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Federated learning (FL) is a privacy-friendly type of machine learning where devices locally train a model on their private data and typically communicate model updates with a server. In decentralized FL (DFL), peers communicate model…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Joost Verbraeken , Martijn de Vos , Johan Pouwelse

Model poisoning attacks greatly jeopardize the application of federated learning (FL). The effectiveness of existing defenses is susceptible to the latest model poisoning attacks, leading to a decrease in prediction accuracy. Besides, these…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Haonan Yan , Wenjing Zhang , Qian Chen , Xiaoguang Li , Wenhai Sun , Hui Li , Xiaodong Lin

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

In this paper, we propose a robust aggregation method for federated learning (FL) that can effectively tackle malicious Byzantine attacks. At each user, model parameter is firstly updated by multiple steps, which is adjustable over…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Shiyuan Zuo , Rongfei Fan , Han Hu , Ning Zhang , Shimin Gong

Federated Learning (FL) is a distributed training paradigm wherein participants collaborate to build a global model while ensuring the privacy of the involved data, which remains stored on participant devices. However, proposals aiming to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Nicolas Riccieri Gardin Assumpcao , Leandro Villas

Federated learning (FL) provides a high efficient decentralized machine learning framework, where the training data remains distributed at remote clients in a network. Though FL enables a privacy-preserving mobile edge computing framework…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-11 Xingyu Li , Zhe Qu , Shangqing Zhao , Bo Tang , Zhuo Lu , Yao Liu

This paper addresses federated learning (FL) in the context of malicious Byzantine attacks and data heterogeneity. We introduce a novel Robust Average Gradient Algorithm (RAGA), which uses the geometric median for aggregation and {allows…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Shiyuan Zuo , Xingrun Yan , Rongfei Fan , Han Hu , Hangguan Shan , Tony Q. S. Quek , Puning Zhao

Byzantine-robust Federated Learning (FL) aims to counter malicious clients and train an accurate global model while maintaining an extremely low attack success rate. Most existing systems, however, are only robust when most of the clients…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-11-17 Rui Wang , Xingkai Wang , Huanhuan Chen , Jérémie Decouchant , Stjepan Picek , Nikolaos Laoutaris , Kaitai Liang

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) is a novel client-server distributed learning framework that can protect data privacy. However, recent works show that FL is vulnerable to poisoning attacks. Many defenses with robust aggregators (AGRs) are proposed…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-26 Yuxin Yang , Qiang Li , Chenfei Nie , Yuan Hong , Meng Pang , Binghui Wang

Federated learning (FL) allows mutually untrusted clients to collaboratively train a common machine learning model without sharing their private/proprietary training data among each other. FL is unfortunately susceptible to poisoning by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-18 Hamid Mozaffari , Virat Shejwalkar , Amir Houmansadr

While recent works have indicated that federated learning (FL) may be vulnerable to poisoning attacks by compromised clients, their real impact on production FL systems is not fully understood. In this work, we aim to develop a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Virat Shejwalkar , Amir Houmansadr , Peter Kairouz , Daniel Ramage

Federated Learning (FL) enables distributed participants (e.g., mobile devices) to train a global model without sharing data directly to a central server. Recent studies have revealed that FL is vulnerable to gradient inversion attack…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-09-15 Jiaheng Wei , Yanjun Zhang , Leo Yu Zhang , Chao Chen , Shirui Pan , Kok-Leong Ong , Jun Zhang , Yang Xiang

Smart meter measurements, though critical for accurate demand forecasting, face several drawbacks including consumers' privacy, data breach issues, to name a few. Recent literature has explored Federated Learning (FL) as a promising…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-03-29 Muhammad Akbar Husnoo , Adnan Anwar , Nasser Hosseinzadeh , Shama Naz Islam , Abdun Naser Mahmood , Robin Doss

Federated learning (FL) is a machine learning (ML) approach that allows the use of distributed data without compromising personal privacy. However, the heterogeneous distribution of data among clients in FL can make it difficult for the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Thuy Dung Nguyen , Tuan Nguyen , Phi Le Nguyen , Hieu H. Pham , Khoa Doan , Kok-Seng Wong

Federated learning has emerged as a popular paradigm for collaboratively training a model from data distributed among a set of clients. This learning setting presents, among others, two unique challenges: how to protect privacy of the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-05-07 Hanieh Hashemi , Yongqin Wang , Chuan Guo , Murali Annavaram

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 (FL) is vulnerable to poisoning attacks, where malicious clients upload manipulated updates to degrade the performance of the global model. Although detection methods can identify and remove malicious clients, the model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Wenwei Zhao , Xiaowen Li , Yao Liu , Zhuo Lu

Federated learning (FL) provides autonomy and privacy by design to participating peers, who cooperatively build a machine learning (ML) model while keeping their private data in their devices. However, that same autonomy opens the door for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-07-06 Najeeb Moharram Jebreel , Josep Domingo-Ferrer , David Sánchez , Alberto Blanco-Justicia

Federated learning enhances traditional deep learning by enabling the joint training of a model with the use of IoT device's private data. It ensures privacy for clients, but is susceptible to data poisoning attacks during training that…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Jane Carney , Kushal Upreti , Gaby G. Dagher , Tim Andersen