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Federated Learning (FL) enables decentralized model training while preserving privacy. Recently, the integration of Foundation Models (FMs) into FL has enhanced performance but introduced a novel backdoor attack mechanism. Attackers can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Xiaohuan Bi , Xi Li

Federated learning has seen increased adoption in recent years in response to the growing regulatory demand for data privacy. However, the opaque local training process of federated learning also sparks rising concerns about model…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-08-24 Yuxi Mi , Yiheng Sun , Jihong Guan , Shuigeng Zhou

Federated Learning (FL) is a privacy-preserving distributed machine learning technique that enables individual clients (e.g., user participants, edge devices, or organizations) to train a model on their local data in a secure environment…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-02-26 Waris Gill , Ali Anwar , Muhammad Ali Gulzar

The decentralized nature of federated learning makes detecting and defending against adversarial attacks a challenging task. This paper focuses on backdoor attacks in the federated learning setting, where the goal of the adversary is to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-04 Ziteng Sun , Peter Kairouz , Ananda Theertha Suresh , H. Brendan McMahan

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

Recent studies have shown that federated learning (FL) is vulnerable to poisoning attacks that inject a backdoor into the global model. These attacks are effective even when performed by a single client, and undetectable by most existing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Sebastien Andreina , Giorgia Azzurra Marson , Helen Möllering , Ghassan Karame

As a distributed machine learning paradigm, Federated Learning (FL) enables large-scale clients to collaboratively train a model without sharing their raw data. However, due to the lack of data auditing for untrusted clients, FL is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Yanxin Yang , Ming Hu , Xiaofei Xie , Yue Cao , Pengyu Zhang , Yihao Huang , Mingsong Chen

Federated Learning (FL) is a decentralized machine learning method that enables participants to collaboratively train a model without sharing their private data. Despite its privacy and scalability benefits, FL is susceptible to backdoor…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-11 Yujie Zhang , Neil Gong , Michael K. Reiter

Vertical Federated Learning (VFL) enables an orchestrating active party to perform a machine learning task by cooperating with passive parties that provide additional task-related features for the same training data entities. While prior…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Weiyang He , Chip-Hong Chang

Federated Learning (FL) is a collaborative machine learning approach allowing participants to jointly train a model without having to share their private, potentially sensitive local datasets with others. Despite its benefits, FL is…

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

Due to the distributed nature of Federated Learning (FL), researchers have uncovered that FL is vulnerable to backdoor attacks, which aim at injecting a sub-task into the FL without corrupting the performance of the main task. Single-shot…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Tian Liu , Xueyang Hu , Tao Shu

Existing research primarily focuses on backdoor attacks and defenses within the generic federated learning scenario, where all clients collaborate to train a single global model. A recent study conducted by Qin et al. (2023) marks the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Tiandi Ye , Cen Chen , Yinggui Wang , Xiang Li , Ming Gao

Federated learning (FL) is a privacy-preserving learning paradigm that allows multiple parities to jointly train a powerful machine learning model without sharing their private data. According to the form of collaboration, FL can be further…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-07-25 Haiqin Weng , Juntao Zhang , Xingjun Ma , Feng Xue , Tao Wei , Shouling Ji , Zhiyuan Zong

As a crucial building block in vertical Federated Learning (vFL), Split Learning (SL) has demonstrated its practice in the two-party model training collaboration, where one party holds the features of data samples and another party holds…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-04-10 Shangyu Xie , Xin Yang , Yuanshun Yao , Tianyi Liu , Taiqing Wang , Jiankai Sun

Federated Learning (FL) has emerged as a leading paradigm for privacy-preserving distributed machine learning, yet the distributed nature of FL introduces unique security challenges, notably the threat of backdoor attacks. Existing backdoor…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Chengcheng Zhu , Ye Li , Bosen Rao , Jiale Zhang , Yunlong Mao , Sheng Zhong

Federated Learning (FL) is a machine learning (ML) approach that enables multiple decentralized devices or edge servers to collaboratively train a shared model without exchanging raw data. During the training and sharing of model updates…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-03-06 Ehsan Nowroozi , Imran Haider , Rahim Taheri , Mauro Conti

The goal of federated learning (FL) is to train one global model by aggregating model parameters updated independently on edge devices without accessing users' private data. However, FL is susceptible to backdoor attacks where a small…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-02-24 Yein Kim , Huili Chen , Farinaz Koushanfar

Federated graph learning (FedGL) is an emerging federated learning (FL) framework that extends FL to learn graph data from diverse sources. FL for non-graph data has shown to be vulnerable to backdoor attacks, which inject a shared backdoor…

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