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While recent works have indicated that federated learning (FL) may be vulnerable to poisoning attacks by compromised clients, their real impact on production FL systems is not fully understood. In this work, we aim to develop a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Virat Shejwalkar , Amir Houmansadr , Peter Kairouz , Daniel Ramage

Federated Learning (FL) enables distributed participants (e.g., mobile devices) to train a global model without sharing data directly to a central server. Recent studies have revealed that FL is vulnerable to gradient inversion attack…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-09-15 Jiaheng Wei , Yanjun Zhang , Leo Yu Zhang , Chao Chen , Shirui Pan , Kok-Leong Ong , Jun Zhang , Yang Xiang

Federated Learning (FL) is a machine learning setting where many devices collaboratively train a machine learning model while keeping the training data decentralized. In most of the current training schemes the central model is refined by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Tao Lin , Lingjing Kong , Sebastian U. Stich , Martin Jaggi

Federated learning (FL) faces significant challenges in Internet of Things (IoT) networks due to device limitations in energy and communication resources, especially when considering the large size of FL models. From an energy perspective,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-28 Rafael Valente da Silva , Onel L. Alcaraz López , Richard Demo Souza

Federated learning (FL) provides a high efficient decentralized machine learning framework, where the training data remains distributed at remote clients in a network. Though FL enables a privacy-preserving mobile edge computing framework…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-11 Xingyu Li , Zhe Qu , Shangqing Zhao , Bo Tang , Zhuo Lu , Yao Liu

This letter proposes a novel communication-efficient and privacy-preserving distributed machine learning framework, coined Mix2FLD. To address uplink-downlink capacity asymmetry, local model outputs are uploaded to a server in the uplink as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-18 Seungeun Oh , Jihong Park , Eunjeong Jeong , Hyesung Kim , Mehdi Bennis , Seong-Lyun Kim

Federated Learning (FL) has emerged as a prominent alternative to the traditional centralized learning approach. Generally speaking, FL is a decentralized approach that allows for collaborative training of Machine Learning (ML) models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-19 S. Jamal Seyedmohammadi , S. Kawa Atapour , Jamshid Abouei , Arash Mohammadi

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

Federated learning (FL) enables collaborative model training while preserving data privacy, but its decentralized nature exposes it to client-side data poisoning attacks (DPAs) and model poisoning attacks (MPAs) that degrade global model…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-07 Heyi Zhang , Yule Liu , Xinlei He , Jun Wu , Tianshuo Cong , Xinyi Huang

Deep learning and federated learning (FL) are becoming powerful partners for next-generation weather forecasting. Deep learning enables high-resolution spatiotemporal forecasts that can surpass traditional numerical models, while FL allows…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Karina Chichifoi , Fabio Merizzi , Michele Colajanni

This paper addresses the challenge of mitigating data heterogeneity among clients within a Federated Learning (FL) framework. The model-drift issue, arising from the noniid nature of client data, often results in suboptimal personalization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-19 Kawa Atapour , S. Jamal Seyedmohammadi , Jamshid Abouei , Arash Mohammadi , Konstantinos N. Plataniotis

Federated Learning (FL) is a promising distributed learning approach that enables multiple clients to collaboratively train a shared global model. However, recent studies show that FL is vulnerable to various poisoning attacks, which can…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-10-23 Xinyu Zhang , Qingyu Liu , Zhongjie Ba , Yuan Hong , Tianhang Zheng , Feng Lin , Li Lu , Kui Ren

Federated learning (FL) is revolutionizing how we learn from data. With its growing popularity, it is now being used in many safety-critical domains such as autonomous vehicles and healthcare. Since thousands of participants can contribute…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-08-14 Ehsanul Kabir , Zeyu Song , Md Rafi Ur Rashid , Shagufta Mehnaz

As a promising distributed machine learning paradigm, Federated Learning (FL) trains a central model with decentralized data without compromising user privacy, which has made it widely used by Artificial Intelligence Internet of Things…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-13 Tian Liu , Zhiwei Ling , Jun Xia , Xin Fu , Shui Yu , Mingsong Chen

Decentralized federated learning (DFL) is inherently vulnerable to data poisoning attacks, as malicious clients can transmit manipulated gradients to neighboring clients. Existing defense methods either reject suspicious gradients per…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Bin Li , Xiaoye Miao , Yan Zhang , Jianwei Yin

Model poisoning attacks on federated learning (FL) intrude in the entire system via compromising an edge model, resulting in malfunctioning of machine learning models. Such compromised models are tampered with to perform adversary-desired…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-11 Yuwei Sun , Hideya Ochiai , Jun Sakuma

On-device machine learning (ML) enables the training process to exploit a massive amount of user-generated private data samples. To enjoy this benefit, inter-device communication overhead should be minimized. With this end, we propose…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-20 Eunjeong Jeong , Seungeun Oh , Hyesung Kim , Jihong Park , Mehdi Bennis , Seong-Lyun Kim

Attacks on Federated Learning (FL) can severely reduce the quality of the generated models and limit the usefulness of this emerging learning paradigm that enables on-premise decentralized learning. However, existing untargeted attacks are…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-08-03 Jiyue Huang , Zilong Zhao , Lydia Y. Chen , Stefanie Roos

Federated Learning (FL) is a pioneering approach in distributed machine learning, enabling collaborative model training across multiple clients while retaining data privacy. However, the inherent heterogeneity due to imbalanced resource…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-18 Suraj Racha , Shubh Gupta , Humaira Firdowse , Aastik Solanki , Ganesh Ramakrishnan , Kshitij S. Jadhav

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