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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 (FL) allows participants to jointly train a machine learning model without sharing their private data with others. However, FL is vulnerable to poisoning attacks such as backdoor attacks. Consequently, a variety of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-24 Kavita Kumari , Phillip Rieger , Hossein Fereidooni , Murtuza Jadliwala , Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi

Recent advances in federated learning have demonstrated its promising capability to learn on decentralized datasets. However, a considerable amount of work has raised concerns due to the potential risks of adversaries participating in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-25 KiYoon Yoo , Nojun Kwak

Federated Learning (FL) is a promising approach enabling multiple clients to train Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) collaboratively without sharing their local training data. However, FL is susceptible to backdoor (or targeted poisoning)…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-08-23 Phillip Rieger , Torsten Krauß , Markus Miettinen , Alexandra Dmitrienko , Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi

As data are increasingly being stored in different silos and societies becoming more aware of data privacy issues, the traditional centralized training of artificial intelligence (AI) models is facing efficiency and privacy challenges.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-01-20 Lingjuan Lyu , Han Yu , Xingjun Ma , Chen Chen , Lichao Sun , Jun Zhao , Qiang Yang , Philip S. Yu

Federated learning (FL) is vulnerable to poisoning attacks, where malicious clients manipulate their updates to affect the global model. Although various methods exist for detecting those clients in FL, identifying malicious clients…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-01-22 Yu Jiang , Jiyuan Shen , Ziyao Liu , Chee Wei Tan , Kwok-Yan Lam

Federated Learning (FL) has emerged as a promising approach to address data privacy and confidentiality concerns by allowing multiple participants to construct a shared model without centralizing sensitive data. However, this decentralized…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Jahid Hasan

Federated Learning (FL) is an emerging distributed machine learning paradigm enabling multiple clients to train a global model collaboratively without sharing their raw data. While FL enhances data privacy by design, it remains vulnerable…

Federated learning (FL) is a promising technique for learning-based functions in wireless networks, thanks to its distributed implementation capability. On the other hand, distributed learning may increase the risk of exposure to malicious…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-28 Han Zhang , Hao Zhou , Medhat Elsayed , Majid Bavand , Raimundas Gaigalas , Yigit Ozcan , Melike Erol-Kantarci

Existing research primarily focuses on backdoor attacks and defenses within the generic federated learning scenario, where all clients collaborate to train a single global model. A recent study conducted by Qin et al. (2023) marks the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Tiandi Ye , Cen Chen , Yinggui Wang , Xiang Li , Ming Gao

As we transition from Narrow Artificial Intelligence towards Artificial Super Intelligence, users are increasingly concerned about their privacy and the trustworthiness of machine learning (ML) technology. A common denominator for the…

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 (FL) enables collaborative training of Deep Learning (DL) models where the data is retained locally. Like DL, FL has severe security weaknesses that the attackers can exploit, e.g., model inversion and backdoor attacks.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-03-01 Gorka Abad , Servio Paguada , Oguzhan Ersoy , Stjepan Picek , Víctor Julio Ramírez-Durán , Aitor Urbieta

We investigate a specific security risk in FL: a group of malicious clients has impacted the model during training by disguising their identities and acting as benign clients but later switching to an adversarial role. They use their data,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-22 Yijiang Li , Ying Gao , Haohan Wang

Federated learning is vulnerable to poisoning attacks by malicious adversaries. Existing methods often involve high costs to achieve effective attacks. To address this challenge, we propose a sybil-based virtual data poisoning attack, where…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-16 Changxun Zhu , Qilong Wu , Lingjuan Lyu , Shibei Xue

Federated Learning (FL) is a distributed training paradigm wherein participants collaborate to build a global model while ensuring the privacy of the involved data, which remains stored on participant devices. However, proposals aiming to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Nicolas Riccieri Gardin Assumpcao , Leandro Villas

Federated Learning (FL) enables decentralized model training while preserving privacy. Recently, the integration of Foundation Models (FMs) into FL has enhanced performance but introduced a novel backdoor attack mechanism. Attackers can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Xiaohuan Bi , Xi Li

Due to their decentralized nature, federated learning (FL) systems have an inherent vulnerability during their training to adversarial backdoor attacks. In this type of attack, the goal of the attacker is to use poisoned updates to implant…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Zhengming Zhang , Ashwinee Panda , Linyue Song , Yaoqing Yang , Michael W. Mahoney , Joseph E. Gonzalez , Kannan Ramchandran , Prateek Mittal

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

Recent research efforts indicate that federated learning (FL) systems are vulnerable to a variety of security breaches. While numerous defense strategies have been suggested, they are mainly designed to counter specific attack patterns and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Henger Li , Tianyi Xu , Tao Li , Yunian Pan , Quanyan Zhu , Zizhan Zheng