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Traditional federated learning (FL) methods have limited support for clients with varying computational and communication abilities, leading to inefficiencies and potential inaccuracies in model training. This limitation hinders the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Jong-Ik Park , Carlee Joe-Wong

Current federated backdoor attacks focus on collaboratively training backdoor triggers, where multiple compromised clients train their local trigger patches and then merge them into a global trigger during the inference phase. However,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Lingguag Hao , Kuangrong Hao , Bing Wei , Xue-song Tang

This review paper takes a comprehensive look at malicious attacks against FL, categorizing them from new perspectives on attack origins and targets, and providing insights into their methodology and impact. In this survey, we focus on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-10 Xianghua Xie , Chen Hu , Hanchi Ren , Jingjing Deng

Malicious clients can attack federated learning systems using malicious data, including backdoor samples, during the training phase. The compromised global model will perform well on the validation dataset designed for the task, but a small…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-01-18 Chen Wu , Xian Yang , Sencun Zhu , Prasenjit Mitra

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

Federated learning has emerged as an attractive approach to protect data privacy by eliminating the need for sharing clients' data while reducing communication costs compared with centralized machine learning algorithms. However, recent…

Defending backdoor attacks in Federated Learning (FL) under heterogeneous client data distributions encounters limitations balancing effectiveness and privacy-preserving, while most existing methods highly rely on the assumption of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Keke Gai , Dongjue Wang , Jing Yu , Liehuang Zhu , Qi Wu

Backdoor attacks pose serious security threats to deep neural networks (DNNs). Backdoored models make arbitrarily (targeted) incorrect predictions on inputs embedded with well-designed triggers while behaving normally on clean inputs. Many…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-07-21 Yudong Gao , Honglong Chen , Peng Sun , Junjian Li , Anqing Zhang , Zhibo Wang

Federated Learning enables collaborative learning among clients via a coordinating server while avoiding direct data sharing, offering a perceived solution to preserve privacy. However, recent studies on Membership Inference Attacks (MIAs)…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Quan Nguyen , Minh N. Vu , Truc Nguyen , My T. Thai

At the same time that artificial intelligence is becoming popular, concern and the need for regulation is growing, including among other requirements the data privacy. In this context, Federated Learning is proposed as a solution to data…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-18 Nuria Rodríguez-Barroso , M. Victoria Luzón , Francisco Herrera

Federated Learning (FL) enables distributed model training but is vulnerable to backdoor attacks, where malicious clients embed attacker-controlled behaviors into the global model. Existing defenses fail against adaptive adversaries. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Lucas Fenaux , Zheng Wang , Jacob Yan , Nathan Chung , Florian Kerschbaum

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

In this work, besides improving prediction accuracy, we study whether personalization could bring robustness benefits to backdoor attacks. We conduct the first study of backdoor attacks in the pFL framework, testing 4 widely used backdoor…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Zeyu Qin , Liuyi Yao , Daoyuan Chen , Yaliang Li , Bolin Ding , Minhao Cheng

Federated learning enables collaborative model training across distributed clients while preserving data privacy. However, in practical deployments, device heterogeneity, non-independent, and identically distributed (Non-IID) data often…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Jin Wang , Hui Ma , Fei Xing , Ming Yan

Backdoor attacks aim to inject a backdoor into a classifier such that it predicts any input with an attacker-chosen backdoor trigger as an attacker-chosen target class. Existing backdoor attacks require either retraining the classifier with…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Bochuan Cao , Jinyuan Jia , Chuxuan Hu , Wenbo Guo , Zhen Xiang , Jinghui Chen , Bo Li , Dawn Song

Federated learning (FL) is a distributed machine learning paradigm where enormous scattered clients (e.g. mobile devices or IoT devices) collaboratively train a model under the orchestration of a central server (e.g. service provider),…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-01-12 Yongkang Wang , Dihua Zhai , Yufeng Zhan , Yuanqing Xia

Federated Learning (FL) emerged as a learning method to enable the server to train models over data distributed among various clients. These clients are protective about their data being leaked to the server, any other client, or an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-27 Uday Bhaskar , Varul Srivastava , Avyukta Manjunatha Vummintala , Naresh Manwani , Sujit Gujar

Federated Self-Supervised Learning (FSSL) integrates the privacy advantages of distributed training with the capability of self-supervised learning to leverage unlabeled data, showing strong potential across applications. However, recent…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Jiayao Wang , Yiping Zhang , Jiale Zhang , Wenliang Yuan , Qilin Wu , Junwu Zhu , Dongfang Zhao

Federated learning (FL), a novel branch of distributed machine learning (ML), develops global models through a private procedure without direct access to local datasets. However, it is still possible to access the model updates (gradient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-27 Mahtab Talaei , Iman Izadi

As backdoor attacks become more stealthy and robust, they reveal critical weaknesses in current defense strategies: detection methods often rely on coarse-grained feature statistics, and purification methods typically require full…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Man Hu , Yahui Ding , Yatao Yang , Liangyu Chen , Yanhao Jia , Shuai Zhao