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Vertical Federated Learning (VFL) focuses on handling vertically partitioned data over FL participants. Recent studies have discovered a significant vulnerability in VFL to backdoor attacks which specifically target the distinct…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-30 Yungi Cho , Woorim Han , Miseon Yu , Younghan Lee , Ho Bae , Yunheung Paek

Personalized federated learning (PFL) has garnered significant attention for its ability to address heterogeneous client data distributions while preserving data privacy. However, when local client data is limited, deep learning models…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Ying Chang , Xiaohu Shi , Xiaohui Zhao , Zhaohuang Chen , Deyin Ma

Federated learning (FL) is a privacy-preserving machine learning paradigm that enables collaborative model training across multiple distributed clients without disclosing their raw data. Personalized federated learning (pFL) has gained…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Tiandi Ye , Wenyan Liu , Kai Yao , Lichun Li , Shangchao Su , Cen Chen , Xiang Li , Shan Yin , Ming Gao

While Federated learning (FL) is attractive for pulling privacy-preserving distributed training data, the credibility of participating clients and non-inspectable data pose new security threats, of which poisoning attacks are particularly…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-09-20 Zizhen Liu , Weiyang He , Chip-Hong Chang , Jing Ye , Huawei Li , Xiaowei Li

Federated Learning (FL) is a novel framework of decentralized machine learning. Due to the decentralized feature of FL, it is vulnerable to adversarial attacks in the training procedure, e.g. , backdoor attacks. A backdoor attack aims to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-15 Yifan Wang , Wei Fan , Keke Yang , Naji Alhusaini , Jing Li

In the age of data-driven decision making, preserving privacy while providing personalized experiences has become paramount. Personalized Federated Learning (PFL) offers a promising framework by decentralizing the learning process, thus…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-31 Kevin Cooper , Michael Geller

Federated learning (FL) has been widely deployed to enable machine learning training on sensitive data across distributed devices. However, the decentralized learning paradigm and heterogeneity of FL further extend the attack surface for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Haomin Zhuang , Mingxian Yu , Hao Wang , Yang Hua , Jian Li , Xu Yuan

Federated Learning (FL) is a distributed learning paradigm that enables different parties to train a model together for high quality and strong privacy protection. In this scenario, individual participants may get compromised and perform…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-03-01 Kaiyuan Zhang , Guanhong Tao , Qiuling Xu , Siyuan Cheng , Shengwei An , Yingqi Liu , Shiwei Feng , Guangyu Shen , Pin-Yu Chen , Shiqing Ma , Xiangyu Zhang

Personalized Federated Learning (PFL) enables collaboratively model training on decentralized, heterogeneous data while tailoring them to each client's unique distribution. However, existing PFL methods produce static models with a fixed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Boyi Liu , Zimu Zhou , Yongxin Tong

Distributed Federated Learning (DFL) enables decentralized model training across large-scale systems without a central parameter server. However, DFL faces three critical challenges: privacy leakage from honest-but-curious neighbors, slow…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Nuocheng Yang , Sihua Wang , Zhaohui Yang , Mingzhe Chen , Changchuan Yin , Kaibin Huang

Federated Learning (FL) faces two major issues: privacy leakage and poisoning attacks, which may seriously undermine the reliability and security of the system. Overcoming them simultaneously poses a great challenge. This is because privacy…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Yisheng Zhong , Li-Ping Wang

Due to its distributed methodology alongside its privacy-preserving features, Federated Learning (FL) is vulnerable to training time adversarial attacks. In this study, our focus is on backdoor attacks in which the adversary's goal is to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-11 Omid Aramoon , Pin-Yu Chen , Gang Qu , Yuan Tian

Federated Learning (FL) is a pioneering approach in distributed machine learning, enabling collaborative model training across multiple clients while retaining data privacy. However, the inherent heterogeneity due to imbalanced resource…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-18 Suraj Racha , Shubh Gupta , Humaira Firdowse , Aastik Solanki , Ganesh Ramakrishnan , Kshitij S. Jadhav

Federated Learning (FL) enables decentralized model training across multiple clients without exposing local data, but its distributed feature makes it vulnerable to backdoor attacks. Despite early FL backdoor attacks modifying entire…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Kuai Yu , Xiaoyu Wu , Peishen Yan , Qingqian Yang , Linshan Jiang , Hao Wang , Yang Hua , Tao Song , Haibing Guan

Federated learning (FL) demonstrates its advantages in integrating distributed infrastructure, communication, computing and learning in a privacy-preserving manner. However, the robustness and capabilities of existing FL methods are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-27 Longbing Cao , Hui Chen , Xuhui Fan , Joao Gama , Yew-Soon Ong , Vipin Kumar

This paper addresses the challenge of mitigating data heterogeneity among clients within a Federated Learning (FL) framework. The model-drift issue, arising from the noniid nature of client data, often results in suboptimal personalization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-19 Kawa Atapour , S. Jamal Seyedmohammadi , Jamshid Abouei , Arash Mohammadi , Konstantinos N. Plataniotis

In parallel with the rapid adoption of Artificial Intelligence (AI) empowered by advances in AI research, there have been growing awareness and concerns of data privacy. Recent significant developments in the data regulation landscape have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-18 Alysa Ziying Tan , Han Yu , Lizhen Cui , Qiang Yang

Federated learning (FL) is an emerging distributed learning paradigm without sharing participating clients' private data. However, existing works show that FL is vulnerable to both Byzantine (security) attacks and data reconstruction…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Chenfei Nie , Qiang Li , Yuxin Yang , Yuede Ji , Binghui Wang

Federated learning (FL) enables learning a global machine learning model from local data distributed among a set of participating workers. This makes it possible i) to train more accurate models due to learning from rich joint training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Najeeb Jebreel , Josep Domingo-Ferrer

Federated learning (FL) is a distributed learning framework that leverages commonalities between distributed client datasets to train a global model. Under heterogeneous clients, however, FL can fail to produce stable training results.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-04 Connor J. Mclaughlin , Lili Su