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Federated Learning (FL) is increasingly adopted for privacy-preserving collaborative training, but its decentralized nature makes it particularly susceptible to backdoor attacks. Existing attack methods, however, often rely on idealized…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Xuezheng Qin , Ruwei Huang , Xiaolong Tang , Feng Li

In contrast to prevalent Federated Learning (FL) privacy inference techniques such as generative adversarial networks attacks, membership inference attacks, property inference attacks, and model inversion attacks, we devise an innovative…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-27 Zhiyang Dai , Chunyi Zhou , Anmin Fu

Federated Learning (FL) enables a group of clients to jointly train a machine learning model with the help of a centralized server. Clients do not need to submit their local data to the server during training, and hence the local training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-10 Liling Zhang , Xinyu Lei , Yichun Shi , Hongyu Huang , Chao Chen

Deep Learning-based image synthesis techniques have been applied in healthcare research for generating medical images to support open research and augment medical datasets. Training generative adversarial neural networks (GANs) usually…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Ruinan Jin , Xiaoxiao Li

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

Federated Learning (FL) trains a black-box and high-dimensional model among different clients by exchanging parameters instead of direct data sharing, which mitigates the privacy leak incurred by machine learning. However, FL still suffers…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Qi Tan , Qi Li , Yi Zhao , Zhuotao Liu , Xiaobing Guo , Ke Xu

Federated learning (FL) offers a privacy-preserving collaborative approach for training models in wireless networks, with channel estimation emerging as a promising application. Despite extensive studies on FL-empowered channel estimation,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-31 Zexin Fang , Bin Han , Hans D. Schotten

Decentralized federated learning (DFL) uses peer-to-peer communication to avoid the single point of failure problem in federated learning and has been considered an attractive solution for machine learning tasks on distributed devices. We…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Yifan Hua , Jinlong Pang , Xiaoxue Zhang , Yi Liu , Xiaofeng Shi , Bao Wang , Yang Liu , Chen Qian

Advanced adversarial attacks such as membership inference and model memorization can make federated learning (FL) vulnerable and potentially leak sensitive private data. Local differentially private (LDP) approaches are gaining more…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-08-04 M. A. P. Chamikara , Dongxi Liu , Seyit Camtepe , Surya Nepal , Marthie Grobler , Peter Bertok , Ibrahim Khalil

Insider threats usually occur from within the workplace, where the attacker is an entity closely associated with the organization. The sequence of actions the entities take on the resources to which they have access rights allows us to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-23 R G Gayathri , Atul Sajjanhar , Md Palash Uddin , Yong Xiang

Federated Learning (FL) allows multiple clients to collaboratively train a Neural Network (NN) model on their private data without revealing the data. Recently, several targeted poisoning attacks against FL have been introduced. These…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-01-04 Phillip Rieger , Thien Duc Nguyen , Markus Miettinen , Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi

Backdoor attacks are dangerous and difficult to prevent in federated learning (FL), where training data is sourced from untrusted clients over long periods of time. These difficulties arise because: (a) defenders in FL do not have access to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-01 Shuaiqi Wang , Jonathan Hayase , Giulia Fanti , Sewoong Oh

Federated Learning (FL) has emerged as a promising approach for privacy preservation, allowing sharing of the model parameters between users and the cloud server rather than the raw local data. FL approaches have been adopted as a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-04-27 Abdelaziz Salama , Syed Ali Zaidi , Des McLernon , Mohammed M. H. Qazzaz

Decentralized federated learning (D-FL) allows clients to aggregate learning models locally, offering flexibility and scalability. Existing D-FL methods use gossip protocols, which are inefficient when not all nodes in the network are D-FL…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Weicai Li , Tiejun Lv , Wei Ni , Jingbo Zhao , Ekram Hossain , H. Vincent Poor

Large models adaptation through Federated Learning (FL) addresses a wide range of use cases and is enabled by Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning techniques such as Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA). However, this distributed learning paradigm faces…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Bastien Vuillod , Pierre-Alain Moellic , Jean-Max Dutertre

Federated learning (FL) is vulnerable to backdoor attacks, yet most existing methods are limited by fixed-pattern or single-target triggers, making them inflexible and easier to detect. We propose FLAT (FL Arbitrary-Target Attack), a novel…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Tuan Nguyen , Khoa D Doan , Kok-Seng Wong

Federated learning (FL) is a distributed machine learning paradigm that enables multiple clients to train a shared model collaboratively while preserving privacy. However, the scaling of real-world FL systems is often limited by two…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Xinyi Hu

Federated learning (FL) is a promising technique for learning-based functions in wireless networks, thanks to its distributed implementation capability. On the other hand, distributed learning may increase the risk of exposure to malicious…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-28 Han Zhang , Hao Zhou , Medhat Elsayed , Majid Bavand , Raimundas Gaigalas , Yigit Ozcan , Melike Erol-Kantarci

Traditional federated learning (FL) methods have limited support for clients with varying computational and communication abilities, leading to inefficiencies and potential inaccuracies in model training. This limitation hinders the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Jong-Ik Park , Carlee Joe-Wong

Federated learning (FL) is an emerging machine learning paradigm that allows to accomplish model training without aggregating data at a central server. Most studies on FL consider a centralized framework, in which a single server is endowed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-22 Bin Wang , Jun Fang , Hongbin Li , Xiaojun Yuan , Qing Ling