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Federated learning is used to train a shared model in a decentralized way without clients sharing private data with each other. Federated learning systems are susceptible to poisoning attacks when malicious clients send false updates to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Sungwon Han , Sungwon Park , Fangzhao Wu , Sundong Kim , Bin Zhu , Xing Xie , Meeyoung Cha

Federated Learning often relies on sharing full or partial model weights, which can burden network bandwidth and raise privacy risks. We present a loss-based alternative using distributed mutual learning. Instead of transmitting weights,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Yash Gupta

Modern distributed systems face growing security threats, as attackers continuously enhance their skills and vulnerabilities span across the entire system stack, from hardware to the application layer. In the system design phase, fault…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Silvia Bonomi , Giovanni Farina , Roy Friedman , Eviatar B. Procaccia , Sebastien Tixeuil

How to achieve precise distributed optimization despite unknown attacks, especially the Byzantine attacks, is one of the critical challenges for multiagent systems. This paper addresses a distributed resilient optimization for linear…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-18 Chenhang Yan , Liping Yan , Yuezu Lv , Bolei Dong , Yuanqing Xia

Reinforcement learning algorithms, just like any other Machine learning algorithm pose a serious threat from adversaries. The adversaries can manipulate the learning algorithm resulting in non-optimal policies. In this paper, we analyze the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-12 Aqeel Anwar , Arijit Raychowdhury

We present a new algorithm to train a robust neural network against adversarial attacks. Our algorithm is motivated by the following two ideas. First, although recent work has demonstrated that fusing randomness can improve the robustness…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-07 Xuanqing Liu , Yao Li , Chongruo Wu , Cho-Jui Hsieh

Federated Learning (FL) has emerged as a means of distributed learning using local data stored at clients with a coordinating server. Recent studies showed that FL can suffer from poor performance and slower convergence when training data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-17 Van Sy Mai , Richard J. La , Tao Zhang

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

In this paper, we consider a min-max optimization problem under adversarial manipulation, where there are $n$ cost functions, up to $f$ of which may be replaced by arbitrary faulty functions by an adversary. The goal is to minimize the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-02-19 Shuo Liu , Nitin Vaidya

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 (FL) facilitates collaborative model training among distributed clients while ensuring that raw data remains on local devices.Despite this advantage, FL systems are still exposed to risks from malicious or unreliable…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Deepthy K Bhaskar , Minimol B , Binu V P

We investigate the impact of Byzantine attacks in distributed detection under binary hypothesis testing. It is assumed that a fraction of the transmitted sensor measurements are compromised by the injected data from a Byzantine attacker,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-05-27 Yuqing Ni , Kemi Ding , Yong Yang , Ling Shi

Federated learning systems are vulnerable to attacks from malicious clients. As the central server in the system cannot govern the behaviors of the clients, a rogue client may initiate an attack by sending malicious model updates to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-04 Suyi Li , Yong Cheng , Wei Wang , Yang Liu , Tianjian Chen

Federated learning is a popular strategy for training models on distributed, sensitive data, while preserving data privacy. Prior work identified a range of security threats on federated learning protocols that poison the data or the model.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-08-30 Giorgio Severi , Matthew Jagielski , Gökberk Yar , Yuxuan Wang , Alina Oprea , Cristina Nita-Rotaru

Federated learning (FL) is a trending training paradigm to utilize decentralized training data. FL allows clients to update model parameters locally for several epochs, then share them to a global model for aggregation. This training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-09 Xiaoxiao Li , Zhao Song , Jiaming Yang

Federated Learning (FL) is susceptible to poisoning attacks, wherein compromised clients manipulate the global model by modifying local datasets or sending manipulated model updates. Experienced defenders can readily detect and mitigate the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Yi Liu , Cong Wang , Xingliang Yuan

Federated Learning (FL) trains a global model across decentralized clients while preserving data privacy, but at scale it is vulnerable to malicious updates. Byzantine-resilient aggregation methods such as MultiKrum score gradients against…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Andras Ferenczi , Sutapa Samanta , Dagen Wang , Jason Qizhe Qin

Federated learning learns a neural network model by aggregating the knowledge from a group of distributed clients under the privacy-preserving constraint. In this work, we show that this paradigm might inherit the adversarial vulnerability…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Yao Zhou , Jun Wu , Haixun Wang , Jingrui He

Federated inference, in the form of one-shot federated learning, edge ensembles, or federated ensembles, has emerged as an attractive solution to combine predictions from multiple models. This paradigm enables each model to remain local and…

At the same time that artificial intelligence is becoming popular, concern and the need for regulation is growing, including among other requirements the data privacy. In this context, Federated Learning is proposed as a solution to data…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-18 Nuria Rodríguez-Barroso , M. Victoria Luzón , Francisco Herrera