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Federated learning (FL) has become an emerging machine learning technique lately due to its efficacy in safeguarding the client's confidential information. Nevertheless, despite the inherent and additional privacy-preserving mechanisms…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-09-22 Md Tamjid Hossain , Shafkat Islam , Shahriar Badsha , Haoting Shen

Reconstruction attacks against federated learning (FL) aim to reconstruct users' samples through users' uploaded gradients. Local differential privacy (LDP) is regarded as an effective defense against various attacks, including sample…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-13 Zhichao You , Xuewen Dong , Shujun Li , Ximeng Liu , Siqi Ma , Yulong Shen

Split Federated Learning (SFL) is an emerging paradigm for privacy-preserving distributed learning. However, it remains vulnerable to sophisticated data poisoning attacks targeting local features, labels, smashed data, and model weights.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Yuhan Xie , Chen Lyu

Federated Learning (FL) is a collaborative machine learning technique where multiple clients work together with a central server to train a global model without sharing their private data. However, the distribution shift across non-IID…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Xiaoting Lyu , Yufei Han , Wei Wang , Jingkai Liu , Yongsheng Zhu , Guangquan Xu , Jiqiang Liu , Xiangliang Zhang

Federated Learning (FL) enables collaborative model building among a large number of participants without the need for explicit data sharing. But this approach shows vulnerabilities when privacy inference attacks are applied to it. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-26 Pretom Roy Ovi , Emon Dey , Nirmalya Roy , Aryya Gangopadhyay

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

Backdoor attacks are dangerous and difficult to prevent in federated learning (FL), where training data is sourced from untrusted clients over long periods of time. These difficulties arise because: (a) defenders in FL do not have access to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-01 Shuaiqi Wang , Jonathan Hayase , Giulia Fanti , Sewoong Oh

Federated learning is a distributed learning paradigm that facilitates the collaborative training of a global model across multiple clients while preserving the privacy of local datasets. To address inherent challenges related to data…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Chengcheng Zhu , Jiale Zhang , Di Wu , Guodong Long

Federated learning (FL) has emerged as a collaborative approach that allows multiple clients to jointly learn a machine learning model without sharing their private data. The concern about privacy leakage, albeit demonstrated under specific…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Hanlin Gu , Jiahuan Luo , Yan Kang , Yuan Yao , Gongxi Zhu , Bowen Li , Lixin Fan , Qiang Yang

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), a privacy-preserving machine learning framework, faces significant data-related challenges. For example, the lack of suitable public datasets leads to ineffective information exchange, especially in heterogeneous…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Xi Li , Chen Wu , Jiaqi Wang

Deep Neural Network (DNN) models have vulnerabilities related to security concerns, with attackers usually employing complex hacking techniques to expose their structures. Data poisoning-enabled perturbation attacks are complex adversarial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-10 Mohammed Hassanin , Ibrahim Radwan , Nour Moustafa , Murat Tahtali , Neeraj Kumar

Federated Learning (FL) enables training of a global model from distributed data, while preserving data privacy. However, the singular-model based operation of FL is open with uploading poisoned models compatible with the global model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-13 Somayeh Kianpisheh , Chafika Benzaid , Tarik Taleb

Federated Learning (FL) is a new machine learning framework, which enables millions of participants to collaboratively train machine learning model without compromising data privacy and security. Due to the independence and confidentiality…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Anbu Huang

Due to the greatly improved capabilities of devices, massive data, and increasing concern about data privacy, Federated Learning (FL) has been increasingly considered for applications to wireless communication networks (WCNs). Wireless FL…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-12-15 Yichen Wan , Youyang Qu , Wei Ni , Yong Xiang , Longxiang Gao , Ekram Hossain

Federated learning (FL) and split learning (SL) are two popular distributed machine learning approaches. Both follow a model-to-data scenario; clients train and test machine learning models without sharing raw data. SL provides better model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-18 Chandra Thapa , M. A. P. Chamikara , Seyit Camtepe , Lichao Sun

Although Deep Learning (DL) methods becoming increasingly popular in vulnerability detection, their performance is seriously limited by insufficient training data. This is mainly because few existing software organizations can maintain a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Peiheng Zhou , Ming Hu , Xingrun Quan , Yawen Peng , Xiaofei Xie , Yanxin Yang , Chengwei Liu , Yueming Wu , Mingsong Chen

Vertical Federated Learning (VFL) is a trending collaborative machine learning model training solution. Existing industrial frameworks employ secure multi-party computation techniques such as homomorphic encryption to ensure data security…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Pengyu Qiu , Xuhong Zhang , Shouling Ji , Chong Fu , Xing Yang , Ting Wang

Federated learning (FL) is inherently susceptible to privacy breaches and poisoning attacks. To tackle these challenges, researchers have separately devised secure aggregation mechanisms to protect data privacy and robust aggregation…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Runhua Xu , Shiqi Gao , Chao Li , James Joshi , Jianxin Li

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