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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

Federated learning (FL) is a distributed machine learning paradigm that enables training models on decentralized data. The field of FL security against poisoning attacks is plagued with confusion due to the proliferation of research that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Hamid Mozaffari , Sunav Choudhary , Amir Houmansadr

Federated learning (FL) enables a set of entities to collaboratively train a machine learning model without sharing their sensitive data, thus, mitigating some privacy concerns. However, an increasing number of works in the literature…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-01-04 Aidmar Wainakh , Ephraim Zimmer , Sandeep Subedi , Jens Keim , Tim Grube , Shankar Karuppayah , Alejandro Sanchez Guinea , Max Mühlhäuser

There has been recent interest in leveraging federated learning (FL) for radio signal classification tasks. In FL, model parameters are periodically communicated from participating devices, training on their own local datasets, to a central…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-24 Su Wang , Rajeev Sahay , Christopher G. Brinton

Federated Learning (FL) has emerged as a machine learning approach able to preserve the privacy of user's data. Applying FL, clients train machine learning models on a local dataset and a central server aggregates the learned parameters…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Luiz Leite , Yuri Santo , Bruno L. Dalmazo , André Riker

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 (FL) has recently emerged as a revolutionary approach to collaborative training Machine Learning models. In particular, it enables decentralized model training while preserving data privacy, but its distributed nature…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Sameera K. M. , Serena Nicolazzo , Antonino Nocera , Vinod P. , Rafidha Rehiman K. A

Federated Learning (FL) is one of the hot research topics, and it utilizes Machine Learning (ML) in a distributed manner without directly accessing private data on clients. However, FL faces many challenges, including the difficulty to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-05-02 Shadha Tabatabai , Ihab Mohammed , Basheer Qolomany , Abdullatif Albasser , Kashif Ahmad , Mohamed Abdallah , Ala Al-Fuqaha

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

Federated learning (FL) is vulnerable to data poisoning attacks due to its distributed nature. Although recent GAN-based data poisoning methods have indicated the potential of using generative AI to generate seemingly legitimate poisoned…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Wei Sun , Yijun Chen , Bo Gao , Ke Xiong , Yuwei Wang , Pingyi Fan , Khaled Ben Letaief

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

As a distributed machine learning paradigm, Federated Learning (FL) enables large-scale clients to collaboratively train a model without sharing their raw data. However, due to the lack of data auditing for untrusted clients, FL is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Yanxin Yang , Ming Hu , Xiaofei Xie , Yue Cao , Pengyu Zhang , Yihao Huang , Mingsong Chen

Federated learning (FL) has recently emerged as a new form of collaborative machine learning, where a common model can be learned while keeping all the training data on local devices. Although it is designed for enhancing the data privacy,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-29 Lixu Wang , Shichao Xu , Xiao Wang , Qi Zhu

Federated learning (FL) has become a popular tool for solving traditional Reinforcement Learning (RL) tasks. The multi-agent structure addresses the major concern of data-hungry in traditional RL, while the federated mechanism protects the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-08 Evelyn Ma , Praneet Rathi , S. Rasoul Etesami

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

Model poisoning attacks are critical security threats to Federated Learning (FL). Existing model poisoning attacks suffer from two key limitations: 1) they achieve suboptimal effectiveness when defenses are deployed, and/or 2) they require…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Yueqi Xie , Minghong Fang , Neil Zhenqiang Gong

Manipulation of local training data and local updates, i.e., the poisoning attack, is the main threat arising from the collaborative nature of the federated learning (FL) paradigm. Most existing poisoning attacks aim to manipulate local…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Huazi Pan , Yanjun Zhang , Leo Yu Zhang , Scott Adams , Abbas Kouzani , Suiyang Khoo

As one kind of distributed machine learning technique, federated learning enables multiple clients to build a model across decentralized data collaboratively without explicitly aggregating the data. Due to its ability to break data silos,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Junchuan Lianga , Rong Wang , Chaosheng Feng , Chin-Chen Chang

Federated learning (FL) is a collaborative learning paradigm allowing multiple clients to jointly train a model without sharing their training data. However, FL is susceptible to poisoning attacks, in which the adversary injects manipulated…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Hossein Fereidooni , Alessandro Pegoraro , Phillip Rieger , Alexandra Dmitrienko , Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi

Due to the greatly improved capabilities of devices, massive data, and increasing concern about data privacy, Federated Learning (FL) has been increasingly considered for applications to wireless communication networks (WCNs). Wireless FL…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-12-15 Yichen Wan , Youyang Qu , Wei Ni , Yong Xiang , Longxiang Gao , Ekram Hossain