@article{theothersideofthecoinunveilingthe, title = {The Other Side of the Coin: Unveiling the Downsides of Model Aggregation in Federated Learning from a Layer-peeled Perspective}, author = {Guogang Zhu and Xuefeng Liu and Jianwei Niu and Shaojie Tang and Xinghao Wu}, year = {2025}, eprint = {2502.03231}, archivePrefix = {arXiv}, url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.03231v1}, }