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Semi-supervised Federated Learning (SSFL) has recently drawn much attention due to its practical consideration, i.e., the clients may only have unlabeled data. In practice, these SSFL systems implement semi-supervised training by assigning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Yi Liu , Xingliang Yuan , Ruihui Zhao , Cong Wang , Dusit Niyato , Yefeng Zheng

As we transition from Narrow Artificial Intelligence towards Artificial Super Intelligence, users are increasingly concerned about their privacy and the trustworthiness of machine learning (ML) technology. A common denominator for the…

In federated learning (FL), profiling and verifying each client is inherently difficult, which introduces a significant security vulnerability: malicious clients, commonly referred to as Byzantines, can degrade the accuracy of the global…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Emre Ozfatura , Kerem Ozfatura , Baturalp Buyukates , Mert Coskuner , Alptekin Kupcu , Deniz Gunduz

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

Decentralized Federated Learning (DFL) emerges as an innovative paradigm to train collaborative models, addressing the single point of failure limitation. However, the security and trustworthiness of FL and DFL are compromised by poisoning…

Federated learning (FL) combined with local differential privacy (LDP) enables privacy-preserving model training across decentralized data sources. However, the decentralized data-management paradigm leaves LDPFL vulnerable to participants…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Zijian Wang , Wei Tong , Tingxuan Han , Haoyu Chen , Tianling Zhang , Yunlong Mao , Sheng Zhong

Federated Learning (FL) is an innovative approach to distributed machine learning. While FL offers significant privacy advantages, it also faces security challenges, particularly from poisoning attacks where adversaries deliberately…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-23 Borja Molina-Coronado

Federated Learning (FL) is a promising approach enabling multiple clients to train Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) collaboratively without sharing their local training data. However, FL is susceptible to backdoor (or targeted poisoning)…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-08-23 Phillip Rieger , Torsten Krauß , Markus Miettinen , Alexandra Dmitrienko , Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi

Federated learning (FL) allows multiple clients to collaboratively train a global machine learning model with coordination from a central server, without needing to share their raw data. This approach is particularly appealing in the era of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Wenjin Mo , Zhiyuan Li , Minghong Fang , Mingwei Fang

Federated learning (FL) is a promising technique for learning-based functions in wireless networks, thanks to its distributed implementation capability. On the other hand, distributed learning may increase the risk of exposure to malicious…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-28 Han Zhang , Hao Zhou , Medhat Elsayed , Majid Bavand , Raimundas Gaigalas , Yigit Ozcan , Melike Erol-Kantarci

Most machine learning applications rely on centralized learning processes, opening up the risk of exposure of their training datasets. While federated learning (FL) mitigates to some extent these privacy risks, it relies on a trusted…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-18 Georgios Syros , Gokberk Yar , Simona Boboila , Cristina Nita-Rotaru , Alina Oprea

Federated Learning (FL) enables multiple parties to train machine learning models collaboratively without sharing the raw training data. However, the federated nature of FL enables malicious clients to influence a trained model by injecting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Sheldon C. Ebron , Meiying Zhang , Kan Yang

Federated learning (FL) is vulnerable to backdoor attacks, where adversaries alter model behavior on target classification labels by embedding triggers into data samples. While these attacks have received considerable attention in…

The decentralized nature of federated learning, that often leverages the power of edge devices, makes it vulnerable to attacks against privacy and security. The privacy risk for a peer is that the model update she computes on her private…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-08-05 Josep Domingo-Ferrer , Alberto Blanco-Justicia , Jesús Manjón , David Sánchez

Federated learning is used to train a shared model in a decentralized way without clients sharing private data with each other. Federated learning systems are susceptible to poisoning attacks when malicious clients send false updates to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Sungwon Han , Sungwon Park , Fangzhao Wu , Sundong Kim , Bin Zhu , Xing Xie , Meeyoung Cha

In federated learning (FL), although the original intention of available but not visible data is to allay data privacy concerns, it potentially brings new security threats, particularly poisoning attacks that target such not visible local…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Wei Sun , Bo Gao , Ke Xiong , Yuwei Wang , Pingyi Fan , Khaled Ben Letaief

Federated learning (FL) is vulnerable to poisoning attacks, where adversaries corrupt the global aggregation results and cause denial-of-service (DoS). Unlike recent model poisoning attacks that optimize the amplitude of malicious…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Hangtao Zhang , Zeming Yao , Leo Yu Zhang , Shengshan Hu , Chao Chen , Alan Liew , Zhetao Li

Federated learning, as a distributed learning that conducts the training on the local devices without accessing to the training data, is vulnerable to Byzatine poisoning adversarial attacks. We argue that the federated learning model has to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Nuria Rodríguez-Barroso , Eugenio Martínez-Cámara , M. Victoria Luzón , Francisco Herrera

Despite achieving good performance and wide adoption, machine learning based security detection models (e.g., malware classifiers) are subject to concept drift and evasive evolution of attackers, which renders up-to-date threat data as a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Yu Bi , Yekai Li , Xuan Feng , Xianghang Mi

State-of-the-art machine learning models are vulnerable to data poisoning attacks whose purpose is to undermine the integrity of the model. However, the current literature on data poisoning attacks is mainly focused on ad hoc techniques…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-12 Pooya Tavallali , Vahid Behzadan , Peyman Tavallali , Mukesh Singhal