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Federated learning (FL) has been widely deployed to enable machine learning training on sensitive data across distributed devices. However, the decentralized learning paradigm and heterogeneity of FL further extend the attack surface for…

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Adversarial training provides a principled approach for training robust neural networks. From an optimization perspective, adversarial training is essentially solving a bilevel optimization problem. The leader problem is trying to learn a…

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Device fingerprinting combined with Machine and Deep Learning (ML/DL) report promising performance when detecting cyberattacks targeting data managed by resource-constrained spectrum sensors. However, the amount of data needed to train…

Federated learning (FL) systems are susceptible to attacks from malicious actors who might attempt to corrupt the training model through various poisoning attacks. FL also poses new challenges in addressing group bias, such as ensuring fair…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-08 Viktor Valadi , Xinchi Qiu , Pedro Porto Buarque de Gusmão , Nicholas D. Lane , Mina Alibeigi

Federated learning is an emerging data-private distributed learning framework, which, however, is vulnerable to adversarial attacks. Although several heuristic defenses are proposed to enhance the robustness of federated learning, they do…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Cheng Chen , Bhavya Kailkhura , Ryan Goldhahn , Yi Zhou

Federated learning (FL) allows a set of agents to collaboratively train a model without sharing their potentially sensitive data. This makes FL suitable for privacy-preserving applications. At the same time, FL is susceptible to adversarial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-02 Mustafa Safa Ozdayi , Murat Kantarcioglu , Yulia R. Gel

Federated Learning (FL) offers collaborative model training without data sharing but is vulnerable to backdoor attacks, where poisoned model weights lead to compromised system integrity. Existing countermeasures, primarily based on anomaly…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-12-11 Hao Yu , Chuan Ma , Meng Liu , Tianyu Du , Ming Ding , Tao Xiang , Shouling Ji , Xinwang Liu

Federated Learning (FL) is a new machine learning framework, which enables millions of participants to collaboratively train machine learning model without compromising data privacy and security. Due to the independence and confidentiality…

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Federated learning (FL) is a privacy-preserving machine learning technique that facilitates collaboration among participants across demographics. FL enables model sharing, while restricting the movement of data. Since FL provides…

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Federated Learning (FL) is increasingly applied in sectors like healthcare, finance, and IoT, enabling collaborative model training while safeguarding user privacy. However, FL systems are susceptible to Byzantine adversaries that inject…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Reek Das , Biplab Kanti Sen

Federated learning (FL) is a trending training paradigm to utilize decentralized training data. FL allows clients to update model parameters locally for several epochs, then share them to a global model for aggregation. This training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-09 Xiaoxiao Li , Zhao Song , Jiaming Yang

Federated Learning (FL) facilitates decentralized machine learning model training, preserving data privacy, lowering communication costs, and boosting model performance through diversified data sources. Yet, FL faces vulnerabilities such as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-11 Torsten Krauß , Alexandra Dmitrienko

Federated learning is an established method for training machine learning models without sharing training data. However, recent work has shown that it cannot guarantee data privacy as shared gradients can still leak sensitive information.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-18 Mislav Balunović , Dimitar I. Dimitrov , Robin Staab , Martin Vechev

Federated Learning (FL) offers a paradigm for privacy-preserving collaborative AI, but its decentralized nature creates significant vulnerabilities to model poisoning attacks. While numerous static defenses exist, their effectiveness is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Md Rafid Haque , Abu Raihan Mostofa Kamal , Md. Azam Hossain

Due to its distributed methodology alongside its privacy-preserving features, Federated Learning (FL) is vulnerable to training time adversarial attacks. In this study, our focus is on backdoor attacks in which the adversary's goal is to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-11 Omid Aramoon , Pin-Yu Chen , Gang Qu , Yuan Tian

In the context of the growing proliferation of user devices and the concurrent surge in data volumes, the complexities arising from the substantial increase in data have posed formidable challenges to conventional machine learning model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Eyad Gad , Zubair Md Fadlullah , Mostafa M. Fouda

Federated Learning is an emerging privacy-preserving distributed machine learning approach to building a shared model by performing distributed training locally on participating devices (clients) and aggregating the local models into a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-15 Sreya Francis , Irene Tenison , Irina Rish

At the same time that artificial intelligence is becoming popular, concern and the need for regulation is growing, including among other requirements the data privacy. In this context, Federated Learning is proposed as a solution to data…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-18 Nuria Rodríguez-Barroso , M. Victoria Luzón , Francisco Herrera

Federated Learning (FL) enables collaborative model training across multiple clients without sharing private data. We consider FL scenarios wherein FL clients are subject to adversarial (Byzantine) attacks, while the FL server is trusted…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Emmanouil Kritharakis , Dusan Jakovetic , Antonios Makris , Konstantinos Tserpes

Bilevel optimization plays an essential role in many machine learning tasks, ranging from hyperparameter optimization to meta-learning. Existing studies on bilevel optimization, however, focus on either centralized or synchronous…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-27 Yang Jiao , Kai Yang , Tiancheng Wu , Dongjin Song , Chengtao Jian