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Federated learning with differential privacy, or private federated learning, provides a strategy to train machine learning models while respecting users' privacy. However, differential privacy can disproportionately degrade the performance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-18 Borja Rodríguez-Gálvez , Filip Granqvist , Rogier van Dalen , Matt Seigel

Vertical Federated Learning (VFL) is a crucial paradigm for training machine learning models on feature-partitioned, distributed data. However, due to privacy restrictions, few public real-world VFL datasets exist for algorithm evaluation,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-14 Zhaomin Wu , Junyi Hou , Bingsheng He

The emergence of vertical federated learning (VFL) has stimulated concerns about the imperfection in privacy protection, as shared feature embeddings may reveal sensitive information under privacy attacks. This paper studies the delicate…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-08-07 Yuxi Mi , Hongquan Liu , Yewei Xia , Yiheng Sun , Jihong Guan , Shuigeng Zhou

At the intersection of the cutting-edge technologies and privacy concerns, Federated Learning (FL) with its distributed architecture, stands at the forefront in a bid to facilitate collaborative model training across multiple clients while…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Noorain Mukhtiar , Adnan Mahmood , Quan Z. Sheng

Federated learning (FL) is an emerging machine learning paradigm designed to address the challenge of data silos, attracting considerable attention. However, FL encounters persistent issues related to fairness and data privacy. To tackle…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Xinpeng Ling , Jie Fu , Kuncan Wang , Huifa Li , Tong Cheng , Zhili Chen

The current standalone deep learning framework tends to result in overfitting and low utility. This problem can be addressed by either a centralized framework that deploys a central server to train a global model on the joint data from all…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-05-20 Lingjuan Lyu , Jiangshan Yu , Karthik Nandakumar , Yitong Li , Xingjun Ma , Jiong Jin , Han Yu , Kee Siong Ng

Federated learning (FL) has emerged as a practical solution to tackle data silo issues without compromising user privacy. One of its variants, vertical federated learning (VFL), has recently gained increasing attention as the VFL matches…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Yan Kang , Jiahuan Luo , Yuanqin He , Xiaojin Zhang , Lixin Fan , Qiang Yang

Most work in privacy-preserving federated learning (FL) has focused on horizontally partitioned datasets where clients hold the same features and train complete client-level models independently. However, individual data points are often…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Xinchi Qiu , Heng Pan , Wanru Zhao , Yan Gao , Pedro P. B. Gusmao , William F. Shen , Chenyang Ma , Nicholas D. Lane

We propose Flexible Vertical Federated Learning (Flex-VFL), a distributed machine algorithm that trains a smooth, non-convex function in a distributed system with vertically partitioned data. We consider a system with several parties that…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-08-31 Timothy Castiglia , Shiqiang Wang , Stacy Patterson

Federated Learning (FL) allows collaborative model training among distributed parties without pooling local datasets at a central server. However, the distributed nature of FL poses challenges in training fair federated learning models. The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Yi Zhou , Naman Goel

Federated learning (FL) enables collaborative learning across multiple clients. In most FL work, all clients train a single learning task. However, the recent proliferation of FL applications may increasingly require multiple FL tasks to be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Marie Siew , Haoran Zhang , Jong-Ik Park , Yuezhou Liu , Yichen Ruan , Lili Su , Stratis Ioannidis , Edmund Yeh , Carlee Joe-Wong

Federated learning is a popular collaborative learning approach that enables clients to train a global model without sharing their local data. Vertical federated learning (VFL) deals with scenarios in which the data on clients have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-31 Jingwei Sun , Ziyue Xu , Dong Yang , Vishwesh Nath , Wenqi Li , Can Zhao , Daguang Xu , Yiran Chen , Holger R. Roth

Fairness has emerged as a critical problem in federated learning (FL). In this work, we identify a cause of unfairness in FL -- conflicting gradients with large differences in the magnitudes. To address this issue, we propose the federated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-17 Zheng Wang , Xiaoliang Fan , Jianzhong Qi , Chenglu Wen , Cheng Wang , Rongshan Yu

Vertical federated learning (VFL) is a promising category of federated learning for the scenario where data is vertically partitioned and distributed among parties. VFL enriches the description of samples using features from different…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-05 Liu Yang , Di Chai , Junxue Zhang , Yilun Jin , Leye Wang , Hao Liu , Han Tian , Qian Xu , Kai Chen

This paper proposes a federated learning framework designed to achieve \textit{relative fairness} for clients. Traditional federated learning frameworks typically ensure absolute fairness by guaranteeing minimum performance across all…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-11-05 Shogo Nakakita , Tatsuya Kaneko , Shinya Takamaeda-Yamazaki , Masaaki Imaizumi

Vertical federated learning trains models from feature-partitioned datasets across multiple clients, who collaborate without sharing their local data. Standard approaches assume that all feature partitions are available during both training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-23 Pedro Valdeira , Shiqiang Wang , Yuejie Chi

Federated learning allows multiple participants to conduct joint modeling without disclosing their local data. Vertical federated learning (VFL) handles the situation where participants share the same ID space and different feature spaces.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-19 Yimin Huang , Xinyu Feng , Wanwan Wang , Hao He , Yukun Wang , Ming Yao

Training ML models which are fair across different demographic groups is of critical importance due to the increased integration of ML in crucial decision-making scenarios such as healthcare and recruitment. Federated learning has been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Yahya H. Ezzeldin , Shen Yan , Chaoyang He , Emilio Ferrara , Salman Avestimehr

With the popularization of AI solutions for image based problems, there has been a growing concern for both data privacy and acquisition. In a large number of cases, information is located on separate data silos and it can be difficult for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-26 Paul K. Mandal , Cole Leo

Vertical federated learning (VFL) has emerged as a paradigm for collaborative model estimation across multiple clients, each holding a distinct set of covariates. This paper introduces the first comprehensive framework for fitting Bayesian…

Computation · Statistics 2024-05-08 Conor Hassan , Matthew Sutton , Antonietta Mira , Kerrie Mengersen