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Hammer and Anvil: Toward a Theory of Backdoors in Federated Learning

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Main Authors:	Fenaux, Lucas, Wang, Zheng, Yan, Jacob, Chung, Nathan, Kerschbaum, Florian
Format:	Preprint
Published:	2025
Subjects:	Machine Learning Cryptography and Security 68T99
Online Access:	Acceder al recurso
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