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most citedAGRAMPLIFIER: Defending Federated Learning Against Poisoning Attacks Through Local Update Amplification

28 citations · 28 across the 5 of their papers we have counts for

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cs.LG2026

ARES: Scalable and Practical Gradient Inversion Attack in Federated Learning through Activation Recovery

Zirui Gong, Leo Yu Zhang, Yanjun Zhang +4

Federated Learning (FL) enables collaborative model training by sharing model updates instead of raw data, aiming to protect user privacy. However, recent studies reveal that these…

cs.LG2026

Beyond Denial-of-Service: The Puppeteer's Attack for Fine-Grained Control in Ranking-Based Federated Learning

Zhihao Chen, Zirui Gong, Jianting Ning +2

Federated Rank Learning (FRL) is a promising Federated Learning (FL) paradigm designed to be resilient against model poisoning attacks due to its discrete, ranking-based update mec…

cs.CR2025

ConSeg: Contextual Backdoor Attack Against Semantic Segmentation

Bilal Hussain Abbasi, Zirui Gong, Yanjun Zhang +3

Despite significant advancements in computer vision, semantic segmentation models may be susceptible to backdoor attacks. These attacks, involving hidden triggers, aim to cause the…

cs.LG2025

Not All Edges are Equally Robust: Evaluating the Robustness of Ranking-Based Federated Learning

Zirui Gong, Yanjun Zhang, Leo Yu Zhang +3

Federated Ranking Learning (FRL) is a state-of-the-art FL framework that stands out for its communication efficiency and resilience to poisoning attacks. It diverges from the tradi…

cs.CR2023★ 28 cited

AGRAMPLIFIER: Defending Federated Learning Against Poisoning Attacks Through Local Update Amplification

Zirui Gong, Liyue Shen, Yanjun Zhang +4

The collaborative nature of federated learning (FL) poses a major threat in the form of manipulation of local training data and local updates, known as the Byzantine poisoning atta…