@article{defendingagainstbackdoorattacksviaalignm, title = {Defending Against Backdoor Attacks via Alignment Checking in Model-Contrastive Federated Learning}, author = {Hongliang Zhang and Zhongyuan Yu and Guijuan Wang and Tianqing He and Wenshuo Ma and Xiaosong Zhang and Jiguo Yu}, year = {2026}, eprint = {2607.26933}, archivePrefix = {arXiv}, url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.26933}, }