Abstract
Federated learning (FL) enables collaborative training across devices while keeping data local. In practice, however, it faces two security bottlenecks: privacy leakage and poisoning attacks. While differential privacy (DP) and Byzantine-robust aggregation are effective in their respective domains, their coupling entails an inherent conflict: DP noise inflates the variance of benign updates and simultaneously masks the systematic shifts of malicious ones, making them hard to distinguish. To address this, we propose adaptive Byzantine-robust differentially private federated learning (AByzDPFL), which aims to improve distinguishability by reducing the noise dimension and amplifying the geometric differences between models. On the client side, we adopt a Fisher-information-based private selection mechanism that dynamically chooses key parameter coordinates. Noise is injected only within this low-dimensional subspace, which reduces the effective noise dimension and lowers the variance of benign models.On the server side, spectral embedding highlights the intrinsic geometric structure, followed by a noise-scale-adaptive clustering radius that includes noise-perturbed benign models while filtering systemic shifts beyond the noise range.Additionally, we apply adaptive median-norm clipping to suppress high-magnitude anomalous updates within the cluster.We establish upper bounds on privacy loss and convergence, and experiments show that AByzDPFL strikes a balance between privacy and robustness while outperforming existing mainstream baselines.
| Translated title of the contribution | Adaptive Byzantine-robust differentially private federated learning |
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| Original language | Chinese (Traditional) |
| Pages (from-to) | 2663-2682 |
| Number of pages | 20 |
| Journal | Scientia Sinica Informationis |
| Volume | 55 |
| Issue number | 11 |
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| State | Published - 1 Nov 2025 |
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