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Leveraging federated learning (FL) to enable cross-domain privacy-sensitive data mining represents a vital breakthrough to accomplish privacy-preserving learning. However, attackers can infer the original user data by analyzing the uploaded…

Recent attacks on federated learning demonstrate that keeping the training data on clients' devices does not provide sufficient privacy, as the model parameters shared by clients can leak information about their training data. A 'secure…

Federated learning enables the collaborative learning of a global model on diverse data, preserving data locality and eliminating the need to transfer user data to a central server. However, data privacy remains vulnerable, as attacks can…

We propose SwiftAgg, a novel secure aggregation protocol for federated learning systems, where a central server aggregates local models of $N$ distributed users, each of size $L$, trained on their local data, in a privacy-preserving manner.…

Secure aggregation is a critical component in federated learning (FL), which enables the server to learn the aggregate model of the users without observing their local models. Conventionally, secure aggregation algorithms focus only on…

Federated Learning (FL) is a promising distributed learning framework designed for privacy-aware applications. FL trains models on client devices without sharing the client's data and generates a global model on a server by aggregating…

Federated Learning (FL) is a decentralized machine learning approach where client devices train models locally and send them to a server that performs aggregation to generate a global model. FL is vulnerable to model inversion attacks,…

Federated learning (FL) has recently gained significant momentum due to its potential to leverage large-scale distributed user data while preserving user privacy. However, the typical paradigm of FL faces challenges of both privacy and…

Federated Learning (FL) enables multiple users to collaboratively train a machine learning model without sharing raw data, making it suitable for privacy-sensitive applications. However, local model or weight updates can still leak…

Federated learning (FL) enables collaborative model training without sharing raw data, but individual model updates may still leak sensitive information. Secure aggregation (SecAgg) mitigates this risk by allowing the server to access only…

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…

Federated learning enables collaborative model training across distributed clients, yet vanilla FL exposes client updates to the central server. Secure-aggregation schemes protect privacy against an honest-but-curious server, but existing…

Secure aggregation (SecAgg) is a commonly-used privacy-enhancing mechanism in federated learning, affording the server access only to the aggregate of model updates while safeguarding the confidentiality of individual updates. Despite…

Federated learning (FL) is well-suited to 5G networks, where many mobile devices generate sensitive edge data. Secure aggregation protocols enhance privacy in FL by ensuring that individual user updates reveal no information about the…

Federated Unlearning (FU) is gaining prominence for its capability to eliminate influences of Federated Learning (FL) users' data from trained global FL models. A straightforward FU method involves removing the unlearned users and…

We present two novel federated learning (FL) schemes that mitigate the effect of straggling devices by introducing redundancy on the devices' data across the network. Compared to other schemes in the literature, which deal with stragglers…

Federated Learning (FL) offers a promising approach to collaboratively train machine learning models without centralizing raw data, yet its scalability is often throttled by excessive communication overhead. This challenge is magnified in…

Federated Learning (FL) enables training Artificial Intelligence (AI) models over end devices without compromising their privacy. As computing tasks are increasingly performed by a combination of cloud, edge, and end devices, FL can benefit…

Federated learning (FL) allows multiple devices to train a model collaboratively without sharing their data. Despite its benefits, FL is vulnerable to privacy leakage and poisoning attacks. To address the privacy concern, secure aggregation…

Federated learning (FL) has attracted growing interest for enabling privacy-preserving machine learning on data stored at multiple users while avoiding moving the data off-device. However, while data never leaves users' devices, privacy…