Deceptive Synthetic Updates: Stealth Free-Rider Attack on Model Aggregation in Federated Learning.

@inproceedings{lee-2025-deceptive, author = {Youngjoon Lee and Jinu Gong and Joonhyuk Kang}, editor = {Meeyoung Cha and Carl Yang and Senjuti Basu Roy and Chanyoung Park and Zhenhui Jessie Li and Noseong Park and Carl Yang and Senjuti Basu Roy and Zhenhui Jessie Li and Jaap Kamps and Kijung Shin and Bryan Hooi and Lifang He}, title = {{Deceptive Synthetic Updates: Stealth Free-Rider Attack on Model Aggregation in Federated Learning}}, booktitle = {{Proceedings of the 34th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM 2025, Seoul, Republic of Korea, November 10-14, 2025}}, pages = {4925--4929}, publisher = {ACM}, year = {2025}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3746252.3760949}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3746252.3760949} }