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The advent of Federated Learning (FL) as a distributed machine learning paradigm has introduced new cybersecurity challenges, notably adversarial attacks that threaten model integrity and participant privacy. This study proposes an…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-03-18 Zahir Alsulaimawi

Federated learning allows multiple users to collaboratively train a shared classification model while preserving data privacy. This approach, where model updates are aggregated by a central server, was shown to be vulnerable to poisoning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-17 Chien-Lun Chen , Leana Golubchik , Marco Paolieri

Federated Learning (FL) is a machine learning paradigm to conduct collaborative learning among clients on a joint model. The primary goal is to share clients' local training parameters with an integrating server while preserving their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Mahdi Ghafourian , Julian Fierrez , Ruben Vera-Rodriguez , Ruben Tolosana , Aythami Morales

Recent studies have shown that federated learning (FL) is vulnerable to poisoning attacks that inject a backdoor into the global model. These attacks are effective even when performed by a single client, and undetectable by most existing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Sebastien Andreina , Giorgia Azzurra Marson , Helen Möllering , Ghassan Karame

The field of few-shot learning (FSL) has shown promising results in scenarios where training data is limited, but its vulnerability to backdoor attacks remains largely unexplored. We first explore this topic by first evaluating the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-01-04 Xinwei Liu , Xiaojun Jia , Jindong Gu , Yuan Xun , Siyuan Liang , Xiaochun Cao

Advanced adversarial attacks such as membership inference and model memorization can make federated learning (FL) vulnerable and potentially leak sensitive private data. Local differentially private (LDP) approaches are gaining more…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-08-04 M. A. P. Chamikara , Dongxi Liu , Seyit Camtepe , Surya Nepal , Marthie Grobler , Peter Bertok , Ibrahim Khalil

As a novel privacy-preserving paradigm aimed at reducing client computational costs and achieving data utility, split learning has garnered extensive attention and proliferated widespread applications across various fields, including smart…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Yuwen Pu , Zhuoyuan Ding , Jiahao Chen , Chunyi Zhou , Qingming Li , Chunqiang Hu , Shouling Ji

Federated learning (FL) is an emerging paradigm of collaborative machine learning that preserves user privacy while building powerful models. Nevertheless, due to the nature of open participation by self-interested entities, it needs to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-02-18 Yanci Zhang , Han Yu

Fine-tuning large language models (LLMs) with local data is a widely adopted approach for organizations seeking to adapt LLMs to their specific domains. Given the shared characteristics in data across different organizations, the idea of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Wenkai Guo , Xuefeng Liu , Haolin Wang , Jianwei Niu , Shaojie Tang , Jing Yuan

Federated Learning (FL) allows multiple participants to train machine learning models collaboratively by keeping their datasets local while only exchanging model updates. Alas, this is not necessarily free from privacy and robustness…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-05-30 Mohammad Naseri , Jamie Hayes , Emiliano De Cristofaro

Federated learning (FL) enhances privacy by keeping user data on local devices. However, emerging attacks have demonstrated that the updates shared by users during training can reveal significant information about their data. This has…

Federated Learning (FL) as a distributed learning paradigm that aggregates information from diverse clients to train a shared global model, has demonstrated great success. However, malicious clients can perform poisoning attacks and model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-16 Chulin Xie , Minghao Chen , Pin-Yu Chen , Bo Li

Federated learning (FL) is a kind of distributed machine learning framework, where the global model is generated on the centralized aggregation server based on the parameters of local models, addressing concerns about privacy leakage caused…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Chenhao Xu , Youyang Qu , Yong Xiang , Longxiang Gao

Along with the blooming of AI and Machine Learning-based applications and services, data privacy and security have become a critical challenge. Conventionally, data is collected and aggregated in a data centre on which machine learning…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-03-19 Nguyen Truong , Kai Sun , Siyao Wang , Florian Guitton , Yike Guo

Federated learning (FL) is a framework for training machine learning models in a distributed and collaborative manner. During training, a set of participating clients process their data stored locally, sharing only the model updates…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Filippo Galli , Kangsoo Jung , Sayan Biswas , Catuscia Palamidessi , Tommaso Cucinotta

Federated Learning (FL) is transforming the ML training ecosystem from a centralized over-the-cloud setting to distributed training over edge devices in order to strengthen data privacy. An essential but rarely studied challenge in FL is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-07 Chaoyang He , Zhengyu Yang , Erum Mushtaq , Sunwoo Lee , Mahdi Soltanolkotabi , Salman Avestimehr

Hierarchical federated learning (HFL) is a promising distributed deep learning model training paradigm, but it has crucial security concerns arising from adversarial attacks. This research investigates and assesses the security of HFL using…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-21 D Alqattan , R Sun , H Liang , G Nicosia , V Snasel , R Ranjan , V Ojha

Federated Learning is a machine learning setting that reduces direct data exposure, improving the privacy guarantees of machine learning models. Yet, the exchange of model updates between the participants and the aggregator can still leak…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Pablo Montaña-Fernández , Ines Ortega-Fernandez

Federated Learning (FL) is a privacy-preserving approach that allows servers to aggregate distributed models transmitted from local clients rather than training on user data. More recently, FL has been applied to Speech Emotion Recognition…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-18 Chao Tan , Sheng Li , Yang Cao , Zhao Ren , Tanja Schultz

Federated Learning (FL) has emerged as a promising solution for privacy-preserving autonomous driving, specifically camera-based Road Condition Classification (RCC) systems, harnessing distributed sensing, computing, and communication…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Sheng Liu , Panos Papadimitratos