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Federated learning performs distributed model training using local data hosted by agents. It shares only model parameter updates for iterative aggregation at the server. Although it is privacy-preserving by design, federated learning is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-09 Yufei Han , Xiangliang Zhang

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 (FL) is a distributed training paradigm wherein participants collaborate to build a global model while ensuring the privacy of the involved data, which remains stored on participant devices. However, proposals aiming to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Nicolas Riccieri Gardin Assumpcao , Leandro Villas

Federated learning (FL) enables edge nodes to collaboratively contribute to constructing a global model without sharing their data. This is accomplished by devices computing local, private model updates that are then aggregated by a server.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-13 Sadi Alawadi , Addi Ait-Mlouk , Salman Toor , Andreas Hellander

Federated learning (FL) is a distributed machine learning approach involving multiple clients collaboratively training a shared model. Such a system has the advantage of more training data from multiple clients, but data can be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Sone Kyaw Pye , Han Yu

Proposed as a solution to mitigate the privacy implications related to the adoption of deep learning, Federated Learning (FL) enables large numbers of participants to successfully train deep neural networks without having to reveal the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Dorjan Hitaj , Giulio Pagnotta , Briland Hitaj , Fernando Perez-Cruz , Luigi V. Mancini

In recent years, data and computing resources are typically distributed in the devices of end users, various regions or organizations. Because of laws or regulations, the distributed data and computing resources cannot be directly shared…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-03-28 Ji Liu , Jizhou Huang , Yang Zhou , Xuhong Li , Shilei Ji , Haoyi Xiong , Dejing Dou

In Machine Learning scenarios, privacy is a crucial concern when models have to be trained with private data coming from users of a service, such as a recommender system, a location-based mobile service, a mobile phone text messaging…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-20 Vito Walter Anelli , Yashar Deldjoo , Tommaso Di Noia , Antonio Ferrara

Model poisoning attacks pose a significant security threat to Federated Learning (FL). Most existing model poisoning attacks rely on collusion, requiring adversarial clients to coordinate by exchanging local benign models and synchronizing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Israt Jahan Mouri , Muhammad Ridowan , Muhammad Abdullah Adnan

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) enables learning from decentralized privacy-sensitive data, with computations on raw data confined to take place at edge clients. This paper introduces mixed FL, which incorporates an additional loss term calculated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Sean Augenstein , Andrew Hard , Lin Ning , Karan Singhal , Satyen Kale , Kurt Partridge , Rajiv Mathews

Federated learning (FL) is a machine learning paradigm in which distributed local nodes collaboratively train a central model without sharing individually held private data. Existing FL methods either iteratively share local model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-25 Xuan Gong , Shanglin Li , Yuxiang Bao , Barry Yao , Yawen Huang , Ziyan Wu , Baochang Zhang , Yefeng Zheng , David Doermann

Federated learning (FL) is emerging as a new paradigm to train machine learning models in distributed systems. Rather than sharing, and disclosing, the training dataset with the server, the model parameters (e.g. neural networks weights and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-27 Stefano Savazzi , Monica Nicoli , Vittorio Rampa

Federated learning (FL), as an emerging artificial intelligence (AI) approach, enables decentralized model training across multiple devices without exposing their local training data. FL has been increasingly gaining popularity in both…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-23 Victoria Huang , Shaleeza Sohail , Michael Mayo , Tania Lorido Botran , Mark Rodrigues , Chris Anderson , Melanie Ooi

Federated learning (FL) is a collaborative learning paradigm allowing multiple clients to jointly train a model without sharing their training data. However, FL is susceptible to poisoning attacks, in which the adversary injects manipulated…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Hossein Fereidooni , Alessandro Pegoraro , Phillip Rieger , Alexandra Dmitrienko , Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi

Federated Learning (FL) is a machine-learning approach enabling collaborative model training across multiple decentralized edge devices that hold local data samples, all without exchanging these samples. This collaborative process occurs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-02 Venkataraman Natarajan Iyer

Federated learning allows for the training of a model using data on multiple clients without the clients transmitting that raw data. However the standard method is to transmit model parameters (or updates), which for modern neural networks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Jack Goetz , Ambuj Tewari

Federated learning (FL) is an emerging paradigm for facilitating multiple organizations' data collaboration without revealing their private data to each other. Recently, vertical FL, where the participating organizations hold the same set…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-15 Xinjian Luo , Yuncheng Wu , Xiaokui Xiao , Beng Chin Ooi

Many of the machine learning (ML) tasks are focused on centralized learning (CL), which requires the transmission of local datasets from the clients to a parameter server (PS) leading to a huge communication overhead. Federated learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-17 Ahmet M. Elbir , Sinem Coleri , Kumar Vijay Mishra

Federated learning (FL) is an emerging distributed machine learning framework for collaborative model training with a network of clients (edge devices). FL offers default client privacy by allowing clients to keep their sensitive data on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-24 Wenqi Wei , Ling Liu , Margaret Loper , Ka-Ho Chow , Mehmet Emre Gursoy , Stacey Truex , Yanzhao Wu