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The privacy-preserving federated learning schemes based on the setting of two honest-but-curious and non-colluding servers offer promising solutions in terms of security and efficiency. However, our investigation reveals that these schemes…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Jiahui Wu , Fucai Luo , Tiecheng Sun , Haiyan Wang , Weizhe Zhang

Federated learning (FL) is a system in which a central aggregator coordinates the efforts of multiple clients to solve machine learning problems. This setting allows training data to be dispersed in order to protect privacy. The purpose of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-27 Subrato Bharati , M. Rubaiyat Hossain Mondal , Prajoy Podder , V. B. Surya Prasath

Even though recent years have seen many attacks exposing severe vulnerabilities in Federated Learning (FL), a holistic understanding of what enables these attacks and how they can be mitigated effectively is still lacking. In this work, we…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-01-27 Hidde Lycklama , Lukas Burkhalter , Alexander Viand , Nicolas Küchler , Anwar Hithnawi

Federated Learning (FL) is a machine learning technique that enables multiple entities to collaboratively learn a shared model without exchanging their local data. Over the past decade, FL systems have achieved substantial progress, scaling…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Katharine Daly , Hubert Eichner , Peter Kairouz , H. Brendan McMahan , Daniel Ramage , Zheng Xu

Large models adaptation through Federated Learning (FL) addresses a wide range of use cases and is enabled by Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning techniques such as Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA). However, this distributed learning paradigm faces…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Bastien Vuillod , Pierre-Alain Moellic , Jean-Max Dutertre

The report demonstrates the benefits (in terms of improved claims loss modeling) of harnessing the value of Federated Learning (FL) to learn a single model across multiple insurance industry datasets without requiring the datasets…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-26 Panyi Dong , Zhiyu Quan , Brandon Edwards , Shih-han Wang , Runhuan Feng , Tianyang Wang , Patrick Foley , Prashant Shah

Current backdoor attacks against federated learning (FL) strongly rely on universal triggers or semantic patterns, which can be easily detected and filtered by certain defense mechanisms such as norm clipping, comparing parameter…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-02 Yanqi Qiao , Dazhuang Liu , Congwen Chen , Rui Wang , Kaitai Liang

Federated Learning (FL) has emerged as a powerful paradigm for decentralized model training, yet it remains vulnerable to deep leakage (DL) attacks that reconstruct private client data from shared model updates. While prior DL methods have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Isaac Baglin , Xiatian Zhu , Simon Hadfield

Federated Learning (FL) has received increasing attention due to its privacy protection capability. However, the base algorithm FedAvg is vulnerable when it suffers from so-called backdoor attacks. Former researchers proposed several robust…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-12-29 Jianyi Zhang , Fangjiao Zhang , Qichao Jin , Zhiqiang Wang , Xiaodong Lin , Xiali Hei

Federated learning (FL) has emerged as a prominent method for collaboratively training machine learning models using local data from edge devices, all while keeping data decentralized. However, accounting for the quality of data contributed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-05 Haoyuan Li , Mathias Funk , Nezihe Merve Gürel , Aaqib Saeed

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are susceptible to backdoor attacks, where adversaries poison datasets with adversary-specified triggers to implant hidden backdoors, enabling malicious manipulation of model predictions. Dataset purification…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Linshan Hou , Wei Luo , Zhongyun Hua , Songhua Chen , Leo Yu Zhang , Yiming Li

Federated learning (FL) enables multiple clients to train models collectively while preserving data privacy. However, FL faces challenges in terms of communication cost and data heterogeneity. One-shot federated learning has emerged as a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Matias Mendieta , Guangyu Sun , Chen Chen

Federated Transfer Learning (FTL) is the most general variation of Federated Learning. According to this distributed paradigm, a feature learning pre-step is commonly carried out by only one party, typically the server, on publicly shared…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-01 Marco Arazzi , Stefanos Koffas , Antonino Nocera , Stjepan Picek

Federated Learning (FL) offers a promising approach for training clinical AI models without centralizing sensitive patient data. However, its real-world adoption is hindered by challenges related to privacy, resource constraints, and…

In emerging networked systems, mobile edge devices such as ground vehicles and unmanned aerial system (UAS) swarms collectively aggregate vast amounts of data to make machine learning decisions such as threat detection in remote, dynamic,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Utku Demir , Tugba Erpek , Yalin E. Sagduyu , Sastry Kompella , Mengran Xue

Federated learning is a decentralized machine learning approach where clients train models locally and share model updates to develop a global model. This enables low-resource devices to collaboratively build a high-quality model without…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Li Bai , Haibo Hu , Qingqing Ye , Haoyang Li , Leixia Wang , Jianliang Xu

Federated learning (FL) has enabled global model training on decentralized data in a privacy-preserving way by aggregating model updates. However, for many natural language processing (NLP) tasks that utilize pre-trained language models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-25 Haodong Zhao , Wei Du , Fangqi Li , Peixuan Li , Gongshen Liu

There has been recent interest in leveraging federated learning (FL) for radio signal classification tasks. In FL, model parameters are periodically communicated from participating devices, training on their own local datasets, to a central…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-24 Su Wang , Rajeev Sahay , Christopher G. Brinton

Federated Learning (FL) in the Internet of Things (IoT) environments can enhance machine learning by utilising decentralised data, but at the same time, it might introduce significant privacy and security concerns due to the constrained…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-26 Adel ElZemity , Budi Arief

Federated self-supervised learning (FSSL) has recently emerged as a promising paradigm that enables the exploitation of clients' vast amounts of unlabeled data while preserving data privacy. While FSSL offers advantages, its susceptibility…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Yuwen Qian , Shuchi Wu , Kang Wei , Ming Ding , Di Xiao , Tao Xiang , Chuan Ma , Song Guo