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Main Authors: Assumpcao, Nicolas Riccieri Gardin, Villas, Leandro
Format: Preprint
Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.02797
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author Assumpcao, Nicolas Riccieri Gardin
Villas, Leandro
author_facet Assumpcao, Nicolas Riccieri Gardin
Villas, Leandro
contents Federated Learning (FL) is a distributed training paradigm wherein participants collaborate to build a global model while ensuring the privacy of the involved data, which remains stored on participant devices. However, proposals aiming to ensure such privacy also make it challenging to protect against potential attackers seeking to compromise the training outcome. In this context, we present Fast, Private, and Protected (FPP), a novel approach that aims to safeguard federated training while enabling secure aggregation to preserve data privacy. This is accomplished by evaluating rounds using participants' assessments and enabling training recovery after an attack. FPP also employs a reputation-based mechanism to mitigate the participation of attackers. We created a dockerized environment to validate the performance of FPP compared to other approaches in the literature (FedAvg, Power-of-Choice, and aggregation via Trimmed Mean and Median). Our experiments demonstrate that FPP achieves a rapid convergence rate and can converge even in the presence of malicious participants performing model poisoning attacks.
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spellingShingle Fast, Private, and Protected: Safeguarding Data Privacy and Defending Against Model Poisoning Attacks in Federated Learning
Assumpcao, Nicolas Riccieri Gardin
Villas, Leandro
Machine Learning
Federated Learning (FL) is a distributed training paradigm wherein participants collaborate to build a global model while ensuring the privacy of the involved data, which remains stored on participant devices. However, proposals aiming to ensure such privacy also make it challenging to protect against potential attackers seeking to compromise the training outcome. In this context, we present Fast, Private, and Protected (FPP), a novel approach that aims to safeguard federated training while enabling secure aggregation to preserve data privacy. This is accomplished by evaluating rounds using participants' assessments and enabling training recovery after an attack. FPP also employs a reputation-based mechanism to mitigate the participation of attackers. We created a dockerized environment to validate the performance of FPP compared to other approaches in the literature (FedAvg, Power-of-Choice, and aggregation via Trimmed Mean and Median). Our experiments demonstrate that FPP achieves a rapid convergence rate and can converge even in the presence of malicious participants performing model poisoning attacks.
title Fast, Private, and Protected: Safeguarding Data Privacy and Defending Against Model Poisoning Attacks in Federated Learning
topic Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.02797