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Private data holds promise for improving LLMs due to its high quality, but its scattered distribution across data silos and the high computational demands of LLMs limit their deployment in federated environments. To address this, the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-05 Zishuai Zhang , Hainan zhang , Weihua Li , Qinnan zhang , jin Dong , Yongxin Tong , Zhiming Zheng

Owing to the low communication costs and privacy-promoting capabilities, Federated Learning (FL) has become a promising tool for training effective machine learning models among distributed clients. However, with the distributed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-03 Chuan Ma , Jun Li , Ming Ding , Kang Wei , Wen Chen , H. Vincent Poor

Federated Learning (FL) enables multiple clients to collaboratively train a shared model without exposing local data. However, backdoor attacks pose a significant threat to FL. These attacks aim to implant a stealthy trigger into the global…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Chenyu Hu , Qiming Hu , Sinan Chen , Nianyu Li , Mingyue Zhang , Jialong Li

Federated learning (FL) is an emerging paradigm that allows a central server to train machine learning models using remote users' data. Despite its growing popularity, FL faces challenges in preserving the privacy of local datasets, its…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Natalie Lang , Nir Shlezinger , Rafael G. L. D'Oliveira , Salim El Rouayheb

Personalized Federated Learning (PFL) is widely employed in IoT applications to handle high-volume, non-iid client data while ensuring data privacy. However, heterogeneous edge devices owned by clients may impose varying degrees of resource…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Ziru Niu , Hai Dong , A. K. Qin

We consider the storage problem in an asymmetric $X$-secure private information retrieval (A-XPIR) setting. The A-XPIR setting considers the $X$-secure PIR problem (XPIR) when a given arbitrary set of servers is communicating. We focus on…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Mohamed Nomeir , Sennur Ulukus

Federated Learning (FL) enables collaborative model training without centralizing client data, making it attractive for privacy-sensitive domains. While existing approaches employ cryptographic techniques such as homomorphic encryption,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Sahar Ghoflsaz Ghinani , Elaheh Sadredini

In cross-device Federated Learning (FL), clients with low computational power train a common\linebreak[4] machine model by exchanging parameters via updates instead of potentially private data. Federated Dropout (FD) is a technique that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-16 Giacomo Verardo , Daniel Barreira , Marco Chiesa , Dejan Kostic , Gerald Q. Maguire

Maintaining the privacy of power system data is essential for protecting sensitive information and ensuring the operation security of critical infrastructure. Therefore, the adoption of centralized deep learning (DL) transient stability…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-06 Maeshal Hijazi , Payman Dehghanian

Distributed multi-party learning provides an effective approach for training a joint model with scattered data under legal and practical constraints. However, due to the quagmire of a skewed distribution of data labels across participants…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-01 Maoguo Gong , Yuan Gao , Yue Wu , A. K. Qin

This paper investigates the fundamental limits of information-theoretic decentralized secure aggregation (DSA) with user dropouts. We consider a fully decentralized network where $K$ users communicate over broadcast channels without a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Zhou Li , Xiang Zhang , Yizhou Zhao , Han Yu , Giuseppe Caire

Distributed machine learning has been widely used in recent years to tackle the large and complex dataset problem. Therewith, the security of distributed learning has also drawn increasing attentions from both academia and industry. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-13 Zihao Zhao , Mengen Luo , Wenbo Ding

Split Learning (SL) -- splits a model into two distinct parts to help protect client data while enhancing Machine Learning (ML) processes. Though promising, SL has proven vulnerable to different attacks, thus raising concerns about how…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Tanveer Khan , Mindaugas Budzys , Antonis Michalas

We address the problem of securing distributed storage systems against passive eavesdroppers that can observe a limited number of storage nodes. An important aspect of these systems is node failures over time, which demand a repair…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Sameer Pawar , Salim El Rouayheb , Kannan Ramchandran

Distributed machine learning has been widely studied in order to handle exploding amount of data. In this paper, we study an important yet less visited distributed learning problem where features are inherently distributed or vertically…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-19 Yaochen Hu , Peng Liu , Linglong Kong , Di Niu

In many real-world scenarios, distribution shifts exist in the streaming data across time steps. Many complex sequential data can be effectively divided into distinct regimes that exhibit persistent dynamics. Discovering the shifted…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-07 Weijieying Ren , Tianxiang Zhao , Wei Qin , Kunpeng Liu

Federated learning has recently emerged as a paradigm promising the benefits of harnessing rich data from diverse sources to train high quality models, with the salient features that training datasets never leave local devices. Only model…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-02-07 Yifeng Zheng , Shangqi Lai , Yi Liu , Xingliang Yuan , Xun Yi , Cong Wang

In this paper, we propose a method for privacy-preserving federated learning that uses randomly selected model parameters to update global models. High-quality deep neural networks (DNN) models require a huge amount of training data in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Hiroto Sawada , Shoko Imaizumi , Hitoshi Kiya

Repair operations in distributed storage systems potentially expose the data to malicious acts of passive eavesdroppers or active adversaries, which can be detrimental to the security of the system. This paper presents erasure codes and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-08-18 Nihar B. Shah , K. V. Rashmi , Kannan Ramchandran , P. Vijay Kumar

Secure aggregation, which is a core component of federated learning, aggregates locally trained models from distributed users at a central server. The ``secure'' nature of such aggregation consists of the fact that no information about the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-02-01 Kai Wan , Xin Yao , Hua Sun , Mingyue Ji , Giuseppe Caire