Federated Learning-Enhanced Blockchain Framework for Privacy-Preserving Intrusion Detection in Industrial IoT

Industrial Internet of Things IIoT systems have become integral to smart manufacturing, yet their growing connectivity has also exposed them to significant cybersecurity threats. Traditional intrusion detection systems IDS often rely on centralized architectures that raise concerns over data...

SVAFD: a Secure and Verifiable Co-Aggregation Protocol for Federated Distillation

Secure Aggregation SA is an indispensable component of Federated Learning FL that concentrates on privacy preservation while allowing for robust aggregation. However, most SA designs rely heavily on the unrealistic assumption of homogeneous model architectures. Federated Distillation FD, which...

Efficient Privacy-Preserving Cross-Silo Federated Learning with Multi-Key Homomorphic Encryption

Federated Learning FL is susceptible to privacy attacks, such as data reconstruction attacks, in which a semi-honest server or a malicious client infers information about other clients' datasets from their model updates or gradients. To enhance the privacy of FL, recent studies combined Multi-Key...

Traceable Black-Box Watermarks for Federated Learning

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FLTG: Byzantine-Robust Federated Learning Via Angle-Based Defense and Non-IID-Aware Weighting

Byzantine attacks during model aggregation in Federated Learning FL threaten training integrity by manipulating malicious clients' updates. Existing methods struggle with limited robustness under high malicious client ratios and sensitivity to non-i.i.d. data, leading to degraded accuracy. To...

Cross-Cloud Data Privacy Protection: Optimizing Collaborative Mechanisms of AI Systems by Integrating Federated Learning and LLMs

In the age of cloud computing, data privacy protection has become a major challenge, especially when sharing sensitive data across cloud environments. However, how to optimize collaboration across cloud environments remains an unresolved problem. In this paper, we combine federated learning with...

FL-PLAS: Federated Learning with Partial Layer Aggregation for Backdoor Defense against High-Ratio Malicious Clients

Federated learning FL is gaining increasing attention as an emerging collaborative machine learning approach, particularly in the context of large-scale computing and data systems. However, the fundamental algorithm of FL, Federated Averaging FedAvg, is susceptible to backdoor attacks. Although...

Nosy Layers, Noisy Fixes: Tackling DRAs in Federated Learning Systems Using Explainable AI

Federated Learning FL has emerged as a powerful paradigm for collaborative model training while keeping client data decentralized and private. However, it is vulnerable to Data Reconstruction Attacks DRA such as "LoKI" and "Robbing the Fed", where malicious models sent from the server to the clie...

Verifiably Forgotten? Gradient Differences Still Enable Data Reconstruction in Federated Unlearning

Federated Unlearning FU has emerged as a critical compliance mechanism for data privacy regulations, requiring unlearned clients to provide verifiable Proof of Federated Unlearning PoFU to auditors upon data removal requests. However, we uncover a significant privacy vulnerability: when gradient...

Sybil-Based Virtual Data Poisoning Attacks in Federated Learning

Federated learning is vulnerable to poisoning attacks by malicious adversaries. Existing methods often involve high costs to achieve effective attacks. To address this challenge, we propose a sybil-based virtual data poisoning attack, where a malicious client generates sybil nodes to amplify the...

A Survey of Learning-Based Intrusion Detection Systems for In-Vehicle Network

Connected and Autonomous Vehicles CAVs enhance mobility but face cybersecurity threats, particularly through the insecure Controller Area Network CAN bus. Cyberattacks can have devastating consequences in connected vehicles, including the loss of control over critical systems, necessitating robus...

Cutting through Privacy: a Hyperplane-Based Data Reconstruction Attack in Federated Learning

Federated Learning FL enables collaborative training of machine learning models across distributed clients without sharing raw data, ostensibly preserving data privacy. Nevertheless, recent studies have revealed critical vulnerabilities in FL, showing that a malicious central server can manipulat...

Random Client Selection on Contrastive Federated Learning for Tabular Data

Vertical Federated Learning VFL has revolutionised collaborative machine learning by enabling privacy-preserving model training across multiple parties. However, it remains vulnerable to information leakage during intermediate computation sharing. While Contrastive Federated Learning CFL was...

Robust Federated Learning with Confidence-Weighted Filtering and GAN-Based Completion under Noisy and Incomplete Data

Federated learning FL presents an effective solution for collaborative model training while maintaining data privacy across decentralized client datasets. However, data quality issues such as noisy labels, missing classes, and imbalanced distributions significantly challenge its effectiveness. Th...

Privacy-Preserving Analytics for Smart Meter (AMI) Data: a Hybrid Approach to Comply with CPUC Privacy Regulations

Advanced Metering Infrastructure AMI data from smart electric and gas meters enables valuable insights for utilities and consumers, but also raises significant privacy concerns. In California, regulatory decisions CPUC D.11-07-056 and D.11-08-045 mandate strict privacy protections for customer...

Federated Large Language Models: Feasibility, Robustness, Security and Future Directions

The integration of Large Language Models LLMs and Federated Learning FL presents a promising solution for joint training on distributed data while preserving privacy and addressing data silo issues. However, this emerging field, known as Federated Large Language Models FLLM, faces significant...

Securing Genomic Data against Inference Attacks in Federated Learning Environments

Federated Learning FL offers a promising framework for collaboratively training machine learning models across decentralized genomic datasets without direct data sharing. While this approach preserves data locality, it remains susceptible to sophisticated inference attacks that can compromise...

Standing Firm in 5G: a Single-Round, Dropout-Resilient Secure Aggregation for Federated Learning

Federated learning FL is well-suited to 5G networks, where many mobile devices generate sensitive edge data. Secure aggregation protocols enhance privacy in FL by ensuring that individual user updates reveal no information about the underlying client data. However, the dynamic and large-scale...

Privacy-Aware Berrut Approximated Coded Computing Applied to General Distributed Learning

Coded computing is one of the techniques that can be used for privacy protection in Federated Learning. However, most of the constructions used for coded computing work only under the assumption that the computations involved are exact, generally restricted to special classes of functions, and...

A Contrastive Federated Semi-Supervised Learning Intrusion Detection Framework for Internet of Robotic Things

In intelligent industry, autonomous driving and other environments, the Internet of Things IoT highly integrated with robotic to form the Internet of Robotic Things IoRT. However, network intrusion to IoRT can lead to data leakage, service interruption in IoRT and even physical damage by...