Sybil Attacks on Federated Learning

Clement Fung, a Societal Computing PhD student at Carnegie Mellon University, discusses his research in security of machine learning systems and a defense against targeted sybil-based poisoning called FoolsGold.

**Works Mentioned:**

[The Limitations of Federated Learning in Sybil Settings](https://www.usenix.org/conference/raid2020/presentation/fung)

**Twitter:**

@clemfung

**Website:**

https://clementfung.github.io/

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Clement Fung