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Federated recommender systems (FedRecs) have been widely explored recently due to their ability to protect user data privacy. In FedRecs, a central server collaboratively learns recommendation models by sharing model public parameters with…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Wei Yuan , Shilong Yuan , Chaoqun Yang , Quoc Viet Hung Nguyen , Hongzhi Yin

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 is a machine learning setting that reduces direct data exposure, improving the privacy guarantees of machine learning models. Yet, the exchange of model updates between the participants and the aggregator can still leak…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Pablo Montaña-Fernández , Ines Ortega-Fernandez

Federated learning allows several clients to train one machine learning model jointly without sharing private data, providing privacy protection. However, traditional federated learning is vulnerable to poisoning attacks, which can not only…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Zhibo Xing , Zijian Zhang , Zi'ang Zhang , Jiamou Liu , Liehuang Zhu , Giovanni Russello

We propose FedGT, a novel framework for identifying malicious clients in federated learning with secure aggregation. Inspired by group testing, the framework leverages overlapping groups of clients to identify the presence of malicious…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-11 Marvin Xhemrishi , Johan Östman , Antonia Wachter-Zeh , Alexandre Graell i Amat

Various attack methods against recommender systems have been proposed in the past years, and the security issues of recommender systems have drawn considerable attention. Traditional attacks attempt to make target items recommended to as…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Dazhong Rong , Qinming He , Jianhai Chen

In federated learning for medical image analysis, the safety of the learning protocol is paramount. Such settings can often be compromised by adversaries that target either the private data used by the federation or the integrity of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-09 Dmitrii Usynin , Helena Klause , Johannes C. Paetzold , Daniel Rueckert , Georgios Kaissis

Federated Learning (FL) has emerged as a machine learning approach able to preserve the privacy of user's data. Applying FL, clients train machine learning models on a local dataset and a central server aggregates the learned parameters…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Luiz Leite , Yuri Santo , Bruno L. Dalmazo , André Riker

Federated Learning (FL) is a machine learning paradigm to conduct collaborative learning among clients on a joint model. The primary goal is to share clients' local training parameters with an integrating server while preserving their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Mahdi Ghafourian , Julian Fierrez , Ruben Vera-Rodriguez , Ruben Tolosana , Aythami Morales

Federated learning (FL), as an emerging artificial intelligence (AI) approach, enables decentralized model training across multiple devices without exposing their local training data. FL has been increasingly gaining popularity in both…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-23 Victoria Huang , Shaleeza Sohail , Michael Mayo , Tania Lorido Botran , Mark Rodrigues , Chris Anderson , Melanie Ooi

Indiscriminate data poisoning attacks aim to decrease a model's test accuracy by injecting a small amount of corrupted training data. Despite significant interest, existing attacks remain relatively ineffective against modern machine…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Yiwei Lu , Gautam Kamath , Yaoliang Yu

Federated learning (FL) enables a privacy-preserving training paradigm for audio classification but is highly sensitive to client heterogeneity and poisoning attacks, where adversarially compromised clients can bias the global model and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-19 Sathwika Peechara , Rajeev Sahay

Federated learning (FL) is a privacy-preserving machine learning framework that enables multiple nodes to train models on their local data and periodically average weight updates to benefit from other nodes' training. Each node's goal is to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Ethan Wilson , Kai Yue , Chau-Wai Wong , Huaiyu Dai

Federated learning (FL) is an appealing paradigm that allows a group of machines (a.k.a. clients) to learn collectively while keeping their data local. However, due to the heterogeneity between the clients' data distributions, the model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Youssef Allouah , Abdellah El Mrini , Rachid Guerraoui , Nirupam Gupta , Rafael Pinot

Federated Learning (FL) is a paradigm in Machine Learning (ML) that addresses data privacy, security, access rights and access to heterogeneous information issues by training a global model using distributed nodes. Despite its advantages,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Ranwa Al Mallah , David Lopez , Godwin Badu Marfo , Bilal Farooq

The distributed nature of local differential privacy (LDP) invites data poisoning attacks and poses unforeseen threats to the underlying LDP-supported applications. In this paper, we propose a comprehensive mitigation framework for popular…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Xiaolin Li , Ninghui Li , Boyang Wang , Wenhai Sun

Federated learning (FL) enables collaborative model training using decentralized private data from multiple clients. While FL has shown robustness against poisoning attacks with basic defenses, our research reveals new vulnerabilities…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-23 Phung Lai , Guanxiong Liu , NhatHai Phan , Issa Khalil , Abdallah Khreishah , Xintao Wu

Federated Learning (FL) enables collaborative model training across decentralised clients while keeping local data private, making it a widely adopted privacy-enhancing technology (PET). Despite its privacy benefits, FL remains vulnerable…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Soumia Zohra El Mestari , Maciej Krzysztof Zuziak , Gabriele Lenzini

This paper puts forth a new training data-untethered model poisoning (MP) attack on federated learning (FL). The new MP attack extends an adversarial variational graph autoencoder (VGAE) to create malicious local models based solely on the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-25 Kai Li , Xin Yuan , Jingjing Zheng , Wei Ni , Falko Dressler , Abbas Jamalipour

Recent studies have shown that federated learning (FL) is vulnerable to poisoning attacks that inject a backdoor into the global model. These attacks are effective even when performed by a single client, and undetectable by most existing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Sebastien Andreina , Giorgia Azzurra Marson , Helen Möllering , Ghassan Karame