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Federated learning (FL) has emerged to enable global model training over distributed clients' data while preserving its privacy. However, the global trained model is vulnerable to the evasion attacks especially, the adversarial examples…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Ahmed Aldahdooh , Wassim Hamidouche , Olivier Déforges

Quantum Federated Learning (QFL) inherits the core vulnerability of federated optimization to malicious clients, while also introducing an attack surface from variational circuit training and measurement-driven gradients. This work proposes…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-28 Aakar Mathur , Mohammed Ruknuddin , Ashish Gupta

Federated Learning (FL) protects data privacy while providing a decentralized method for training models. However, because of the distributed schema, it is susceptible to adversarial clients that could alter results or sabotage model…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Likhitha Annapurna Kavuri , Akshay Mhatre , Akarsh K Nair , Deepti Gupta

Learning on Graphs (LoG) is widely used in multi-client systems when each client has insufficient local data, and multiple clients have to share their raw data to learn a model of good quality. One scenario is to recommend items to clients…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-26 Shuang Wu , Mingxuan Zhang , Yuantong Li , Carl Yang , Pan Li

Federated Learning(FL), in theory, preserves privacy of individual clients' data while producing quality machine learning models. However, attacks such as Deep Leakage from Gradients(DLG) severely question the practicality of FL. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-19 Joon Kim , Sejin Park

Real-world data is usually segmented by attributes and distributed across different parties. Federated learning empowers collaborative training without exposing local data or models. As we demonstrate through designed attacks, even with a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-30 Shuang Zhang , Liyao Xiang , Xi Yu , Pengzhi Chu , Yingqi Chen , Chen Cen , Li Wang

Federated Learning (FL) offers a paradigm for privacy-preserving collaborative AI, but its decentralized nature creates significant vulnerabilities to model poisoning attacks. While numerous static defenses exist, their effectiveness is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Md Rafid Haque , Abu Raihan Mostofa Kamal , Md. Azam Hossain

Federated learning has emerged as a prominent privacy-preserving technique for leveraging large-scale distributed datasets by sharing gradients instead of raw data. However, recent studies indicate that private training data can still be…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Tamer Ahmed Eltaras , Qutaibah Malluhi , Alessandro Savino , Stefano Di Carlo , Adnan Qayyum

Personalized Federated Learning (PFL) aims to train a personalized model for each client that is tailored to its local data distribution, learning fails to perform well on individual clients due to variations in their local data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-10 Ziran Zhou , Guanyu Gao , Xiaohu Wu , Yan Lyu

Federated learning (FL) has emerged as a privacy solution for collaborative distributed learning where clients train AI models directly on their devices instead of sharing their data with a centralized (potentially adversarial) server.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-08 Haleh Hayati , Carlos Murguia , Nathan van de Wouw

Data privacy has become an increasingly important issue in Machine Learning (ML), where many approaches have been developed to tackle this challenge, e.g. cryptography (Homomorphic Encryption (HE), Differential Privacy (DP), etc.) and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-13 Hanchi Ren , Jingjing Deng , Xianghua Xie

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have become instrumental in diverse real-world applications, offering powerful graph learning capabilities for tasks such as social networks and medical data analysis. Despite their successes, GNNs are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-13 Peizhi Niu , Chao Pan , Siheng Chen , Olgica Milenkovic

The advent of federated learning has facilitated large-scale data exchange amongst machine learning models while maintaining privacy. Despite its brief history, federated learning is rapidly evolving to make wider use more practical. One of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Ehsan Hallaji , Roozbeh Razavi-Far , Mehrdad Saif

Gradient-based adversarial attacks on deep neural networks pose a serious threat, since they can be deployed by adding imperceptible perturbations to the test data of any network, and the risk they introduce cannot be assessed through the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-04-06 Rehana Mahfuz , Rajeev Sahay , Aly El Gamal

Communication complexity and privacy are the two key challenges in Federated Learning where the goal is to perform a distributed learning through a large volume of devices. In this work, we introduce FedSKETCH and FedSKETCHGATE algorithms…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-08-13 Farzin Haddadpour , Belhal Karimi , Ping Li , Xiaoyun Li

Vertical federated learning (VFL) allows an active party with labeled feature to leverage auxiliary features from the passive parties to improve model performance. Concerns about the private feature and label leakage in both the training…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-02-01 Hanlin Gu , Jiahuan Luo , Yan Kang , Lixin Fan , Qiang Yang

Recent studies have revealed that federated learning (FL), once considered secure due to clients not sharing their private data with the server, is vulnerable to attacks such as client-side training data distribution inference, where a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-05 Yichang Xu , Ming Yin , Minghong Fang , Neil Zhenqiang Gong

We address the challenge of federated learning on graph-structured data distributed across multiple clients. Specifically, we focus on the prevalent scenario of interconnected subgraphs, where interconnections between different clients play…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Javad Aliakbari , Johan Östman , Alexandre Graell i Amat

Federated learning is a decentralized learning paradigm introduced to preserve privacy of client data. Despite this, prior work has shown that an attacker at the server can still reconstruct the private training data using only the client…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-03-28 Joshua C. Zhao , Ahaan Dabholkar , Atul Sharma , Saurabh Bagchi

Decentralized Federated Learning (DFL) remains highly vulnerable to adaptive backdoor attacks designed to bypass traditional passive defense metrics. To address this limitation, we shift the defensive paradigm toward a novel active,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Sheng Pan , Niansheng Tang