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Sep 2025
Poison to Detect: Detection of Targeted Overfitting in Federated Learning
An underexplored threat in which a dishonest orchestrator intentionally manipulates the aggregation process to induce targeted overfitting in local models of specific clients is studied, demonstrating that client-side integrity testing can provide early, effective, and scalable detection, supporting safer deployment of FL systems.
Soumia Zohra El Mestari, M. Zuziak, Gabriele Lenzini
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