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Federated learning (FL) is a distributed machine learning paradigm that enables training models on decentralized data. The field of FL security against poisoning attacks is plagued with confusion due to the proliferation of research that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Hamid Mozaffari , Sunav Choudhary , Amir Houmansadr

Privacy-preserving federated learning allows multiple users to jointly train a model with coordination of a central server. The server only learns the final aggregation result, thus the users' (private) training data is not leaked from the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Zahra Ghodsi , Mojan Javaheripi , Nojan Sheybani , Xinqiao Zhang , Ke Huang , Farinaz Koushanfar

Federated learning (FL) has emerged as a promising paradigm for decentralized model training, enabling multiple clients to collaboratively learn a shared model without exchanging their local data. However, the decentralized nature of FL…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Mohammadsajad Alipour , Mohammad Mohammadi Amiri

Owing to the low communication costs and privacy-promoting capabilities, Federated Learning (FL) has become a promising tool for training effective machine learning models among distributed clients. However, with the distributed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-03 Chuan Ma , Jun Li , Ming Ding , Kang Wei , Wen Chen , H. Vincent Poor

Federated Learning is a distributed machine learning framework designed for data privacy preservation i.e., local data remain private throughout the entire training and testing procedure. Federated Learning is gaining popularity because it…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-02 Hyejun Jeong , Joonyong Hwang , Tai Myung Chung

Federated Learning (FL) enables multiple clients to collaboratively train models without sharing raw data, but is vulnerable to Byzantine attacks and data heterogeneity, which can severely degrade performance. Existing Byzantine-robust…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Shiyuan Zuo , Xingrun Yan , Rongfei Fan , Li Shen , Puning Zhao , Jie Xu , Han Hu

Federated learning (FL) enables distributed clients to collaboratively train a global model using local private data. Nevertheless, recent studies show that conventional FL algorithms still exhibit deficiencies in privacy protection, and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Ruiyang Wang , Rong Pan , Zhengan Yao

Federated learning enables training collaborative machine learning models at scale with many participants whilst preserving the privacy of their datasets. Standard federated learning techniques are vulnerable to Byzantine failures, biased…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-09-12 Luis Muñoz-González , Kenneth T. Co , Emil C. Lupu

Federated Learning (FL) is a promising approach enabling multiple clients to train Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) collaboratively without sharing their local training data. However, FL is susceptible to backdoor (or targeted poisoning)…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-08-23 Phillip Rieger , Torsten Krauß , Markus Miettinen , Alexandra Dmitrienko , Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi

Federated learning (FL) enables a collaborative environment for training machine learning models without sharing training data between users. This is typically achieved by aggregating model gradients on a central server. Decentralized…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Siddhartha Bhattacharya , Daniel Helo , Joshua Siegel

Federated learning (FL), integrating group fairness mechanisms, allows multiple clients to collaboratively train a global model that makes unbiased decisions for different populations grouped by sensitive attributes (e.g., gender and race).…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Jiashi Gao , Ziwei Wang , Xiangyu Zhao , Xinming Shi , Xin Yao , Xuetao Wei

In Federated Learning (FL), several clients jointly learn a machine learning model: each client maintains a local model for its local learning dataset, while a master server maintains a global model by aggregating the local models of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-26 Khaoula Otmani , Rachid Elazouzi , Vincent Labatut

Collaborative training of a machine learning model comes with a risk of sharing sensitive or private data. Federated learning offers a way of collectively training a single global model without the need to share client data, by sharing only…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Damian Harenčák , Lukáš Gajdošech , Martin Madaras

Federated Learning (FL) is a distributed machine learning paradigm facilitating participants to collaboratively train a model without revealing their local data. However, when FL is deployed into the wild, some intelligent clients can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Andrea Augello , Ashish Gupta , Giuseppe Lo Re , Sajal K. Das

Federated Learning (FL) enables collaborative training of Machine Learning (ML) models across multiple clients while preserving their privacy. Rather than sharing raw data, federated clients transmit locally computed updates to train the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Vincenzo Carletti , Pasquale Foggia , Carlo Mazzocca , Giuseppe Parrella , Mario Vento

A central tenet of Federated learning (FL), which trains models without centralizing user data, is privacy. However, previous work has shown that the gradient updates used in FL can leak user information. While the most industrial uses of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Liam Fowl , Jonas Geiping , Steven Reich , Yuxin Wen , Wojtek Czaja , Micah Goldblum , Tom Goldstein

Federated Learning (FL) has emerged as a compelling paradigm for privacy-preserving distributed machine learning, allowing multiple clients to collaboratively train a global model by transmitting locally computed gradients to a central…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Hao Fang , Wenbo Yu , Bin Chen , Xuan Wang , Shu-Tao Xia , Qing Liao , Ke Xu

Federated Learning (FL) enables decentralized model training while preserving privacy. Recently, the integration of Foundation Models (FMs) into FL has enhanced performance but introduced a novel backdoor attack mechanism. Attackers can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Xiaohuan Bi , Xi Li

Federated Learning (FL) systems are gaining popularity as a solution to training Machine Learning (ML) models from large-scale user data collected on personal devices (e.g., smartphones) without their raw data leaving the device. At the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Tribhuvanesh Orekondy , Seong Joon Oh , Yang Zhang , Bernt Schiele , Mario Fritz

Federated learning (FL) is an emerging paradigm for distributed training of large-scale deep neural networks in which participants' data remains on their own devices with only model updates being shared with a central server. However, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-13 Vale Tolpegin , Stacey Truex , Mehmet Emre Gursoy , Ling Liu