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We investigate the security of Split Learning -- a novel collaborative machine learning framework that enables peak performance by requiring minimal resources consumption. In the present paper, we expose vulnerabilities of the protocol and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-11-05 Dario Pasquini , Giuseppe Ateniese , Massimo Bernaschi

In federated learning (FL), a set of participants share updates computed on their local data with an aggregator server that combines updates into a global model. However, reconciling accuracy with privacy and security is a challenge to FL.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Najeeb Moharram Jebreel , Josep Domingo-Ferrer , Alberto Blanco-Justicia , David Sanchez

Federated Learning lends itself as a promising paradigm in enabling distributed learning for autonomous vehicles applications and ensuring data privacy while enhancing and refining predictive model performance through collaborative training…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Md Jueal Mia , M. Hadi Amini

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…

Asynchronous federated learning (AFL) is an effective method to address the challenge of device heterogeneity in cross-device federated learning. However, AFL is usually incompatible with existing secure aggregation protocols used to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-06-07 Kun Wang , Yi-Rui Yang , Wu-Jun Li

In federated learning (FL), robust aggregation schemes have been developed to protect against malicious clients. Many robust aggregation schemes rely on certain numbers of benign clients being present in a quorum of workers. This can be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-21 Giulio Zizzo , Ambrish Rawat , Mathieu Sinn , Sergio Maffeis , Chris Hankin

In federated learning, multiple parties collaborate in order to train a global model over their respective datasets. Even though cryptographic primitives (e.g., homomorphic encryption) can help achieve data privacy in this setting, some…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-11-13 Javad Ghareh Chamani , Dimitrios Papadopoulos

Federated learning is vulnerable to various attacks, such as model poisoning and backdoor attacks, even if some existing defense strategies are used. To address this challenge, we propose an attack-adaptive aggregation strategy to defend…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-09 Ching Pui Wan , Qifeng Chen

Federated Learning (FL) has been recently proposed as an emerging paradigm to build machine learning models using distributed training datasets that are locally stored and maintained on different devices in 5G networks while providing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-07-30 Yi Liu , Jialiang Peng , Jiawen Kang , Abdullah M. Iliyasu , Dusit Niyato , Ahmed A. Abd El-Latif

Cross-device Federated Learning is an increasingly popular machine learning setting to train a model by leveraging a large population of client devices with high privacy and security guarantees. However, communication efficiency remains a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-27 Karthik Prasad , Sayan Ghosh , Graham Cormode , Ilya Mironov , Ashkan Yousefpour , Pierre Stock

The majority of work in privacy-preserving federated learning (FL) has been focusing on horizontally partitioned datasets where clients share the same sets of features and can train complete models independently. However, in many…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-22 Xinchi Qiu , Heng Pan , Wanru Zhao , Chenyang Ma , Pedro Porto Buarque de Gusmão , Nicholas D. Lane

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…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-03 Jinhyun So , Ramy E. Ali , Başak Güler , A. Salman Avestimehr

Secure aggregation promises a heightened level of privacy in federated learning, maintaining that a server only has access to a decrypted aggregate update. Within this setting, linear layer leakage methods are the only data reconstruction…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Joshua C. Zhao , Ahmed Roushdy Elkordy , Atul Sharma , Yahya H. Ezzeldin , Salman Avestimehr , Saurabh Bagchi

The state-of-the-art face recognition systems are typically trained on a single computer, utilizing extensive image datasets collected from various number of users. However, these datasets often contain sensitive personal information that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-11 Enoch Solomon , Abraham Woubie

Federated Learning enables a population of clients, working with a trusted server, to collaboratively learn a shared machine learning model while keeping each client's data within its own local systems. This reduces the risk of exposing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-10-13 David Byrd , Antigoni Polychroniadou

Hierarchical federated learning (HFL) has emerged as an effective paradigm to enhance link quality between clients and the server. However, ensuring model accuracy while preserving privacy under unreliable communication remains a key…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Shudi Weng , Ming Xiao , Mikael Skoglund

Federated learning allows for clients in a distributed system to jointly train a machine learning model. However, clients' models are vulnerable to attacks during the training and testing phases. In this paper, we address the issue of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Taejin Kim , Shubhranshu Singh , Nikhil Madaan , Carlee Joe-Wong

This paper presents a secure aggregation system Armadillo that has disruptive resistance against adversarial clients, such that any coalition of malicious clients (within the tolerated threshold) can affect the aggregation result only by…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Yiping Ma , Yue Guo , Harish Karthikeyan , Antigoni Polychroniadou

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…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Sizai Hou , Songze Li , Tayyebeh Jahani-Nezhad , Giuseppe Caire

Federated learning is a popular strategy for training models on distributed, sensitive data, while preserving data privacy. Prior work identified a range of security threats on federated learning protocols that poison the data or the model.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-08-30 Giorgio Severi , Matthew Jagielski , Gökberk Yar , Yuxuan Wang , Alina Oprea , Cristina Nita-Rotaru