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Federated learning enables training high-utility models across several clients without directly sharing their private data. As a downside, the federated setting makes the model vulnerable to various adversarial attacks in the presence of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Xiaoyang Wang , Dimitrios Dimitriadis , Sanmi Koyejo , Shruti Tople

Decentralized Federated Learning (DFL) emerges as an innovative paradigm to train collaborative models, addressing the single point of failure limitation. However, the security and trustworthiness of FL and DFL are compromised by poisoning…

Federated learning (FL) is an efficient approach for large-scale distributed machine learning that promises data privacy by keeping training data on client devices. However, recent research has uncovered vulnerabilities in FL, impacting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Felix Marx , Thomas Schneider , Ajith Suresh , Tobias Wehrle , Christian Weinert , Hossein Yalame

Federated Learning (FL) enables clients to collaboratively train a global model using their local datasets while reinforcing data privacy, but it is prone to poisoning attacks. Existing defense mechanisms assume that clients' data are…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Mehdi Ben Ghali , Gouenou Coatrieux , Reda Bellafqira

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 is a distributed machine-learning environment that allows clients to learn collaboratively without sharing private data. This is accomplished by exchanging parameters. However, the differences in data distributions and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-17 Kuang Hangdong , Mi Bo

Federated Learning (FL) is quickly becoming a goto distributed training paradigm for users to jointly train a global model without physically sharing their data. Users can indirectly contribute to, and directly benefit from a much larger…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Pallika Kanani , Virendra J. Marathe , Daniel Peterson , Rave Harpaz , Steve Bright

Federated learning (FL) is an emerging distributed machine learning framework for collaborative model training with a network of clients (edge devices). FL offers default client privacy by allowing clients to keep their sensitive data on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-24 Wenqi Wei , Ling Liu , Margaret Loper , Ka-Ho Chow , Mehmet Emre Gursoy , Stacey Truex , Yanzhao Wu

Federated learning (FL) is a distributed learning framework that leverages commonalities between distributed client datasets to train a global model. Under heterogeneous clients, however, FL can fail to produce stable training results.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-04 Connor J. Mclaughlin , Lili Su

Due to the distributed nature of Federated Learning (FL), researchers have uncovered that FL is vulnerable to backdoor attacks, which aim at injecting a sub-task into the FL without corrupting the performance of the main task. Single-shot…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Tian Liu , Xueyang Hu , Tao Shu

Federated learning (FL) refers to a distributed machine learning framework involving learning from several decentralized edge clients without sharing local dataset. This distributed strategy prevents data leakage and enables on-device…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Taki Hasan Rafi , Faiza Anan Noor , Tahmid Hussain , Dong-Kyu Chae , Zhaohui Yang

Federated Learning (FL) is a promising distributed learning approach that enables multiple clients to collaboratively train a shared global model. However, recent studies show that FL is vulnerable to various poisoning attacks, which can…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-10-23 Xinyu Zhang , Qingyu Liu , Zhongjie Ba , Yuan Hong , Tianhang Zheng , Feng Lin , Li Lu , Kui Ren

In 2016, Google proposed Federated Learning (FL) as a novel paradigm to train Machine Learning (ML) models across the participants of a federation while preserving data privacy. Since its birth, Centralized FL (CFL) has been the most used…

Federated Learning (FL) enables collaborative model training across distributed clients while preserving user privacy. Recently, Federated Unlearning (FU) has emerged to address the "right to be forgotten" and to remove the influence of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Ruinan Jin , Minghui Chen , Qiong Zhang , Xiaoxiao Li

Federated learning (FL) is a framework for users to jointly train a machine learning model. FL is promoted as a privacy-enhancing technology (PET) that provides data minimization: data never "leaves" personal devices and users share only…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-04-14 Franziska Boenisch , Adam Dziedzic , Roei Schuster , Ali Shahin Shamsabadi , Ilia Shumailov , Nicolas Papernot

Machine learning models used for distributed architectures consisting of servers and clients require large amounts of data to achieve high accuracy. Data obtained from clients are collected on a central server for model training. However,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Ozer Ozturk , Busra Buyuktanir , Gozde Karatas Baydogmus , Kazim Yildiz

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

Given the distributed nature, detecting and defending against the backdoor attack under federated learning (FL) systems is challenging. In this paper, we observe that the cosine similarity of the last layer's weight between the global model…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Duygu Nur Yaldiz , Tuo Zhang , Salman Avestimehr

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

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