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Federated learning is a versatile framework for training models in decentralized environments. However, the trust placed in clients makes federated learning vulnerable to backdoor attacks launched by malicious participants. While many…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-12-23 Borja Molina-Coronado

Federated Learning (FL) has emerged as a result of data ownership and privacy concerns to prevent data from being shared between multiple parties included in a training procedure. Although issues, such as privacy, have gained significant…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-26 Ninareh Mehrabi , Cyprien de Lichy , John McKay , Cynthia He , William Campbell

The significant rise of security concerns in conventional centralized learning has promoted federated learning (FL) adoption in building intelligent applications without privacy breaches. In cybersecurity, the sensitive data along with the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-09-21 Tran Duc Luong , Vuong Minh Tien , Nguyen Huu Quyen , Do Thi Thu Hien , Phan The Duy , Van-Hau Pham

Federated learning (FL) has been widely deployed to enable machine learning training on sensitive data across distributed devices. However, the decentralized learning paradigm and heterogeneity of FL further extend the attack surface for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Haomin Zhuang , Mingxian Yu , Hao Wang , Yang Hua , Jian Li , Xu Yuan

Federated learning combines local updates from clients to produce a global model, which is susceptible to poisoning attacks. Most previous defense strategies relied on vectors derived from projections of local updates on a Euclidean space;…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-19 Sungwon Han , Hyeonho Song , Sungwon Park , Meeyoung Cha

Federated learning (FL) goes beyond traditional, centralized machine learning by distributing model training among a large collection of edge clients. These clients cooperatively train a global, e.g., cloud-hosted, model without disclosing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-02-26 Gabriele Costa , Fabio Pinelli , Simone Soderi , Gabriele Tolomei

As a distributed machine learning paradigm, Federated Learning (FL) enables large-scale clients to collaboratively train a model without sharing their raw data. However, due to the lack of data auditing for untrusted clients, FL is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Yanxin Yang , Ming Hu , Xiaofei Xie , Yue Cao , Pengyu Zhang , Yihao Huang , Mingsong Chen

Federated Learning (FL) enables decentralized model training without sharing raw data. However, it remains vulnerable to Byzantine attacks, which can compromise the aggregation of locally updated parameters at the central server.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Shiyuan Zuo , Rongfei Fan , Cheng Zhan , Jie Xu , Puning Zhao , Han Hu

Advances in distributed machine learning can empower future communications and networking. The emergence of federated learning (FL) has provided an efficient framework for distributed machine learning, which, however, still faces many…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Zhilin Wang , Qiao Kang , Xinyi Zhang , Qin Hu

Federated Learning (FL) has emerged as a promising method to collaboratively learn from decentralized and heterogeneous data available at different clients without the requirement of data ever leaving the clients. Recent works on FL have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-28 Shivam Pal , Aishwarya Gupta , Saqib Sarwar , Piyush Rai

Federated learning (FL) allows a server to learn a machine learning (ML) model across multiple decentralized clients that privately store their own training data. In contrast with centralized ML approaches, FL saves computation to the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Alberto Blanco-Justicia , Josep Domingo-Ferrer , Sergio Martínez , David Sánchez , Adrian Flanagan , Kuan Eeik Tan

Manipulation of local training data and local updates, i.e., the poisoning attack, is the main threat arising from the collaborative nature of the federated learning (FL) paradigm. Most existing poisoning attacks aim to manipulate local…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Huazi Pan , Yanjun Zhang , Leo Yu Zhang , Scott Adams , Abbas Kouzani , Suiyang Khoo

Federated learning (FL) enables a collaborative environment for training machine learning models without sharing training data between users. This is typically achieved by aggregating model gradients on a central server. Decentralized…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Siddhartha Bhattacharya , Daniel Helo , Joshua Siegel

Federated Learning (FL) enables collaborative model training across distributed medical institutions while preserving patient privacy, but remains vulnerable to Byzantine attacks and statistical heterogeneity. We present OptiGradTrust, a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Mohammad Karami , Fatemeh Ghassemi , Hamed Kebriaei , Hamid Azadegan

Federated reinforcement learning (FRL) allows agents to jointly learn a global decision-making policy under the guidance of a central server. While FRL has advantages, its decentralized design makes it prone to poisoning attacks. To…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-13 Minghong Fang , Xilong Wang , Neil Zhenqiang Gong

Federated Learning (FL) has been gaining popularity as a collaborative learning framework to train deep learning-based object detection models over a distributed population of clients. Despite its advantages, FL is vulnerable to model…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Ka-Ho Chow , Ling Liu , Wenqi Wei , Fatih Ilhan , Yanzhao Wu

Federated Learning systems are increasingly subjected to a multitude of model poisoning attacks from clients. Among these, edge-case attacks that target a small fraction of the input space are nearly impossible to detect using existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-15 Kiran Purohit , Soumi Das , Sourangshu Bhattacharya , Santu Rana

Federated learning (FL) is an appealing paradigm that allows a group of machines (a.k.a. clients) to learn collectively while keeping their data local. However, due to the heterogeneity between the clients' data distributions, the model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Youssef Allouah , Abdellah El Mrini , Rachid Guerraoui , Nirupam Gupta , Rafael Pinot

In sectors such as finance and healthcare, where data governance is subject to rigorous regulatory requirements, the exchange and utilization of data are particularly challenging. Federated Learning (FL) has risen as a pioneering…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Siyang Jiang , Hao Yang , Qipeng Xie , Chuan Ma , Sen Wang , Guoliang Xing

Federated learning enables training collaborative machine learning models at scale with many participants whilst preserving the privacy of their datasets. Standard federated learning techniques are vulnerable to Byzantine failures, biased…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-09-12 Luis Muñoz-González , Kenneth T. Co , Emil C. Lupu