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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…

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Federated Transfer Learning (FTL) is the most general variation of Federated Learning. According to this distributed paradigm, a feature learning pre-step is commonly carried out by only one party, typically the server, on publicly shared…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-01 Marco Arazzi , Stefanos Koffas , Antonino Nocera , Stjepan Picek

Traditional distributed backdoor attacks (DBA) in federated learning improve stealthiness by decomposing global triggers into sub-triggers, which however requires more poisoned data to maintian the attck strength and hence increases the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Jian Wang , Hong Shen , Chan-Tong Lam

Gradient inversion attack (or input recovery from gradient) is an emerging threat to the security and privacy preservation of Federated learning, whereby malicious eavesdroppers or participants in the protocol can recover (partially) the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-12-02 Yangsibo Huang , Samyak Gupta , Zhao Song , Kai Li , Sanjeev Arora

Federated graph learning (FGL) has gained significant attention for enabling heterogeneous clients to process their private graph data locally while interacting with a centralized server, thus maintaining privacy. However, graph data on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-19 Ruyue Liu , Rong Yin , Xiangzhen Bo , Xiaoshuai Hao , Xingrui Zhou , Yong Liu , Can Ma , Weiping Wang

Recent studies have revealed severe privacy risks in federated learning, represented by Gradient Leakage Attacks. However, existing studies mainly aim at increasing the privacy attack success rate and overlook the high computation costs for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Nawrin Tabassum , Ka-Ho Chow , Xuyu Wang , Wenbin Zhang , Yanzhao Wu

Federated Graph Learning (FGL) has emerged as a promising paradigm for breaking data silos among distributed private graphs. In practical scenarios involving heterogeneous distributed graph data, personalized Federated Graph Learning (pFGL)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Guochen Yan , Xunkai Li , Luyuan Xie , Qingni Shen , Yuejian Fang , Zhonghai Wu

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have emerged as potent models for graph learning. Distributing the training process across multiple computing nodes is the most promising solution to address the challenges of ever-growing real-world graphs.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-13 Yuxiang Zhang , Xin Liu , Meng Wu , Wei Yan , Mingyu Yan , Xiaochun Ye , Dongrui Fan

Federated learning allows clients to collaboratively train a global model without uploading raw data for privacy preservation. This feature, i.e., the inability to review participants' datasets, has recently been found responsible for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Yihang Lin , Pengyuan Zhou , Zhiqian Wu , Yong Liao

An attack on deep learning systems where intelligent machines collaborate to solve problems could cause a node in the network to make a mistake on a critical judgment. At the same time, the security and privacy concerns of AI have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-03 Yuwei Sun , Ng Chong , Hideya Ochiai

Federated Learning (FL) enables collaborative model training across distributed devices while preserving local data privacy, making it ideal for mobile and embedded systems. However, the decentralized nature of FL also opens vulnerabilities…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Kichang Lee , Yujin Shin , Jonghyuk Yun , Songkuk Kim , Jun Han , JeongGil Ko

Federated learning (FL) is a distributed training technology that enhances data privacy in mobile edge networks by allowing data owners to collaborate without transmitting raw data to the edge server. However, data heterogeneity and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Yu Qiao , Apurba Adhikary , Kitae Kim , Eui-Nam Huh , Zhu Han , Choong Seon Hong

In recent years, Federated Graph Learning (FGL) has gained significant attention for its distributed training capabilities in graph-based machine intelligence applications, mitigating data silos while offering a new perspective for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Zhengyu Wu , Xunkai Li , Yinlin Zhu , Rong-Hua Li , Guoren Wang , Chenghu Zhou

Federated learning offers a framework of training a machine learning model in a distributed fashion while preserving privacy of the participants. As the server cannot govern the clients' actions, nefarious clients may attack the global…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Ashish Gupta , Tie Luo , Mao V. Ngo , Sajal K. Das

Federated learning (FL) aims to protect data privacy by enabling clients to build machine learning models collaboratively without sharing their private data. Recent works demonstrate that information exchanged during FL is subject to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Yuezhou Wu , Yan Kang , Jiahuan Luo , Yuanqin He , Qiang Yang

Federated Graph Neural Network (FedGNN) integrate federated learning (FL) with graph neural networks (GNNs) to enable privacy-preserving training on distributed graph data. Vertical Federated Graph Neural Network (VFGNN), a key branch of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-27 Jirui Yang , Peng Chen , Zhihui Lu , Ruijun Deng , Qiang Duan , Jianping Zeng

Graph neural network (GNN) has achieved great success on graph representation learning. Challenged by large scale private data collected from user-side, GNN may not be able to reflect the excellent performance, without rich features and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-21 Jinyin Chen , Guohan Huang , Haibin Zheng , Shanqing Yu , Wenrong Jiang , Chen Cui

Graph neural networks (GNN) have been successful in many fields, and derived various researches and applications in real industries. However, in some privacy sensitive scenarios (like finance, healthcare), training a GNN model centrally…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-25 Huanding Zhang , Tao Shen , Fei Wu , Mingyang Yin , Hongxia Yang , Chao Wu

Federated Learning (FL) facilitates collaborative model training among distributed clients while ensuring that raw data remains on local devices.Despite this advantage, FL systems are still exposed to risks from malicious or unreliable…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Deepthy K Bhaskar , Minimol B , Binu V P

Federated Graph Learning (FGL) is an emerging technology that enables clients to collaboratively train powerful Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) in a distributed manner without exposing their private data. Nevertheless, FGL still faces the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-22 Longwen Wang , Jianchun Liu , Zhi Liu , Jinyang Huang