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While centralized servers pose a risk of being a single point of failure, decentralized approaches like blockchain offer a compelling solution by implementing a consensus mechanism among multiple entities. Merging distributed computing with…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-03-29 Ji Liu , Chunlu Chen , Yu Li , Lin Sun , Yulun Song , Jingbo Zhou , Bo Jing , Dejing Dou

Federated Learning (FL) allows multiple participating clients to train machine learning models collaboratively by keeping their datasets local and only exchanging model updates. Existing FL protocol designs have been shown to be vulnerable…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-10-25 Xiaolan Gu , Ming Li , Li Xiong

Federated learning (FL) refers to a distributed machine learning framework involving learning from several decentralized edge clients without sharing local dataset. This distributed strategy prevents data leakage and enables on-device…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Taki Hasan Rafi , Faiza Anan Noor , Tahmid Hussain , Dong-Kyu Chae , Zhaohui Yang

Data privacy has become a major concern in healthcare due to the increasing digitization of medical records and data-driven medical research. Protecting sensitive patient information from breaches and unauthorized access is critical, as…

Decentralized Federated Learning (DFL) has garnered attention for its robustness and scalability compared to Centralized Federated Learning (CFL). While DFL is commonly believed to offer privacy advantages due to the decentralized control…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Changlong Ji , Stephane Maag , Richard Heusdens , Qiongxiu Li

Federated Learning (FL) has been proposed as a privacy-preserving solution for distributed machine learning, particularly in heterogeneous FL settings where clients have varying computational capabilities and thus train models with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Gergely Dániel Németh , Miguel Ángel Lozano , Novi Quadrianto , Nuria Oliver

In this work, besides improving prediction accuracy, we study whether personalization could bring robustness benefits to backdoor attacks. We conduct the first study of backdoor attacks in the pFL framework, testing 4 widely used backdoor…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Zeyu Qin , Liuyi Yao , Daoyuan Chen , Yaliang Li , Bolin Ding , Minhao Cheng

Federated learning (FL) is recently surging as a promising decentralized deep learning (DL) framework that enables DL-based approaches trained collaboratively across clients without sharing private data. However, in the context of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-24 Van-Tuan Tran , Huy-Hieu Pham , Kok-Seng Wong

Federated Learning (FL) aims to protect data privacy by enabling clients to collectively train machine learning models without sharing their raw data. However, recent studies demonstrate that information exchanged during FL is subject to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Pengxin Guo , Shuang Zeng , Wenhao Chen , Xiaodan Zhang , Weihong Ren , Yuyin Zhou , Liangqiong Qu

Advanced adversarial attacks such as membership inference and model memorization can make federated learning (FL) vulnerable and potentially leak sensitive private data. Local differentially private (LDP) approaches are gaining more…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-08-04 M. A. P. Chamikara , Dongxi Liu , Seyit Camtepe , Surya Nepal , Marthie Grobler , Peter Bertok , Ibrahim Khalil

Federated learning (FL) is a promising way to allow multiple data owners (clients) to collaboratively train machine learning models without compromising data privacy. Yet, existing FL solutions usually rely on a centralized aggregator for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-11-09 Nanqing Dong , Jiahao Sun , Zhipeng Wang , Shuoying Zhang , Shuhao Zheng

As microelectronics flourish and outsourcing of the design and manufacturing stages of integrated circuits (ICs) and printed circuit boards (PCBs) becomes the norm, microelectronics stakeholders must also confront a new wave of security…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Gijung Lee , Wavid Bowman , Olivia Dizon-Paradis , Reiner Dizon-Paradis , Ronald Wilson , Damon Woodard , Domenic Forte

Federated learning (FL) provides a privacy-preserving solution for distributed machine learning tasks. One challenging problem that severely damages the performance of FL models is the co-occurrence of data heterogeneity and long-tail…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-29 Xinyi Shang , Yang Lu , Gang Huang , Hanzi Wang

Vertical Federated Learning (VFL) is a trending collaborative machine learning model training solution. Existing industrial frameworks employ secure multi-party computation techniques such as homomorphic encryption to ensure data security…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Pengyu Qiu , Xuhong Zhang , Shouling Ji , Chong Fu , Xing Yang , Ting Wang

Federated learning (FL) enables the training of models among distributed clients without compromising the privacy of training datasets, while the invisibility of clients datasets and the training process poses a variety of security threats.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Subhash Sagar , Chang-Sun Li , Seng W. Loke , Jinho Choi

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

Machine Learning (ML) techniques have shown strong potential for network traffic analysis; however, their effectiveness depends on access to representative, up-to-date datasets, which is limited in cybersecurity due to privacy and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Roberto Doriguzzi-Corin , Petr Sabel , Silvio Cretti , Silvio Ranise

Federated Learning (FL) has emerged as a potentially powerful privacy-preserving machine learning methodology, since it avoids exchanging data between participants, but instead exchanges model parameters. FL has traditionally been applied…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-10-17 Han Wu , Zilong Zhao , Lydia Y. Chen , Aad van Moorsel

Federated Learning (FL) facilitates collaborative model training among distributed clients while ensuring that raw data remains on local devices.Despite this advantage, FL systems are still exposed to risks from malicious or unreliable…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Deepthy K Bhaskar , Minimol B , Binu V P

Along with the blooming of AI and Machine Learning-based applications and services, data privacy and security have become a critical challenge. Conventionally, data is collected and aggregated in a data centre on which machine learning…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-03-19 Nguyen Truong , Kai Sun , Siyao Wang , Florian Guitton , Yike Guo