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The goal of federated learning (FL) is to train one global model by aggregating model parameters updated independently on edge devices without accessing users' private data. However, FL is susceptible to backdoor attacks where a small…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-02-24 Yein Kim , Huili Chen , Farinaz Koushanfar

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

Federated learning is vulnerable to poisoning attacks in which malicious clients poison the global model via sending malicious model updates to the server. Existing defenses focus on preventing a small number of malicious clients from…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-10-21 Xiaoyu Cao , Jinyuan Jia , Zaixi Zhang , Neil Zhenqiang Gong

Federated Learning (FL) has emerged as a promising approach for privacy-preserving model training across decentralized devices. However, it faces challenges such as statistical heterogeneity and susceptibility to adversarial attacks, which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-13 Jialuo He , Wei Chen , Xiaojin Zhang

We present a Federated Learning (FL) based solution for building a distributed classifier capable of detecting URLs containing GDPR-sensitive content related to categories such as health, sexual preference, political beliefs, etc. Although…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Tianyue Chu , Alvaro Garcia-Recuero , Costas Iordanou , Georgios Smaragdakis , Nikolaos Laoutaris

Federated learning, as a distributed learning that conducts the training on the local devices without accessing to the training data, is vulnerable to Byzatine poisoning adversarial attacks. We argue that the federated learning model has to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Nuria Rodríguez-Barroso , Eugenio Martínez-Cámara , M. Victoria Luzón , Francisco Herrera

Deep neural networks usually require large labeled datasets for training to achieve state-of-the-art performance in many tasks, such as image classification and natural language processing. Although a lot of data is created each day by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-03 Jing Lin , Ryan Luley , Kaiqi Xiong

Most machine learning applications rely on centralized learning processes, opening up the risk of exposure of their training datasets. While federated learning (FL) mitigates to some extent these privacy risks, it relies on a trusted…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-18 Georgios Syros , Gokberk Yar , Simona Boboila , Cristina Nita-Rotaru , Alina Oprea

\textit{Federated learning} (FL) and \textit{split learning} (SL) are prevailing distributed paradigms in recent years. They both enable shared global model training while keeping data localized on users' devices. The former excels in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Wei Wan , Yuxuan Ning , Shengshan Hu , Lulu Xue , Minghui Li , Leo Yu Zhang , Hai Jin

Decentralized Federated Learning (DFL), a paradigm for managing big data in a privacy-preserved manner, is still vulnerable to poisoning attacks where malicious clients tamper with data or models. Current defense methods often assume…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-11-13 Chao Feng , Alberto Huertas Celdrán , Zien Zeng , Zi Ye , Jan von der Assen , Gerome Bovet , Burkhard Stiller

Federated learning is inherently vulnerable to model poisoning attacks because its decentralized nature allows attackers to participate with compromised devices. In model poisoning attacks, the attacker reduces the model's performance on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Ashwinee Panda , Saeed Mahloujifar , Arjun N. Bhagoji , Supriyo Chakraborty , Prateek Mittal

Federated learning (FL) enables multiple clients to train a model without compromising sensitive data. The decentralized nature of FL makes it susceptible to adversarial attacks, especially backdoor insertion during training. Recently, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Thuy Dung Nguyen , Anh Duy Nguyen , Kok-Seng Wong , Huy Hieu Pham , Thanh Hung Nguyen , Phi Le Nguyen , Truong Thao Nguyen

In adversarial machine learning, new defenses against attacks on deep learning systems are routinely broken soon after their release by more powerful attacks. In this context, forensic tools can offer a valuable complement to existing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-06-17 Shawn Shan , Arjun Nitin Bhagoji , Haitao Zheng , Ben Y. Zhao

Fast identification of new network attack patterns is crucial for improving network security. Nevertheless, identifying an ongoing attack in a heterogeneous network is a non-trivial task. Federated learning emerges as a solution to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-05-25 Helio N. Cunha Neto , Ivana Dusparic , Diogo M. F. Mattos , Natalia C. Fernandes

Decentralized federated learning (DFL) is inherently vulnerable to data poisoning attacks, as malicious clients can transmit manipulated gradients to neighboring clients. Existing defense methods either reject suspicious gradients per…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Bin Li , Xiaoye Miao , Yan Zhang , Jianwei Yin

State-of-the-art machine learning models are vulnerable to data poisoning attacks whose purpose is to undermine the integrity of the model. However, the current literature on data poisoning attacks is mainly focused on ad hoc techniques…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-12 Pooya Tavallali , Vahid Behzadan , Peyman Tavallali , Mukesh Singhal

Federated learning is a promising distributed machine learning paradigm that can effectively exploit large-scale data without exposing users' privacy. However, it may incur significant communication overhead, thereby potentially impairing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-07 Shiwei Li , Wenchao Xu , Haozhao Wang , Xing Tang , Yining Qi , Shijie Xu , Weihong Luo , Yuhua Li , Xiuqiang He , Ruixuan Li

Federated Learning (FL) provides decentralised model training, which effectively tackles problems such as distributed data and privacy preservation. However, the generalisation of global models frequently faces challenges from data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Ozgu Goksu , Nicolas Pugeault

Federated learning (FL) is gaining increasing attention as an emerging collaborative machine learning approach, particularly in the context of large-scale computing and data systems. However, the fundamental algorithm of FL, Federated…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Jianyi Zhang , Ziyin Zhou , Yilong Li , Qichao Jin

Jamming attacks pose a critical threat to wireless networks, yet existing detection methods remain largely unimodal, centralized and resource-intensive, limiting their performance, scalability, and deployment feasibility, respectively. To…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Ioannis Panitsas , Iason Ofeidis , Leandros Tassiulas