# FedLiTeCAN : A Federated Lightweight Transformer for Fast and Robust CAN Bus Intrusion Detection

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.24088 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2512.24088/

## Key facts

- No citing papers in the map yet (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Builds on 10 of its 42 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 30 Dec 2025.

## Builds on (most cited first, 10 of 10)

- [Communication-Efficient Learning of Deep Networks from Decentralized Data](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1602.05629/) (2016)
- [Federated Optimization in Heterogeneous Networks](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1812.06127/) (2018)
- [TinyBERT: Distilling BERT for Natural Language Understanding](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1909.10351/) (2019)
- [Adaptive Federated Optimization](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2003.00295/) (2020)
- [MobileBERT: a Compact Task-Agnostic BERT for Resource-Limited Devices](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2004.02984/) (2020)
- [Flower: A Friendly Federated Learning Research Framework](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2007.14390/) (2020)
- [GIDS: GAN based Intrusion Detection System for In-Vehicle Network](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1907.07377/) (2019)
- [CAN-BERT do it? Controller Area Network Intrusion Detection System based on BERT Language Model](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2210.09439/) (2022)
- [A Transfer Learning and Optimized CNN Based Intrusion Detection System for Internet of Vehicles](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2201.11812/) (2022)
- [A Robust Multi-Stage Intrusion Detection System for In-Vehicle Network Security using Hierarchical Federated Learning](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2408.08433/) (2024)

## Abstract (arXiv)

This work implements a lightweight Transformer model for IDS in the domain of Connected and Autonomous Vehicles