Federated Lightweight Intrusion Detection in Drone Swarms with Knowledge Distillation

arXiv:2607.17025 · cs.CR · Submitted 2026-07-19 · Read on arXiv

Fawaz J. Alruwaili, Cihan Tunc

cs.CR

Submitted: 2026-07-19

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Accuracy — 40× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Distillation — 22× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Knowledge Distillation — 16× in this paper · explained in 11 episodes
• Federated Learning — 14× in this paper · explained in 14 episodes
• Communication Overhead — 10× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Deep Neural Network — 7× in this paper
• Computational overhead — 6× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Generalization — 6× in this paper · explained in 13 episodes
• Activation Function — 5× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Federated Learning (FL) — 5× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Machine Learning — 5× in this paper
• Pruning — 5× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Quantization — 5× in this paper · explained in 12 episodes
• Aggregation — 4× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Core — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Differential Privacy — 3× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Regularization — 3× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Resource Constraints — 3× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• 1D CNN — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Gradient Flow — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Loss Function — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Adaptability — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Convolutional Neural Network — 1× in this paper
• Feature Selection — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Federal Aviation Administration — 1× in this paper
• Formal Verification — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Model Optimization with Knowledge Distillation — 1× in this paper
• Neural Networks to Improve Intrusion Detection System — 1× in this paper
• Pearson Correlation Coefficient — 1× in this paper
• Point-Biserial Correlation Coefficient — 1× in this paper
• Redundancy — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Robustness — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Verification — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• Distilling the Knowledge in a Neural Network

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