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Federated learning (FL) is a privacy-preserving machine learning framework that enables multiple nodes to train models on their local data and periodically average weight updates to benefit from other nodes' training. Each node's goal is to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Ethan Wilson , Kai Yue , Chau-Wai Wong , Huaiyu Dai

Federated learning (FL) enables collaborative model training among multiple clients without the need to expose raw data. Its ability to safeguard privacy, at the heart of FL, has recently been a hot-button debate topic. To elaborate,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Mingyuan Fan , Fuyi Wang , Cen Chen , Jianying Zhou

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

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

Federated Learning (FL) enables multiple clients to collaboratively train a model without sharing their local data. Yet the FL system is vulnerable to well-designed Byzantine attacks, which aim to disrupt the model training process by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-05 Jiahao Xu , Zikai Zhang , Rui Hu

We investigate a specific security risk in FL: a group of malicious clients has impacted the model during training by disguising their identities and acting as benign clients but later switching to an adversarial role. They use their data,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-22 Yijiang Li , Ying Gao , Haohan Wang

Federated Learning (FL) has emerged as a promising approach to address data privacy and confidentiality concerns by allowing multiple participants to construct a shared model without centralizing sensitive data. However, this decentralized…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Jahid Hasan

The decentralized nature of federated learning makes detecting and defending against adversarial attacks a challenging task. This paper focuses on backdoor attacks in the federated learning setting, where the goal of the adversary is to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-04 Ziteng Sun , Peter Kairouz , Ananda Theertha Suresh , H. Brendan McMahan

Federated learning (FL) enables multiple clients to collaboratively train models without sharing their local data, and becomes an important privacy-preserving machine learning framework. However, classical FL faces serious security and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-07-27 Jingwei Yi , Fangzhao Wu , Huishuai Zhang , Bin Zhu , Tao Qi , Guangzhong Sun , Xing Xie

Federated Learning (FL) enables collaborative model training by sharing model updates instead of raw data, aiming to protect user privacy. However, recent studies reveal that these shared updates can inadvertently leak sensitive training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Zirui Gong , Leo Yu Zhang , Yanjun Zhang , Viet Vo , Tianqing Zhu , Shirui Pan , Cong Wang

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 remains highly susceptible to backdoor attacks--malicious clients inject targeted behaviours into the global model. Existing defenses suffer from substantial false-positive rates under realistic non-independent and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Fatima Z. Abacha , Sin G. Teo , Yuanxiang Wu , Lucas C. Cordeiro , Mustafa A. Mustafa

Federated Learning (FL) has emerged as a powerful paradigm for decentralized machine learning, enabling collaborative model training across diverse clients without sharing raw data. However, traditional FL approaches often face limitations…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Ali Forootani , Raffaele Iervolino

Scaling Federated Learning (FL) to billion-parameter models forces a challenging trade-off between privacy, scalability, and model utility. Existing solutions often tackle these challenges in isolation, sacrificing accuracy, relying on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Dario Fenoglio , Pasquale Polverino , Jacopo Quizi , Martin Gjoreski , Akash Dhasade , Marc Langheinrich

Federated learning (FL) allows participants to jointly train a machine learning model without sharing their private data with others. However, FL is vulnerable to poisoning attacks such as backdoor attacks. Consequently, a variety of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-24 Kavita Kumari , Phillip Rieger , Hossein Fereidooni , Murtuza Jadliwala , Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi

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

Modern defenses against cyberattacks increasingly rely on proactive approaches, e.g., to predict the adversary's next actions based on past events. Building accurate prediction models requires knowledge from many organizations; alas, this…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-09-08 Mohammad Naseri , Yufei Han , Enrico Mariconti , Yun Shen , Gianluca Stringhini , Emiliano De Cristofaro

Federated learning (FL) enables multiple parties to collaboratively train a machine learning model without sharing their data; rather, they train their own model locally and send updates to a central server for aggregation. Depending on how…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-25 Mohammad Naseri , Yufei Han , Emiliano De Cristofaro

Federated learning (FL) is a distributed learning paradigm that preserves users' data privacy while leveraging the entire dataset of all participants. In FL, multiple models are trained independently on the clients and aggregated centrally…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-11 Amin Eslami Abyane , Derui Zhu , Roberto Souza , Lei Ma , Hadi Hemmati

This survey explores the integration of Federated Learning (FL) with Network Intrusion Detection Systems (NIDS), with particular emphasis on deep learning and quantum machine learning approaches. FL enables collaborative model training…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Devashish Chaudhary , Sutharshan Rajasegarar , Shiva Raj Pokhrel