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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

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

Text-to-image (T2I) diffusion models are widely adopted for their strong generative capabilities, yet remain vulnerable to backdoor attacks. Existing attacks typically rely on fixed textual triggers and single-entity backdoor targets,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Tianxin Chen , Wenbo Jiang , Hongqiao Chen , Zhirun Zheng , Cheng Huang

Backdoor attacks have severely threatened deep neural network (DNN) models in the past several years. These attacks can occur in almost every stage of the deep learning pipeline. Although the attacked model behaves normally on benign…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Yangming Chen

Backdoor attacks pose a severe threat to deep neural networks (DNNs) by implanting hidden backdoors that can be activated with predefined triggers to manipulate model behaviors maliciously. Recent studies have extended backdoor attacks to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Yu Feng , Dingxin Zhang , Runkai Zhao , Yong Xia , Heng Huang , Weidong Cai

Federated Learning (FL) is a distributed machine learning diagram that enables multiple clients to collaboratively train a global model without sharing their private local data. However, FL systems are vulnerable to attacks that are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Qilei Li , Ahmed M. Abdelmoniem

As a distributed collaborative machine learning paradigm, vertical federated learning (VFL) allows multiple passive parties with distinct features and one active party with labels to collaboratively train a model. Although it is known for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Yige Liu , Yiwei Lou , Che Wang , Yongzhi Cao , Hanpin Wang

Federated Learning (FL) offers collaborative model training without data sharing but is vulnerable to backdoor attacks, where poisoned model weights lead to compromised system integrity. Existing countermeasures, primarily based on anomaly…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-12-11 Hao Yu , Chuan Ma , Meng Liu , Tianyu Du , Ming Ding , Tao Xiang , Shouling Ji , Xinwang Liu

Federated learning (FL), as a powerful learning paradigm, trains a shared model by aggregating model updates from distributed clients. However, the decoupling of model learning from local data makes FL highly vulnerable to backdoor attacks,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Xiyue Zhang , Xiaoyong Xue , Xiaoning Du , Xiaofei Xie , Yang Liu , Meng Sun

Federated learning (FL) is a privacy-preserving machine learning technique that facilitates collaboration among participants across demographics. FL enables model sharing, while restricting the movement of data. Since FL provides…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Harsh Kasyap , Minghong Fang , Zhuqing Liu , Carsten Maple , Somanath Tripathy

Federated learning (FL) is a decentralized machine learning technique that allows multiple entities to jointly train a model while preserving dataset privacy. However, its distributed nature has raised various security concerns, which have…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-01-06 Nuno Neves

Federated Learning (FL) paradigms enable large numbers of clients to collaboratively train Machine Learning models on private data. However, due to their multi-party nature, traditional FL schemes are left vulnerable to Byzantine attacks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Atharv Deshmukh

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

The distributed nature of training makes Federated Learning (FL) vulnerable to backdoor attacks, where malicious model updates aim to compromise the global model's performance on specific tasks. Existing defense methods show limited…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Jiahao Xu , Zikai Zhang , Rui Hu

\textit{Federated learning} (FL) is a nascent distributed learning paradigm to train a shared global model without violating users' privacy. FL has been shown to be vulnerable to various Byzantine attacks, where malicious participants could…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Wei Wan , Shengshan Hu , Minghui Li , Jianrong Lu , Longling Zhang , Leo Yu Zhang , Hai Jin

Federated learning distributes model training among a multitude of agents, who, guided by privacy concerns, perform training using their local data but share only model parameter updates, for iterative aggregation at the server. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-26 Arjun Nitin Bhagoji , Supriyo Chakraborty , Prateek Mittal , Seraphin Calo

Current adversarial attack research reveals the vulnerability of learning-based classifiers against carefully crafted perturbations. However, most existing attack methods have inherent limitations in cross-dataset generalization as they…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-25 Cheng Luo , Qinliang Lin , Weicheng Xie , Bizhu Wu , Jinheng Xie , Linlin Shen

The main premise of federated learning (FL) is that machine learning model updates are computed locally to preserve user data privacy. This approach avoids by design user data to ever leave the perimeter of their device. Once the updates…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-15 Simon Queyrut , Valerio Schiavoni , Pascal Felber

Semantic communication can significantly improve bandwidth utilization in wireless systems by exploiting the meaning behind raw data. However, the advancements achieved through semantic communication are closely dependent on the development…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Loc X. Nguyen , Ji Su Yoon , Huy Q. Le , Yu Qiao , Avi Deb Raha , Eui-Nam Huh , Walid Saad , Dusit Niyato , Zhu Han , Choong Seon Hong

Federated Learning (FL) enables distributed machine learning training while preserving privacy, representing a paradigm shift for data-sensitive and decentralized environments. Despite its rapid advancements, FL remains a complex and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Frederico Vicente , Cláudia Soares , Dušan Jakovetić