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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) allows a server to learn a machine learning (ML) model across multiple decentralized clients that privately store their own training data. In contrast with centralized ML approaches, FL saves computation to the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Alberto Blanco-Justicia , Josep Domingo-Ferrer , Sergio Martínez , David Sánchez , Adrian Flanagan , Kuan Eeik Tan

Federated learning has been rapidly evolving and gaining popularity in recent years due to its privacy-preserving features, among other advantages. Nevertheless, the exchange of model updates and gradients in this architecture provides new…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Ehsan Hallaji , Roozbeh Razavi-Far , Mehrdad Saif , Boyu Wang , Qiang Yang

Federated learning is a technique that allows multiple entities to collaboratively train models using their data without compromising data privacy. However, despite its advantages, federated learning can be susceptible to false data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Or Shalom , Amir Leshem , Waheed U. Bajwa

Federated learning is a promising framework for learning over decentralized data spanning multiple regions. This approach avoids expensive central training data aggregation cost and can improve privacy because distributed sites do not have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Beomyeol Jeon , S. M. Ferdous , Muntasir Raihan Rahman , Anwar Walid

In decentralized federated learning (FL), multiple clients collaboratively learn a shared machine learning (ML) model by leveraging their privately held datasets distributed across the network, through interactive exchange of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Xiang Zhang , Zhou Li , Shuangyang Li , Kai Wan , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Giuseppe Caire

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 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…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Yiwei Zhang , Rouzbeh Behnia , Imtiaz Karim , Attila A. Yavuz , Elisa Bertino

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

Free-rider attacks against federated learning consist in dissimulating participation to the federated learning process with the goal of obtaining the final aggregated model without actually contributing with any data. This kind of attacks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Yann Fraboni , Richard Vidal , Marco Lorenzi

Federated learning enables multiple data owners to jointly train a machine learning model without revealing their private datasets. However, a malicious aggregation server might use the model parameters to derive sensitive information about…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-02-16 Yash More , Prashanthi Ramachandran , Priyam Panda , Arup Mondal , Harpreet Virk , Debayan Gupta

The classical machine learning paradigm requires the aggregation of user data in a central location where machine learning practitioners can preprocess data, calculate features, tune models and evaluate performance. The advantage of this…

Federated Learning (FL) has emerged as a promising approach to address data privacy and confidentiality concerns by allowing multiple participants to construct a shared model without centralizing sensitive data. However, this decentralized…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Jahid Hasan

Due to its distributed methodology alongside its privacy-preserving features, Federated Learning (FL) is vulnerable to training time adversarial attacks. In this study, our focus is on backdoor attacks in which the adversary's goal is to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-11 Omid Aramoon , Pin-Yu Chen , Gang Qu , Yuan Tian

Federated learning (FL) enables a set of entities to collaboratively train a machine learning model without sharing their sensitive data, thus, mitigating some privacy concerns. However, an increasing number of works in the literature…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-01-04 Aidmar Wainakh , Ephraim Zimmer , Sandeep Subedi , Jens Keim , Tim Grube , Shankar Karuppayah , Alejandro Sanchez Guinea , Max Mühlhäuser

Federated learning is a learning method for training models over multiple participants without directly sharing their raw data, and it has been expected to be a privacy protection method for training data. In contrast, attack methods have…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-08-02 Rei Aso , Sayaka Shiota , Hitoshi Kiya

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…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Takumi Suimon , Yuki Koizumi , Junji Takemasa , Toru Hasegawa

Privacy-preserving federated averaging is a central approach for protecting client privacy in federated learning. In this paper, we study this problem in an asynchronous communications setting with malicious aggregators. We propose a new…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Antonella Del Pozzo , Achille Desreumaux , Mathieu Gestin , Alexandre Rapetti , Sara Tucci-Piergiovanni

Secure Multiparty Computation (MPC) can improve the security and privacy of data owners while allowing analysts to perform high quality analytics. Secure aggregation is a secure distributed mechanism to support federated deep learning…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-05-04 Timothy Stevens , Joseph Near , Christian Skalka

Federated learning is an improved version of distributed machine learning that further offloads operations which would usually be performed by a central server. The server becomes more like an assistant coordinating clients to work together…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Sheng Shen , Tianqing Zhu , Di Wu , Wei Wang , Wanlei Zhou