ORIGINAL RESEARCH article

Front. Phys.

Sec. Social Physics

Volume 13 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fphy.2025.1387285

This article is part of the Research TopicSecurity, Governance, and Challenges of the New Generation of Cyber-Physical-Social SystemsView all 16 articles

Research on a Secure Federated Learning Methods Based on DWT and SVD Digital Watermarking

Provisionally accepted
Xing  LuanXing Luan1Quan  WenQuan Wen1*Bo  HangBo Hang2
  • 1Jilin University, Changchun, China
  • 2Hubei University of Arts and Science, Xiangyang, Hubei, China

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Due to the ease with which data can be replicated and cannot be tracked once it is spread, it becomes very difficult to verify the ownership of the data. Federated learning in privacy computing allows data to participate in model training without leaving the local area, resulting in better models and protecting data and privacy security. However, federated learning is also vulnerable to attacks in the application process. This article uses digital watermarks in federated learning, uses singular value decomposition (SVD) to generate robust digital watermarks for traceability, and uses discrete wavelet transform (DWT) to generate fragile digital watermarks for attack detection (1-6). The experimental results demonstrate that this greatly improves the security performance of federated learning.

Keywords: federated learning1, digital watermarking2, DWT3, SVD4, IID5

Received: 17 Feb 2024; Accepted: 21 May 2025.

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* Correspondence: Quan Wen, Jilin University, Changchun, China

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