STAIN-FL: Stealthy Targeted Attack Injection with Contextual Triggers in Federated Learning

arXiv:2608.23952 · cs.CR, cs.AI · Submitted 2026-08-25 · Read on arXiv

cs.CR, cs.AI

Submitted: 2026-08-25

Updated: 2026-08-25

Code: https://github.com/Ashlinder/STAIN-FL

Terminology

• Accuracy — 66× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Aggregation — 16× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Federated Learning — 16× in this paper · explained in 14 episodes
• Benchmark — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Singapore Institute of Technology — 3× in this paper
• Edge Devices — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Federated Learning (FL) — 1× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Generalization — 1× in this paper · explained in 13 episodes
• Multi-Agent System — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Non-IID Data — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• Federated Optimization in Heterogeneous Networks

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