeguarding the privacy of their data. The inherent distributed structure of FL introduces vulnerabilities, especially from adversarial devices…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-11-13 Shenghui Li , Edith Ngai , Fanghua Ye , Li Ju , Tianru Zhang , Thiemo Voigt

Federated learning (FL) enables multiple clients to collaboratively train an accurate global model while protecting clients' data privacy. However, FL is susceptible to Byzantine attacks from malicious participants. Although the problem has…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Wei Wan , Shengshan Hu , Jianrong Lu , Leo Yu Zhang , Hai Jin , Yuanyuan He

Prior efforts in enhancing federated learning (FL) security fall into two categories. At one end of the spectrum, some work uses secure aggregation techniques to hide the individual client's updates and only reveal the aggregated global…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Lun Wang , Qi Pang , Shuai Wang , Dawn Song

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

Federated Learning (FL) has become a powerful technique for training Machine Learning (ML) models in a decentralized manner, preserving the privacy of the training datasets involved. However, the decentralized nature of FL limits the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Enrique Mármol Campos , Aurora González Vidal , José Luis Hernández Ramos , Antonio Skarmeta

Federated learning (FL) provides a privacy-preserving solution for distributed machine learning tasks. One challenging problem that severely damages the performance of FL models is the co-occurrence of data heterogeneity and long-tail…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-29 Xinyi Shang , Yang Lu , Gang Huang , Hanzi Wang