Detecting Malicious Participants in Federated Healthcare Learning

Problem statement

Compromised hospitals may submit abnormal updates that degrade the global model while appearing to participate normally.

Objective

Develop a lightweight detector using update magnitude, similarity or clustering to identify malicious participants in an FL prototype.

Student focus

  • Federated learning
  • Attacks/defenses
  • Healthcare simulation
Tags: Cybersecurity, Cyberphysical
Published Oct. 13, 2026 11:49 AM - Last modified Oct. 13, 2026 11:49 AM

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Scope (credits)

30