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Federated learning (FL) enables collaborative model training by aggregating local updates without requiring raw data sharing. However, prior studies have shown that servers can exploit gradient inversion to compromise user privacy or…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Yufei Zhou

The pervasive adoption of Internet-connected digital services has led to a growing concern in the personal data privacy of their customers. On the other hand, machine learning (ML) techniques have been widely adopted by digital service…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-05-13 Jiale Guo , Ziyao Liu , Kwok-Yan Lam , Jun Zhao , Yiqiang Chen , Chaoping Xing

Secure aggregation of user update vectors (e.g. gradients) has become a critical issue in the field of federated learning. Many Secure Aggregation Protocols (SAPs) face exorbitant computation costs, severely constraining their…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Siqing Zhang , Yong Liao , Pengyuan Zhou

Federated Learning (FL) allows parties to learn a shared prediction model by delegating the training computation to clients and aggregating all the separately trained models on the server. To prevent private information being inferred from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-13 Kwing Hei Li , Pedro Porto Buarque de Gusmão , Daniel J. Beutel , Nicholas D. Lane

Secure aggregation is a cryptographic protocol that securely computes the aggregation of its inputs. It is pivotal in keeping model updates private in federated learning. Indeed, the use of secure aggregation prevents the server from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Dario Pasquini , Danilo Francati , Giuseppe Ateniese

Federated learning (FL) has emerged as a promising paradigm in machine learning, enabling collaborative model training across decentralized devices without the need for raw data sharing. In FL, a global model is trained iteratively on local…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Kanishka Ranaweera , Azadeh Ghari Neiat , Xiao Liu , Bipasha Kashyap , Pubudu N. Pathirana

Federated Learning (FL) enables collaborative model training without centralizing client data, making it attractive for privacy-sensitive domains. While existing approaches employ cryptographic techniques such as homomorphic encryption,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Sahar Ghoflsaz Ghinani , Elaheh Sadredini

Recently, Niu, et. al. introduced a new variant of Federated Learning (FL), called Federated Submodel Learning (FSL). Different from traditional FL, each client locally trains the submodel (e.g., retrieved from the servers) based on its…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-03 Jamie Cui , Cen Chen , Tiandi Ye , Li Wang

For model privacy, local model parameters in federated learning shall be obfuscated before sent to the remote aggregator. This technique is referred to as \emph{secure aggregation}. However, secure aggregation makes model poisoning attacks…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-26 Zhuosheng Zhang , Jiarui Li , Shucheng Yu , Christian Makaya

Secure Aggregation protocols allow a collection of mutually distrust parties, each holding a private value, to collaboratively compute the sum of those values without revealing the values themselves. We consider training a deep neural…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-11-16 Keith Bonawitz , Vladimir Ivanov , Ben Kreuter , Antonio Marcedone , H. Brendan McMahan , Sarvar Patel , Daniel Ramage , Aaron Segal , Karn Seth

Federated Learning (FL) has emerged as a crucial distributed training paradigm, enabling discrete devices to collaboratively train a shared model under the coordination of a central server, while leveraging their locally stored private…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-02 Wenhao Yuan , Xuehe Wang

Secure aggregation is a popular protocol in privacy-preserving federated learning, which allows model aggregation without revealing the individual models in the clear. On the other hand, conventional secure aggregation protocols incur a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-28 Irem Ergun , Hasin Us Sami , Basak Guler

Federated learning has recently emerged as a paradigm promising the benefits of harnessing rich data from diverse sources to train high quality models, with the salient features that training datasets never leave local devices. Only model…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-02-07 Yifeng Zheng , Shangqi Lai , Yi Liu , Xingliang Yuan , Xun Yi , Cong Wang

Secure aggregation protocols ensure the privacy of users' data in federated learning by preventing the disclosure of local gradients. Many existing protocols impose significant communication and computational burdens on participants and may…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Rouzbeh Behnia , Arman Riasi , Reza Ebrahimi , Sherman S. M. Chow , Balaji Padmanabhan , Thang Hoang

Federated learning is a distributed framework for training machine learning models over the data residing at mobile devices, while protecting the privacy of individual users. A major bottleneck in scaling federated learning to a large…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Jinhyun So , Basak Guler , A. Salman Avestimehr

Federated Learning (FL) has emerged as a promising approach for collaborative machine learning, addressing data privacy concerns. However, existing FL platforms and frameworks often present challenges for software engineers in terms of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-09-07 Hongyi Zhang , Jan Bosch , Helena Holmström Olsson

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

Federated learning (FL) is a decentralized learning technique that enables participating devices to collaboratively build a shared Machine Leaning (ML) or Deep Learning (DL) model without revealing their raw data to a third party. Due to…

Federated Learning enables mobile devices to collaboratively learn a shared inference model while keeping all the training data on a user's device, decoupling the ability to do machine learning from the need to store the data in the cloud.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-12-03 Keith Bonawitz , Fariborz Salehi , Jakub Konečný , Brendan McMahan , Marco Gruteser

We propose SwiftAgg+, a novel secure aggregation protocol for federated learning systems, where a central server aggregates local models of $N \in \mathbb{N}$ distributed users, each of size $L \in \mathbb{N}$, trained on their local data,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-09 Tayyebeh Jahani-Nezhad , Mohammad Ali Maddah-Ali , Songze Li , Giuseppe Caire