BadSFL: backdoor attack in scaffold federated learning

• Main Author: Zhang, Xuanye
• Other Authors: Zhang Tianwei
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: Nanyang Technological University 2024
• Subjects: Computer and Information Science; Backdoor attack; Federated learning; Scaffold
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/174843
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Federated learning (FL) enables the training of deep learning models on distributed clients aiming at the preservation of data privacy. However, malicious clients can potentially embed a backdoor functionality into the global model by uploading poisoned local models that cause target misclassificati...