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Federated Learning (FL) systems are susceptible to adversarial attacks, such as model poisoning attacks and backdoor attacks. Existing defense mechanisms face critical limitations in real-world deployments, such as relying on impractical…

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Federated Learning (FL) offers a promising approach for training clinical AI models without centralizing sensitive patient data. However, its real-world adoption is hindered by challenges related to privacy, resource constraints, and…

This review paper takes a comprehensive look at malicious attacks against FL, categorizing them from new perspectives on attack origins and targets, and providing insights into their methodology and impact. In this survey, we focus on…

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Federated recommendation is a prominent use case within federated learning, yet it remains susceptible to various attacks, from user to server-side vulnerabilities. Poisoning attacks are particularly notable among user-side attacks, as…

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Federated learning (FL) enables multiple clients to collaboratively train a global machine learning model without sharing their raw data. However, the decentralized nature of FL introduces vulnerabilities, particularly to poisoning attacks,…

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Fast identification of new network attack patterns is crucial for improving network security. Nevertheless, identifying an ongoing attack in a heterogeneous network is a non-trivial task. Federated learning emerges as a solution to…

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Deep Neural Networks have proven to be highly accurate at a variety of tasks in recent years. The benefits of Deep Neural Networks have also been embraced in power grids to detect False Data Injection Attacks (FDIA) while conducting…

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Federated learning systems are vulnerable to attacks from malicious clients. As the central server in the system cannot govern the behaviors of the clients, a rogue client may initiate an attack by sending malicious model updates to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-04 Suyi Li , Yong Cheng , Wei Wang , Yang Liu , Tianjian Chen

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) systems allow decentralized data-owning clients to jointly train a global model through uploading their locally trained updates to a centralized server. The property of decentralization enables adversaries to craft…

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Federated learning (FL) combined with local differential privacy (LDP) enables privacy-preserving model training across decentralized data sources. However, the decentralized data-management paradigm leaves LDPFL vulnerable to participants…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Zijian Wang , Wei Tong , Tingxuan Han , Haoyu Chen , Tianling Zhang , Yunlong Mao , Sheng Zhong

Federated learning (FL) addresses privacy and data-silo issues in the training of large language models (LLMs). Most prior work focuses on improving the efficiency of federated learning for LLMs (FedLLM). However, security in open federated…

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The ever growing Internet of Things (IoT) connections drive a new type of organization, the Intelligent Enterprise. In intelligent enterprises, machine learning based models are adopted to extract insights from data. Due to the efficiency…

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Federated learning performs distributed model training using local data hosted by agents. It shares only model parameter updates for iterative aggregation at the server. Although it is privacy-preserving by design, federated learning is…

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In federated learning, each participant trains its local model with its own data and a global model is formed at a trusted server by aggregating model updates coming from these participants. Since the server has no effect and visibility on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-19 Ece Isik-Polat , Gorkem Polat , Altan Kocyigit

Federated learning (FL) provides a high efficient decentralized machine learning framework, where the training data remains distributed at remote clients in a network. Though FL enables a privacy-preserving mobile edge computing framework…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-11 Xingyu Li , Zhe Qu , Shangqing Zhao , Bo Tang , Zhuo Lu , Yao Liu

Federated learning has become prevalent in medical diagnosis due to its effectiveness in training a federated model among multiple health institutions (i.e. Data Islands (DIs)). However, increasingly massive DI-level poisoning attacks have…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-09-24 Zhuoran Ma , Jianfeng Ma , Yinbin Miao , Ximeng Liu , Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo , Robert H. Deng

Federated Learning (FL) is a promising distributed learning approach that enables multiple clients to collaboratively train a shared global model. However, recent studies show that FL is vulnerable to various poisoning attacks, which can…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-10-23 Xinyu Zhang , Qingyu Liu , Zhongjie Ba , Yuan Hong , Tianhang Zheng , Feng Lin , Li Lu , Kui Ren

Most existing federated learning algorithms are based on the vanilla FedAvg scheme. However, with the increase of data complexity and the number of model parameters, the amount of communication traffic and the number of iteration rounds for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Xiaolin Zheng , Senci Ying , Fei Zheng , Jianwei Yin , Longfei Zheng , Chaochao Chen , Fengqin Dong

Federated Learning (FL), as a popular distributed learning paradigm, has shown outstanding performance in improving computational efficiency and protecting data privacy, and is widely applied in industrial image classification. However, due…

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