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Federated learning (FL) enables learning a global machine learning model from local data distributed among a set of participating workers. This makes it possible i) to train more accurate models due to learning from rich joint training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Najeeb Jebreel , Josep Domingo-Ferrer

Federated Learning (FL) is a machine learning (ML) approach that enables multiple decentralized devices or edge servers to collaboratively train a shared model without exchanging raw data. During the training and sharing of model updates…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-03-06 Ehsan Nowroozi , Imran Haider , Rahim Taheri , Mauro Conti

Federated learning is a privacy-focused approach towards machine learning where models are trained on client devices with locally available data and aggregated at a central server. However, the dependence on a single central server is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Shamik Bhattacharyya , Rachel Kalpana Kalaimani

This paper studies the poisoning attack and defense interactions in a federated learning (FL) system, specifically in the context of wireless signal classification using deep learning for next-generation (NextG) communications. FL…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Yalin E. Sagduyu , Tugba Erpek , Yi Shi

In the era of deep learning, federated learning (FL) presents a promising approach that allows multi-institutional data owners, or clients, to collaboratively train machine learning models without compromising data privacy. However, most…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-13 Nanqing Dong , Zhipeng Wang , Jiahao Sun , Michael Kampffmeyer , William Knottenbelt , Eric Xing

Clustered Federated Learning has emerged as an effective approach for handling heterogeneous data across clients by partitioning them into clusters with similar or identical data distributions. However, most existing methods, including the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Jonas Kirch , Sebastian Becker , Tiago Koketsu Rodrigues , Stefan Harmeling

Federated machine learning which enables resource constrained node devices (e.g., mobile phones and IoT devices) to learn a shared model while keeping the training data local, can provide privacy, security and economic benefits by designing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-04-22 Gan Sun , Yang Cong , Jiahua Dong , Qiang Wang , Ji Liu

Sybil attacks pose a significant threat to federated learning, as malicious nodes can collaborate and gain a majority, thereby overwhelming the system. Therefore, it is essential to develop countermeasures that ensure the security of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Qi Xiong , Hai Dong , Nasrin Sohrabi , Zahir Tari

Without direct access to the client's data, federated learning (FL) is well-known for its unique strength in data privacy protection among existing distributed machine learning techniques. However, its distributive and iterative nature…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Hanxi Guo , Hao Wang , Tao Song , Tianhang Zheng , Yang Hua , Haibing Guan , Xiangyu Zhang

Federated learning allows for clients in a distributed system to jointly train a machine learning model. However, clients' models are vulnerable to attacks during the training and testing phases. In this paper, we address the issue of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Taejin Kim , Shubhranshu Singh , Nikhil Madaan , Carlee Joe-Wong

Federated learning is a distributed machine learning technology, which realizes the balance between data privacy protection and data sharing computing. To protect data privacy, feder-ated learning learns shared models by locally executing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-26 Tianyu Zhao , Junping Du , Yingxia Shao , Zeli Guan

Federated Self-Supervised Learning (FSSL) integrates the privacy advantages of distributed training with the capability of self-supervised learning to leverage unlabeled data, showing strong potential across applications. However, recent…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Jiayao Wang , Yiping Zhang , Jiale Zhang , Wenliang Yuan , Qilin Wu , Junwu Zhu , Dongfang Zhao

Federated Learning systems are increasingly subjected to a multitude of model poisoning attacks from clients. Among these, edge-case attacks that target a small fraction of the input space are nearly impossible to detect using existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-15 Kiran Purohit , Soumi Das , Sourangshu Bhattacharya , Santu Rana

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 has recently emerged as a decentralized approach to learn a high-performance model without access to user data. Despite its effectiveness, federated learning gives malicious users opportunities to manipulate the model by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-28 Tianhang Zheng , Baochun Li

Federated Learning (FL) is a popular distributed machine learning paradigm that enables jointly training a global model without sharing clients' data. However, its repetitive server-client communication gives room for backdoor attacks with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-20 Pei Fang , Jinghui Chen

Personalized federated learning (PFL) reduces the impact of non-independent and identically distributed (non-IID) data among clients by allowing each client to train a personalized model when collaborating with others. A key question in PFL…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-21 Xinghao Wu , Xuefeng Liu , Jianwei Niu , Guogang Zhu , Shaojie Tang

Federated Learning (FL) is a distributed learning paradigm that enables different parties to train a model together for high quality and strong privacy protection. In this scenario, individual participants may get compromised and perform…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-03-01 Kaiyuan Zhang , Guanhong Tao , Qiuling Xu , Siyuan Cheng , Shengwei An , Yingqi Liu , Shiwei Feng , Guangyu Shen , Pin-Yu Chen , Shiqing Ma , Xiangyu Zhang

Federated Learning (FL) can be vulnerable to attacks, such as model poisoning, where adversaries send malicious local weights to compromise the global model. Federated Unlearning (FU) is emerging as a solution to address such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Nicolò Romandini , Cristian Borcea , Rebecca Montanari , Luca Foschini

Federated learning has become prevalent in medical diagnosis due to its effectiveness in training a federated model among multiple health institutions (i.e. Data Islands (DIs)). However, increasingly massive DI-level poisoning attacks have…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-09-24 Zhuoran Ma , Jianfeng Ma , Yinbin Miao , Ximeng Liu , Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo , Robert H. Deng