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Federated learning is a distributed learning setting where the main aim is to train machine learning models without having to share raw data but only what is required for learning. To guarantee training data privacy and high-utility models,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Mikko A. Heikkilä

Scalability and privacy are two critical concerns for cross-device federated learning (FL) systems. In this work, we identify that synchronous FL - synchronized aggregation of client updates in FL - cannot scale efficiently beyond a few…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-08 John Nguyen , Kshitiz Malik , Hongyuan Zhan , Ashkan Yousefpour , Michael Rabbat , Mani Malek , Dzmitry Huba

In this work, we consider the problem of designing secure and efficient federated learning (FL) frameworks. Existing solutions either involve a trusted aggregator or require heavyweight cryptographic primitives, which degrades performance…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-01-31 Jieren Deng , Chenghong Wang , Xianrui Meng , Yijue Wang , Ji Li , Sheng Lin , Shuo Han , Fei Miao , Sanguthevar Rajasekaran , Caiwen Ding

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 enables diverse devices to collaboratively train a shared model while keeping training data locally stored, avoiding the need for centralized cloud storage. Despite existing privacy measures, concerns arise from potential…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-29 Elie Atallah

In many distributed learning setups such as federated learning (FL), client nodes at the edge use individually collected data to compute local gradients and send them to a central master server. The master server then aggregates the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Kai Liang , Songze Li , Ming Ding , Youlong Wu

We consider the problem of computing an aggregation function in a \emph{secure} and \emph{scalable} way. Whereas previous distributed solutions with similar security guarantees have a communication cost of $O(n^3)$, we present a distributed…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2011-11-24 Sebastien Gambs , Rachid Guerraoui , Hamza Harkous , Florian Huc , Anne-Marie Kermarrec

In Federated Learning (FL), the distributed nature and heterogeneity of client data present both opportunities and challenges. While collaboration among clients can significantly enhance the learning process, not all collaborations are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Nazarii Tupitsa , Samuel Horváth , Martin Takáč , Eduard Gorbunov

This paper presents a fully coupled blockchain-assisted federated learning architecture that effectively eliminates single points of failure by decentralizing both the training and aggregation tasks across all participants. Our proposed…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-10-21 Huong Nguyen , Tri Nguyen , Lauri Lovén , Susanna Pirttikangas

Secure aggregation enables federated learning (FL) to perform collaborative training of clients from local gradient updates without exposing raw data. However, existing secure aggregation schemes inevitably perform an expensive fresh setup…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Kaiping Cui , Xia Feng , Liangmin Wang , Haiqin Wu , Xiaoyu Zhang , Boris Düdder

Federated learning promises to make machine learning feasible on distributed, private datasets by implementing gradient descent using secure aggregation methods. The idea is to compute a global weight update without revealing the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-03 Badih Ghazi , Rasmus Pagh , Ameya Velingker

This article illustrates a novel Quantum Secure Aggregation (QSA) scheme that is designed to provide highly secure and efficient aggregation of local model parameters for federated learning. The scheme is secure in protecting private model…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-18 Yichi Zhang , Chao Zhang , Cai Zhang , Lixin Fan , Bei Zeng , Qiang Yang

Federated learning is a promising framework for learning over decentralized data spanning multiple regions. This approach avoids expensive central training data aggregation cost and can improve privacy because distributed sites do not have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Beomyeol Jeon , S. M. Ferdous , Muntasir Raihan Rahman , Anwar Walid

In decentralized federated learning (FL), multiple clients collaboratively learn a shared machine learning (ML) model by leveraging their privately held datasets distributed across the network, through interactive exchange of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Xiang Zhang , Zhou Li , Shuangyang Li , Kai Wan , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Giuseppe Caire

Federated learning (FL) facilitates collaborative training of machine learning models among a large number of clients while safeguarding the privacy of their local datasets. However, FL remains susceptible to vulnerabilities such as privacy…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Xincheng Li , Jianting Ning , Geong Sen Poh , Leo Yu Zhang , Xinchun Yin , Tianwei Zhang

In this paper, we study the fundamental limits of hierarchical secure aggregation under unreliable communication. We consider a hierarchical network where each client connects to multiple relays, and both client-to-relay and relay-to-server…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Shudi Weng , Xiang Zhang , Yizhou Zhao , Giuseppe Caire , Ming Xiao , Mikael Skoglund

Despite the great potential of Federated Learning (FL) in large-scale distributed learning, the current system is still subject to several privacy issues due to the fact that local models trained by clients are exposed to the central…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-05-12 Truc Nguyen , Phuc Thai , Tre' R. Jeter , Thang N. Dinh , My T. Thai

Federated learning has created a decentralized method to train a machine learning model without needing direct access to client data. The main goal of a federated learning architecture is to protect the privacy of each client while still…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-12-11 Marc Vucovich , Devin Quinn , Kevin Choi , Christopher Redino , Abdul Rahman , Edward Bowen

Many researchers have proposed replacing the aggregation server in federated learning with a blockchain system to improve privacy, robustness, and scalability. In this approach, clients would upload their updated models to the blockchain…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-11-15 Yongding Tian , Zhuoran Guo , Jiaxuan Zhang , Zaid Al-Ars

Federated learning (FL) typically relies on synchronous training, which is slow due to stragglers. While asynchronous training handles stragglers efficiently, it does not ensure privacy due to the incompatibility with the secure aggregation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-03 Jinhyun So , Ramy E. Ali , Başak Güler , A. Salman Avestimehr