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Federated learning is considered as an effective privacy-preserving learning mechanism that separates the client's data and model training process. However, federated learning is still under the risk of privacy leakage because of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-03 Yuxuan Wan , Han Xu , Xiaorui Liu , Jie Ren , Wenqi Fan , Jiliang Tang

Although federated learning improves privacy of training data by exchanging local gradients or parameters rather than raw data, the adversary still can leverage local gradients and parameters to obtain local training data by launching…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Xue Yang , Yan Feng , Weijun Fang , Jun Shao , Xiaohu Tang , Shu-Tao Xia , Rongxing Lu

Federated learning is known to be vulnerable to both security and privacy issues. Existing research has focused either on preventing poisoning attacks from users or on concealing the local model updates from the server, but not both.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Truc Nguyen , My T. Thai

Federated learning is a recent advance in privacy protection. In this context, a trusted curator aggregates parameters optimized in decentralized fashion by multiple clients. The resulting model is then distributed back to all clients,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-03-02 Robin C. Geyer , Tassilo Klein , Moin Nabi

Collaborative training of a machine learning model comes with a risk of sharing sensitive or private data. Federated learning offers a way of collectively training a single global model without the need to share client data, by sharing only…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Damian Harenčák , Lukáš Gajdošech , Martin Madaras

Decentralized Gradient Descent (D-GD) allows a set of users to perform collaborative learning without sharing their data by iteratively averaging local model updates with their neighbors in a network graph. The absence of direct…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Abdellah El Mrini , Edwige Cyffers , Aurélien Bellet

Federated learning (FL) is a privacy-preserving machine learning framework that enables multiple nodes to train models on their local data and periodically average weight updates to benefit from other nodes' training. Each node's goal is to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Ethan Wilson , Kai Yue , Chau-Wai Wong , Huaiyu Dai

Federated Learning (FL) is a distributed learning framework, in which the local data never leaves clients devices to preserve privacy, and the server trains models on the data via accessing only the gradients of those local data. Without…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-29 Jinwoo Jeon , Jaechang Kim , Kangwook Lee , Sewoong Oh , Jungseul Ok

Gradient inversion attack (or input recovery from gradient) is an emerging threat to the security and privacy preservation of Federated learning, whereby malicious eavesdroppers or participants in the protocol can recover (partially) the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-12-02 Yangsibo Huang , Samyak Gupta , Zhao Song , Kai Li , Sanjeev Arora

Federated learning is a computing paradigm that enhances privacy by enabling multiple parties to collaboratively train a machine learning model without revealing personal data. However, current research indicates that traditional federated…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-01-10 Runhua Xu , Bo Li , Chao Li , James B. D. Joshi , Shuai Ma , Jianxin Li

In distributed learning settings, models are iteratively updated with shared gradients computed from potentially sensitive user data. While previous work has studied various privacy risks of sharing gradients, our paper aims to provide a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-02 Zhuohang Li , Andrew Lowy , Jing Liu , Toshiaki Koike-Akino , Kieran Parsons , Bradley Malin , Ye Wang

The decentralized nature of federated learning, that often leverages the power of edge devices, makes it vulnerable to attacks against privacy and security. The privacy risk for a peer is that the model update she computes on her private…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-08-05 Josep Domingo-Ferrer , Alberto Blanco-Justicia , Jesús Manjón , David Sánchez

Federated learning enables multiple participants to collaboratively train a model without aggregating the training data. Although the training data are kept within each participant and the local gradients can be securely synthesized, recent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-28 Yanjun Zhang , Guangdong Bai , Xue Li , Surya Nepal , Ryan K L Ko

Federated learning is a machine learning setting where a set of edge devices collaboratively train a model under the orchestration of a central server without sharing their local data. At each communication round of federated learning, edge…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-23 Rui Hu , Yuanxiong Guo , Yanmin Gong

Federated Learning (FL) enables collaborative training of models across distributed clients without sharing local data, addressing privacy concerns in decentralized systems. However, the gradient-sharing process exposes private data to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Mingcong Xu , Xiaojin Zhang , Wei Chen , Hai Jin

Secure aggregation (SecAgg) is a commonly-used privacy-enhancing mechanism in federated learning, affording the server access only to the aggregate of model updates while safeguarding the confidentiality of individual updates. Despite…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Khac-Hoang Ngo , Johan Östman , Giuseppe Durisi , Alexandre Graell i Amat

Federated learning algorithms are developed both for efficiency reasons and to ensure the privacy and confidentiality of personal and business data, respectively. Despite no data being shared explicitly, recent studies showed that the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Balázs Pejó , Gergely Biczók

Federated learning (FL) has emerged as a privacy-preserving machine learning approach where multiple parties share gradient information rather than original user data. Recent work has demonstrated that gradient inversion attacks can exploit…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Jin Qian , Kaimin Wei , Yongdong Wu , Jilian Zhang , Jipeng Chen , Huan Bao

Federated Averaging remains the most widely used aggregation strategy in federated learning due to its simplicity and scalability. However, its performance degrades significantly in non-IID data settings, where client distributions are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Marco Arazzi , Mert Cihangiroglu , Antonino Nocera

Federated Learning (FL) is a distributed learning paradigm that enhances users privacy by eliminating the need for clients to share raw, private data with the server. Despite the success, recent studies expose the vulnerability of FL to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-15 Jing Wu , Munawar Hayat , Mingyi Zhou , Mehrtash Harandi