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Secure aggregation is a critical component in federated learning (FL), which enables the server to learn the aggregate model of the users without observing their local models. Conventionally, secure aggregation algorithms focus only on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-28 Jinhyun So , Ramy E. Ali , Basak Guler , Jiantao Jiao , Salman Avestimehr

In this paper, we propose a robust aggregation method for federated learning (FL) that can effectively tackle malicious Byzantine attacks. At each user, model parameter is firstly updated by multiple steps, which is adjustable over…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Shiyuan Zuo , Rongfei Fan , Han Hu , Ning Zhang , Shimin Gong

Federated learning has emerged as a paradigm for collaborative learning, enabling the development of robust models without the need to centralise sensitive data. However, conventional federated learning techniques have privacy and security…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-31 Eugenio Lomurno , Matteo Matteucci

Federated learning (FL) enables collaborative model training among multiple clients without the need to expose raw data. Its ability to safeguard privacy, at the heart of FL, has recently been a hot-button debate topic. To elaborate,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Mingyuan Fan , Fuyi Wang , Cen Chen , Jianying Zhou

Federated Learning (FL) emerged as a widely studied paradigm for distributed learning. Despite its many advantages, FL remains vulnerable to adversarial attacks, especially under data heterogeneity. We propose a new Byzantine-robust FL…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Sena Ergisi , Luis Maßny , Rawad Bitar

Federated learning (FL) enables a set of geographically distributed clients to collectively train a model through a server. Classically, the training process is synchronous, but can be made asynchronous to maintain its speed in presence of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Bart Cox , Abele Mălan , Lydia Y. Chen , Jérémie Decouchant

Federated learning (FL) is a distributed learning technique that trains a shared model over distributed data in a privacy-preserving manner. Unfortunately, FL's performance degrades when there is (i) variability in client characteristics in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-28 Muhammad Tahir Munir , Muhammad Mustansar Saeed , Mahad Ali , Zafar Ayyub Qazi , Ihsan Ayyub Qazi

Federated learning (FL) is a promising way to allow multiple data owners (clients) to collaboratively train machine learning models without compromising data privacy. Yet, existing FL solutions usually rely on a centralized aggregator for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-11-09 Nanqing Dong , Jiahao Sun , Zhipeng Wang , Shuoying Zhang , Shuhao Zheng

Federated learning (FL) is an appealing paradigm that allows a group of machines (a.k.a. clients) to learn collectively while keeping their data local. However, due to the heterogeneity between the clients' data distributions, the model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Youssef Allouah , Abdellah El Mrini , Rachid Guerraoui , Nirupam Gupta , Rafael Pinot

Federated learning enables a global machine learning model to be trained collaboratively by distributed, mutually non-trusting learning agents who desire to maintain the privacy of their training data and their hardware. A global model is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Nicholas Malecki , Hye-young Paik , Aleksandar Ignjatovic , Alan Blair , Elisa Bertino

Federated Learning (FL) offers collaborative model training without data sharing but is vulnerable to backdoor attacks, where poisoned model weights lead to compromised system integrity. Existing countermeasures, primarily based on anomaly…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-12-11 Hao Yu , Chuan Ma , Meng Liu , Tianyu Du , Ming Ding , Tao Xiang , Shouling Ji , Xinwang Liu

To preserve user privacy in recommender systems, federated recommendation (FR) based on federated learning (FL) emerges, keeping the personal data on the local client and updating a model collaboratively. Unlike FL, FR has a unique sparse…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-01-09 Zhongjian Zhang , Mengmei Zhang , Xiao Wang , Lingjuan Lyu , Bo Yan , Junping Du , Chuan Shi

Federated learning (FL) allows a server to learn a machine learning (ML) model across multiple decentralized clients that privately store their own training data. In contrast with centralized ML approaches, FL saves computation to the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Alberto Blanco-Justicia , Josep Domingo-Ferrer , Sergio Martínez , David Sánchez , Adrian Flanagan , Kuan Eeik Tan

Federated learning (FL), with the growing IoT and edge computing, is seen as a promising solution for applications that are latency- and privacy-aware. However, due to the widespread dispersion of data across many clients, it is challenging…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Dipanwita Thakur , Antonella Guzzo , Giancarlo Fortino

Federated learning (FL) is a distributed machine learning paradigm enabling collaborative model training while preserving data privacy. In today's landscape, where most data is proprietary, confidential, and distributed, FL has become a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Zilinghan Li , Shilan He , Ze Yang , Minseok Ryu , Kibaek Kim , Ravi Madduri

In this work, we propose FLVoogd, an updated federated learning method in which servers and clients collaboratively eliminate Byzantine attacks while preserving privacy. In particular, servers use automatic Density-based Spatial Clustering…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-07-04 Yuhang Tian , Rui Wang , Yanqi Qiao , Emmanouil Panaousis , Kaitai Liang

The integration of IoT and AI has unlocked innovation across industries, but growing privacy concerns and data isolation hinder progress. Traditional centralized ML struggles to overcome these challenges, which has led to the rise of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Meriem Arbaoui , Mohamed-el-Amine Brahmia , Abdellatif Rahmoun , Mourad Zghal

Federated Learning (FL) enables multiple clients to collaboratively train a shared model without exposing local data. However, backdoor attacks pose a significant threat to FL. These attacks aim to implant a stealthy trigger into the global…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Chenyu Hu , Qiming Hu , Sinan Chen , Nianyu Li , Mingyue Zhang , Jialong Li

Federated Learning (FL) enables multiple clients to collaboratively train a model without sharing their local data. Yet the FL system is vulnerable to well-designed Byzantine attacks, which aim to disrupt the model training process by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-05 Jiahao Xu , Zikai Zhang , Rui Hu

Federated learning is highly susceptible to model poisoning attacks, especially those meticulously crafted for servers. Traditional defense methods mainly focus on updating assessments or robust aggregation against manually crafted myopic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Yujing Wang , Hainan Zhang , Sijia Wen , Wangjie Qiu , Binghui Guo