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This paper investigates the robustness of over-the-air federated learning to Byzantine attacks. The simple averaging of the model updates via over-the-air computation makes the learning task vulnerable to random or intended modifications of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-24 Houssem Sifaou , Geoffrey Ye Li

Federated Learning (FL) is a machine learning paradigm to conduct collaborative learning among clients on a joint model. The primary goal is to share clients' local training parameters with an integrating server while preserving their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Mahdi Ghafourian , Julian Fierrez , Ruben Vera-Rodriguez , Ruben Tolosana , Aythami Morales

Federated learning (FL) is an emerging promising paradigm of privacy-preserving machine learning (ML). An important type of FL is cross-silo FL, which enables a small scale of organizations to cooperatively train a shared model by keeping…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Jialiang Han , Yudong Han , Gang Huang , Yun Ma

Federated learning across multi-cloud environments faces critical challenges, including non-IID data distributions, malicious participant detection, and substantial cross-cloud communication costs (egress fees). Existing Byzantine-robust…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-24 Jixiao Yang , Jinyu Chen , Zixiao Huang , Chengda Xu , Chi Zhang , Sijia Li

Aiming at privacy preservation, Federated Learning (FL) is an emerging machine learning approach enabling model training on decentralized devices or data sources. The learning mechanism of FL relies on aggregating parameter updates from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Jiayan Chen , Zhirong Qian , Tianhui Meng , Xitong Gao , Tian Wang , Weijia Jia

Federated learning (FL) allows multiple parties to cooperatively learn a federated model without sharing private data with each other. The need of protecting such federated models from being plagiarized or misused, therefore, motivates us…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-05-11 Wenyuan Yang , Yuguo Yin , Gongxi Zhu , Hanlin Gu , Lixin Fan , Xiaochun Cao , Qiang Yang

Distributed learning has become a necessity for training ever-growing models by sharing calculation among several devices. However, some of the devices can be faulty, deliberately or not, preventing the proper convergence. As a matter of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Jason Akoun , Sebastien Meyer

The majority of work in privacy-preserving federated learning (FL) has been focusing on horizontally partitioned datasets where clients share the same sets of features and can train complete models independently. However, in many…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-22 Xinchi Qiu , Heng Pan , Wanru Zhao , Chenyang Ma , Pedro Porto Buarque de Gusmão , Nicholas D. Lane

Detection and mitigation of Byzantine behaviors in a decentralized learning setting is a daunting task, especially when the data distribution at the users is heterogeneous. As our main contribution, we propose Basil, a fast and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-07 Ahmed Roushdy Elkordy , Saurav Prakash , A. Salman Avestimehr

In distributed learning systems, robustness issues may arise from two sources. On one hand, due to distributional shifts between training data and test data, the trained model could exhibit poor out-of-sample performance. On the other hand,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Guanqiang Zhou , Ping Xu , Yue Wang , Zhi Tian

Federated learning (FL) enables decentralized machine learning without sharing raw data, allowing multiple clients to collaboratively learn a global model. However, studies reveal that privacy leakage is possible under commonly adopted FL…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Kai Yue , Richeng Jin , Chau-Wai Wong , Huaiyu Dai

This paper jointly considers privacy preservation and Byzantine-robustness in decentralized learning. In a decentralized network, honest-but-curious agents faithfully follow the prescribed algorithm, but expect to infer their neighbors'…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Haoxiang Ye , Heng Zhu , Qing Ling

We introduce CyBeR-0, a Byzantine-resilient federated zero-order optimization method that is robust under Byzantine attacks and provides significant savings in uplink and downlink communication costs. We introduce transformed robust…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Maximilian Egger , Mayank Bakshi , Rawad Bitar

Federated learning (FL) enables multiple clients to collaboratively train a global machine learning model via a server without sharing their private training data. In traditional FL, the system follows a synchronous approach, where the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Anjun Gao , Feng Wang , Zhenglin Wan , Yueyang Quan , Zhuqing Liu , Minghong Fang

Distributed AI and IoT applications increasingly execute across heterogeneous resources spanning end devices, edge/fog infrastructure, and cloud platforms, often under different administrative domains. Fluid Computing has emerged as a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Diego Cajaraville-Aboy , Ana Fernández-Vilas , Rebeca P. Díaz-Redondo , Manuel Fernández-Veiga , Pablo Picallo-López

The valuable data collected by IoT devices in edge networks together with the resurgence of ML stimulate the latest trend of edge AI. However, recent FL methods face major challenges including communication bottleneck, data heterogeneity…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-24 Xin Fan , Yue Wang , Yan Huo , Zhi Tian

With the rapid development of machine learning and a growing concern for data privacy, federated learning has become a focal point of attention. However, attacks on model parameters and a lack of incentive mechanisms hinder the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Yang Li , Chunhe Xia , Wanshuang Lin , Tianbo Wang

This paper addresses federated learning (FL) in the context of malicious Byzantine attacks and data heterogeneity. We introduce a novel Robust Average Gradient Algorithm (RAGA), which uses the geometric median for aggregation and {allows…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Shiyuan Zuo , Xingrun Yan , Rongfei Fan , Han Hu , Hangguan Shan , Tony Q. S. Quek , Puning Zhao

Federated learning enables multiple data owners to collaboratively train robust machine learning models without transferring large or sensitive local datasets by only sharing the parameters of the locally trained models. In this paper, we…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Zilinghan Li , Shilan He , Pranshu Chaturvedi , Volodymyr Kindratenko , Eliu A Huerta , Kibaek Kim , Ravi Madduri

Federated learning (FL) has been proposed to enable distributed learning on Artificial Intelligence Internet of Things (AIoT) devices with guarantees of high-level data privacy. Since random initial models in FL can easily result in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-06 Pengyu Zhang , Yingbo Zhou , Ming Hu , Xian Wei , Mingsong Chen