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This paper jointly considers privacy preservation and Byzantine-robustness in decentralized learning. In a decentralized network, honest-but-curious agents faithfully follow the prescribed algorithm, but expect to infer their neighbors'…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Haoxiang Ye , Heng Zhu , Qing Ling

Federated learning is a method used in machine learning to allow multiple devices to work together on a model without sharing their private data. Each participant keeps their private data on their system and trains a local model and only…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-07 Feiran Yang

This paper focuses on the problem of adversarial attacks from Byzantine machines in a Federated Learning setting where non-Byzantine machines can be partitioned into disjoint clusters. In this setting, non-Byzantine machines in the same…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-06-02 Zhixu Tao , Kun Yang , Sanjeev R. Kulkarni

Federated Learning (FL) emerged as a widely studied paradigm for distributed learning. Despite its many advantages, FL remains vulnerable to adversarial attacks, especially under data heterogeneity. We propose a new Byzantine-robust FL…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Sena Ergisi , Luis Maßny , Rawad Bitar

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 presents a nascent approach to machine learning, enabling collaborative model training across decentralized devices while safeguarding data privacy. However, its distributed nature renders it susceptible to adversarial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Mario García-Márquez , Nuria Rodríguez-Barroso , M. Victoria Luzón , Francisco Herrera

As the scale of federated learning (FL) systems expands, their inherent performance limitations like communication overhead, Byzantine vulnerability, and privacy leakage have become increasingly critical. This paper considers a personalized…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Muhang Lan , Song Xiao , Wenyi Zhang

Federated learning (FL) has emerged as a promising collaboration paradigm by enabling a multitude of parties to construct a joint model without exposing their private training data. Three main challenges in FL are efficiency, privacy, and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-05-12 Lingjuan Lyu

Despite federated learning (FL)'s potential in collaborative learning, its performance has deteriorated due to the data heterogeneity of distributed users. Recently, clustered federated learning (CFL) has emerged to address this challenge…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Zhiqiang Li , Haiyong Bao , Menghong Guan , Hao Pan , Cheng Huang , Hong-Ning Dai

Federated learning (FL) enables multiple clients to collaboratively train an accurate global model while protecting clients' data privacy. However, FL is susceptible to Byzantine attacks from malicious participants. Although the problem has…

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

Federated Learning (FL) is notorious for its vulnerability to Byzantine attacks. Most current Byzantine defenses share a common inductive bias: among all the gradients, the densely distributed ones are more likely to be honest. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-17 Yuchen Liu , Chen Chen , Lingjuan Lyu , Yaochu Jin , Gang Chen

Federated learning based on homomorphic encryption has received widespread attention due to its high security and enhanced protection of user data privacy. However, the characteristics of encrypted computation lead to three challenging…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Yang Li , Chunhe Xia , Chang Li , Xiaojian Li , Tianbo Wang

This paper aims at jointly addressing two seemly conflicting issues in federated learning: differential privacy (DP) and Byzantine-robustness, which are particularly challenging when the distributed data are non-i.i.d. (independent and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-03 Heng Zhu , Qing Ling

The majority of work in privacy-preserving federated learning (FL) has been focusing on horizontally partitioned datasets where clients share the same sets of features and can train complete models independently. However, in many…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-22 Xinchi Qiu , Heng Pan , Wanru Zhao , Chenyang Ma , Pedro Porto Buarque de Gusmão , Nicholas D. Lane

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, as a distributed learning that conducts the training on the local devices without accessing to the training data, is vulnerable to Byzatine poisoning adversarial attacks. We argue that the federated learning model has to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Nuria Rodríguez-Barroso , Eugenio Martínez-Cámara , M. Victoria Luzón , Francisco Herrera

Federated learning (FL) aims to protect data privacy by cooperatively learning a model without sharing private data among users. For Federated Learning of Deep Neural Network with billions of model parameters, existing privacy-preserving…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-28 Hanlin Gu , Lixin Fan , Bowen Li , Yan Kang , Yuan Yao , Qiang Yang

Federated Learning (FL) enables model training across decentralized devices by communicating solely local model updates to an aggregation server. Although such limited data sharing makes FL more secure than centralized approached, FL…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-06-14 Vasileios Tsouvalas , Samaneh Mohammadi , Ali Balador , Tanir Ozcelebi , Francesco Flammini , Nirvana Meratnia

Federated learning (FL) enables multiple clients to collaboratively train a global machine learning model without sharing their raw data. However, the decentralized nature of FL introduces vulnerabilities, particularly to poisoning attacks,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Zhihao Dou , Jiaqi Wang , Wei Sun , Zhuqing Liu , Minghong Fang

Federated learning (FL) has gained attention as a distributed learning paradigm for its data privacy benefits and accelerated convergence through parallel computation. Traditional FL relies on a server-client (SC) architecture, where a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Minghong Fang , Zhuqing Liu , Xuecen Zhao , Jia Liu