Byzantine machine learning: A primer

R Guerraoui, N Gupta, R Pinot - ACM Computing Surveys, 2024 - dl.acm.org
The problem of Byzantine resilience in distributed machine learning, aka Byzantine machine
learning, consists of designing distributed algorithms that can train an accurate model …

Challenges and approaches for mitigating byzantine attacks in federated learning

J Shi, W Wan, S Hu, J Lu… - 2022 IEEE International …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recently emerged federated learning (FL) is an attractive distributed learning framework in
which numerous wireless end-user devices can train a global model with the data remained …

Fltrust: Byzantine-robust federated learning via trust bootstrapping

X Cao, M Fang, J Liu, NZ Gong - arXiv preprint arXiv:2012.13995, 2020 - arxiv.org
Byzantine-robust federated learning aims to enable a service provider to learn an accurate
global model when a bounded number of clients are malicious. The key idea of existing …

Attack of the tails: Yes, you really can backdoor federated learning

H Wang, K Sreenivasan, S Rajput… - Advances in …, 2020 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Due to its decentralized nature, Federated Learning (FL) lends itself to adversarial attacks in
the form of backdoors during training. The goal of a backdoor is to corrupt the performance …

Advances and open problems in federated learning

P Kairouz, HB McMahan, B Avent… - … and trends® in …, 2021 - nowpublishers.com
Federated learning (FL) is a machine learning setting where many clients (eg, mobile
devices or whole organizations) collaboratively train a model under the orchestration of a …

The limitations of federated learning in sybil settings

C Fung, CJM Yoon, I Beschastnikh - 23rd International Symposium on …, 2020 - usenix.org
Federated learning over distributed multi-party data is an emerging paradigm that iteratively
aggregates updates from a group of devices to train a globally shared model. Relying on a …

Biscotti: A blockchain system for private and secure federated learning

M Shayan, C Fung, CJM Yoon… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Federated Learning is the current state-of-the-art in supporting secure multi-party machine
learning (ML): data is maintained on the owner's device and the updates to the model are …

Multi-armed bandit-based client scheduling for federated learning

W Xia, TQS Quek, K Guo, W Wen… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
By exploiting the computing power and local data of distributed clients, federated learning
(FL) features ubiquitous properties such as reduction of communication overhead and …

Mpaf: Model poisoning attacks to federated learning based on fake clients

X Cao, NZ Gong - … of the IEEE/CVF Conference on …, 2022 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Existing model poisoning attacks to federated learning assume that an attacker has access
to a large fraction of compromised genuine clients. However, such assumption is not realistic …

Sageflow: Robust federated learning against both stragglers and adversaries

J Park, DJ Han, M Choi, J Moon - Advances in neural …, 2021 - proceedings.neurips.cc
While federated learning (FL) allows efficient model training with local data at edge devices,
among major issues still to be resolved are: slow devices known as stragglers and malicious …