AAAI 2026

January 23, 2026

Singapore, Singapore

Would you like to see your presentation here, made available to a global audience of researchers?
Add your own presentation or have us affordably record your next conference.

Federated learning (FL) allows for collaborative model training while preserving data privacy, but its distributed nature makes it vulnerable to poisoning attacks. Existing defense methods typically rely on using gradients from multiple clients to define a trusted region, selecting only the trustworthy update (good gradients) within this region for aggregation. Mainstream defense boundaries are categorized as hard boundaries, soft boundaries, and semi-soft boundaries. However, we argue that even good gradients within these boundaries can still be exploited by attackers to poison the model. To tackle this challenge, we introduce a boundary-adaptive attack method that leverages the directional properties of optimization techniques to derive baseline poisoned gradients. Through iterative perturbation, it generates seemingly innocent gradients that subtly deviate from the global model. Our extensive study on 3 benchmark datasets and 13 mainstream defensive mechanisms confirms that the proposed attack raises a significantly severe threat to the integrity and security of federated learning practices, regardless of the flourishing of robust Federated Learning methods.

Downloads

SlidesPaperTranscript English (automatic)

Next from AAAI 2026

Decomposing Direct and Indirect Biases in Linear Models Under Demographic Parity Constraint (Student Abstract)
technical paper

Decomposing Direct and Indirect Biases in Linear Models Under Demographic Parity Constraint (Student Abstract)

AAAI 2026

Arthur Charpentier
Arthur Charpentier and 2 other authors

23 January 2026

Stay up to date with the latest Underline news!

Select topic of interest (you can select more than one)

PRESENTATIONS

  • All Presentations
  • For Librarians
  • Resource Center
  • Free Trial
Underline Science, Inc.
1216 Broadway, 2nd Floor, New York, NY 10001, USA

© 2025 Underline - All rights reserved