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Moving Target Defense (MTD) has emerged as a proactive and dynamic framework to counteract evolving cyber threats. Traditional MTD approaches often rely on assumptions about the attackers knowledge and behavior. However, real-world…

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Federated Learning (FL) is a novel client-server distributed learning framework that can protect data privacy. However, recent works show that FL is vulnerable to poisoning attacks. Many defenses with robust aggregators (AGRs) are proposed…

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Federated online learning to rank (FOLTR) aims to preserve user privacy by not sharing their searchable data and search interactions, while guaranteeing high search effectiveness, especially in contexts where individual users have scarce…

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Model poisoning attacks pose a significant security threat to Federated Learning (FL). Most existing model poisoning attacks rely on collusion, requiring adversarial clients to coordinate by exchanging local benign models and synchronizing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Israt Jahan Mouri , Muhammad Ridowan , Muhammad Abdullah Adnan

The distributed nature of local differential privacy (LDP) invites data poisoning attacks and poses unforeseen threats to the underlying LDP-supported applications. In this paper, we propose a comprehensive mitigation framework for popular…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Xiaolin Li , Ninghui Li , Boyang Wang , Wenhai Sun

Federated learning (FL) is a framework for training machine learning models in a distributed and collaborative manner. During training, a set of participating clients process their data stored locally, sharing only the model updates…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Filippo Galli , Kangsoo Jung , Sayan Biswas , Catuscia Palamidessi , Tommaso Cucinotta

Federated Distillation (FD) is a novel and promising distributed machine learning paradigm, where knowledge distillation is leveraged to facilitate a more efficient and flexible cross-device knowledge transfer in federated learning. By…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Yuhan Tang , Zhiyuan Wu , Bo Gao , Tian Wen , Yuwei Wang , Sheng Sun

Federated learning is an emerging distributed machine learning framework for privacy preservation. However, models trained in federated learning usually have worse performance than those trained in the standard centralized learning mode,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Hangyu Zhu , Jinjin Xu , Shiqing Liu , Yaochu Jin

Federated learning (FL) is a popular distributed learning framework that trains a global model through iterative communications between a central server and edge devices. Recent works have demonstrated that FL is vulnerable to model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-27 Jingwei Sun , Ang Li , Louis DiValentin , Amin Hassanzadeh , Yiran Chen , Hai Li

Federated Learning (FL) is a technique that allows multiple parties to train a shared model collaboratively without disclosing their private data. It has become increasingly popular due to its distinct privacy advantages. However, FL models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-04 Syed Irfan Ali Meerza , Jian Liu

Federated learning is known to be vulnerable to both security and privacy issues. Existing research has focused either on preventing poisoning attacks from users or on concealing the local model updates from the server, but not both.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Truc Nguyen , My T. Thai

Decentralized Federated Learning (DFL) has garnered attention for its robustness and scalability compared to Centralized Federated Learning (CFL). While DFL is commonly believed to offer privacy advantages due to the decentralized control…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Changlong Ji , Stephane Maag , Richard Heusdens , Qiongxiu Li

Model poisoning attacks on federated learning (FL) intrude in the entire system via compromising an edge model, resulting in malfunctioning of machine learning models. Such compromised models are tampered with to perform adversary-desired…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-11 Yuwei Sun , Hideya Ochiai , Jun Sakuma

Federated Learning (FL) enables collaborative model training across distributed devices while preserving local data privacy, making it ideal for mobile and embedded systems. However, the decentralized nature of FL also opens vulnerabilities…

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In recent studies, moving target defense (MTD) has been applied to detect false data injection (FDI) attacks using distributed flexible AC transmission system (D-FACTS) devices. However, the inherent conflict between the security goals of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-03 Jiazhou Wang , Jue Tian , Yang Liu , Xiaohong Guan , Dong Yang , Ting Liu

Federated learning (FL), as a type of distributed machine learning frameworks, is vulnerable to external attacks on FL models during parameters transmissions. An attacker in FL may control a number of participant clients, and purposely…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-29 Kang Wei , Jun Li , Ming Ding , Chuan Ma , Yo-Seb Jeon , H. Vincent Poor

Federated learning is an essential distributed model training technique. However, threats such as gradient inversion attacks and poisoning attacks pose significant risks to the privacy of training data and the model correctness. We propose…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-24 Zhihui Zhao , Xiaorong Dong , Yimo Ren , Jianhua Wang , Dan Yu , Hongsong Zhu , Yongle Chen

Distributed machine learning has been widely used in recent years to tackle the large and complex dataset problem. Therewith, the security of distributed learning has also drawn increasing attentions from both academia and industry. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-13 Zihao Zhao , Mengen Luo , Wenbo Ding

Federated learning (FL) allows participants to collaboratively train machine and deep learning models while protecting data privacy. However, the FL paradigm still presents drawbacks affecting its trustworthiness since malicious…

Recently, moving target defence (MTD) has been proposed to thwart false data injection (FDI) attacks in power system state estimation by proactively triggering the distributed flexible AC transmission system (D-FACTS) devices. One of the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-22 Wangkun Xu , Imad M. Jaimoukha , Fei Teng