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In federated learning, multiple client devices jointly learn a machine learning model: each client device maintains a local model for its local training dataset, while a master device maintains a global model via aggregating the local…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-11-23 Minghong Fang , Xiaoyu Cao , Jinyuan Jia , Neil Zhenqiang Gong

Federated learning (FL) has gained popularity as a privacy-preserving method of training machine learning models on decentralized networks. However to ensure reliable operation of UAV-assisted FL systems, issues like as excessive energy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Md Bokhtiar Al Zami , Md Raihan Uddin , Dinh C. Nguyen

Federated learning (FL) is a distributed machine learning (ML) technique that enables collaborative training in which devices perform learning using a local dataset while preserving their privacy. This technique ensures privacy,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-01-28 Hajar Moudoud , Soumaya Cherkaoui , Lyes Khoukhi

Network traffic prediction plays a crucial role in intelligent network operation. Traditional prediction methods often rely on centralized training, necessitating the transfer of vast amounts of traffic data to a central server. This…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Hui Ma , Kai Yang , Yang Jiao

Federated reinforcement learning (FRL) allows agents to jointly learn a global decision-making policy under the guidance of a central server. While FRL has advantages, its decentralized design makes it prone to poisoning attacks. To…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-13 Minghong Fang , Xilong Wang , Neil Zhenqiang Gong

Federated learning (FL) demonstrates its advantages in integrating distributed infrastructure, communication, computing and learning in a privacy-preserving manner. However, the robustness and capabilities of existing FL methods are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-27 Longbing Cao , Hui Chen , Xuhui Fan , Joao Gama , Yew-Soon Ong , Vipin Kumar

Most existing Byzantine-robust federated learning (FL) methods suffer from slow and unstable convergence. Moreover, when handling a substantial proportion of colluded malicious clients, achieving robustness typically entails compromising…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-17 He Yang , Dongyi Lv , Wei Xi , Song Ma , Hanlin Gu , Jizhong Zhao

Existing research on federated learning has been focused on the setting where learning is coordinated by a centralized entity. Yet the greatest potential of future collaborative intelligence would be unleashed in a more open and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Huiwen Liu , Feida Zhu , Ling Cheng

A key feature of federated learning (FL) is to preserve the data privacy of end users. However, there still exist potential privacy leakage in exchanging gradients under FL. As a result, recent research often explores the differential…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Yuntao Wang , Zhou Su , Yanghe Pan , Tom H Luan , Ruidong Li , Shui Yu

Decentralized Federated Learning (DFL) eliminates the central aggregator but introduces a severe 'trust gap': without a trusted coordinator, the system becomes vulnerable to Byzantine and Sybil attacks, while existing solutions treat node…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Wenyang Jia , Qiankang Xu , Ziwei Yan , Chunhua Kang , Yang Yang , Jinglu He , Kai Lei

In federated learning (FL), profiling and verifying each client is inherently difficult, which introduces a significant security vulnerability: malicious clients, commonly referred to as Byzantines, can degrade the accuracy of the global…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Emre Ozfatura , Kerem Ozfatura , Baturalp Buyukates , Mert Coskuner , Alptekin Kupcu , Deniz Gunduz

Federated Learning (FL) enables clients to collaboratively train a global model using their local datasets while reinforcing data privacy, but it is prone to poisoning attacks. Existing defense mechanisms assume that clients' data are…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Mehdi Ben Ghali , Gouenou Coatrieux , Reda Bellafqira

In Byzantine robust distributed or federated learning, a central server wants to train a machine learning model over data distributed across multiple workers. However, a fraction of these workers may deviate from the prescribed algorithm…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-23 Sai Praneeth Karimireddy , Lie He , Martin Jaggi

Federated Learning (FL) enables collaborative model training without exposing clients' private data, and has been widely adopted in privacy-sensitive scenarios. However, FL faces two critical security threats: curious servers that may…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Yiwen Lu

Federated learning is a distributed training framework vulnerable to Byzantine attacks, particularly when over 50% of clients are malicious or when datasets are highly non-independent and identically distributed (non-IID). Additionally,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Haocheng Jiang , Hua Shen , Jixin Zhang , Willy Susilo , Mingwu Zhang

The increasing popularity of the federated learning (FL) framework due to its success in a wide range of collaborative learning tasks also induces certain security concerns. Among many vulnerabilities, the risk of Byzantine attacks is of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-02 Kerem Ozfatura , Emre Ozfatura , Alptekin Kupcu , Deniz Gunduz

Blockchained federated learning (BFL) combines the concepts of federated learning and blockchain technology to enhance privacy, security, and transparency in collaborative machine learning models. However, implementing BFL frameworks poses…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-01-09 Meryem Malak Dif , Mouhamed Amine Bouchiha , Mourad Rabah , Yacine Ghamri-Doudane

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

Jointly addressing Byzantine attacks and privacy leakage in distributed machine learning (DML) has become an important issue. A common strategy involves integrating Byzantine-resilient aggregation rules with differential privacy mechanisms.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Bing Liu , Chengcheng Zhao , Li Chai , Peng Cheng , Yaonan Wang

Federated learning (FL) has emerged as a promising paradigm for collaborative model training while preserving data locality. However, it still faces challenges from malicious or compromised clients, as well as difficulties in incentivizing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Zhanhong Xie , Meifan Zhang , Lihua Yin