Federated Deep Neural Networks for Malware Classification under Heterogeneous Data Distributions

Abstract

Abstract: This report synthesises findings from 11 peer-reviewed papers addressing the following research question: What is the impact of heterogeneous client data distributions on the generalization performance of federated deep neural networks for malware classification, and how can model personalization. In federated learning, model personalization can be a very effective strategy to deal with heterogeneous training data across clients. We introduce WAFFLE (Weighted Averaging For Federated LEarning), a personalized collaborative machine learning algorithm that leverages. 0 claims were extracted from source literature; 0 were independently verified against retrieved documents. An automated multi-reviewer quality assessment produced a score of 3.0/10. This report is a machine-generated literature synthesis and does not constitute original research.

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What is the impact of heterogeneous client data distributions on the generalization performance of federated deep neural networks for malware classification, and how can model personalization techniques mitigate this effect?

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