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We investigate robust federated learning, where a group of workers collaboratively train a shared model under the orchestration of a central server in the presence of Byzantine adversaries capable of arbitrary and potentially malicious…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Lihan Xu , Yanjie Dong , Gang Wang , Runhao Zeng , Xiaoyi Fan , Xiping Hu

Federated Learning (FL) enables multiple clients to collaboratively train a model without sharing their local data. Yet the FL system is vulnerable to well-designed Byzantine attacks, which aim to disrupt the model training process by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-05 Jiahao Xu , Zikai Zhang , Rui Hu

Federated Learning (FL) is increasingly applied in sectors like healthcare, finance, and IoT, enabling collaborative model training while safeguarding user privacy. However, FL systems are susceptible to Byzantine adversaries that inject…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Reek Das , Biplab Kanti Sen

Federated learning (FL) is a distributed learning paradigm that preserves users' data privacy while leveraging the entire dataset of all participants. In FL, multiple models are trained independently on the clients and aggregated centrally…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-11 Amin Eslami Abyane , Derui Zhu , Roberto Souza , Lei Ma , Hadi Hemmati

Federated learning (FL) has been widely adopted as a decentralized training paradigm that enables multiple clients to collaboratively learn a shared model without exposing their local data. As concerns over data privacy and regulatory…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Bingguang Lu , Hongsheng Hu , Yuantian Miao , Shaleeza Sohail , Chaoxiang He , Shuo Wang , Xiao Chen

As a promising paradigm federated Learning (FL) is widely used in privacy-preserving machine learning, which allows distributed devices to collaboratively train a model while avoiding data transmission among clients. Despite its immense…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Jinglong Shen , Xiucheng Wang , Nan Cheng , Longfei Ma , Conghao Zhou , Yuan Zhang

Federated learning (FL) offers a solution to train a global machine learning model while still maintaining data privacy, without needing access to data stored locally at the clients. However, FL suffers performance degradation when client…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-13 Zihan Chen , Kai Fong Ernest Chong , Tony Q. S. Quek

Federated Learning (FL) is an emerging distributed machine learning paradigm enabling multiple clients to train a global model collaboratively without sharing their raw data. While FL enhances data privacy by design, it remains vulnerable…

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) enables collaborative model training across distributed clients while preserving user privacy. Recently, Federated Unlearning (FU) has emerged to address the "right to be forgotten" and to remove the influence of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Ruinan Jin , Minghui Chen , Qiong Zhang , Xiaoxiao Li

Federated learning (FL) is a machine learning paradigm that enables multiple data holders to collaboratively train a machine learning model without sharing their training data with external parties. In this paradigm, workers locally update…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Johan Erbani , Sonia Ben Mokhtar , Pierre-Edouard Portier , Elod Egyed-Zsigmond , Diana Nurbakova

This paper explores the use of server learning for enhancing the robustness of federated learning against malicious attacks even when clients' training data are not independent and identically distributed. We propose a heuristic algorithm…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Van Sy Mai , Kushal Chakrabarti , Richard J. La , Dipankar Maity

Federated Learning (FL) has emerged as a machine learning approach able to preserve the privacy of user's data. Applying FL, clients train machine learning models on a local dataset and a central server aggregates the learned parameters…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Luiz Leite , Yuri Santo , Bruno L. Dalmazo , André Riker

Federated learning is a promising distributed learning paradigm that enables collaborative model training without exposing local client data, thereby protecting data privacy. However, it also brings new threats and challenges. The…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Nina Cai , Jinguang Han , Weizhi Meng

Federated Learning (FL) has emerged as a means of distributed learning using local data stored at clients with a coordinating server. Recent studies showed that FL can suffer from poor performance and slower convergence when training data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-17 Van Sy Mai , Richard J. La , Tao Zhang

Due to its distributed methodology alongside its privacy-preserving features, Federated Learning (FL) is vulnerable to training time adversarial attacks. In this study, our focus is on backdoor attacks in which the adversary's goal is to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-11 Omid Aramoon , Pin-Yu Chen , Gang Qu , Yuan Tian

Quantum federated learning (QFL) merges the privacy advantages of federated systems with the computational potential of quantum neural networks (QNNs), yet its vulnerability to adversarial attacks remains poorly understood. This work…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Walid El Maouaki , Nouhaila Innan , Alberto Marchisio , Taoufik Said , Mohamed Bennai , Muhammad Shafique

Federated Learning (FL) enables collaborative learning without exposing clients' data. While clients only share model updates with the aggregator, studies reveal that aggregators can infer sensitive information from these updates. Secure…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Md. Kamrul Hossain , Walid Aljoby , Anis Elgabli , Ahmed M. Abdelmoniem , Khaled A. Harras

Federated learning (FL) enables learning from decentralized privacy-sensitive data, with computations on raw data confined to take place at edge clients. This paper introduces mixed FL, which incorporates an additional loss term calculated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Sean Augenstein , Andrew Hard , Lin Ning , Karan Singhal , Satyen Kale , Kurt Partridge , Rajiv Mathews

Federated Learning (FL) represents a promising approach to typical privacy concerns associated with centralized Machine Learning (ML) deployments. Despite its well-known advantages, FL is vulnerable to security attacks such as Byzantine…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-16 Enrique Mármol Campos , Aurora González Vidal , José Luis Hernández Ramos , Antonio Skarmeta