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Decentralized federated learning (DFL) realizes cooperative model training among connected clients without relying on a central server, thereby mitigating communication bottlenecks and eliminating the single-point failure issue present in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-19 Xinyang Liu , Pengchao Han , Xuan Li , Bo Liu

Decentralized Federated Learning (DFL) eliminates the need for a central aggregator, but it can expose communication patterns that reveal participant identities. This work presents UnlinkableDFL, a DFL framework that combines a peer-based…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Chao Feng , Thomas Grubl , Jan von der Assen , Sandrin Raphael Hunkeler , Linn Anna Spitz , Gerome Bovet , Burkhard Stiller

Federated learning (FL) can fully leverage large-scale terminal data while ensuring privacy and security, and is considered as a distributed alternative for the centralized machine learning. However, the issue of data heterogeneity poses…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-27 Xianke Qiang , Zheng Chang , Ying-Chang Liang

Privacy and security in the parameter transmission process of federated learning are currently among the most prominent concerns. However, there are two thorny problems caused by unprotected communication methods: "parameter-leakage" and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Yang Li , Chunhe Xia , Tianbo Wang

Cloud-edge-device hierarchical federated learning (HFL) has been recently proposed to achieve communication-efficient and privacy-preserving distributed learning. However, there exist several critical challenges, such as the single point of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-08-03 Zhilin Wang , Qin Hu , Minghui Xu , Zeihui Xiong

Advanced researches on connected vehicles have recently targeted to the integration of vehicle-to-everything (V2X) networks with Machine Learning (ML) tools and distributed decision making. Federated learning (FL) is emerging as a new…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-23 Xiaoyan Liu , Zehui Dong , Zhiwei Xu , Siyuan Liu , Jie Tian

Recent advancements in Quantum Neural Networks (QNNs) have demonstrated theoretical and experimental performance superior to their classical counterparts in a wide range of applications. However, existing centralized QNNs cannot solve many…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-17 Cheng Chu , Lei Jiang , Fan Chen

Federated Learning (FL) is a decentralized machine learning (ML) paradigm in which models are trained on private data across several devices called clients and combined at a single node called an aggregator rather than aggregating the data…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-05-07 Sarang S , Druva Dhakshinamoorthy , Aditya Shiva Sharma , Yuvraj Singh Bhadauria , Siddharth Chaitra Vivek , Arihant Bansal , Arnab K. Paul

There is a significant demand for indoor localization technology in smart buildings, and the most promising solution in this field is using RF sensors and fingerprinting-based methods that employ machine learning models trained on…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Junfei Wang , He Huang , Jingze Feng , Steven Wong , Lihua Xie , Jianfei Yang

Federated learning (FL) rests on the notion of training a global model in a decentralized manner. Under this setting, mobile devices perform computations on their local data before uploading the required updates to improve the global model.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-07 Shashi Raj Pandey , Nguyen H. Tran , Mehdi Bennis , Yan Kyaw Tun , Aunas Manzoor , Choong Seon Hong

Federated learning (FL) has emerged as a privacy solution for collaborative distributed learning where clients train AI models directly on their devices instead of sharing their data with a centralized (potentially adversarial) server.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-08 Haleh Hayati , Carlos Murguia , Nathan van de Wouw

Federated learning (FL) has sparked extensive interest in exploiting the private data on clients' local devices. However, the parameter server setting of FL not only has high bandwidth requirements, but also poses data privacy issues and a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-07-07 Qian Chen , Zilong Wang , Yilin Zhou , Jiawei Chen , Dan Xiao , Xiaodong Lin

Graph learning has a wide range of applications in many scenarios, which require more need for data privacy. Federated learning is an emerging distributed machine learning approach that leverages data from individual devices or data centers…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-20 Peilin Liu , Yanni Tang , Mingyue Zhang , Wu Chen

In the era of advanced technologies, mobile devices are equipped with computing and sensing capabilities that gather excessive amounts of data. These amounts of data are suitable for training different learning models. Cooperated with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-07 Muhammad Asad , Ahmed Moustafa , Takayuki Ito , Muhammad Aslam

Federated learning (FL) enables massive distributed Information and Communication Technology (ICT) devices to learn a global consensus model without any participants revealing their own data to the central server. However, the practicality,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-31 Zhikun Chen , Daofeng Li , Ming Zhao , Sihai Zhang , Jinkang Zhu

Federated learning (FL), thanks in part to the emergence of the edge computing paradigm, is expected to enable true real-time applications in production environments. However, its original dependence on a central server for orchestration…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-05-23 Francesc Wilhelmi , Elia Guerra , Paolo Dini

Federated learning (FL) is a popular technique for distributing machine learning (ML) across a set of edge devices. In this paper, we study fully decentralized FL, where in addition to devices conducting training locally, they carry out…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Shahryar Zehtabi , Seyyedali Hosseinalipour , Christopher G. Brinton

The recurrent neural network has been greatly developed for effectively solving time-varying problems corresponding to complex environments. However, limited by the way of centralized processing, the model performance is greatly affected by…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-06-29 Zhihao Hao , Guancheng Wang , Chunwei Tian , Bob Zhang

With the increasing importance of data sharing for collaboration and innovation, it is becoming more important to ensure that data is managed and shared in a secure and trustworthy manner. Data governance is a common approach to managing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Amir Jaberzadeh , Ajay Kumar Shrestha , Faijan Ahamad Khan , Mohammed Afaan Shaikh , Bhargav Dave , Jason Geng

The server-less nature of Decentralized Federated Learning (DFL) requires allocating the aggregation role to specific participants in each federated round. Current DFL architectures ensure the trustworthiness of the aggregator node upon…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Ehsan Hallaji , Roozbeh Razavi-Far , Mehrdad Saif