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Federated learning (FL) is increasingly deployed among multiple clients to train a shared model over decentralized data. To address privacy concerns, FL systems need to safeguard the clients' data from disclosure during training and control…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-11-13 Zhifeng Jiang , Wei Wang , Ruichuan Chen

Federated learning (FL), where data remains at the federated clients, and where only gradient updates are shared with a central aggregator, was assumed to be private. Recent work demonstrates that adversaries with gradient-level access can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-13 Varun Chandrasekaran , Suman Banerjee , Diego Perino , Nicolas Kourtellis

Federated learning has emerged as a powerful framework for analysing distributed data, yet two challenges remain pivotal: heterogeneity across sites and privacy of local data. In this paper, we address both challenges within a federated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Mengchu Li , Ye Tian , Yang Feng , Yi Yu

The scarcity of accessible, compliant, and ethically sourced data presents a considerable challenge to the adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) in sensitive fields like healthcare, finance, and biomedical research. Furthermore, access…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Kumar Kshitij Patel , Weitong Zhang , Lingxiao Wang

Deep learning models have been extensively adopted in various regions due to their ability to represent hierarchical features, which highly rely on the training set and procedures. Thus, protecting the training process and deep learning…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Haodi Wang , Tangyu Jiang , Yu Guo , Chengjun Cai , Cong Wang , Xiaohua Jia

Differential privacy (DP) techniques can be applied to the federated learning model to statistically guarantee data privacy against inference attacks to communication among the learning agents. While ensuring strong data privacy, however,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Minseok Ryu , Kibaek Kim

We study private prediction where differential privacy is achieved by adding noise to the outputs of a non-private model. Existing methods rely on noise proportional to the global sensitivity of the model, often resulting in sub-optimal…

This paper introduces FedKDX, a federated learning framework that addresses limitations in healthcare AI through Negative Knowledge Distillation (NKD). Unlike existing approaches that focus solely on positive knowledge transfer, FedKDX…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Quang-Tu Pham , Hoang-Dieu Vu , Dinh-Dat Pham , Hieu H. Pham

Collecting and training over sensitive personal data raise severe privacy concerns in personalized recommendation systems, and federated learning can potentially alleviate the problem by training models over decentralized user data.However,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-12-15 Ruixuan Liu , Yanlin Wang , Yang Cao , Lingjuan Lyu , Weike Pan , Yun Chen , Hong Chen

With the rapid digitalization of healthcare systems, there has been a substantial increase in the generation and sharing of private health data. Safeguarding patient information is essential for maintaining consumer trust and ensuring…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Yazan Otoum , Amiya Nayak

In this paper, we propose FedGP, a framework for privacy-preserving data release in the federated learning setting. We use generative adversarial networks, generator components of which are trained by FedAvg algorithm, to draw…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-10-21 Aleksei Triastcyn , Boi Faltings

"f differential privacy" (fDP) is a recent definition for privacy privacy which can offer improved predictions of "privacy loss". It has been used to analyse specific privacy mechanisms, such as the popular Gaussian mechanism. In this paper…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Natasha Fernandes , Annabelle McIver , Parastoo Sadeghi

Underground mining operations depend on sensor networks to monitor critical parameters such as temperature, gas concentration, and miner movement, enabling timely hazard detection and safety decisions. However, transmitting raw sensor data…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Mohamed Elmahallawy , Sanjay Madria , Samuel Frimpong

Modern machine learning models heavily rely on large datasets that often include sensitive and private information, raising serious privacy concerns. Differentially private (DP) data generation offers a solution by creating synthetic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Runkai Zheng , Vishnu Asutosh Dasu , Yinong Oliver Wang , Haohan Wang , Fernando De la Torre

In this paper, we investigate federated learning for quantile inference under local differential privacy (LDP). We propose an estimator based on local stochastic gradient descent (SGD), whose local gradients are perturbed via a randomized…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-09-29 Leheng Cai , Qirui Hu , Shuyuan Wu

Federated learning becomes a prominent approach when different entities want to learn collaboratively a common model without sharing their training data. However, Federated learning has two main drawbacks. First, it is quite bandwidth…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Raouf Kerkouche , Gergely Ács , Claude Castelluccia , Pierre Genevès

Inherent communication noises have the potential to preserve privacy for wireless federated learning (WFL) but have been overlooked in digital communication systems predominantly using floating-point number standards, e.g., IEEE 754, for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Weicai Li , Tiejun Lv , Xiyu Zhao , Xin Yuan , Wei Ni

Learning a privacy-preserving model from sensitive data which are distributed across multiple devices is an increasingly important problem. The problem is often formulated in the federated learning context, with the aim of learning a single…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-20 Mikko A. Heikkilä , Matthew Ashman , Siddharth Swaroop , Richard E. Turner , Antti Honkela

We propose a general learning framework for the protection mechanisms that protects privacy via distorting model parameters, which facilitates the trade-off between privacy and utility. The algorithm is applicable to arbitrary privacy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Xiaojin Zhang , Wenjie Li , Kai Chen , Shutao Xia , Qiang Yang

Federated learning is a distributed machine learning paradigm designed to protect data privacy. However, data heterogeneity across various clients results in catastrophic forgetting, where the model rapidly forgets previous knowledge while…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-07 Pengju Wang , Bochao Liu , Weijia Guo , Yong Li , Shiming Ge