Malicious Forgetting: Backdoor Injection in Active Federated Unlearning and Countermeasure Design

Wenwei Zhao; Yuanzhe Peng; Xiaowen Li; Jie Xu; Yao Liu; Zhuo Lu

doi:10.1109/INFOCOM59046.2026.11571403

Malicious Forgetting: Backdoor Injection in Active Federated Unlearning and Countermeasure Design

Wenwei Zhao
, Yuanzhe Peng
, Xiaowen Li
, Jie Xu
, Yao Liu
, Zhuo Lu

School of Computing

University of South Florida
University of Florida

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Original language	English
Title of host publication	INFOCOM 2026 - IEEE Conference on Computer Communications
ISBN (Electronic)	9798331549619
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/INFOCOM59046.2026.11571403
State	Published - 2026
Event	2026 IEEE Conference on Computer Communications, INFOCOM 2026 - Tokyo, Japan Duration: May 18 2026 → May 21 2026

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Name	Proceedings - IEEE INFOCOM
ISSN (Print)	0743-166X

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Conference	2026 IEEE Conference on Computer Communications, INFOCOM 2026
Country/Territory	Japan
City	Tokyo
Period	5/18/26 → 5/21/26

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General Computer Science
Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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Zhao, W, Peng, Y, Li, X, Xu, J, Liu, Y & Lu, Z 2026, Malicious Forgetting: Backdoor Injection in Active Federated Unlearning and Countermeasure Design. in INFOCOM 2026 - IEEE Conference on Computer Communications. Proceedings - IEEE INFOCOM, 2026 IEEE Conference on Computer Communications, INFOCOM 2026, Tokyo, Japan, 5/18/26. https://doi.org/10.1109/INFOCOM59046.2026.11571403

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