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Backdoor attacks on federated learning (FL) are most often evaluated with synthetic corner patches or out-of-distribution (OOD) patterns that are unlikely to arise in practice. In this paper, we revisit the backdoor threat to standard FL (a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Kavindu Herath , Joshua Zhao , Saurabh Bagchi

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

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 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) enables privacy-preserving model training by keeping data decentralized. However, it remains vulnerable to label-flipping attacks, where malicious clients manipulate labels to poison the global model. Despite their…

Deep learning models are vulnerable to various adversarial manipulations of their training data, parameters, and input sample. In particular, an adversary can modify the training data and model parameters to embed backdoors into the model,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-09 Te Juin Lester Tan , Reza Shokri

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

Backdoor attacks undermine the reliability and trustworthiness of machine learning systems by injecting hidden behaviors that can be maliciously activated at inference time. While such threats have been extensively studied in unimodal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Juncheng Li , Yige Li , Hanxun Huang , Yunhao Chen , Xin Wang , Yixu Wang , Xingjun Ma , Yu-Gang Jiang

Federated Learning (FL) offers collaborative model training without data sharing but is vulnerable to backdoor attacks, where poisoned model weights lead to compromised system integrity. Existing countermeasures, primarily based on anomaly…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-12-11 Hao Yu , Chuan Ma , Meng Liu , Tianyu Du , Ming Ding , Tao Xiang , Shouling Ji , Xinwang Liu

Federated Learning (FL) is a distributed machine learning approach that maintains data privacy by training on decentralized data sources. Similar to centralized machine learning, FL is also susceptible to backdoor attacks, where an attacker…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Son Nguyen , Thinh Nguyen , Khoa D Doan , Kok-Seng Wong

Federated Learning (FL) has become very popular since it enables clients to train a joint model collaboratively without sharing their private data. However, FL has been shown to be susceptible to backdoor and inference attacks. While in the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-08-02 Huimin Li , Phillip Rieger , Shaza Zeitouni , Stjepan Picek , Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi

As machine learning (ML) systems are being increasingly employed in the real world to handle sensitive tasks and make decisions in various fields, the security and privacy of those models have also become increasingly critical. In…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Marwan Omar

Personalized federated learning (PFL) creates client-specific models to handle data heterogeneity. Previously, PFL has been shown to be naturally resistant to backdoor attack propagation across clients. In this work, we reveal that PFL…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Nahom Birhan , Daniel Wesego , Dereje Shenkut , Frank Liu , Daniel Takabi

The fundamental goal of self-supervised learning (SSL) is to produce useful representations of data without access to any labels for classifying the data. Modern methods in SSL, which form representations based on known or constructed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-30 Bobak T. Kiani , Randall Balestriero , Yubei Chen , Seth Lloyd , Yann LeCun

Federated Learning (FL) enables collaborative model training while preserving data privacy by keeping raw data locally stored on client devices, preventing access from other clients or the central server. However, recent studies reveal that…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Ren-Yi Huang , Dumindu Samaraweera , Prashant Shekhar , J. Morris Chang

With the broad application of deep neural networks (DNNs), backdoor attacks have gradually attracted attention. Backdoor attacks are insidious, and poisoned models perform well on benign samples and are only triggered when given specific…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Chang Yue , Peizhuo Lv , Ruigang Liang , Kai Chen

Current self-supervised learning (SSL) methods (e.g., SimCLR, DINO, VICReg,MOCOv3) target primarily on representations at instance level and do not generalize well to dense prediction tasks, such as object detection and segmentation.Towards…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Qing Su , Anton Netchaev , Hai Li , Shihao Ji

Self-Supervised Learning (SSL) has emerged as a significant paradigm in representation learning thanks to its ability to learn without extensive labeled data, its strong generalization capabilities, and its potential for privacy…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Jiayao Wang , Mohammad Maruf Hasan , Yiping Zhang , Xiaoying Lei , Jiale Zhang , Qilin Wu , Junwu Zhu , Dongfang Zhao

Federated learning (FL) has emerged with increasing popularity to collaborate distributed medical institutions for training deep networks. However, despite existing FL algorithms only allow the supervised training setting, most hospitals in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-17 Quande Liu , Hongzheng Yang , Qi Dou , Pheng-Ann Heng

Research on backdoor attacks in Federated Learning (FL) has accelerated in recent years, with new attacks and defenses continually proposed in an escalating arms race. However, the evaluation of these methods remains neither standardized…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Thinh Dao , Dung Thuy Nguyen , Khoa D Doan , Kok-Seng Wong