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Deep learning models are vulnerable to backdoor attacks, where adversaries inject malicious functionality during training that activates on trigger inputs at inference time. Extensive research has focused on developing stealthy backdoor…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Jeongjin Shin , Sangdon Park

Federated learning (FL) enables multiple clients to collaboratively train deep learning models while considering sensitive local datasets' privacy. However, adversaries can manipulate datasets and upload models by injecting triggers for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Zekai Chen , Fuyi Wang , Zhiwei Zheng , Ximeng Liu , Yujie Lin

Federated learning is a versatile framework for training models in decentralized environments. However, the trust placed in clients makes federated learning vulnerable to backdoor attacks launched by malicious participants. While many…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-12-23 Borja Molina-Coronado

Distributed backdoor attacks (DBA) have shown a higher attack success rate than centralized attacks in centralized federated learning (FL). However, it has not been investigated in the decentralized FL. In this paper, we experimentally…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Bohan Liu , Yang Xiao , Ruimeng Ye , Zinan Ling , Xiaolong Ma , Bo Hui

Federated learning enables thousands of participants to construct a deep learning model without sharing their private training data with each other. For example, multiple smartphones can jointly train a next-word predictor for keyboards…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-08-07 Eugene Bagdasaryan , Andreas Veit , Yiqing Hua , Deborah Estrin , Vitaly Shmatikov

Federated Learning (FL) is a privacy-preserving distributed machine learning technique that enables individual clients (e.g., user participants, edge devices, or organizations) to train a model on their local data in a secure environment…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-02-26 Waris Gill , Ali Anwar , Muhammad Ali Gulzar

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

Federated Learning (FL) is increasingly adopted for privacy-preserving collaborative training, but its decentralized nature makes it particularly susceptible to backdoor attacks. Existing attack methods, however, often rely on idealized…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Xuezheng Qin , Ruwei Huang , Xiaolong Tang , Feng Li

Federated Learning (FL), a privacy-preserving machine learning framework, faces significant data-related challenges. For example, the lack of suitable public datasets leads to ineffective information exchange, especially in heterogeneous…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Xi Li , Chen Wu , Jiaqi Wang

Split learning is a collaborative learning design that allows several participants (clients) to train a shared model while keeping their datasets private. Recent studies demonstrate that collaborative learning models, specifically federated…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Behrad Tajalli , Oguzhan Ersoy , Stjepan Picek

Backdoor attack intends to embed hidden backdoor into deep neural networks (DNNs), such that the attacked model performs well on benign samples, whereas its prediction will be maliciously changed if the hidden backdoor is activated by the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-04-13 Shaik Mohammed Maqsood , Viveros Manuela Ceron , Addluri GowthamKrishna

Backdoor attack intends to embed hidden backdoor into deep neural networks (DNNs), so that the attacked models perform well on benign samples, whereas their predictions will be maliciously changed if the hidden backdoor is activated by…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-02-17 Yiming Li , Yong Jiang , Zhifeng Li , Shu-Tao Xia

Federated learning allows multiple users to collaboratively train a shared classification model while preserving data privacy. This approach, where model updates are aggregated by a central server, was shown to be vulnerable to poisoning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-17 Chien-Lun Chen , Leana Golubchik , Marco Paolieri

Federated Learning (FL) allows multiple clients to collaboratively train a Neural Network (NN) model on their private data without revealing the data. Recently, several targeted poisoning attacks against FL have been introduced. These…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-01-04 Phillip Rieger , Thien Duc Nguyen , Markus Miettinen , Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi

With heightened awareness of data privacy protection, Federated Learning (FL) has attracted widespread attention as a privacy-preserving distributed machine learning method. However, the distributed nature of federated learning also…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-06-03 Xiaoyun Gan , Shanyu Gan , Taizhi Su , Peng Liu

Deep learning models are well known to be susceptible to backdoor attack, where the attacker only needs to provide a tampered dataset on which the triggers are injected. Models trained on the dataset will passively implant the backdoor, and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Zonghao Ying , Bin Wu

Federated Learning (FL), a privacy-preserving decentralized machine learning framework, has been shown to be vulnerable to backdoor attacks. Current research primarily focuses on the Single-Label Backdoor Attack (SBA), wherein adversaries…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Ye Li , Yanchao Zhao , Chengcheng Zhu , Jiale Zhang

Backdoor attack has emerged as a novel and concerning threat to AI security. These attacks involve the training of Deep Neural Network (DNN) on datasets that contain hidden trigger patterns. Although the poisoned model behaves normally on…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-03-06 Huasong Zhou , Xiaowei Xu , Xiaodong Wang , Leon Bevan Bullock

Federated graph learning (FedGL) is an emerging federated learning (FL) framework that extends FL to learn graph data from diverse sources. FL for non-graph data has shown to be vulnerable to backdoor attacks, which inject a shared backdoor…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-15 Yuxin Yang , Qiang Li , Jinyuan Jia , Yuan Hong , Binghui Wang

Federated Transfer Learning (FTL) is the most general variation of Federated Learning. According to this distributed paradigm, a feature learning pre-step is commonly carried out by only one party, typically the server, on publicly shared…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-01 Marco Arazzi , Stefanos Koffas , Antonino Nocera , Stjepan Picek