Shiddarth Dey Tusar

When Does Trust Help? A Leakage-Free Evaluation of Representation- and Aggregation-Based Defenses Against Backdoors in Federated Intrusion Detection

Federated learning (FL) lets distributed intrusion-detection systems (IDS) train on private traffic, but exposes the global model to poisoning and backdoor attacks under non-IID client data. A popular defense family scores or filters clients using a small trusted "root" dataset a...