arXiv Machine Learning July 21, 2026 By Md Rafi Ur Rashid, Vishnu Asutosh Dasu, Kang Gu, Najrin Sultana, Shagufta Mehnaz

Gradient-Free Privacy Leakage in Federated Language Models through Selective Weight Tampering

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