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most citedLocal Model Poisoning Attacks to Byzantine-Robust Federated Learning

174 citations · 393 across the 18 of their papers we have counts for

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18 papers

cs.CR2023★ 5 cited

Pool Inference Attacks on Local Differential Privacy: Quantifying the Privacy Guarantees of Apple's Count Mean Sketch in Practice

Andrea Gadotti, Florimond Houssiau, Meenatchi Sundaram Muthu Selva Annamalai +1

Behavioral data generated by users' devices, ranging from emoji use to pages visited, are collected at scale to improve apps and services. These data, however, contain fine-grained…

cs.CR2022★ 1 cited

FedRecover: Recovering from Poisoning Attacks in Federated Learning using Historical Information

Xiaoyu Cao, Jinyuan Jia, Zaixi Zhang +1

Federated learning is vulnerable to poisoning attacks in which malicious clients poison the global model via sending malicious model updates to the server. Existing defenses focus…

cs.CR2022★ 1 cited

FLCert: Provably Secure Federated Learning against Poisoning Attacks

Xiaoyu Cao, Zaixi Zhang, Jinyuan Jia +1

Due to its distributed nature, federated learning is vulnerable to poisoning attacks, in which malicious clients poison the training process via manipulating their local training d…

cs.CR2022★ 10 cited

FLDetector: Defending Federated Learning Against Model Poisoning Attacks via Detecting Malicious Clients

Zaixi Zhang, Xiaoyu Cao, Jinyuan Jia +1

Federated learning (FL) is vulnerable to model poisoning attacks, in which malicious clients corrupt the global model via sending manipulated model updates to the server. Existing…

cs.CR2022★ 2 cited

MPAF: Model Poisoning Attacks to Federated Learning based on Fake Clients

Xiaoyu Cao, Neil Zhenqiang Gong

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 realis…

cs.CR2021★ 6 cited

Provably Secure Federated Learning against Malicious Clients

Xiaoyu Cao, Jinyuan Jia, Neil Zhenqiang Gong

Federated learning enables clients to collaboratively learn a shared global model without sharing their local training data with a cloud server. However, malicious clients can corr…

cs.CR2020★ 35 cited

FLTrust: Byzantine-robust Federated Learning via Trust Bootstrapping

Xiaoyu Cao, Minghong Fang, Jia Liu +1

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 Byz…

cs.CR2020★ 5 cited

Almost Tight L0-norm Certified Robustness of Top-k Predictions against Adversarial Perturbations

Jinyuan Jia, Binghui Wang, Xiaoyu Cao +2

Top-k predictions are used in many real-world applications such as machine learning as a service, recommender systems, and web searches. -norm adversarial perturbation char…

cs.CR2020★ 4 cited

Certified Robustness of Graph Neural Networks against Adversarial Structural Perturbation

Binghui Wang, Jinyuan Jia, Xiaoyu Cao +1

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have recently gained much attention for node and graph classification tasks on graph-structured data. However, multiple recent works showed that an att…

cs.CR2020★ 15 cited

Intrinsic Certified Robustness of Bagging against Data Poisoning Attacks

Jinyuan Jia, Xiaoyu Cao, Neil Zhenqiang Gong

In a \emph{data poisoning attack}, an attacker modifies, deletes, and/or inserts some training examples to corrupt the learnt machine learning model. \emph{Bootstrap Aggregating (b…

cs.CR2020★ 59 cited

On Certifying Robustness against Backdoor Attacks via Randomized Smoothing

Binghui Wang, Xiaoyu Cao, Jinyuan jia +1

Backdoor attack is a severe security threat to deep neural networks (DNNs). We envision that, like adversarial examples, there will be a cat-and-mouse game for backdoor attacks, i.…

cs.CR2020★ 7 cited

Certified Robustness of Community Detection against Adversarial Structural Perturbation via Randomized Smoothing

Jinyuan Jia, Binghui Wang, Xiaoyu Cao +1

Community detection plays a key role in understanding graph structure. However, several recent studies showed that community detection is vulnerable to adversarial structural pertu…

cs.LG2019★ 34 cited

Certified Robustness for Top-k Predictions against Adversarial Perturbations via Randomized Smoothing

Jinyuan Jia, Xiaoyu Cao, Binghui Wang +1

It is well-known that classifiers are vulnerable to adversarial perturbations. To defend against adversarial perturbations, various certified robustness results have been derived.…

cs.CR2019★ 174 cited

Local Model Poisoning Attacks to Byzantine-Robust Federated Learning

Minghong Fang, Xiaoyu Cao, Jinyuan Jia +1

In federated learning, multiple client devices jointly learn a machine learning model: each client device maintains a local model for its local training dataset, while a master dev…

cs.CR2019★ 6 cited

Data Poisoning Attacks to Local Differential Privacy Protocols

Xiaoyu Cao, Jinyuan Jia, Neil Zhenqiang Gong

Local Differential Privacy (LDP) protocols enable an untrusted data collector to perform privacy-preserving data analytics. In particular, each user locally perturbs its data to pr…

cs.CR2019★ 19 cited

IPGuard: Protecting Intellectual Property of Deep Neural Networks via Fingerprinting the Classification Boundary

Xiaoyu Cao, Jinyuan Jia, Neil Zhenqiang Gong

A deep neural network (DNN) classifier represents a model owner's intellectual property as training a DNN classifier often requires lots of resource. Watermarking was recently prop…

cs.CR2017★ 7 cited

Mitigating Evasion Attacks to Deep Neural Networks via Region-based Classification

Xiaoyu Cao, Neil Zhenqiang Gong

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have transformed several artificial intelligence research areas including computer vision, speech recognition, and natural language processing. However,…

cs.CR2017★ 3 cited

PIANO: Proximity-based User Authentication on Voice-Powered Internet-of-Things Devices

Neil Zhenqiang Gong, Altay Ozen, Yu Wu +5

Voice is envisioned to be a popular way for humans to interact with Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices. We propose a proximity-based user authentication method (called PIANO) for acc…