GuardFed: A Trustworthy Federated Learning Framework Against Dual-Facet Attacks
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| author | Li, Yanli Zhou, Yanan Guo, Zhongliang Yang, Nan Zhang, Yuning Chen, Huaming Yuan, Dong Ding, Weiping Pedrycz, Witold |
| author_facet | Li, Yanli Zhou, Yanan Guo, Zhongliang Yang, Nan Zhang, Yuning Chen, Huaming Yuan, Dong Ding, Weiping Pedrycz, Witold |
| contents | Federated learning (FL) enables privacy-preserving collaborative model training but remains vulnerable to adversarial behaviors that compromise model utility or fairness across sensitive groups. While extensive studies have examined attacks targeting either objective, strategies that simultaneously degrade both utility and fairness remain largely unexplored. To bridge this gap, we introduce the Dual-Facet Attack (DFA), a novel threat model that concurrently undermines predictive accuracy and group fairness. Two variants, Synchronous DFA (S-DFA) and Split DFA (Sp-DFA), are further proposed to capture distinct real-world collusion scenarios. Experimental results show that existing robust FL defenses, including hybrid aggregation schemes, fail to resist DFAs effectively. To counter these threats, we propose GuardFed, a self-adaptive defense framework that maintains a fairness-aware reference model using a small amount of clean server data augmented with synthetic samples. In each training round, GuardFed computes a dual-perspective trust score for every client by jointly evaluating its utility deviation and fairness degradation, thereby enabling selective aggregation of trustworthy updates. Extensive experiments on real-world datasets demonstrate that GuardFed consistently preserves both accuracy and fairness under diverse non-IID and adversarial conditions, achieving state-of-the-art performance compared with existing robust FL methods. |
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| spellingShingle | GuardFed: A Trustworthy Federated Learning Framework Against Dual-Facet Attacks Li, Yanli Zhou, Yanan Guo, Zhongliang Yang, Nan Zhang, Yuning Chen, Huaming Yuan, Dong Ding, Weiping Pedrycz, Witold Machine Learning Artificial Intelligence Federated learning (FL) enables privacy-preserving collaborative model training but remains vulnerable to adversarial behaviors that compromise model utility or fairness across sensitive groups. While extensive studies have examined attacks targeting either objective, strategies that simultaneously degrade both utility and fairness remain largely unexplored. To bridge this gap, we introduce the Dual-Facet Attack (DFA), a novel threat model that concurrently undermines predictive accuracy and group fairness. Two variants, Synchronous DFA (S-DFA) and Split DFA (Sp-DFA), are further proposed to capture distinct real-world collusion scenarios. Experimental results show that existing robust FL defenses, including hybrid aggregation schemes, fail to resist DFAs effectively. To counter these threats, we propose GuardFed, a self-adaptive defense framework that maintains a fairness-aware reference model using a small amount of clean server data augmented with synthetic samples. In each training round, GuardFed computes a dual-perspective trust score for every client by jointly evaluating its utility deviation and fairness degradation, thereby enabling selective aggregation of trustworthy updates. Extensive experiments on real-world datasets demonstrate that GuardFed consistently preserves both accuracy and fairness under diverse non-IID and adversarial conditions, achieving state-of-the-art performance compared with existing robust FL methods. |
| title | GuardFed: A Trustworthy Federated Learning Framework Against Dual-Facet Attacks |
| topic | Machine Learning Artificial Intelligence |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.09294 |