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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

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,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-05-03 Niousha Nazemi , Omid Tavallaie , Shuaijun Chen , Albert Y. Zomaya , Ralph Holz

Federated learning is known to be vulnerable to both security and privacy issues. Existing research has focused either on preventing poisoning attacks from users or on concealing the local model updates from the server, but not both.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Truc Nguyen , My T. Thai

One main challenge in federated learning is the large communication cost of exchanging weight updates from clients to the server at each round. While prior work has made great progress in compressing the weight updates through gradient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-10 Berivan Isik , Francesco Pase , Deniz Gunduz , Tsachy Weissman , Michele Zorzi

The performance and efficiency of distributed training of Deep Neural Networks highly depend on the performance of gradient averaging among all participating nodes, which is bounded by the communication between nodes. There are two major…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-02-10 Linnan Wang , Wei Wu , Junyu Zhang , Hang Liu , George Bosilca , Maurice Herlihy , Rodrigo Fonseca

Deploying federated learning (FL) in real-world scenarios, particularly in healthcare, poses challenges in communication and security. In particular, with respect to the federated aggregation procedure, researchers have been focusing on the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Riccardo Taiello , Sergen Cansiz , Marc Vesin , Francesco Cremonesi , Lucia Innocenti , Melek Önen , Marco Lorenzi

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

In this paper, we investigate the transmission latency of the secure aggregation problem in a \emph{wireless} federated learning system with multiple curious servers. We propose a privacy-preserving coded aggregation scheme where the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Zhenhao Huang , Kai Liang , Yuanming Shi , Songze Li , Youlong Wu

Deep learning has achieved great success in many applications. However, its deployment in practice has been hurdled by two issues: the privacy of data that has to be aggregated centrally for model training and high communication overhead…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-02-04 Tien-Dung Cao , Tram Truong-Huu , Hien Tran , Khanh Tran

Healthcare federated learning requires strong privacy guarantees while maintaining computational efficiency across resource-constrained medical institutions. This paper presents MedHE, a novel framework combining adaptive gradient…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Farjana Yesmin

Synchronous stochastic gradient descent (SGD) is the most common method used for distributed training of deep learning models. In this algorithm, each worker shares its local gradients with others and updates the parameters using the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-22 Negar Foroutan Eghlidi , Martin Jaggi

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…

In federated learning (FL), a machine learning (ML) model is collectively trained by a large number of users, using their private data in their local devices. With top $r$ sparsification in FL, the users only upload the most significant $r$…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-08 Sajani Vithana , Sennur Ulukus

Secure aggregation is concerned with the task of securely uploading the inputs of multiple users to an aggregation server without letting the server know the inputs beyond their summation. It finds broad applications in distributed machine…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Xiang Zhang , Kai Wan , Hua Sun , Shiqiang Wang , Mingyue Ji , Giuseppe Caire

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…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Siqing Zhang , Yong Liao , Pengyuan Zhou

In federated learning, a federator coordinates the training of a model, e.g., a neural network, on privately owned data held by several participating clients. The gradient descent algorithm, a well-known and popular iterative optimization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Maximilian Egger , Christoph Hofmeister , Antonia Wachter-Zeh , Rawad Bitar

Bidirectional privacy-preservation federated learning is crucial as both local gradients and the global model may leak privacy. However, only a few works attempt to achieve it, and they often face challenges such as excessive communication…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Xue Yang , Depan Peng , Yan Feng , Xiaohu Tang , Weijun Fang , Jun Shao

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 (FL) enables the training of a model leveraging decentralized data in client sites while preserving privacy by not collecting data. However, one of the significant challenges of FL is limited computation and low…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Riyasat Ohib , Bishal Thapaliya , Pratyush Gaggenapalli , Jingyu Liu , Vince Calhoun , Sergey Plis

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