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In the evolving landscape of Federated Learning (FL), a new type of attacks concerns the research community, namely Data Poisoning Attacks, which threaten the model integrity by maliciously altering training data. This paper introduces a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-22 Nick Galanis

Federated learning has gained popularity as a solution to data availability and privacy challenges in machine learning. However, the aggregation process of local model updates to obtain a global model in federated learning is susceptible to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-22 Charuka Herath , Yogachandran Rahulamathavan , Xiaolan Liu

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

Federated learning is an essential distributed model training technique. However, threats such as gradient inversion attacks and poisoning attacks pose significant risks to the privacy of training data and the model correctness. We propose…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-24 Zhihui Zhao , Xiaorong Dong , Yimo Ren , Jianhua Wang , Dan Yu , Hongsong Zhu , Yongle Chen

Model poisoning attacks pose a significant security threat to Federated Learning (FL). Most existing model poisoning attacks rely on collusion, requiring adversarial clients to coordinate by exchanging local benign models and synchronizing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Israt Jahan Mouri , Muhammad Ridowan , Muhammad Abdullah Adnan

Deep image classification models trained on vast amounts of web-scraped data are susceptible to data poisoning - a mechanism for backdooring models. A small number of poisoned samples seen during training can severely undermine a model's…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-06-30 Nils Lukas , Florian Kerschbaum

In federated learning, multiple client devices jointly learn a machine learning model: each client device maintains a local model for its local training dataset, while a master device maintains a global model via aggregating the local…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-11-23 Minghong Fang , Xiaoyu Cao , Jinyuan Jia , Neil Zhenqiang Gong

Federated learning, as a distributed learning that conducts the training on the local devices without accessing to the training data, is vulnerable to Byzatine poisoning adversarial attacks. We argue that the federated learning model has to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Nuria Rodríguez-Barroso , Eugenio Martínez-Cámara , M. Victoria Luzón , Francisco Herrera

Federated learning has created a decentralized method to train a machine learning model without needing direct access to client data. The main goal of a federated learning architecture is to protect the privacy of each client while still…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-12-11 Marc Vucovich , Devin Quinn , Kevin Choi , Christopher Redino , Abdul Rahman , Edward Bowen

Federated Learning is a distributed machine learning framework designed for data privacy preservation i.e., local data remain private throughout the entire training and testing procedure. Federated Learning is gaining popularity because it…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-02 Hyejun Jeong , Joonyong Hwang , Tai Myung Chung

As we transition from Narrow Artificial Intelligence towards Artificial Super Intelligence, users are increasingly concerned about their privacy and the trustworthiness of machine learning (ML) technology. A common denominator for the…

Federated learning is a distributed learning technique that allows training a global model with the participation of different data owners without the need to share raw data. This architecture is orchestrated by a central server that…

Federated learning has become a widely used paradigm for collaboratively training a common model among different participants with the help of a central server that coordinates the training. Although only the model parameters or other model…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Raouf Kerkouche , Gergely Ács , Mario Fritz

Federated learning (FL) is a popular distributed learning framework that trains a global model through iterative communications between a central server and edge devices. Recent works have demonstrated that FL is vulnerable to model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-27 Jingwei Sun , Ang Li , Louis DiValentin , Amin Hassanzadeh , Yiran Chen , Hai Li

Model poisoning attacks are critical security threats to Federated Learning (FL). Existing model poisoning attacks suffer from two key limitations: 1) they achieve suboptimal effectiveness when defenses are deployed, and/or 2) they require…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Yueqi Xie , Minghong Fang , Neil Zhenqiang Gong

In federated learning, machine learning and deep learning models are trained globally on distributed devices. The state-of-the-art privacy-preserving technique in the context of federated learning is user-level differential privacy.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-10-22 Yupeng Jiang , Yong Li , Yipeng Zhou , Xi Zheng

Federated Learning (FL) enables collaborative model training without exposing clients' private data, and has been widely adopted in privacy-sensitive scenarios. However, FL faces two critical security threats: curious servers that may…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Yiwen Lu

This paper proposes a novel, data-agnostic, model poisoning attack on Federated Learning (FL), by designing a new adversarial graph autoencoder (GAE)-based framework. The attack requires no knowledge of FL training data and achieves both…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Kai Li , Jingjing Zheng , Xin Yuan , Wei Ni , Ozgur B. Akan , H. Vincent Poor

Federated learning is vulnerable to poisoning attacks in which malicious clients poison the global model via sending malicious model updates to the server. Existing defenses focus on preventing a small number of malicious clients from…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-10-21 Xiaoyu Cao , Jinyuan Jia , Zaixi Zhang , Neil Zhenqiang Gong

Federated sequential recommendation distributes model training across user devices so that behavioural data remains local, reducing privacy risks. Yet, this setting introduces two intertwined difficulties. On the one hand, individual…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Minh Hieu Nguyen