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As one kind of distributed machine learning technique, federated learning enables multiple clients to build a model across decentralized data collaboratively without explicitly aggregating the data. Due to its ability to break data silos,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Junchuan Lianga , Rong Wang , Chaosheng Feng , Chin-Chen Chang

In the era of a data-driven society with the ubiquity of Internet of Things (IoT) devices storing large amounts of data localized at different places, distributed learning has gained a lot of traction, however, assuming independent and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-29 Priyesh Ranjan , Ashish Gupta , Federico Corò , Sajal K. Das

Federated learning (FL) has emerged to enable global model training over distributed clients' data while preserving its privacy. However, the global trained model is vulnerable to the evasion attacks especially, the adversarial examples…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Ahmed Aldahdooh , Wassim Hamidouche , Olivier Déforges

Federated learning enables learning from decentralized data sources without compromising privacy, which makes it a crucial technique. However, it is vulnerable to model poisoning attacks, where malicious clients interfere with the training…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Sungwon Park , Sungwon Han , Fangzhao Wu , Sundong Kim , Bin Zhu , Xing Xie , Meeyoung Cha

Federated Learning (FL) has emerged as a crucial distributed training paradigm, enabling discrete devices to collaboratively train a shared model under the coordination of a central server, while leveraging their locally stored private…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-02 Wenhao Yuan , Xuehe Wang

Federated learning (FL) has been widely adopted as a decentralized training paradigm that enables multiple clients to collaboratively learn a shared model without exposing their local data. As concerns over data privacy and regulatory…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Bingguang Lu , Hongsheng Hu , Yuantian Miao , Shaleeza Sohail , Chaoxiang He , Shuo Wang , Xiao Chen

We consider a cross-silo federated learning (FL) setting where a machine learning model with a fully connected first layer is trained between different clients and a central server using FedAvg, and where the aggregation step can be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-14 Tanguy Marchand , Régis Loeb , Ulysse Marteau-Ferey , Jean Ogier du Terrail , Arthur Pignet

Federated learning enables multiple clients to collaboratively contribute to the learning of a global model orchestrated by a central server. This learning scheme promotes clients' data privacy and requires reduced communication overheads.…

Federated learning is the centralized training of statistical models from decentralized data on mobile devices while preserving the privacy of each device. We present a robust aggregation approach to make federated learning robust to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-08-04 Krishna Pillutla , Sham M. Kakade , Zaid Harchaoui

Decentralized federated learning (DFL) enables clients (e.g., hospitals and banks) to jointly train machine learning models without a central orchestration server. In each global training round, each client trains a local model on its own…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Yuqi Jia , Minghong Fang , Neil Zhenqiang Gong

Existing model poisoning attacks to federated learning assume that an attacker has access to a large fraction of compromised genuine clients. However, such assumption is not realistic in production federated learning systems that involve…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-05-09 Xiaoyu Cao , Neil Zhenqiang Gong

Federated Learning is a distributed learning paradigm with two key challenges that differentiate it from traditional distributed optimization: (1) significant variability in terms of the systems characteristics on each device in the network…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-23 Tian Li , Anit Kumar Sahu , Manzil Zaheer , Maziar Sanjabi , Ameet Talwalkar , Virginia Smith

Federated learning promises to revolutionize machine learning by enabling collaborative model training without compromising data privacy. However, practical adaptability can be limited by critical factors, such as the participation dilemma.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Chanuka A. S. Hewa Kaluannakkage , Rajkumar Buyya

Recently, the practical needs of ``the right to be forgotten'' in federated learning gave birth to a paradigm known as federated unlearning, which enables the server to forget personal data upon the client's removal request. Existing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Jian Chen , Zehui Lin , Wanyu Lin , Wenlong Shi , Xiaoyan Yin , Di Wang

An approach to distributed machine learning is to train models on local datasets and aggregate these models into a single, stronger model. A popular instance of this form of parallelization is federated learning, where the nodes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-19 Linara Adilova , Julia Rosenzweig , Michael Kamp

Federated learning is a distributed learning setting where the main aim is to train machine learning models without having to share raw data but only what is required for learning. To guarantee training data privacy and high-utility models,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Mikko A. Heikkilä

Federated Learning enables entities to collaboratively learn a shared prediction model while keeping their training data locally. It prevents data collection and aggregation and, therefore, mitigates the associated privacy risks. However,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-10-16 Raouf Kerkouche , Gergely Ács , Claude Castelluccia

Recent attacks have shown that user data can be recovered from FedSGD updates, thus breaking privacy. However, these attacks are of limited practical relevance as federated learning typically uses the FedAvg algorithm. Compared to FedSGD,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-02 Dimitar I. Dimitrov , Mislav Balunović , Nikola Konstantinov , Martin Vechev

The increasing requirements for data protection and privacy has attracted a huge research interest on distributed artificial intelligence and specifically on federated learning, an emerging machine learning approach that allows the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-16 Jose L. Salmeron , Irina Arévalo , Antonio Ruiz-Celma

Recent work has shown that gradient updates in federated learning (FL) can unintentionally reveal sensitive information about a client's local data. This risk becomes significantly greater when a malicious server manipulates the global…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-26 Fei Wang , Baochun Li