Beyond Denial-of-Service: The Puppeteer's Attack for Fine-Grained Control in Ranking-Based Federated Learning.

@inproceedings{chen-2026-beyond, author = {Zhihao Chen and Zirui Gong and Jianting Ning and Yanjun Zhang and Leo Yu Zhang}, editor = {Hakim Hacid and Yoelle Maarek and Francesco Bonchi and Ido Guy and Emine Yilmaz}, title = {{Beyond Denial-of-Service: The Puppeteer's Attack for Fine-Grained Control in Ranking-Based Federated Learning}}, booktitle = {{Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2026, WWW 2026, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, originally scheduled for April 13-17, 2026, rescheduled for June 29 - July 3, 2026}}, pages = {3358--3369}, publisher = {ACM}, year = {2026}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3774904.3792604}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3774904.3792604} }