2 papers
cs.CR2026
FedSurrogate: Backdoor Defense in Federated Learning via Layer Criticality and Surrogate Replacement
Fatima Z. Abacha, Sin G. Teo, Yuanxiang Wu +2
Federated Learning remains highly susceptible to backdoor attacks--malicious clients inject targeted behaviours into the global model. Existing defenses suffer from substantial fal…
cs.LG2024
Synthetic Data Aided Federated Learning Using Foundation Models
Fatima Abacha, Sin G. Teo, Lucas C. Cordeiro +1
In heterogeneous scenarios where the data distribution amongst the Federated Learning (FL) participants is Non-Independent and Identically distributed (Non-IID), FL suffers from th…