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Federated Learning (FL) is a machine learning approach that addresses privacy and data transfer costs by computing data at the source. It's particularly popular for Edge and IoT applications where the aggregator server of FL is in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Ahmad Faraz Khan , Yuze Li , Xinran Wang , Sabaat Haroon , Haider Ali , Yue Cheng , Ali R. Butt , Ali Anwar

In this paper, we propose a novel method for enhancing security in privacy-preserving federated learning using the Vision Transformer. In federated learning, learning is performed by collecting updated information without collecting raw…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Hiroto Sawada , Shoko Imaizumi , Hitoshi Kiya

Despite federated learning (FL)'s potential in collaborative learning, its performance has deteriorated due to the data heterogeneity of distributed users. Recently, clustered federated learning (CFL) has emerged to address this challenge…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Zhiqiang Li , Haiyong Bao , Menghong Guan , Hao Pan , Cheng Huang , Hong-Ning Dai

Federated Learning (FL) is a machine learning paradigm to conduct collaborative learning among clients on a joint model. The primary goal is to share clients' local training parameters with an integrating server while preserving their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Mahdi Ghafourian , Julian Fierrez , Ruben Vera-Rodriguez , Ruben Tolosana , Aythami Morales

Federated learning is a decentralized machine learning paradigm that allows multiple clients to collaborate by leveraging local computational power and the models transmission. This method reduces the costs and privacy concerns associated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-03 Bipin Chhetri , Saroj Gopali , Rukayat Olapojoye , Samin Dehbash , Akbar Siami Namin

Federated learning systems that jointly preserve Byzantine robustness and privacy have remained an open problem. Robust aggregation, the standard defense for Byzantine attacks, generally requires server access to individual updates or…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-10-07 Raj Kiriti Velicheti , Derek Xia , Oluwasanmi Koyejo

We consider a foundational unsupervised learning task of $k$-means data clustering, in a federated learning (FL) setting consisting of a central server and many distributed clients. We develop SecFC, which is a secure federated clustering…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-01 Songze Li , Sizai Hou , Baturalp Buyukates , Salman Avestimehr

Today's AI still faces two major challenges. One is that in most industries, data exists in the form of isolated islands. The other is the strengthening of data privacy and security. We propose a possible solution to these challenges:…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-02-14 Qiang Yang , Yang Liu , Tianjian Chen , Yongxin Tong

Secure aggregation promises a heightened level of privacy in federated learning, maintaining that a server only has access to a decrypted aggregate update. Within this setting, linear layer leakage methods are the only data reconstruction…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Joshua C. Zhao , Ahmed Roushdy Elkordy , Atul Sharma , Yahya H. Ezzeldin , Salman Avestimehr , Saurabh Bagchi

This work studies privacy-preserving federated learning (ppFL) under unreliable communication. In ppFL, zero-sum privacy noises enables privacy protection without sacrificing model accuracy, effectively overcoming the privacy-utility…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Shudi Weng , Chao Ren , Yizhou Zhao , Ming Xiao , Mikael Skoglund

Mobile crowdsensing has gained significant attention in recent years and has become a critical paradigm for emerging Internet of Things applications. The sensing devices continuously generate a significant quantity of data, which provide…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-07 Zhouyuan Huo , Qian Yang , Bin Gu , Lawrence Carin. Heng Huang

Federated Learning (FL) has emerged as a promising approach for privacy-preserving model training across decentralized devices. However, it faces challenges such as statistical heterogeneity and susceptibility to adversarial attacks, which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-13 Jialuo He , Wei Chen , Xiaojin Zhang

Electroencephalogram (EEG)-based brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) are widely adopted due to their efficiency and portability; however, their decoding algorithms still face multiple challenges, including inadequate generalization,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Tianwang Jia , Xiaoqing Chen , Dongrui Wu

The recent decade witnessed a surge of increase in financial crimes across the public and private sectors, with an average cost of scams of $102m to financial institutions in 2022. Developing a mechanism for battling financial crimes is an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-20 Haobo Zhang , Junyuan Hong , Fan Dong , Steve Drew , Liangjie Xue , Jiayu Zhou

Resilience against malicious participants and data privacy are essential for trustworthy federated learning, yet achieving both with good utility typically requires the strong assumption of a trusted central server. This paper shows that a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Youssef Allouah , Rachid Guerraoui , John Stephan

Evolving security vulnerabilities and shifting operational conditions require frequent updates to network security policies. These updates include adjustments to incident response procedures and modifications to access controls, among…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-05 Kim Hammar , Yuchao Li , Tansu Alpcan , Emil C. Lupu , Dimitri Bertsekas

Fast identification of new network attack patterns is crucial for improving network security. Nevertheless, identifying an ongoing attack in a heterogeneous network is a non-trivial task. Federated learning emerges as a solution to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-05-25 Helio N. Cunha Neto , Ivana Dusparic , Diogo M. F. Mattos , Natalia C. Fernandes

Federated learning is a new approach to distributed machine learning that offers potential advantages such as reducing communication requirements and distributing the costs of training algorithms. Therefore, it could hold great promise in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Alexandre Pacheco , Sébastien De Vos , Andreagiovanni Reina , Marco Dorigo , Volker Strobel

Introducing blockchain into Federated Learning (FL) to build a trusted edge computing environment for transmission and learning has attracted widespread attention as a new decentralized learning pattern. However, traditional consensus…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-02-01 Shuo Yuan , Bin Cao , Yao Sun , Zhiguo Wan , Mugen Peng

While Secure Aggregation (SA) protects update confidentiality in Cross-silo Federated Learning, it fails to guarantee aggregation integrity, allowing malicious servers to silently omit or tamper with updates. Existing verifiable aggregation…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Xian Qin , Xue Yang , Xiaohu Tang