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Federated Learning (FL) is a promising distributed learning framework designed for privacy-aware applications. FL trains models on client devices without sharing the client's data and generates a global model on a server by aggregating…

Byzantine attacks present a critical challenge to Federated Learning (FL), where malicious participants can disrupt the training process, degrade model accuracy, and compromise system reliability. Traditional FL frameworks typically rely on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Yufei Xia , Wenrui Yu , Qiongxiu Li

The advent of Federated Learning (FL) as a distributed machine learning paradigm has introduced new cybersecurity challenges, notably adversarial attacks that threaten model integrity and participant privacy. This study proposes an…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-03-18 Zahir Alsulaimawi

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

In this paper, we investigate the problem of distributed learning (DL) in the presence of Byzantine attacks. For this problem, various robust bounded aggregation (RBA) rules have been proposed at the central server to mitigate the impact of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Chengxi Li , Ming Xiao , Mikael Skoglund

Privacy and Byzantine resilience are two indispensable requirements for a federated learning (FL) system. Although there have been extensive studies on privacy and Byzantine security in their own track, solutions that consider both remain…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-03 Zihang Xiang , Tianhao Wang , Wanyu Lin , Di Wang

Federated Learning (FL) enables multiple users to collaboratively train a machine learning model without sharing raw data, making it suitable for privacy-sensitive applications. However, local model or weight updates can still leak…

In this paper, we propose ByzSecAgg, an efficient secure aggregation scheme for federated learning that is resistant to Byzantine attacks and privacy leakages. Processing individual updates to manage adversarial behavior, while preserving…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Tayyebeh Jahani-Nezhad , Mohammad Ali Maddah-Ali , Giuseppe Caire

Federated Learning (FL) is a machine learning paradigm to conduct collaborative learning among clients on a joint model. The primary goal is to share clients' local training parameters with an integrating server while preserving their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Mahdi Ghafourian , Julian Fierrez , Ruben Vera-Rodriguez , Ruben Tolosana , Aythami Morales

Byzantine-robust federated learning aims to enable a service provider to learn an accurate global model when a bounded number of clients are malicious. The key idea of existing Byzantine-robust federated learning methods is that the service…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-04-13 Xiaoyu Cao , Minghong Fang , Jia Liu , Neil Zhenqiang Gong

Despite the great potential of Federated Learning (FL) in large-scale distributed learning, the current system is still subject to several privacy issues due to the fact that local models trained by clients are exposed to the central…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-05-12 Truc Nguyen , Phuc Thai , Tre' R. Jeter , Thang N. Dinh , My T. Thai

AI-driven medical diagnostics increasingly requires collaborative model training across institutions, yet centralizing patient data conflicts with privacy regulations. Federated Learning enables distributed training without raw data…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-13 Suzukaze Kamei , Hideaki Kawaguchi , Takahiko Satoh

As a distributed learning, Federated Learning (FL) faces two challenges: the unbalanced distribution of training data among participants, and the model attack by Byzantine nodes. In this paper, we consider the long-tailed distribution with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Yanna Jiang , Baihe Ma , Xu Wang , Guangsheng Yu , Caijun Sun , Wei Ni , Ren Ping Liu

The decentralized nature of federated learning, that often leverages the power of edge devices, makes it vulnerable to attacks against privacy and security. The privacy risk for a peer is that the model update she computes on her private…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-08-05 Josep Domingo-Ferrer , Alberto Blanco-Justicia , Jesús Manjón , David Sánchez

Federated learning (FL) is a technique that trains machine learning models from decentralized data sources. We study FL under local notions of privacy constraints, which provides strong protection against sensitive data disclosures via…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-23 Yan Feng , Tao Xiong , Ruofan Wu , LingJuan Lv , Leilei Shi

Federated Learning (FL) is an emerging distributed machine learning paradigm enabling multiple clients to train a global model collaboratively without sharing their raw data. While FL enhances data privacy by design, it remains vulnerable…

Conformal prediction has shown impressive capacity in constructing statistically rigorous prediction sets for machine learning models with exchangeable data samples. The siloed datasets, coupled with the escalating privacy concerns related…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Mintong Kang , Zhen Lin , Jimeng Sun , Cao Xiao , Bo Li

Due to its distributed nature, federated learning is vulnerable to poisoning attacks, in which malicious clients poison the training process via manipulating their local training data and/or local model updates sent to the cloud server,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-10-05 Xiaoyu Cao , Zaixi Zhang , Jinyuan Jia , Neil Zhenqiang Gong

Federated Learning (FL) algorithms using Knowledge Distillation (KD) have received increasing attention due to their favorable properties with respect to privacy, non-i.i.d. data and communication cost. These methods depart from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Christophe Roux , Max Zimmer , Sebastian Pokutta

Federated Learning (FL), a distributed machine learning paradigm, has been adapted to mitigate privacy concerns for customers. Despite their appeal, there are various inference attacks that can exploit shared-plaintext model updates to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-07-20 Hua Ma , Qun Li , Yifeng Zheng , Zhi Zhang , Xiaoning Liu , Yansong Gao , Said F. Al-Sarawi , Derek Abbott