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Federated Learning (FL) has become a powerful technique for training Machine Learning (ML) models in a decentralized manner, preserving the privacy of the training datasets involved. However, the decentralized nature of FL limits the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Enrique Mármol Campos , Aurora González Vidal , José Luis Hernández Ramos , Antonio Skarmeta

Federated Learning (FL) is a collaborative machine learning technique where multiple clients work together with a central server to train a global model without sharing their private data. However, the distribution shift across non-IID…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Xiaoting Lyu , Yufei Han , Wei Wang , Jingkai Liu , Yongsheng Zhu , Guangquan Xu , Jiqiang Liu , Xiangliang Zhang

Federated learning distributes model training among a multitude of agents, who, guided by privacy concerns, perform training using their local data but share only model parameter updates, for iterative aggregation at the server. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-26 Arjun Nitin Bhagoji , Supriyo Chakraborty , Prateek Mittal , Seraphin Calo

Federated learning (FL) is a collaborative learning paradigm allowing multiple clients to jointly train a model without sharing their training data. However, FL is susceptible to poisoning attacks, in which the adversary injects manipulated…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Hossein Fereidooni , Alessandro Pegoraro , Phillip Rieger , Alexandra Dmitrienko , Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi

Most machine learning applications rely on centralized learning processes, opening up the risk of exposure of their training datasets. While federated learning (FL) mitigates to some extent these privacy risks, it relies on a trusted…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-18 Georgios Syros , Gokberk Yar , Simona Boboila , Cristina Nita-Rotaru , Alina Oprea

Federated learning (FL) has emerged as a prospective solution for collaboratively learning a shared model across clients without sacrificing their data privacy. However, the federated learned model tends to be biased against certain…

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

Federated learning (FL) enables multiple clients to collaboratively train a global machine learning model without sharing their raw data. However, the decentralized nature of FL introduces vulnerabilities, particularly to poisoning attacks,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Zhihao Dou , Jiaqi Wang , Wei Sun , Zhuqing Liu , Minghong Fang

Federated learning (FL) is a machine learning (ML) approach that allows the use of distributed data without compromising personal privacy. However, the heterogeneous distribution of data among clients in FL can make it difficult for the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Thuy Dung Nguyen , Tuan Nguyen , Phi Le Nguyen , Hieu H. Pham , Khoa Doan , Kok-Seng Wong

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

Federated learning (FL) enables the training of models among distributed clients without compromising the privacy of training datasets, while the invisibility of clients datasets and the training process poses a variety of security threats.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Subhash Sagar , Chang-Sun Li , Seng W. Loke , Jinho Choi

Federated learning (FL) is an emerging paradigm for distributed training of large-scale deep neural networks in which participants' data remains on their own devices with only model updates being shared with a central server. However, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-13 Vale Tolpegin , Stacey Truex , Mehmet Emre Gursoy , Ling Liu

Federated Learning (FL) is a paradigm in Machine Learning (ML) that addresses data privacy, security, access rights and access to heterogeneous information issues by training a global model using distributed nodes. Despite its advantages,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Ranwa Al Mallah , David Lopez , Godwin Badu Marfo , Bilal Farooq

Motivated by the ever-increasing concerns on personal data privacy and the rapidly growing data volume at local clients, federated learning (FL) has emerged as a new machine learning setting. An FL system is comprised of a central parameter…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-08-04 Xiang Ma , Haijian Sun , Rose Qingyang Hu , Yi Qian

The deep integration of foundation models (FM) with federated learning (FL) enhances personalization and scalability for diverse downstream tasks, making it crucial in sensitive domains like healthcare. Achieving group fairness has become…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Yuning Yang , Han Yu , Tianrun Gao , Xiaodong Xu , Guangyu Wang

Federated learning (FL) enables multiple clients to collaboratively train a global model without sharing their local data. Recent studies have highlighted the vulnerability of FL to Byzantine attacks, where malicious clients send poisoned…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Kai Yue , Richeng Jin , Chau-Wai Wong , Huaiyu Dai

Federated Learning (FL) enables collaborative training while preserving privacy, yet it introduces a critical challenge: the "illusion of fairness''. A global model, usually evaluated on the server, appears fair on average while keeping…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Xenia Heilmann , Luca Corbucci , Mattia Cerrato , Anna Monreale

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) has emerged as a promising approach for privacy-preserving model training across decentralized devices. However, it faces challenges such as statistical heterogeneity and susceptibility to adversarial attacks, which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-13 Jialuo He , Wei Chen , Xiaojin Zhang

Federated learning (FL) has become an emerging machine learning technique lately due to its efficacy in safeguarding the client's confidential information. Nevertheless, despite the inherent and additional privacy-preserving mechanisms…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-09-22 Md Tamjid Hossain , Shafkat Islam , Shahriar Badsha , Haoting Shen

Despite the promise of Federated Learning (FL) for privacy-preserving model training on distributed data, it remains susceptible to backdoor attacks. These attacks manipulate models by embedding triggers (specific input patterns) in the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Tuan Nguyen , Dung Thuy Nguyen , Khoa D Doan , Kok-Seng Wong