Repurposing Backdoors for Good: Ephemeral Intrinsic Proofs for Verifiable Aggregation in Cross-silo Federated Learning
Researchers propose a novel lightweight architecture for verifiable aggregation in federated learning that uses backdoor injection as intrinsic proofs instead of expensive cryptographic methods. The approach achieves over 1000x speedup compared to traditional cryptographic baselines while maintaining high detection rates against malicious servers.