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Federated learning (FL) is vulnerable to model poisoning attacks, in which malicious clients corrupt the global model via sending manipulated model updates to the server. Existing defenses mainly rely on Byzantine-robust FL methods, which…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Zaixi Zhang , Xiaoyu Cao , Jinyuan Jia , Neil Zhenqiang Gong

Federated Learning (FL) aims to train a collaborative model while preserving data privacy. However, the distributed nature of this approach still raises privacy and security issues, such as the exposure of sensitive data due to inference…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Adda Akram Bendoukha , Aymen Boudguiga , Nesrine Kaaniche , Renaud Sirdey , Didem Demirag , Sébastien Gambs

\textit{Federated learning} (FL) is a nascent distributed learning paradigm to train a shared global model without violating users' privacy. FL has been shown to be vulnerable to various Byzantine attacks, where malicious participants could…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Wei Wan , Shengshan Hu , Minghui Li , Jianrong Lu , Longling Zhang , Leo Yu Zhang , Hai Jin

Federated Learning (FL) enables collaborative training of machine learning models across distributed clients without sharing raw data, ostensibly preserving data privacy. Nevertheless, recent studies have revealed critical vulnerabilities…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Francesco Diana , André Nusser , Chuan Xu , Giovanni Neglia

Federated Learning (FL) enables distributed participants (e.g., mobile devices) to train a global model without sharing data directly to a central server. Recent studies have revealed that FL is vulnerable to gradient inversion attack…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-09-15 Jiaheng Wei , Yanjun Zhang , Leo Yu Zhang , Chao Chen , Shirui Pan , Kok-Leong Ong , Jun Zhang , Yang Xiang

Federated learning is a decentralized learning paradigm introduced to preserve privacy of client data. Despite this, prior work has shown that an attacker at the server can still reconstruct the private training data using only the client…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-03-28 Joshua C. Zhao , Ahaan Dabholkar , Atul Sharma , Saurabh Bagchi

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) shows great promise in large scale machine learning, but brings new risks in terms of privacy and security. We propose ByITFL, a novel scheme for FL that provides resilience against Byzantine users while keeping the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Yue Xia , Christoph Hofmeister , Maximilian Egger , Rawad Bitar

Federated learning (FL) enables multiple participants to train a global machine learning model without sharing their private training data. Peer-to-peer (P2P) FL advances existing centralized FL paradigms by eliminating the server that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-12 Zhangchen Xu , Fengqing Jiang , Luyao Niu , Jinyuan Jia , Radha Poovendran

Federated Learning (FL) has gained significant attention for its privacy-preserving capabilities, enabling distributed devices to collaboratively train a global model without sharing raw data. However, its distributed nature forces the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Chaoyu Zhang , Heng Jin , Shanghao Shi , Hexuan Yu , Sydney Johns , Y. Thomas Hou , Wenjing Lou

The federated learning (FL) technique was developed to mitigate data privacy issues in the traditional machine learning paradigm. While FL ensures that a user's data always remain with the user, the gradients are shared with the centralized…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Yogachandran Rahulamathavan , Charuka Herath , Xiaolan Liu , Sangarapillai Lambotharan , Carsten Maple

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

Federated learning (FL) is an emerging distributed machine learning framework for collaborative model training with a network of clients (edge devices). FL offers default client privacy by allowing clients to keep their sensitive data on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-24 Wenqi Wei , Ling Liu , Margaret Loper , Ka-Ho Chow , Mehmet Emre Gursoy , Stacey Truex , Yanzhao Wu

Federated Learning (FL) is a distributed machine learning diagram that enables multiple clients to collaboratively train a global model without sharing their private local data. However, FL systems are vulnerable to attacks that are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Qilei Li , Ahmed M. Abdelmoniem

Federated Learning (FL) allows multiple clients to collaboratively train a model without sharing their private data. However, FL is vulnerable to Byzantine attacks, where adversaries manipulate client models to compromise the federated…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Baolei Zhang , Minghong Fang , Zhuqing Liu , Biao Yi , Peizhao Zhou , Yuan Wang , Tong Li , Zheli Liu

The decentralized nature of federated learning, that often leverages the power of edge devices, makes it vulnerable to attacks against privacy and security. The privacy risk for a peer is that the model update she computes on her private…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-08-05 Josep Domingo-Ferrer , Alberto Blanco-Justicia , Jesús Manjón , David Sánchez

Federated learning (FL) is a privacy-preserving machine learning technique that facilitates collaboration among participants across demographics. FL enables model sharing, while restricting the movement of data. Since FL provides…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Harsh Kasyap , Minghong Fang , Zhuqing Liu , Carsten Maple , Somanath Tripathy

Federated learning (FL) shows great promise in large-scale machine learning but introduces new privacy and security challenges. We propose ByITFL and LoByITFL, two novel FL schemes that enhance resilience against Byzantine users while…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Yue Xia , Christoph Hofmeister , Maximilian Egger , Rawad Bitar

Prior efforts in enhancing federated learning (FL) security fall into two categories. At one end of the spectrum, some work uses secure aggregation techniques to hide the individual client's updates and only reveal the aggregated global…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Lun Wang , Qi Pang , Shuai Wang , Dawn Song

Federated Learning (FL) allows multiple participating clients to train machine learning models collaboratively while keeping their datasets local and only exchanging the gradient or model updates with a coordinating server. Existing FL…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Xiaolan Gu , Ming Li , Li Xiong