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Byzantine attacks during model aggregation in Federated Learning (FL) threaten training integrity by manipulating malicious clients' updates. Existing methods struggle with limited robustness under high malicious client ratios and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Yanhua Wen , Lu Ai , Gang Liu , Chuang Li , Jianhao Wei

We study stochastic gradient descent (SGD) with local iterations in the presence of malicious/Byzantine clients, motivated by the federated learning. The clients, instead of communicating with the central server in every iteration, maintain…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-08-18 Deepesh Data , Suhas Diggavi

Federated Learning (FL) allows multiple clients to collaboratively train a model without sharing their private data. However, FL is vulnerable to Byzantine attacks, where adversaries manipulate client models to compromise the federated…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Baolei Zhang , Minghong Fang , Zhuqing Liu , Biao Yi , Peizhao Zhou , Yuan Wang , Tong Li , Zheli Liu

Federated learning allows multiple participants to collaboratively train an efficient model without exposing data privacy. However, this distributed machine learning training method is prone to attacks from Byzantine clients, which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-09 Chunjiang Che , Xiaoli Li , Chuan Chen , Xiaoyu He , Zibin Zheng

Federated Learning (FL) is a distributed machine learning paradigm where data is distributed among clients who collaboratively train a model in a computation process coordinated by a central server. By assigning a weight to each client…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-19 Amit Portnoy , Yoav Tirosh , Danny Hendler

Federated Learning (FL) aims to train a collaborative model while preserving data privacy. However, the distributed nature of this approach still raises privacy and security issues, such as the exposure of sensitive data due to inference…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Adda Akram Bendoukha , Aymen Boudguiga , Nesrine Kaaniche , Renaud Sirdey , Didem Demirag , Sébastien Gambs

Federated learning (FL) shows great promise in large scale machine learning, but brings new risks in terms of privacy and security. We propose ByITFL, a novel scheme for FL that provides resilience against Byzantine users while keeping the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Yue Xia , Christoph Hofmeister , Maximilian Egger , Rawad Bitar

This paper introduces a deep learning-based framework for resilient decision fusion in adversarial multi-sensor networks, providing a unified mathematical setup that encompasses diverse scenarios, including varying Byzantine node…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Kassem Kallas

This paper deals with distributed finite-sum optimization for learning over networks in the presence of malicious Byzantine attacks. To cope with such attacks, most resilient approaches so far combine stochastic gradient descent (SGD) with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Zhaoxian Wu , Qing Ling , Tianyi Chen , Georgios B. Giannakis

Federated learning (FL) shows great promise in large-scale machine learning but introduces new privacy and security challenges. We propose ByITFL and LoByITFL, two novel FL schemes that enhance resilience against Byzantine users while…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Yue Xia , Christoph Hofmeister , Maximilian Egger , Rawad Bitar

Communication between workers and the master node to collect local stochastic gradients is a key bottleneck in a large-scale federated learning system. Various recent works have proposed to compress the local stochastic gradients to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Heng Zhu , Qing Ling

Federated Learning (FL) thrives in training a global model with numerous clients by only sharing the parameters of their local models trained with their private training datasets. Therefore, without revealing the private dataset, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-06 Younghan Lee , Yungi Cho , Woorim Han , Ho Bae , Yunheung Paek

\textit{Federated learning} (FL) is a nascent distributed learning paradigm to train a shared global model without violating users' privacy. FL has been shown to be vulnerable to various Byzantine attacks, where malicious participants could…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Wei Wan , Shengshan Hu , Minghui Li , Jianrong Lu , Longling Zhang , Leo Yu Zhang , Hai Jin

Federated learning has arisen as a mechanism to allow multiple participants to collaboratively train a model without sharing their data. In these settings, participants (workers) may not trust each other fully; for instance, a set of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-28 Kamala Varma , Yi Zhou , Nathalie Baracaldo , Ali Anwar

In federated learning (FL), profiling and verifying each client is inherently difficult, which introduces a significant security vulnerability: malicious clients, commonly referred to as Byzantines, can degrade the accuracy of the global…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Emre Ozfatura , Kerem Ozfatura , Baturalp Buyukates , Mert Coskuner , Alptekin Kupcu , Deniz Gunduz

Federated Learning (FL) allows collaborative model training across distributed clients without sharing raw data, thus preserving privacy. However, the system remains vulnerable to privacy leakage from gradient updates and Byzantine attacks…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Xian Qin , Xue Yang , Xiaohu Tang

Federated learning systems are susceptible to adversarial attacks. To combat this, we introduce a novel aggregator based on Huber loss minimization, and provide a comprehensive theoretical analysis. Under independent and identically…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Puning Zhao , Fei Yu , Zhiguo Wan

In vehicle edge computing (VEC), asynchronous federated learning (AFL) is used, where the edge receives a local model and updates the global model, effectively reducing the global aggregation latency.Due to different amounts of local…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-15 Cui Zhang , Xiao Xu , Qiong Wu , Pingyi Fan , Qiang Fan , Huiling Zhu , Jiangzhou Wang

Recently emerged federated learning (FL) is an attractive distributed learning framework in which numerous wireless end-user devices can train a global model with the data remained autochthonous. Compared with the traditional machine…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-10-10 Junyu Shi , Wei Wan , Shengshan Hu , Jianrong Lu , Leo Yu Zhang

Federated learning (FL) has emerged as a promising paradigm for managing electric vehicle (EV) battery data in intelligent transportation systems (ITS), enabling privacy-preserving tasks such as anomaly detection and capacity estimation.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Mouhamed Amine Bouchiha , Abdelaziz Amara Korba , Yacine Ghamri-Doudane