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New attacks target federated GANs with label flipping and oversampling

Researchers have detailed new adversarial attacks targeting federated learning setups for Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs). These attacks involve malicious clients manipulating data by flipping labels or oversampling poisoned samples during local training. The objective is to skew the global generator's output, causing it to map target labels to incorrect classes. The study quantifies the impact using Kullback-Leibler divergence, showing that while semantic damage increases linearly with poisoning strength, deviations from the true distribution grow quadratically, making detection challenging. AI

IMPACT Highlights vulnerabilities in federated learning for GANs, potentially impacting secure model training and data privacy.

RANK_REASON Academic paper detailing novel adversarial attacks on federated learning models.

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New attacks target federated GANs with label flipping and oversampling

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  1. arXiv cs.LG TIER_1 English(EN) · Panav Shah, Avishek Ghosh ·

    Targeted Label-Flipping and Oversampling Attacks on Federated Conditional GANs

    arXiv:2608.09314v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In a federated learning setup for GANs, several adversarial attacks are possible. One such attack is label flipping, in which malicious clients deliberately alter label information during local training in order to manipulate the gl…

  2. Hugging Face Daily Papers TIER_1 English(EN) ·

    Targeted Label-Flipping and Oversampling Attacks on Federated Conditional GANs

    In a federated learning setup for GANs, several adversarial attacks are possible. One such attack is label flipping, in which malicious clients deliberately alter label information during local training in order to manipulate the global generator. The objective of this attack is …