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Federated learning allows multiple participants to collaboratively train a central model without sharing their private data. However, this distributed nature also exposes new attack surfaces. In particular, backdoor attacks allow attackers…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Zhaoxin Wang , Handing Wang , Cong Tian , Yaochu Jin

Federated Learning (FL) is a technique that allows multiple parties to train a shared model collaboratively without disclosing their private data. It has become increasingly popular due to its distinct privacy advantages. However, FL models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-04 Syed Irfan Ali Meerza , Jian Liu

Motivated by the ever-increasing concerns on personal data privacy and the rapidly growing data volume at local clients, federated learning (FL) has emerged as a new machine learning setting. An FL system is comprised of a central parameter…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-08-04 Xiang Ma , Haijian Sun , Rose Qingyang Hu , Yi Qian

Federated learning (FL) allows multiple clients to collaboratively train a global machine learning model with coordination from a central server, without needing to share their raw data. This approach is particularly appealing in the era of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Wenjin Mo , Zhiyuan Li , Minghong Fang , Mingwei Fang

Backdoors on federated learning will be diluted by subsequent benign updates. This is reflected in the significant reduction of attack success rate as iterations increase, ultimately failing. We use a new metric to quantify the degree of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Tao Liu , Yuhang Zhang , Zhu Feng , Zhiqin Yang , Chen Xu , Dapeng Man , Wu Yang

Federated Learning (FL) represents a promising approach to typical privacy concerns associated with centralized Machine Learning (ML) deployments. Despite its well-known advantages, FL is vulnerable to security attacks such as Byzantine…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-16 Enrique Mármol Campos , Aurora González Vidal , José Luis Hernández Ramos , Antonio Skarmeta

Federated learning (FL) enables privacy-preserving collaborative model training but remains vulnerable to adversarial behaviors that compromise model utility or fairness across sensitive groups. While extensive studies have examined attacks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Yanli Li , Yanan Zhou , Zhongliang Guo , Nan Yang , Yuning Zhang , Huaming Chen , Dong Yuan , Weiping Ding , Witold Pedrycz

The advent of Federated Learning has enabled the creation of a high-performing model as if it had been trained on a considerable amount of data. A multitude of participants and a server cooperatively train a model without the need for data…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Hyejun Jeong , Tai-Myoung Chung

In a federated learning (FL) system, malicious participants can easily embed backdoors into the aggregated model while maintaining the model's performance on the main task. To this end, various defenses, including training stage…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Henger Li , Chen Wu , Sencun Zhu , Zizhan Zheng

In this paper, we initiate the study of local model reconstruction attacks for federated learning, where a honest-but-curious adversary eavesdrops the messages exchanged between a targeted client and the server, and then reconstructs the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Ilias Driouich , Chuan Xu , Giovanni Neglia , Frederic Giroire , Eoin Thomas

Due to its distributed methodology alongside its privacy-preserving features, Federated Learning (FL) is vulnerable to training time adversarial attacks. In this study, our focus is on backdoor attacks in which the adversary's goal is to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-11 Omid Aramoon , Pin-Yu Chen , Gang Qu , Yuan Tian

Decentralized federated learning (DFL) enables clients (e.g., hospitals and banks) to jointly train machine learning models without a central orchestration server. In each global training round, each client trains a local model on its own…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Yuqi Jia , Minghong Fang , Neil Zhenqiang Gong

Federated learning is an emerging privacy-preserving distributed machine learning that enables multiple parties to collaboratively learn a shared model while keeping each party's data private. However, federated learning faces two main…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-06-05 Junchuan Liang , Rong Wang

Decentralized Federated Learning (DFL), a paradigm for managing big data in a privacy-preserved manner, is still vulnerable to poisoning attacks where malicious clients tamper with data or models. Current defense methods often assume…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-11-13 Chao Feng , Alberto Huertas Celdrán , Zien Zeng , Zi Ye , Jan von der Assen , Gerome Bovet , Burkhard Stiller

In the rapidly evolving realm of machine learning, algorithm effectiveness often faces limitations due to data quality and availability. Traditional approaches grapple with data sharing due to legal and privacy concerns. The federated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-16 Sin Cheng Ciou , Pin Jui Chen , Elvin Y. Tseng , Yuh-Jye Lee

Federated learning is gaining popularity as a distributed machine learning method that can be used to deploy AI-dependent IoT applications while protecting client data privacy and security. Due to the differences of clients, a single global…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-21 Xingjian Cao , Gang Sun , Hongfang Yu , Mohsen Guizani

Federated learning has emerged as a paradigm for collaborative learning, enabling the development of robust models without the need to centralise sensitive data. However, conventional federated learning techniques have privacy and security…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-31 Eugenio Lomurno , Matteo Matteucci

This paper explores the use of server learning for enhancing the robustness of federated learning against malicious attacks even when clients' training data are not independent and identically distributed. We propose a heuristic algorithm…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Van Sy Mai , Kushal Chakrabarti , Richard J. La , Dipankar Maity

Federated learning is a versatile framework for training models in decentralized environments. However, the trust placed in clients makes federated learning vulnerable to backdoor attacks launched by malicious participants. While many…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-12-23 Borja Molina-Coronado

Current defense mechanisms against model poisoning attacks in federated learning (FL) systems have proven effective up to a certain threshold of malicious clients. In this work, we introduce FLANDERS, a novel pre-aggregation filter for FL…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Edoardo Gabrielli , Dimitri Belli , Zoe Matrullo , Vittorio Miori , Gabriele Tolomei