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FedSurrogate: Backdoor Defense in Federated Learning via Layer Criticality and Surrogate Replacement

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Main Authors:	Abacha, Fatima Z., Teo, Sin G., Wu, Yuanxiang, Cordeiro, Lucas C., Mustafa, Mustafa A.
Format:	Preprint
Published:	2026
Subjects:	Cryptography and Security Machine Learning
Online Access:	Acceder al recurso
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