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Recently emerged federated learning (FL) is an attractive distributed learning framework in which numerous wireless end-user devices can train a global model with the data remained autochthonous. Compared with the traditional machine…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-10-10 Junyu Shi , Wei Wan , Shengshan Hu , Jianrong Lu , Leo Yu Zhang

Conformal prediction is a powerful tool to generate uncertainty sets with guaranteed coverage using any predictive model, under the assumption that the training and test data are i.i.d.. Recently, it has been shown that adversarial examples…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-01 Ge Yan , Yaniv Romano , Tsui-Wei Weng

In federated learning (FL), profiling and verifying each client is inherently difficult, which introduces a significant security vulnerability: malicious clients, commonly referred to as Byzantines, can degrade the accuracy of the global…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Emre Ozfatura , Kerem Ozfatura , Baturalp Buyukates , Mert Coskuner , Alptekin Kupcu , Deniz Gunduz

Federated Learning (FL) thrives in training a global model with numerous clients by only sharing the parameters of their local models trained with their private training datasets. Therefore, without revealing the private dataset, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-06 Younghan Lee , Yungi Cho , Woorim Han , Ho Bae , Yunheung Paek

Federated learning systems that jointly preserve Byzantine robustness and privacy have remained an open problem. Robust aggregation, the standard defense for Byzantine attacks, generally requires server access to individual updates or…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-10-07 Raj Kiriti Velicheti , Derek Xia , Oluwasanmi Koyejo

We consider the federated learning problem where data on workers are not independent and identically distributed (i.i.d.). During the learning process, an unknown number of Byzantine workers may send malicious messages to the central node,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-31 Jie Peng , Zhaoxian Wu , Qing Ling , Tianyi Chen

Recent studies have revealed that federated learning (FL), once considered secure due to clients not sharing their private data with the server, is vulnerable to attacks such as client-side training data distribution inference, where a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-05 Yichang Xu , Ming Yin , Minghong Fang , Neil Zhenqiang Gong

To preserve user privacy in recommender systems, federated recommendation (FR) based on federated learning (FL) emerges, keeping the personal data on the local client and updating a model collaboratively. Unlike FL, FR has a unique sparse…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-01-09 Zhongjian Zhang , Mengmei Zhang , Xiao Wang , Lingjuan Lyu , Bo Yan , Junping Du , Chuan Shi

Modern distributed systems face growing security threats, as attackers continuously enhance their skills and vulnerabilities span across the entire system stack, from hardware to the application layer. In the system design phase, fault…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Silvia Bonomi , Giovanni Farina , Roy Friedman , Eviatar B. Procaccia , Sebastien Tixeuil

With the increasing importance of machine learning, the privacy and security of training data have become critical. Federated learning, which stores data in distributed nodes and shares only model parameters, has gained significant…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Yang Li , Chunhe Xia , Chang Li , Tianbo Wang

Privacy-preserving federated averaging is a central approach for protecting client privacy in federated learning. In this paper, we study this problem in an asynchronous communications setting with malicious aggregators. We propose a new…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Antonella Del Pozzo , Achille Desreumaux , Mathieu Gestin , Alexandre Rapetti , Sara Tucci-Piergiovanni

This paper focuses on the problem of adversarial attacks from Byzantine machines in a Federated Learning setting where non-Byzantine machines can be partitioned into disjoint clusters. In this setting, non-Byzantine machines in the same…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-06-02 Zhixu Tao , Kun Yang , Sanjeev R. Kulkarni

Federated learning (FL) enables decentralized machine learning without sharing raw data, allowing multiple clients to collaboratively learn a global model. However, studies reveal that privacy leakage is possible under commonly adopted FL…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Kai Yue , Richeng Jin , Chau-Wai Wong , Huaiyu Dai

Federated learning (FL) enables multiple participants to train a global machine learning model without sharing their private training data. Peer-to-peer (P2P) FL advances existing centralized FL paradigms by eliminating the server that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-12 Zhangchen Xu , Fengqing Jiang , Luyao Niu , Jinyuan Jia , Radha Poovendran

Privacy and Byzantine resilience are two indispensable requirements for a federated learning (FL) system. Although there have been extensive studies on privacy and Byzantine security in their own track, solutions that consider both remain…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-03 Zihang Xiang , Tianhao Wang , Wanyu Lin , Di Wang

Sybil attacks, in which a large number of adversary-controlled nodes join a network, are a concern for many peer-to-peer database systems, necessitating expensive countermeasures such as proof-of-work. However, there is a category of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-12-02 Martin Kleppmann , Heidi Howard

While being an effective framework of learning a shared model across multiple edge devices, federated learning (FL) is generally vulnerable to Byzantine attacks from adversarial edge devices. While existing works on FL mitigate such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Youngjoon Lee , Sangwoo Park , Joonhyuk Kang

Privacy and Byzantine resilience (BR) are two crucial requirements of modern-day distributed machine learning. The two concepts have been extensively studied individually but the question of how to combine them effectively remains…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-06 Rachid Guerraoui , Nirupam Gupta , Rafael Pinot , Sebastien Rouault , John Stephan

Federated Learning (FL) emerged as a widely studied paradigm for distributed learning. Despite its many advantages, FL remains vulnerable to adversarial attacks, especially under data heterogeneity. We propose a new Byzantine-robust FL…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Sena Ergisi , Luis Maßny , Rawad Bitar

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