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Federated Learning (FL) enables collaborative model training across decentralised clients while keeping local data private, making it a widely adopted privacy-enhancing technology (PET). Despite its privacy benefits, FL remains vulnerable…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Soumia Zohra El Mestari , Maciej Krzysztof Zuziak , Gabriele Lenzini

Federated Learning (FL) aims at unburdening the training of deep models by distributing computation across multiple devices (clients) while safeguarding data privacy. On top of that, Federated Continual Learning (FCL) also accounts for data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Riccardo Salami , Pietro Buzzega , Matteo Mosconi , Mattia Verasani , Simone Calderara

Healthcare is one of the foremost applications of machine learning (ML). Traditionally, ML models are trained by central servers, which aggregate data from various distributed devices to forecast the results for newly generated data. This…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-12 Sankalp Vyas , Amar Nath Patra , Raj Mani Shukla

Federated learning (FL) has been demonstrated to be susceptible to backdoor attacks. However, existing academic studies on FL backdoor attacks rely on a high proportion of real clients with main task-related data, which is impractical. In…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Minghui Li , Wei Wan , Yuxuan Ning , Shengshan Hu , Lulu Xue , Leo Yu Zhang , Yichen Wang

The delicate equilibrium between user privacy and the ability to unleash the potential of distributed data is an important concern. Federated learning, which enables the training of collaborative models without sharing of data, has emerged…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Taejin Kim , Jiarui Li , Shubhranshu Singh , Nikhil Madaan , Carlee Joe-Wong

Federated Learning (FL) is a paradigm in Machine Learning (ML) that addresses data privacy, security, access rights and access to heterogeneous information issues by training a global model using distributed nodes. Despite its advantages,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Ranwa Al Mallah , David Lopez , Godwin Badu Marfo , Bilal Farooq

Federated Learning (FL) thrives in training a global model with numerous clients by only sharing the parameters of their local models trained with their private training datasets. Therefore, without revealing the private dataset, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-06 Younghan Lee , Yungi Cho , Woorim Han , Ho Bae , Yunheung Paek

Hierarchical Federated Learning (HFL) faces the significant challenge of adversarial or unreliable vehicles in vehicular networks, which can compromise the model's integrity through misleading updates. Addressing this, our study introduces…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-29 M. Saeid HaghighiFard , Sinem Coleri

Federated Learning (FL) has the potential for simultaneous global learning amongst a large number of parallel agents, enabling emerging AI such as LLMs to be trained across demographically diverse data. Central to this being efficient is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Jinsheng Yuan , Yuhang Hao , Weisi Guo , Yun Wu , Chongyan Gu

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

Federated learning, an emerging machine learning paradigm, enables clients to collaboratively train a model without exchanging local data. Clients participating in the training process significantly impact the convergence rate, learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-30 Fares Fourati , Salma Kharrat , Vaneet Aggarwal , Mohamed-Slim Alouini , Marco Canini

Federated learning (FL), which is a decentralized machine learning (ML) approach, often incorporates differential privacy (DP) to provide rigorous data privacy guarantees. Previous works attempted to address high structured data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Saber Malekmohammadi , Afaf Taik , Golnoosh Farnadi

Federated Learning (FL) enables the training of machine learning models across decentralized clients while preserving data privacy. However, the presence of anomalous or corrupted clients - such as those with faulty sensors or non…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Alessandro Licciardi , Davide Leo , Davide Carbone

Federated Contrastive Learning (FCL) represents a burgeoning approach for learning from decentralized unlabeled data while upholding data privacy. In FCL, participant clients collaborate in learning a global encoder using unlabeled data,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-29 Kongyang Chen , Wenfeng Wang , Zixin Wang , Wangjun Zhang , Zhipeng Li , Yao Huang

Due to the greatly improved capabilities of devices, massive data, and increasing concern about data privacy, Federated Learning (FL) has been increasingly considered for applications to wireless communication networks (WCNs). Wireless FL…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-12-15 Yichen Wan , Youyang Qu , Wei Ni , Yong Xiang , Longxiang Gao , Ekram Hossain

In this work, besides improving prediction accuracy, we study whether personalization could bring robustness benefits to backdoor attacks. We conduct the first study of backdoor attacks in the pFL framework, testing 4 widely used backdoor…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Zeyu Qin , Liuyi Yao , Daoyuan Chen , Yaliang Li , Bolin Ding , Minhao Cheng

Federated learning (FL) is a new distributed machine learning framework known for its benefits on data privacy and communication efficiency. Since full client participation in many cases is infeasible due to constrained resources, partial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-10 Heqiang Wang , Jie Xu

Federated Learning (FL) enables collaborative model training while preserving data privacy, but it is highly vulnerable to backdoor attacks. Most existing defense methods in FL have limited effectiveness due to their neglect of the model's…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Xinhai Yan , Libing Wu , Zhuangzhuang Zhang , Bingyi Liu , Lijuan Huo , Jing Wang

Decentralized federated learning (DFL) enables clients (e.g., hospitals and banks) to jointly train machine learning models without a central orchestration server. In each global training round, each client trains a local model on its own…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Yuqi Jia , Minghong Fang , Neil Zhenqiang Gong

As the development of deep learning techniques in autonomous landing systems continues to grow, one of the major challenges is trust and security in the face of possible adversarial attacks. In this paper, we propose a federated adversarial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Yi Li , Plamen Angelov , Zhengxin Yu , Alvaro Lopez Pellicer , Neeraj Suri