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Federated learning systems that jointly preserve Byzantine robustness and privacy have remained an open problem. Robust aggregation, the standard defense for Byzantine attacks, generally requires server access to individual updates or…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-10-07 Raj Kiriti Velicheti , Derek Xia , Oluwasanmi Koyejo

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

Jointly addressing Byzantine attacks and privacy leakage in distributed machine learning (DML) has become an important issue. A common strategy involves integrating Byzantine-resilient aggregation rules with differential privacy mechanisms.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Bing Liu , Chengcheng Zhao , Li Chai , Peng Cheng , Yaonan Wang

Federated learning is a recent advance in privacy protection. In this context, a trusted curator aggregates parameters optimized in decentralized fashion by multiple clients. The resulting model is then distributed back to all clients,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-03-02 Robin C. Geyer , Tassilo Klein , Moin Nabi

Federated Learning (FL) emerges as a distributed machine learning approach that addresses privacy concerns by training AI models locally on devices. Decentralized Federated Learning (DFL) extends the FL paradigm by eliminating the central…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Diego Cajaraville-Aboy , Ana Fernández-Vilas , Rebeca P. Díaz-Redondo , Manuel Fernández-Veiga

Motivated by the ever-increasing concerns on personal data privacy and the rapidly growing data volume at local clients, federated learning (FL) has emerged as a new machine learning setting. An FL system is comprised of a central parameter…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-08-04 Xiang Ma , Haijian Sun , Rose Qingyang Hu , Yi Qian

The rapid development of artificial intelligence systems has amplified societal concerns regarding their usage, necessitating regulatory frameworks that encompass data privacy. Federated Learning (FL) is posed as potential solution to data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Mario García-Márquez , Nuria Rodríguez-Barroso , M. Victoria Luzón , Francisco Herrera

Ensuring resilience to Byzantine clients while maintaining the privacy of the clients' data is a fundamental challenge in federated learning (FL). When the clients' data is homogeneous, suitable countermeasures were studied from an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Maximilian Egger , Rawad Bitar

We propose Byzantine-robust federated learning protocols with nearly optimal statistical rates. In contrast to prior work, our proposed protocols improve the dimension dependence and achieve a tight statistical rate in terms of all the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Banghua Zhu , Lun Wang , Qi Pang , Shuai Wang , Jiantao Jiao , Dawn Song , Michael I. Jordan

Federated learning (FL), an emerging distributed machine learning paradigm, has been applied to various privacy-preserving scenarios. However, due to its distributed nature, FL faces two key issues: the non-independent and identical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-18 Youpeng Li , Xinda Wang , Fuxun Yu , Lichao Sun , Wenbin Zhang , Xuyu Wang

Federated learning has emerged as a popular paradigm for collaboratively training a model from data distributed among a set of clients. This learning setting presents, among others, two unique challenges: how to protect privacy of the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-05-07 Hanieh Hashemi , Yongqin Wang , Chuan Guo , Murali Annavaram

Machine learning models used for distributed architectures consisting of servers and clients require large amounts of data to achieve high accuracy. Data obtained from clients are collected on a central server for model training. However,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Ozer Ozturk , Busra Buyuktanir , Gozde Karatas Baydogmus , Kazim Yildiz

Byzantine attacks present a critical challenge to Federated Learning (FL), where malicious participants can disrupt the training process, degrade model accuracy, and compromise system reliability. Traditional FL frameworks typically rely on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Yufei Xia , Wenrui Yu , Qiongxiu Li

In federated learning, multiple client devices jointly learn a machine learning model: each client device maintains a local model for its local training dataset, while a master device maintains a global model via aggregating the local…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-11-23 Minghong Fang , Xiaoyu Cao , Jinyuan Jia , Neil Zhenqiang Gong

Distributed learning has many computational benefits but is vulnerable to attacks from a subset of devices transmitting incorrect information. This paper investigates Byzantine-resilient algorithms in a decentralized setting, where devices…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Renaud Gaucher , Aymeric Dieuleveut , Hadrien Hendrikx

We consider the federated learning problem where data on workers are not independent and identically distributed (i.i.d.). During the learning process, an unknown number of Byzantine workers may send malicious messages to the central node,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-31 Jie Peng , Zhaoxian Wu , Qing Ling , Tianyi Chen

We study a recently proposed large-scale distributed learning paradigm, namely Federated Learning, where the worker machines are end users' own devices. Statistical and computational challenges arise in Federated Learning particularly in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-11 Avishek Ghosh , Justin Hong , Dong Yin , Kannan Ramchandran

Federated learning is a distributed training framework vulnerable to Byzantine attacks, particularly when over 50% of clients are malicious or when datasets are highly non-independent and identically distributed (non-IID). Additionally,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Haocheng Jiang , Hua Shen , Jixin Zhang , Willy Susilo , Mingwu Zhang

Federated Learning (FL) enables clients to collaboratively train a global model without sharing their private data. However, the presence of malicious (Byzantine) clients poses significant challenges to the robustness of FL, particularly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Javad Parsa , Amir Hossein Daghestani , André M. H. Teixeira , Mikael Johansson

Privacy and Byzantine resilience (BR) are two crucial requirements of modern-day distributed machine learning. The two concepts have been extensively studied individually but the question of how to combine them effectively remains…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-06 Rachid Guerraoui , Nirupam Gupta , Rafael Pinot , Sebastien Rouault , John Stephan