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Federated Learning (FL) has emerged as a machine learning approach able to preserve the privacy of user's data. Applying FL, clients train machine learning models on a local dataset and a central server aggregates the learned parameters…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Luiz Leite , Yuri Santo , Bruno L. Dalmazo , André Riker

Graph convolutional networks (GCNs) have been very effective in addressing the issue of various graph-structured related tasks. However, recent research has shown that GCNs are vulnerable to a new type of threat called a backdoor attack,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Jiazhu Dai , Zhipeng Xiong

In this work, we propose the first backdoor attack to graph neural networks (GNN). Specifically, we propose a \emph{subgraph based backdoor attack} to GNN for graph classification. In our backdoor attack, a GNN classifier predicts an…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-12-20 Zaixi Zhang , Jinyuan Jia , Binghui Wang , Neil Zhenqiang Gong

Federated learning (FL) enables distributed model training across edge devices while preserving data locality. This decentralized approach has emerged as a promising solution for collaborative learning on sensitive user data, effectively…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Mohammad Hadi Foroughi , Seyed Hamed Rastegar , Mohammad Sabokrou , Ahmad Khonsari

Federated learning enables collaborative machine learning while preserving data privacy. However, the rise of federated unlearning, designed to allow clients to erase their data from the global model, introduces new privacy concerns.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Bocheng Ju , Junchao Fan , Jiaqi Liu , Xiaolin Chang

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are highly vulnerable to adversarial attacks, which can greatly degrade their performance. Existing graph purification methods attempt to address this issue by filtering attacked graphs. However, they struggle…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Xin He , Wenqi Fan , Yili Wang , Chengyi Liu , Rui Miao , Xin Juan , Xin Wang

Previous security research efforts orbiting around graphs have been exclusively focusing on either (de-)anonymizing the graphs or understanding the security and privacy issues of graph neural networks. Little attention has been paid to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-02 Yun Shen , Yufei Han , Zhikun Zhang , Min Chen , Ting Yu , Michael Backes , Yang Zhang , Gianluca Stringhini

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have been successfully exploited in graph analysis tasks in many real-world applications. The competition between attack and defense methods also enhances the robustness of GNNs. In this competition, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-10 Jinyin Chen , Dunjie Zhang , Zhaoyan Ming , Kejie Huang , Wenrong Jiang , Chen Cui

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

Deep learning and federated learning (FL) are becoming powerful partners for next-generation weather forecasting. Deep learning enables high-resolution spatiotemporal forecasts that can surpass traditional numerical models, while FL allows…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Karina Chichifoi , Fabio Merizzi , Michele Colajanni

Federated reinforcement learning (FRL) enables distributed learning of optimal policies while preserving local data privacy through gradient sharing.However, FRL faces the risk of data privacy leaks, where attackers exploit shared gradients…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Shenghong He

In contrast to prevalent Federated Learning (FL) privacy inference techniques such as generative adversarial networks attacks, membership inference attacks, property inference attacks, and model inversion attacks, we devise an innovative…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-27 Zhiyang Dai , Chunyi Zhou , Anmin Fu

Launching effective malicious attacks in VFL presents unique challenges: 1) Firstly, given the distributed nature of clients' data features and models, each client rigorously guards its privacy and prohibits direct querying, complicating…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-09 Duanyi Yao , Songze Li , Xueluan Gong , Sizai Hou , Gaoning Pan

Federated learning has emerged as a promising privacy-preserving solution for machine learning domains that rely on user interactions, particularly recommender systems and online learning to rank. While there has been substantial research…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Dzung Pham , Shreyas Kulkarni , Amir Houmansadr

Fairness-aware graph neural networks (GNNs) have gained a surge of attention as they can reduce the bias of predictions on any demographic group (e.g., female) in graph-based applications. Although these methods greatly improve the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Binchi Zhang , Yushun Dong , Chen Chen , Yada Zhu , Minnan Luo , Jundong Li

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have achieved significant success in graph representation learning and have been applied to various domains. However, many real-world graphs contain sensitive personal information, such as user profiles in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Longzhu He , Chaozhuo Li , Peng Tang , Li Sun , Sen Su , Philip S. Yu

Multi-view clustering is an important machine learning task for multi-media data, encompassing various domains such as images, videos, and texts. Moreover, with the growing abundance of graph data, the significance of multi-view graph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Zichen Wen , Tianyi Wu , Yazhou Ren , Yawen Ling , Chenhang Cui , Xiaorong Pu , Lifang He

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are recognized as potent tools for processing real-world data organized in graph structures. Especially inductive GNNs, which allow for the processing of graph-structured data without relying on predefined graph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-21 Marcin Podhajski , Jan Dubiński , Franziska Boenisch , Adam Dziedzic , Agnieszka Pregowska , Tomasz P. Michalak

In federated learning (FL), data does not leave personal devices when they are jointly training a machine learning model. Instead, these devices share gradients, parameters, or other model updates, with a central party (e.g., a company)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-14 Franziska Boenisch , Adam Dziedzic , Roei Schuster , Ali Shahin Shamsabadi , Ilia Shumailov , Nicolas Papernot

Federated learning has quickly gained popularity with its promises of increased user privacy and efficiency. Previous works have shown that federated gradient updates contain information that can be used to approximately recover user data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-21 Liam Fowl , Jonas Geiping , Wojtek Czaja , Micah Goldblum , Tom Goldstein