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The majority of work in privacy-preserving federated learning (FL) has been focusing on horizontally partitioned datasets where clients share the same sets of features and can train complete models independently. However, in many…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-22 Xinchi Qiu , Heng Pan , Wanru Zhao , Chenyang Ma , Pedro Porto Buarque de Gusmão , Nicholas D. Lane

In this paper, we investigate the transmission latency of the secure aggregation problem in a \emph{wireless} federated learning system with multiple curious servers. We propose a privacy-preserving coded aggregation scheme where the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Zhenhao Huang , Kai Liang , Yuanming Shi , Songze Li , Youlong Wu

This paper considers the secure aggregation problem for federated learning under an information theoretic cryptographic formulation, where distributed training nodes (referred to as users) train models based on their own local data and a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Kai Wan , Hua Sun , Mingyue Ji , Tiebin Mi , Giuseppe Caire

Federated learning has been spotlighted as a way to train neural networks using distributed data with no need for individual nodes to share data. Unfortunately, it has also been shown that adversaries may be able to extract local data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Beongjun Choi , Jy-yong Sohn , Dong-Jun Han , Jaekyun Moon

Federated Averaging remains the most widely used aggregation strategy in federated learning due to its simplicity and scalability. However, its performance degrades significantly in non-IID data settings, where client distributions are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Marco Arazzi , Mert Cihangiroglu , Antonino Nocera

Federated learning enables multiple data owners to jointly train a machine learning model without revealing their private datasets. However, a malicious aggregation server might use the model parameters to derive sensitive information about…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-02-16 Yash More , Prashanthi Ramachandran , Priyam Panda , Arup Mondal , Harpreet Virk , Debayan Gupta

We propose clustered federated multitask learning to address statistical challenges in non-independent and identically distributed data across clients. Our approach tackles complexities in hierarchical wireless networks by clustering…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-07-15 Moqbel Hamood , Abdullatif Albaseer , Mohamed Abdallah , Ala Al-Fuqaha , Amr Mohamed

We study the fundamental communication limits of information-theoretic secure aggregation in a hierarchical network consisting of a server, multiple relays, and multiple users per relay. Communication proceeds over two rounds and two hops,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Zhou Li , Yizhou Zhao , Xiang Zhang , Giuseppe Caire

The classical machine learning paradigm requires the aggregation of user data in a central location where machine learning practitioners can preprocess data, calculate features, tune models and evaluate performance. The advantage of this…

Federated learning was proposed with an intriguing vision of achieving collaborative machine learning among numerous clients without uploading their private data to a cloud server. However, the conventional framework requires each client to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-12 Chaoyue Niu , Fan Wu , Shaojie Tang , Lifeng Hua , Rongfei Jia , Chengfei Lv , Zhihua Wu , Guihai Chen

Federated learning obtains a central model on the server by aggregating models trained locally on clients. As a result, federated learning does not require clients to upload their data to the server, thereby preserving the data privacy of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-31 Yang Chen , Xiaoyan Sun , Yaochu Jin

Major bottlenecks of large-scale Federated Learning(FL) networks are the high costs for communication and computation. This is due to the fact that most of current FL frameworks only consider a star network topology where all local trained…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-23 Thinh Quang Dinh , Diep N. Nguyen , Dinh Thai Hoang , Pham Tran Vu , Eryk Dutkiewicz

In today's world, the rapid expansion of IoT networks and the proliferation of smart devices in our daily lives, have resulted in the generation of substantial amounts of heterogeneous data. These data forms a stream which requires special…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Sofia Zahri , Hajar Bennouri , Ahmed M. Abdelmoniem

Originated from distributed learning, federated learning enables privacy-preserved collaboration on a new abstracted level by sharing the model parameters only. While the current research mainly focuses on optimizing learning algorithms and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-17 Cong Wang , Yuanyuan Yang , Pengzhan Zhou

With the emergence of privacy leaks in federated learning, secure aggregation protocols that mainly adopt either homomorphic encryption or threshold secret sharing have been widely developed for federated learning to protect the privacy of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-06-03 Xue Yang , Zifeng Liu , Xiaohu Tang , Rongxing Lu , Bo Liu

Federated learning (FL) has attracted growing interest for enabling privacy-preserving machine learning on data stored at multiple users while avoiding moving the data off-device. However, while data never leaves users' devices, privacy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-05 Ahmed Roushdy Elkordy , Jiang Zhang , Yahya H. Ezzeldin , Konstantinos Psounis , Salman Avestimehr

In federated learning (FL), a machine learning model is trained on multiple nodes in a decentralized manner, while keeping the data local and not shared with other nodes. However, FL requires the nodes to also send information on the model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-08 Mohammad Aghapour , Aidin Ferdowsi , Walid Saad

Secure model aggregation is a key component of federated learning (FL) that aims at protecting the privacy of each user's individual model while allowing for their global aggregation. It can be applied to any aggregation-based FL approach…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-03 Jinhyun So , Chaoyang He , Chien-Sheng Yang , Songze Li , Qian Yu , Ramy E. Ali , Basak Guler , Salman Avestimehr

This paper introduces Flamingo, a system for secure aggregation of data across a large set of clients. In secure aggregation, a server sums up the private inputs of clients and obtains the result without learning anything about the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Yiping Ma , Jess Woods , Sebastian Angel , Antigoni Polychroniadou , Tal Rabin

Mobile Edge Computing (MEC), which incorporates the Cloud, edge nodes and end devices, has shown great potential in bringing data processing closer to the data sources. Meanwhile, Federated learning (FL) has emerged as a promising…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-04-26 Wentai Wu , Ligang He , Weiwei Lin , Rui Mao