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Federated learning is a technique that enables distributed clients to collaboratively learn a shared machine learning model while keeping their training data localized. This reduces data privacy risks, however, privacy concerns still exist…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-24 Vaikkunth Mugunthan , Anton Peraire-Bueno , Lalana Kagal

We study (differentially) private federated learning (FL) of language models. The language models in cross-device FL are relatively small, which can be trained with meaningful formal user-level differential privacy (DP) guarantees when…

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In terms of artificial intelligence, there are several security and privacy deficiencies in the traditional centralized training methods of machine learning models by a server. To address this limitation, federated learning (FL) has been…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Yao Chen , Yijie Gui , Hong Lin , Wensheng Gan , Yongdong Wu

The scarcity of data and isolated data islands encourage different organizations to share data with each other to train machine learning models. However, there are increasing concerns on the problems of data privacy and security, which…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-01-01 Qinghe Jing , Weiyan Wang , Junxue Zhang , Han Tian , Kai Chen

Federated learning (FL) is a heavily promoted approach for training ML models on sensitive data, e.g., text typed by users on their smartphones. FL is expressly designed for training on data that are unbalanced and non-iid across the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-07 Tao Yu , Eugene Bagdasaryan , Vitaly Shmatikov

Federated learning (FL), where data remains at the federated clients, and where only gradient updates are shared with a central aggregator, was assumed to be private. Recent work demonstrates that adversaries with gradient-level access can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-13 Varun Chandrasekaran , Suman Banerjee , Diego Perino , Nicolas Kourtellis

Federated learning (FL) enables edge devices to collaboratively train machine learning models, with model communication replacing direct data uploading. While over-the-air model aggregation improves communication efficiency, uploading…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Hang Liu , Jia Yan , Ying-Jun Angela Zhang

This paper presents LDP-Fed, a novel federated learning system with a formal privacy guarantee using local differential privacy (LDP). Existing LDP protocols are developed primarily to ensure data privacy in the collection of single…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-09 Stacey Truex , Ling Liu , Ka-Ho Chow , Mehmet Emre Gursoy , Wenqi Wei

Federated heavy hitter analytics enables service providers to better understand the preferences of cross-party users by analyzing the most frequent items. As with federated learning, it faces challenges of privacy concerns, statistical…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Yuemin Zhang , Qingqing Ye , Haibo Hu

The popularity of federated learning (FL) is on the rise, along with growing concerns about data privacy in artificial intelligence applications. FL facilitates collaborative multi-party model learning while simultaneously ensuring the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-19 Muhammad Firdaus , Kyung-Hyune Rhee

Machine Learning (ML) is an important enabler for optimizing, securing and managing mobile networks. This leads to increased collection and processing of data from network functions, which in turn may increase threats to sensitive end-user…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Martin Isaksson , Karl Norrman

Federated learning is an emerging learning paradigm where multiple clients collaboratively train a machine learning model in a privacy-preserving manner. Personalized federated learning extends this paradigm to overcome heterogeneity across…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-19 Hongxia Li , Zhongyi Cai , Jingya Wang , Jiangnan Tang , Weiping Ding , Chin-Teng Lin , Ye Shi

Conventional federated learning primarily aims to secure the privacy of data distributed across multiple edge devices, with the global model dispatched to edge devices for parameter updates during the learning process. However, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-18 JianHao Zhu , Changze Lv , Xiaohua Wang , Muling Wu , Wenhao Liu , Tianlong Li , Zixuan Ling , Cenyuan Zhang , Xiaoqing Zheng , Xuanjing Huang

Leveraging real-world health data for machine learning tasks requires addressing many practical challenges, such as distributed data silos, privacy concerns with creating a centralized database from person-specific sensitive data, resource…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-28 Olivia Choudhury , Aris Gkoulalas-Divanis , Theodoros Salonidis , Issa Sylla , Yoonyoung Park , Grace Hsu , Amar Das

With high levels of intermittent power generation and dynamic demand patterns, accurate forecasts for residential loads have become essential. Smart meters can play an important role when making these forecasts as they provide detailed load…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Joaquin Delgado Fernandez , Sergio Potenciano Menci , Charles Lee , Gilbert Fridgen

Differentially private (DP) decentralized Federated Learning (FL) allows local users to collaborate without sharing their data with a central server. However, accurately quantifying the privacy budget of private FL algorithms is challenging…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Xiang Li , Buxin Su , Chendi Wang , Qi Long , Weijie J. Su

Federated learning (FL) is an efficient approach for large-scale distributed machine learning that promises data privacy by keeping training data on client devices. However, recent research has uncovered vulnerabilities in FL, impacting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Felix Marx , Thomas Schneider , Ajith Suresh , Tobias Wehrle , Christian Weinert , Hossein Yalame

Private data, being larger and quality-higher than public data, can greatly improve large language models (LLM). However, due to privacy concerns, this data is often dispersed in multiple silos, making its secure utilization for LLM…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-12-24 JiaYing Zheng , HaiNan Zhang , LingXiang Wang , WangJie Qiu , HongWei Zheng , ZhiMing Zheng

Federated Learning (FL) is a decentralized machine learning approach that has gained attention for its potential to enable collaborative model training across clients while protecting data privacy, making it an attractive solution for the…

Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly integrated into real-world applications, raising concerns about privacy, security and the need to remove undesirable knowledge. Machine Unlearning has emerged as a promising solution, yet faces…

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