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Federated learning is a distributed machine learning paradigm through centralized model aggregation. However, standard federated learning relies on a centralized server, making it vulnerable to server failures. While existing solutions…

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Federated Learning (FL) is a distributed machine learning technique that allows model training among multiple devices or organizations by sharing training parameters instead of raw data. However, adversaries can still infer individual…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-27 Xinpeng Ling , Jie Fu , Kuncan Wang , Haitao Liu , Zhili Chen

Federated learning (FL) is a trending training paradigm to utilize decentralized training data. FL allows clients to update model parameters locally for several epochs, then share them to a global model for aggregation. This training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-09 Xiaoxiao Li , Zhao Song , Jiaming Yang

Federated learning (FL) enables retailers to share model parameters for demand forecasting while maintaining privacy. However, heterogeneous data across diverse regions, driven by factors such as varying consumer behavior, poses challenges…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-24 Yunbo Long , Liming Xu , Ge Zheng , Alexandra Brintrup

Backdoors on federated learning will be diluted by subsequent benign updates. This is reflected in the significant reduction of attack success rate as iterations increase, ultimately failing. We use a new metric to quantify the degree of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Tao Liu , Yuhang Zhang , Zhu Feng , Zhiqin Yang , Chen Xu , Dapeng Man , Wu Yang

Federated learning (FL), an attractive and promising distributed machine learning paradigm, has sparked extensive interest in exploiting tremendous data stored on ubiquitous mobile devices. However, conventional FL suffers severely from…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-06-09 Qian Chen , Zilong Wang , Jiawei Chen , Haonan Yan , Xiaodong Lin

Quantum Federated Learning (QFL) inherits the core vulnerability of federated optimization to malicious clients, while also introducing an attack surface from variational circuit training and measurement-driven gradients. This work proposes…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-28 Aakar Mathur , Mohammed Ruknuddin , Ashish Gupta

Federated Learning (FL) is witnessing wider adoption due to its ability to benefit from large amounts of scattered data while preserving privacy. However, despite its advantages, federated learning suffers from several setbacks that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Osama Wehbi , Sarhad Arisdakessian , Omar Abdel Wahab , Anderson Avila , Azzam Mourad , Hadi Otrok

Federated learning (FL) is a distributed machine learning technique in which multiple clients cooperate to train a shared model without exchanging their raw data. However, heterogeneity of data distribution among clients usually leads to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-23 Yu Qiao , Seong-Bae Park , Sun Moo Kang , Choong Seon Hong

Federated learning (FL) enables learning a global machine learning model from local data distributed among a set of participating workers. This makes it possible i) to train more accurate models due to learning from rich joint training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Najeeb Jebreel , Josep Domingo-Ferrer

Federated Learning (FL) is a distributed learning paradigm designed to address privacy concerns. However, FL is vulnerable to poisoning attacks, where Byzantine clients compromise the integrity of the global model by submitting malicious…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Ryan McGaughey , Jesus Martinez del Rincon , Ihsen Alouani

Federated learning is particularly susceptible to model poisoning and backdoor attacks because individual users have direct control over the training data and model updates. At the same time, the attack power of an individual user is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Yuxin Wen , Jonas Geiping , Liam Fowl , Hossein Souri , Rama Chellappa , Micah Goldblum , Tom Goldstein

Federated machine learning which enables resource constrained node devices (e.g., mobile phones and IoT devices) to learn a shared model while keeping the training data local, can provide privacy, security and economic benefits by designing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-04-22 Gan Sun , Yang Cong , Jiahua Dong , Qiang Wang , Ji Liu

Traditional Federated Learning (FL) methods encounter significant challenges when dealing with heterogeneous data and providing personalized solutions for non-IID scenarios. Personalized Federated Learning (PFL) approaches aim to address…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Yasaman Saadati , Mohammad Rostami , M. Hadi Amini

Federated Learning (FL) is a paradigm for large-scale distributed learning which faces two key challenges: (i) efficient training from highly heterogeneous user data, and (ii) protecting the privacy of participating users. In this work, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-06 Maxence Noble , Aurélien Bellet , Aymeric Dieuleveut

Personalized Federated Learning (PFL) constitutes a novel paradigm that tailors Machine Learning (ML) models to individual clients, thereby furnishing personalized model updates whilst upholding stringent data privacy principles. Diverging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Md. Arifur Rahman , Isha Das , Mushfiqur Rahman Abir , B. M. Taslimul Haque , Abdullah Al Noman , Abir Ahmed , Md. Jakir Hossen

Federated learning (FL) has gained significant attention for enabling decentralized training on edge networks without exposing raw data. However, FL models remain susceptible to adversarial attacks and performance degradation in non-IID…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-10 Yu Qiao , Apurba Adhikary , Huy Q. Le , Eui-Nam Huh , Zhu Han , Choong Seon Hong

Federated learning (FL) enables multiple clients to collaboratively train deep learning models while considering sensitive local datasets' privacy. However, adversaries can manipulate datasets and upload models by injecting triggers for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Zekai Chen , Fuyi Wang , Zhiwei Zheng , Ximeng Liu , Yujie Lin

Federated graph learning (FedGL) is an emerging federated learning (FL) framework that extends FL to learn graph data from diverse sources. FL for non-graph data has shown to be vulnerable to backdoor attacks, which inject a shared backdoor…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-15 Yuxin Yang , Qiang Li , Jinyuan Jia , Yuan Hong , Binghui Wang

As data privacy is gradually valued by people, federated learning(FL) has emerged because of its potential to protect data. FL uses homomorphic encryption and differential privacy encryption on the promise of ensuring data security to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-26 Song WenJie , Shen Xuan