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Data poisoning attacks, in which an adversary corrupts a training set with the goal of inducing specific desired mistakes, have raised substantial concern: even just the possibility of such an attack can make a user no longer trust the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-09 Maria-Florina Balcan , Avrim Blum , Steve Hanneke , Dravyansh Sharma

Federated Learning (FL) is a promising technology that enables multiple actors to build a joint model without sharing their raw data. The distributed nature makes FL vulnerable to various poisoning attacks, including model poisoning attacks…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-11-13 Yanli Li , Huaming Chen , Wei Bao , Zhengmeng Xu , Dong Yuan

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---multi-party, distributed learning in a decentralized environment---is vulnerable to model poisoning attacks, even more so than centralized learning approaches. This is because malicious clients can collude and send in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-20 Atul Sharma , Wei Chen , Joshua Zhao , Qiang Qiu , Somali Chaterji , Saurabh Bagchi

In federated learning, machine learning and deep learning models are trained globally on distributed devices. The state-of-the-art privacy-preserving technique in the context of federated learning is user-level differential privacy.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-10-22 Yupeng Jiang , Yong Li , Yipeng Zhou , Xi Zheng

Federated Learning (FL) is a decentralized machine learning framework that enables collaborative model training while respecting data privacy. In various applications, non-uniform availability or participation of users is unavoidable due to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Periklis Theodoropoulos , Konstantinos E. Nikolakakis , Dionysis Kalogerias

Adversarial attacks such as poisoning attacks have attracted the attention of many machine learning researchers. Traditionally, poisoning attacks attempt to inject adversarial training data in order to manipulate the trained model. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Ali Raza , Shujun Li , Kim-Phuc Tran , Ludovic Koehl , Kim Duc Tran

As a key technology in 6G research, federated learning (FL) enables collaborative learning among multiple clients while ensuring individual data privacy. However, malicious attackers among the participating clients can intentionally tamper…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-12-11 Hangn Su , Jianhong Zhou , Xianhua Niu , Gang Feng

Federated learning (FL) has been widely deployed to enable machine learning training on sensitive data across distributed devices. However, the decentralized learning paradigm and heterogeneity of FL further extend the attack surface for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Haomin Zhuang , Mingxian Yu , Hao Wang , Yang Hua , Jian Li , Xu Yuan

Federated Learning (FL) is a new machine learning framework, which enables millions of participants to collaboratively train machine learning model without compromising data privacy and security. Due to the independence and confidentiality…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Anbu Huang

Federated Learning (FL), a privacy-aware approach in distributed deep learning environments, enables many clients to collaboratively train a model without sharing sensitive data, thereby reducing privacy risks. However, enabling human trust…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Dario Fenoglio , Gabriele Dominici , Pietro Barbiero , Alberto Tonda , Martin Gjoreski , Marc Langheinrich

Federated Learning (FL) has shown great potential as a privacy-preserving solution to learning from decentralized data that are only accessible to end devices (i.e., clients). In many scenarios, however, a large proportion of the clients…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-31 Wentai Wu , Ligang He , Weiwei Lin , Carsten Maple

This paper proposes and investigates a new approach for detecting and preventing several different types of poisoning attacks from affecting a centralized Federated Learning model via average accuracy deviation detection (AADD). By…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-10-28 Viktor Valadi , Madeleine Englund , Mark Spanier , Austin O'brien

In Federated Learning, clients train models on local data and send updates to a central server, which aggregates them into a global model using a fusion algorithm. This collaborative yet privacy-preserving training comes at a cost. FL…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-15 Waris Gill , Ali Anwar , Muhammad Ali Gulzar

Identifying clients with similar objectives and learning a model-per-cluster is an intuitive and interpretable approach to personalization in federated learning. However, doing so with provable and optimal guarantees has remained an open…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Mariel Werner , Lie He , Michael Jordan , Martin Jaggi , Sai Praneeth Karimireddy

Federated learning (FL), with the growing IoT and edge computing, is seen as a promising solution for applications that are latency- and privacy-aware. However, due to the widespread dispersion of data across many clients, it is challenging…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Dipanwita Thakur , Antonella Guzzo , Giancarlo Fortino

Federated learning (FL) enables collaborative model training across distributed clients without sharing raw data, but its robustness is threatened by Byzantine behaviors such as data and model poisoning. Existing defenses face fundamental…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Usama Zafar , André M. H. Teixeira , Salman Toor

Federated learning (FL) is a privacy-preserving machine learning technique that facilitates collaboration among participants across demographics. FL enables model sharing, while restricting the movement of data. Since FL provides…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Harsh Kasyap , Minghong Fang , Zhuqing Liu , Carsten Maple , Somanath Tripathy

Federated learning is particularly susceptible to model poisoning and backdoor attacks because individual users have direct control over the training data and model updates. At the same time, the attack power of an individual user is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Yuxin Wen , Jonas Geiping , Liam Fowl , Hossein Souri , Rama Chellappa , Micah Goldblum , Tom Goldstein

The rapidly expanding number of Internet of Things (IoT) devices is generating huge quantities of data, but the data privacy and security exposure in IoT devices, especially in the automatic driving system. Federated learning (FL) is a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-09-15 Jiayin Li , Wenzhong Guo , Xingshuo Han , Jianping Cai , Ximeng Liu