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One of the most common defense strategies against Byzantine clients in federated learning (FL) is to employ a robust aggregator mechanism that makes the training more resilient. While many existing Byzantine robust aggregators provide…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-10 Joseph Geo Benjamin , Mothilal Asokan , Mohammad Yaqub , Karthik Nandakumar

Federated Learning (FL) represents a promising approach to typical privacy concerns associated with centralized Machine Learning (ML) deployments. Despite its well-known advantages, FL is vulnerable to security attacks such as Byzantine…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-16 Enrique Mármol Campos , Aurora González Vidal , José Luis Hernández Ramos , Antonio Skarmeta

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

Recent attacks on federated learning demonstrate that keeping the training data on clients' devices does not provide sufficient privacy, as the model parameters shared by clients can leak information about their training data. A 'secure…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-09-24 Swanand Kadhe , Nived Rajaraman , O. Ozan Koyluoglu , Kannan Ramchandran

Federated learning (FL) allows distributed participants to train machine learning models in a decentralized manner. It can be used for radio signal classification with multiple receivers due to its benefits in terms of privacy and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-23 Han Zhang , Medhat Elsayed , Majid Bavand , Raimundas Gaigalas , Yigit Ozcan , Melike Erol-Kantarci

Federated Learning (FL) distributes model training across clients who retain their data locally, but this architecture exposes a fundamental vulnerability: Byzantine clients can inject arbitrarily corrupted updates that degrade or subvert…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Aditya Tripathi , Karan Sharma , Rahul Mishra , Tapas Kumar Maiti

Multi-task learning is an effective way to address the challenge of model personalization caused by high data heterogeneity in federated learning. However, extending multi-task learning to the online decentralized federated learning setting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Olusola Odeyomi , Sofiat Olaosebikan , Ajibuwa Opeyemi , Oluwadoyinsola Ige

Federated learning has created a decentralized method to train a machine learning model without needing direct access to client data. The main goal of a federated learning architecture is to protect the privacy of each client while still…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-12-11 Marc Vucovich , Devin Quinn , Kevin Choi , Christopher Redino , Abdul Rahman , Edward Bowen

Operators from various industries have been pushing the adoption of wireless sensing nodes for industrial monitoring, and such efforts have produced sizeable condition monitoring datasets that can be used to build diagnosis algorithms…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-27 Hao Lu , Adam Thelen , Olga Fink , Chao Hu , Simon Laflamme

Federated learning (FL) facilitates collaborative training of machine learning models among a large number of clients while safeguarding the privacy of their local datasets. However, FL remains susceptible to vulnerabilities such as privacy…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Xincheng Li , Jianting Ning , Geong Sen Poh , Leo Yu Zhang , Xinchun Yin , Tianwei Zhang

Federated Learning (FL) enables collaborative training of medical AI models across hospitals without centralizing patient data. However, the exchange of model updates exposes critical vulnerabilities: gradient inversion attacks can…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Edouard Lansiaux

Federated learning has emerged as a privacy-preserving machine learning approach where multiple parties can train a single model without sharing their raw training data. Federated learning typically requires the utilization of multi-party…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Runhua Xu , Nathalie Baracaldo , Yi Zhou , Ali Anwar , Swanand Kadhe , Heiko Ludwig

Federated learning (FL) is a framework which allows multiple users to jointly train a global machine learning (ML) model by transmitting only model updates under the coordination of a parameter server, while being able to keep their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Zixi Wang , M. Cenk Gursoy

Federated learning (FL) has emerged as a promising paradigm for collaborative model training while preserving data locality. However, it still faces challenges from malicious or compromised clients, as well as difficulties in incentivizing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Zhanhong Xie , Meifan Zhang , Lihua Yin

Quantum federated learning (QFL) merges the privacy advantages of federated systems with the computational potential of quantum neural networks (QNNs), yet its vulnerability to adversarial attacks remains poorly understood. This work…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Walid El Maouaki , Nouhaila Innan , Alberto Marchisio , Taoufik Said , Mohamed Bennai , Muhammad Shafique

Federated sequential recommendation distributes model training across user devices so that behavioural data remains local, reducing privacy risks. Yet, this setting introduces two intertwined difficulties. On the one hand, individual…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Minh Hieu Nguyen

The safety-critical scenarios of artificial intelligence (AI), such as autonomous driving, Internet of Things, smart healthcare, etc., have raised critical requirements of trustworthy AI to guarantee the privacy and security with reliable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Zhanpeng Yang , Yuanming Shi , Yong Zhou , Zixin Wang , Kai Yang

Federated learning (FL) is well-suited to 5G networks, where many mobile devices generate sensitive edge data. Secure aggregation protocols enhance privacy in FL by ensuring that individual user updates reveal no information about the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Yiwei Zhang , Rouzbeh Behnia , Imtiaz Karim , Attila A. Yavuz , Elisa Bertino

In this paper, we propose a groundbreaking quantum-secure federated learning (QFL) framework designed to safeguard distributed learning systems against the emerging threat of quantum-enabled adversaries. As classical cryptographic methods…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Dev Gurung , Shiva Raj Pokhrel

Federated Learning (FL) enables clients to collaboratively train a global model using their local datasets while reinforcing data privacy, but it is prone to poisoning attacks. Existing defense mechanisms assume that clients' data are…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Mehdi Ben Ghali , Gouenou Coatrieux , Reda Bellafqira