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Federated Learning(FL), in theory, preserves privacy of individual clients' data while producing quality machine learning models. However, attacks such as Deep Leakage from Gradients(DLG) severely question the practicality of FL. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-19 Joon Kim , Sejin Park

\textit{Federated learning} (FL) is a nascent distributed learning paradigm to train a shared global model without violating users' privacy. FL has been shown to be vulnerable to various Byzantine attacks, where malicious participants could…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Wei Wan , Shengshan Hu , Minghui Li , Jianrong Lu , Longling Zhang , Leo Yu Zhang , Hai Jin

Federated learning (FL) enables collaborative model training across decentralized clients while preserving data privacy. However, its open-participation nature exposes it to data-poisoning attacks, in which malicious actors submit corrupted…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Daniel Commey , Rebecca A. Sarpong , Griffith S. Klogo , Winful Bagyl-Bac , Garth V. Crosby

Federated learning (FL) is a popular distributed learning framework that can reduce privacy risks by not explicitly sharing private data. However, recent works demonstrated that sharing model updates makes FL vulnerable to inference…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-14 Jingwei Sun , Ang Li , Binghui Wang , Huanrui Yang , Hai Li , Yiran Chen

Although Deep Learning (DL) methods becoming increasingly popular in vulnerability detection, their performance is seriously limited by insufficient training data. This is mainly because few existing software organizations can maintain a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Peiheng Zhou , Ming Hu , Xingrun Quan , Yawen Peng , Xiaofei Xie , Yanxin Yang , Chengwei Liu , Yueming Wu , Mingsong Chen

Federated learning (FL) is a distributed learning approach where a set of end-user devices participate in the learning process by acting on their isolated local data sets. Here, we process local data sets of users where worst-case…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-13 Saeedeh Parsaeefard , Iman Tabrizian , Alberto Leon Garcia

Quantum federated learning (QFL) merges the privacy advantages of federated systems with the computational potential of quantum neural networks (QNNs), yet its vulnerability to adversarial attacks remains poorly understood. This work…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Walid El Maouaki , Nouhaila Innan , Alberto Marchisio , Taoufik Said , Mohamed Bennai , Muhammad Shafique

With the increased attention and legislation for data-privacy, collaborative machine learning (ML) algorithms are being developed to ensure the protection of private data used for processing. Federated learning (FL) is the most popular of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-04-10 David Enthoven , Zaid Al-Ars

Federated Learning (FL), while a breakthrough in decentralized machine learning, contends with significant challenges such as limited data availability and the variability of computational resources, which can stifle the performance and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Jiaqi Wang , Xi Li

Neural network classifiers are vulnerable to data poisoning attacks, as attackers can degrade or even manipulate their predictions thorough poisoning only a few training samples. However, the robustness of heuristic defenses is hard to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-14 Ruoxin Chen , Jie Li , Chentao Wu , Bin Sheng , Ping Li

Federated learning (FL) offers a promising paradigm for collaborative model training while preserving data privacy. However, its susceptibility to gradient inversion attacks poses a significant challenge, necessitating robust privacy…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Xiaojin Zhang , Mingcong Xu , Yiming Li , Wei Chen , Qiang Yang

Recently researchers have studied input leakage problems in Federated Learning (FL) where a malicious party can reconstruct sensitive training inputs provided by users from shared gradient. It raises concerns about FL since input leakage…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-22 Jiankai Sun , Yuanshun Yao , Weihao Gao , Junyuan Xie , Chong Wang

Federated learning (FL) has become a popular tool for solving traditional Reinforcement Learning (RL) tasks. The multi-agent structure addresses the major concern of data-hungry in traditional RL, while the federated mechanism protects the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-08 Evelyn Ma , Praneet Rathi , S. Rasoul Etesami

While recent years have witnessed the advancement in big data and Artificial Intelligence (AI), it is of much importance to safeguard data privacy and security. As an innovative approach, Federated Learning (FL) addresses these concerns by…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Chunlu Chen , Ji Liu , Haowen Tan , Xingjian Li , Kevin I-Kai Wang , Peng Li , Kouichi Sakurai , Dejing Dou

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 (FL) is a collaborative learning paradigm enabling participants to collectively train a shared machine learning model while preserving the privacy of their sensitive data. Nevertheless, the inherent decentralized and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-08 K Naveen Kumar , C Krishna Mohan , Aravind Machiry

In the evolving landscape of Federated Learning (FL), the challenge of ensuring data integrity against poisoning attacks is paramount, particularly for applications demanding stringent privacy preservation. Traditional anomaly detection…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-03-18 Zahir Alsulaimawi

Federated Learning (FL) in the Internet of Things (IoT) environments can enhance machine learning by utilising decentralised data, but at the same time, it might introduce significant privacy and security concerns due to the constrained…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-26 Adel ElZemity , Budi Arief

In the evolving landscape of Federated Learning (FL), a new type of attacks concerns the research community, namely Data Poisoning Attacks, which threaten the model integrity by maliciously altering training data. This paper introduces a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-22 Nick Galanis

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