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It is well-known that deep learning models are vulnerable to small input perturbations. Such perturbed instances are called adversarial examples. Adversarial examples are commonly crafted to fool a model either at training time (poisoning)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Ege Erdogan , Simon Geisler , Stephan Günnemann

Distributed Collaborative Machine Learning (DCML) is a potential alternative to address the privacy concerns associated with centralized machine learning. The Split learning (SL) and Federated Learning (FL) are the two effective learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-10 Aysha Thahsin Zahir Ismail , Raj Mani Shukla

Federated learning (FL) is revolutionizing how we learn from data. With its growing popularity, it is now being used in many safety-critical domains such as autonomous vehicles and healthcare. Since thousands of participants can contribute…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-08-14 Ehsanul Kabir , Zeyu Song , Md Rafi Ur Rashid , Shagufta Mehnaz

Federated learning enables clients to collaboratively learn a shared global model without sharing their local training data with a cloud server. However, malicious clients can corrupt the global model to predict incorrect labels for testing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-10-28 Xiaoyu Cao , Jinyuan Jia , Neil Zhenqiang Gong

Federated Learning (FL) is an emerging distributed machine learning paradigm enabling multiple clients to train a global model collaboratively without sharing their raw data. While FL enhances data privacy by design, it remains vulnerable…

The widespread adoption of generative models such as Stable Diffusion and ChatGPT has made them increasingly attractive targets for malicious exploitation, particularly through data poisoning. Existing poisoning attacks compromising…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Mathias Lundteigen Mohus , Jingyue Li , Zhirong Yang

Federated learning (FL) is vulnerable to backdoor attacks, where adversaries alter model behavior on target classification labels by embedding triggers into data samples. While these attacks have received considerable attention in…

Non-IID data distribution across clients and poisoning attacks are two main challenges in real-world federated learning (FL) systems. While both of them have attracted great research interest with specific strategies developed, no known…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Yueqi Xie , Weizhong Zhang , Renjie Pi , Fangzhao Wu , Qifeng Chen , Xing Xie , Sunghun Kim

Federated learning is vulnerable to various attacks, such as model poisoning and backdoor attacks, even if some existing defense strategies are used. To address this challenge, we propose an attack-adaptive aggregation strategy to defend…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-09 Ching Pui Wan , Qifeng Chen

Federated learning (FL) attempts to train a global model by aggregating local models from distributed devices under the coordination of a central server. However, the existence of a large number of heterogeneous devices makes FL vulnerable…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-05-03 Wenqiang Sun , Sen Li , Yuchang Sun , Jun Zhang

Learned indexes are a class of index data structures that enable fast search by approximating the cumulative distribution function (CDF) using machine learning models (Kraska et al., SIGMOD'18). However, recent studies have shown that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Atsuki Sato , Martin Aumüller , Yusuke Matsui

Federated learning (FL) allows multiple clients to collaboratively train a global machine learning model with coordination from a central server, without needing to share their raw data. This approach is particularly appealing in the era of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Wenjin Mo , Zhiyuan Li , Minghong Fang , Mingwei Fang

Data poisoning is a threat model in which a malicious actor tampers with training data to manipulate outcomes at inference time. A variety of defenses against this threat model have been proposed, but each suffers from at least one of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-21 Jonas Geiping , Liam Fowl , Gowthami Somepalli , Micah Goldblum , Michael Moeller , Tom Goldstein

Federated Learning (FL) is a distributed machine learning paradigm designed for privacy-sensitive applications that run on resource-constrained devices with non-Identically and Independently Distributed (IID) data. Traditional FL frameworks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Omid Tavallaie , Kanchana Thilakarathna , Suranga Seneviratne , Aruna Seneviratne , Albert Y. Zomaya

Federated Learning (FL) paradigms enable large numbers of clients to collaboratively train Machine Learning models on private data. However, due to their multi-party nature, traditional FL schemes are left vulnerable to Byzantine attacks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Atharv Deshmukh

\textit{Federated learning} (FL) and \textit{split learning} (SL) are prevailing distributed paradigms in recent years. They both enable shared global model training while keeping data localized on users' devices. The former excels in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Wei Wan , Yuxuan Ning , Shengshan Hu , Lulu Xue , Minghui Li , Leo Yu Zhang , Hai Jin

Federated learning is a decentralized machine learning approach where clients train models locally and share model updates to develop a global model. This enables low-resource devices to collaboratively build a high-quality model without…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Li Bai , Haibo Hu , Qingqing Ye , Haoyang Li , Leixia Wang , Jianliang Xu

Federated Learning (FL) can be vulnerable to attacks, such as model poisoning, where adversaries send malicious local weights to compromise the global model. Federated Unlearning (FU) is emerging as a solution to address such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Nicolò Romandini , Cristian Borcea , Rebecca Montanari , Luca Foschini

Deep Neural Network (DNN) models have vulnerabilities related to security concerns, with attackers usually employing complex hacking techniques to expose their structures. Data poisoning-enabled perturbation attacks are complex adversarial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-10 Mohammed Hassanin , Ibrahim Radwan , Nour Moustafa , Murat Tahtali , Neeraj Kumar

Distillation-based federated learning has emerged as a promising collaborative learning approach, where clients share the output logit vectors of a public dataset rather than their private model parameters. This practice reduces the risk of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-02-01 Yonghao Yu , Shunan Zhu , Jinglu Hu