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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…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-26 Yuxin Yang , Qiang Li , Chenfei Nie , Yuan Hong , Meng Pang , Binghui Wang

Federated Learning (FL) is designed to prevent data leakage through collaborative model training without centralized data storage. However, it remains vulnerable to gradient reconstruction attacks that recover original training data from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-07 Yuxiao Chen , Gamze Gürsoy , Qi Lei

Federated learning is a distributed framework designed to address privacy concerns. However, it introduces new attack surfaces, which are especially prone when data is non-Independently and Identically Distributed. Existing approaches fail…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Hyejun Jeong , Hamin Son , Seohu Lee , Jayun Hyun , Tai-Myoung Chung

Federated Learning (FL) is a distributed machine learning diagram that enables multiple clients to collaboratively train a global model without sharing their private local data. However, FL systems are vulnerable to attacks that are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Qilei Li , Ahmed M. Abdelmoniem

This paper studies the poisoning attack and defense interactions in a federated learning (FL) system, specifically in the context of wireless signal classification using deep learning for next-generation (NextG) communications. FL…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Yalin E. Sagduyu , Tugba Erpek , Yi Shi

This review paper takes a comprehensive look at malicious attacks against FL, categorizing them from new perspectives on attack origins and targets, and providing insights into their methodology and impact. In this survey, we focus on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-10 Xianghua Xie , Chen Hu , Hanchi Ren , Jingjing Deng

Federated learning reduces the risk of information leakage, but remains vulnerable to attacks. We investigate how several neural network design decisions can defend against gradients inversion attacks. We show that overlapping gradients…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-28 Shaltiel Eloul , Fran Silavong , Sanket Kamthe , Antonios Georgiadis , Sean J. Moran

Federated learning is a popular strategy for training models on distributed, sensitive data, while preserving data privacy. Prior work identified a range of security threats on federated learning protocols that poison the data or the model.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-08-30 Giorgio Severi , Matthew Jagielski , Gökberk Yar , Yuxuan Wang , Alina Oprea , Cristina Nita-Rotaru

Federated Learning (FL) is a distributed machine learning paradigm designed for privacy-sensitive applications that run on resource-constrained devices with non-Identically and Independently Distributed (IID) data. Traditional FL frameworks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Omid Tavallaie , Kanchana Thilakarathna , Suranga Seneviratne , Aruna Seneviratne , Albert Y. Zomaya

Federated learning enables training high-utility models across several clients without directly sharing their private data. As a downside, the federated setting makes the model vulnerable to various adversarial attacks in the presence of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Xiaoyang Wang , Dimitrios Dimitriadis , Sanmi Koyejo , Shruti Tople

Federated learning (FL) is an emerging paradigm for facilitating multiple organizations' data collaboration without revealing their private data to each other. Recently, vertical FL, where the participating organizations hold the same set…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-15 Xinjian Luo , Yuncheng Wu , Xiaokui Xiao , Beng Chin Ooi

Current defense mechanisms against model poisoning attacks in federated learning (FL) systems have proven effective up to a certain threshold of malicious clients. In this work, we introduce FLANDERS, a novel pre-aggregation filter for FL…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Edoardo Gabrielli , Dimitri Belli , Zoe Matrullo , Vittorio Miori , Gabriele Tolomei

Gradient inversion attack enables recovery of training samples from model gradients in federated learning (FL), and constitutes a serious threat to data privacy. To mitigate this vulnerability, prior work proposed both principled defenses…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Ruihan Wu , Xiangyu Chen , Chuan Guo , Kilian Q. Weinberger

While Federated learning (FL) is attractive for pulling privacy-preserving distributed training data, the credibility of participating clients and non-inspectable data pose new security threats, of which poisoning attacks are particularly…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-09-20 Zizhen Liu , Weiyang He , Chip-Hong Chang , Jing Ye , Huawei Li , Xiaowei Li

Federated learning faces increasing threats from model poisoning attacks, which harms its application to improve privacy. Existing defense methods typically rely on fixed thresholds or perform clustering with a fixed number of clusters to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Tianyun Zhang , Zhen Yang , Haozhao Wang , Ru Zhang , Yongfeng Huang

The rapidly expanding number of Internet of Things (IoT) devices is generating huge quantities of data, but the data privacy and security exposure in IoT devices, especially in the automatic driving system. Federated learning (FL) is a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-09-15 Jiayin Li , Wenzhong Guo , Xingshuo Han , Jianping Cai , Ximeng Liu

Federated Learning (FL) facilitates collaborative model training among distributed clients while ensuring that raw data remains on local devices.Despite this advantage, FL systems are still exposed to risks from malicious or unreliable…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Deepthy K Bhaskar , Minimol B , Binu V P

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

Federated learning---multi-party, distributed learning in a decentralized environment---is vulnerable to model poisoning attacks, even more so than centralized learning approaches. This is because malicious clients can collude and send in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-20 Atul Sharma , Wei Chen , Joshua Zhao , Qiang Qiu , Somali Chaterji , Saurabh Bagchi

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