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Federated learning is a prominent framework that enables clients (e.g., mobile devices or organizations) to train a collaboratively global model under a central server's orchestration while keeping local training datasets' privacy. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-20 Farnaz Tahmasebian , Jian Lou , Li Xiong

In the era of data expansion, ensuring data privacy has become increasingly critical, posing significant challenges to traditional AI-based applications. In addition, the increasing adoption of IoT devices has introduced significant…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Sameera K. M. , Vinod P. , Anderson Rocha , Rafidha Rehiman K. A. , Mauro Conti

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…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Fatima Z. Abacha , Sin G. Teo , Yuanxiang Wu , Lucas C. Cordeiro , Mustafa A. Mustafa

Federated Learning (FL) enables distributed participants (e.g., mobile devices) to train a global model without sharing data directly to a central server. Recent studies have revealed that FL is vulnerable to gradient inversion attack…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-09-15 Jiaheng Wei , Yanjun Zhang , Leo Yu Zhang , Chao Chen , Shirui Pan , Kok-Leong Ong , Jun Zhang , Yang Xiang

Federated learning (FL) provides an efficient paradigm to jointly train a global model leveraging data from distributed users. As local training data comes from different users who may not be trustworthy, several studies have shown that FL…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-01-02 Chulin Xie , Yunhui Long , Pin-Yu Chen , Qinbin Li , Arash Nourian , Sanmi Koyejo , Bo Li

Recent attacks on federated learning (FL) can introduce malicious model updates that circumvent widely adopted Euclidean distance-based detection methods. This paper proposes a novel defense strategy, referred to as LayerCAM-AE, designed to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Jingjing Zheng , Xin Yuan , Kai Li , Wei Ni , Eduardo Tovar , Jon Crowcroft

Federated learning (FL) is a machine learning technique that aims at training an algorithm across decentralized entities holding their local data private. Wireless mobile networks allow users to communicate with other fixed or mobile users.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-06-07 Ranwa Al Mallah , Godwin Badu-Marfo , Bilal Farooq

Federated learning is a popular strategy for training models on distributed, sensitive data, while preserving data privacy. Prior work identified a range of security threats on federated learning protocols that poison the data or the model.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-08-30 Giorgio Severi , Matthew Jagielski , Gökberk Yar , Yuxuan Wang , Alina Oprea , Cristina Nita-Rotaru

Federated Learning (FL) is a decentralized machine learning (ML) technique that allows a number of participants to train an ML model collaboratively without having to share their private local datasets with others. When participants are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Youssra Cheriguene , Wael Jaafar , Halim Yanikomeroglu , Chaker Abdelaziz Kerrache

Federated learning (FL) aims to train models collaboratively across clients without sharing data for privacy-preserving. However, one major challenge is the data heterogeneity issue, which refers to the biased labeling preferences at…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Huan Wang , Haoran Li , Huaming Chen , Jun Yan , Jiahua Shi , Jun Shen

Federated learning (FL) enables multiple clients to collaboratively train deep learning models while considering sensitive local datasets' privacy. However, adversaries can manipulate datasets and upload models by injecting triggers for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Zekai Chen , Fuyi Wang , Zhiwei Zheng , Ximeng Liu , Yujie Lin

Federated learning (FL), as a type of distributed machine learning frameworks, is vulnerable to external attacks on FL models during parameters transmissions. An attacker in FL may control a number of participant clients, and purposely…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-29 Kang Wei , Jun Li , Ming Ding , Chuan Ma , Yo-Seb Jeon , H. Vincent Poor

The computing device deployment explosion experienced in recent years, motivated by the advances of technologies such as Internet-of-Things (IoT) and 5G, has led to a global scenario with increasing cybersecurity risks and threats. Among…

Data heterogeneity across clients is one of the key challenges in Federated Learning (FL), which may slow down the global model convergence and even weaken global model performance. Most existing approaches tackle the heterogeneity by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Jun Nie , Danyang Xiao , Lei Yang , Weigang Wu

In Federated Learning (FL), clients independently train local models and share them with a central aggregator to build a global model. Impermissibility to access clients' data and collaborative training make FL appealing for applications…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-02-26 Waris Gill , Ali Anwar , Muhammad Ali Gulzar

Federated learning (FL) addresses privacy and data-silo issues in the training of large language models (LLMs). Most prior work focuses on improving the efficiency of federated learning for LLMs (FedLLM). However, security in open federated…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Mingxiang Tao , Yu Tian , Wenxuan Tu , Yue Yang , Xue Yang , Xiangyan Tang

Federated Ranking Learning (FRL) is a state-of-the-art FL framework that stands out for its communication efficiency and resilience to poisoning attacks. It diverges from the traditional FL framework in two ways: 1) it leverages discrete…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-23 Zirui Gong , Yanjun Zhang , Leo Yu Zhang , Zhaoxi Zhang , Yong Xiang , Shirui Pan

Despite the promise of Federated Learning (FL) for privacy-preserving model training on distributed data, it remains susceptible to backdoor attacks. These attacks manipulate models by embedding triggers (specific input patterns) in the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Tuan Nguyen , Dung Thuy Nguyen , Khoa D Doan , Kok-Seng Wong

Underground mining operations rely on distributed sensor networks to collect critical data daily, including mine temperature, toxic gas concentrations, and miner movements for hazard detection and operational decision-making. However,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Md Sazedur Rahman , Mohamed Elmahallawy , Sanjay Madria , Samuel Frimpong

In the evolving landscape of Federated Learning (FL), the challenge of ensuring data integrity against poisoning attacks is paramount, particularly for applications demanding stringent privacy preservation. Traditional anomaly detection…

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