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Federated learning is a collaborative method that aims to preserve data privacy while creating AI models. Current approaches to federated learning tend to rely heavily on secure aggregation protocols to preserve data privacy. However, to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-11-14 John Reuben Gilbert

Graph learning has a wide range of applications in many scenarios, which require more need for data privacy. Federated learning is an emerging distributed machine learning approach that leverages data from individual devices or data centers…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-20 Peilin Liu , Yanni Tang , Mingyue Zhang , Wu Chen

Federated learning based on homomorphic encryption has received widespread attention due to its high security and enhanced protection of user data privacy. However, the characteristics of encrypted computation lead to three challenging…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Yang Li , Chunhe Xia , Chang Li , Xiaojian Li , Tianbo Wang

This study proposes an advanced Federated Learning (FL) framework designed to enhance data privacy and security in IoT environments by integrating Decentralized Attribute-Based Encryption (DABE), Homomorphic Encryption (HE), Secure…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Sathwik Narkedimilli , Amballa Venkata Sriram , Satvik Raghav

Federated Learning (FL) enables collaborative model training without sharing raw data, making it a promising approach for privacy-sensitive domains. Despite its potential, FL faces significant challenges, particularly in terms of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Khoa Nguyen , Tanveer Khan , Hossein Abdinasibfar , Antonis Michalas

Threshold Homomorphic Encryption (Threshold HE) is a good fit for implementing private federated average aggregation, a key operation in Federated Learning (FL). Despite its potential, recent studies have shown that threshold schemes…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Miguel Morona-Mínguez , Alberto Pedrouzo-Ulloa , Fernando Pérez-González

Federated learning is the centralized training of statistical models from decentralized data on mobile devices while preserving the privacy of each device. We present a robust aggregation approach to make federated learning robust to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-08-04 Krishna Pillutla , Sham M. Kakade , Zaid Harchaoui

In hierarchical secure aggregation (HSA), a server communicates with clustered users through an intermediate layer of relays to compute the sum of users' inputs under two security requirements -- server security and relay security. Server…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Zhou Li , Xiang Zhang , Jiawen Lv , Jihao Fan , Haiqiang Chen , Giuseppe Caire

Federated learning enables isolated clients to train a shared model collaboratively by aggregating the locally-computed gradient updates. However, privacy information could be leaked from uploaded gradients and be exposed to malicious…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Dun Zeng , Shiyu Liu , Siqi Liang , Zonghang Li , Hui Wang , Irwin King , Zenglin Xu

Federated learning is a method used in machine learning to allow multiple devices to work together on a model without sharing their private data. Each participant keeps their private data on their system and trains a local model and only…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-07 Feiran Yang

In federated learning, multiple parties train models locally and share their parameters with a central server, which aggregates them to update a global model. To address the risk of exposing sensitive data through local models, secure…

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

Secure aggregation enables aggregation of inputs from multiple parties without revealing individual contributions to the server or other clients. Existing post-quantum approaches based on homomorphic encryption offer practical efficiency…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Sebastian Bitzer , Maximilian Egger , Mumin Liu , Antonia Wachter-Zeh

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

We propose and experimentally evaluate a novel secure aggregation algorithm targeted at cross-organizational federated learning applications with a fixed set of participating learners. Our solution organizes learners in a chain and encrypts…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-08-16 Thomas Sandholm , Sayandev Mukherjee , Bernardo A. Huberman

This article presents DDP-SA, a scalable privacy-preserving federated learning framework that jointly leverages client-side local differential privacy (LDP) and full-threshold additive secret sharing (ASS) for secure aggregation. Unlike…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Wenjing Wei , Farid Nait-Abdesselam , Alla Jammine

Decentralized learning (DL) faces increased vulnerability to privacy breaches due to sophisticated attacks on machine learning (ML) models. Secure aggregation is a computationally efficient cryptographic technique that enables multiple…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-15 Sayan Biswas , Anne-Marie Kermarrec , Rafael Pires , Rishi Sharma , Milos Vujasinovic

In this paper, we study the fundamental limits of hierarchical secure aggregation under unreliable communication. We consider a hierarchical network where each client connects to multiple relays, and both client-to-relay and relay-to-server…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Shudi Weng , Xiang Zhang , Yizhou Zhao , Giuseppe Caire , Ming Xiao , Mikael Skoglund

Federated learning (FL) enables collaborative training of machine learning models without sharing sensitive client data, making it a cornerstone for privacy-critical applications. However, FL faces the dual challenge of ensuring learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Yenan Wang , Carla Fabiana Chiasserini , Elad Michael Schiller