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Federated Learning enables diverse devices to collaboratively train a shared model while keeping training data locally stored, avoiding the need for centralized cloud storage. Despite existing privacy measures, concerns arise from potential…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-29 Elie Atallah

Federated learning (FL) enables distributed training with private client data, but its convergence is hindered by system heterogeneity under realistic communication scenarios. Most FL schemes addressing system heterogeneity utilize global…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Keumseo Ryum , Jinu Gong , Joonhyuk Kang

Federated learning, as a distributed architecture, shows great promise for applications in Cyber-Physical-Social Systems (CPSS). In order to mitigate the privacy risks inherent in CPSS, the integration of differential privacy with federated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Jiayi Wan , Xiang Zhu , Fanzhen Liu , Wei Fan , Xiaolong Xu

We investigate the problem of private read update write (PRUW) in relation to private federated submodel learning (FSL), where a machine learning model is divided into multiple submodels based on the different types of data used to train…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-12 Sajani Vithana , Sennur Ulukus

The feasibility of federated learning is highly constrained by the server-clients infrastructure in terms of network communication. Most newly launched smartphones and IoT devices are equipped with GPUs or sufficient computing hardware to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Marten van Dijk , Nhuong V. Nguyen , Toan N. Nguyen , Lam M. Nguyen , Quoc Tran-Dinh , Phuong Ha Nguyen

To prevent private training data leakage in Fed?erated Learning systems, we propose a novel se?cure aggregation scheme based on seed homomor?phic pseudo-random generator (SHPRG), named SASH. SASH leverages the homomorphic property of SHPRG…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Zizhen Liu , Si Chen , Jing Ye , Junfeng Fan , Huawei Li , Xiaowei Li

Secure and reliable medical image classification is crucial for effective patient treatment, but centralized models face challenges due to data and privacy concerns. Federated Learning (FL) enables privacy-preserving collaborations but…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-30 Gousia Habib , Aniket Bhardwaj , Ritvik Sharma , Shoeib Amin Banday , Ishfaq Ahmad Malik

Federated learning algorithms are developed both for efficiency reasons and to ensure the privacy and confidentiality of personal and business data, respectively. Despite no data being shared explicitly, recent studies showed that the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Balázs Pejó , Gergely Biczók

We show that aggregated model updates in federated learning may be insecure. An untrusted central server may disaggregate user updates from sums of updates across participants given repeated observations, enabling the server to recover…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-06-14 Maximilian Lam , Gu-Yeon Wei , David Brooks , Vijay Janapa Reddi , Michael Mitzenmacher

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

To improve federated training of neural networks, we develop FedSparsify, a sparsification strategy based on progressive weight magnitude pruning. Our method has several benefits. First, since the size of the network becomes increasingly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-17 Dimitris Stripelis , Umang Gupta , Greg Ver Steeg , Jose Luis Ambite

Federated recommender system (FedRec) has emerged as a solution to protect user data through collaborative training techniques. A typical FedRec involves transmitting the full model and entire weight updates between edge devices and the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Peihua Mai , Youlong Ding , Ziyan Lyu , Minxin Du , Yan Pang

Federated learning (FL) has been recognized as a rapidly growing research area, where the model is trained over massively distributed clients under the orchestration of a parameter server (PS) without sharing clients' data. This paper…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-04 Yiwei Li , Chien-Wei Huang , Shuai Wang , Chong-Yung Chi , Tony Q. S. Quek

This paper introduces a novel framework designed to achieve a high compression ratio in Split Learning (SL) scenarios where resource-constrained devices are involved in large-scale model training. Our investigations demonstrate that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Wenxuan Zhou , Zhihao Qu , Shen-Huan Lyu , Miao Cai , Baoliu Ye

This work studies privacy-preserving federated learning (ppFL) under unreliable communication. In ppFL, zero-sum privacy noises enables privacy protection without sacrificing model accuracy, effectively overcoming the privacy-utility…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Shudi Weng , Chao Ren , Yizhou Zhao , Ming Xiao , Mikael Skoglund

Privacy, security and data governance constraints rule out a brute force process in the integration of cross-silo data, which inherits the development of the Internet of Things. Federated learning is proposed to ensure that all parties can…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Dongqi Cai , Tao Fan , Yan Kang , Lixin Fan , Mengwei Xu , Shangguang Wang , Qiang Yang

Learning from data owned by several parties, as in federated learning, raises challenges regarding the privacy guarantees provided to participants and the correctness of the computation in the presence of malicious parties. We tackle these…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-10-31 César Sabater , Aurélien Bellet , Jan Ramon

Secure aggregation, which is a core component of federated learning, aggregates locally trained models from distributed users at a central server. The ``secure'' nature of such aggregation consists of the fact that no information about the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-02-01 Kai Wan , Xin Yao , Hua Sun , Mingyue Ji , Giuseppe Caire

To reduce the long training time of large deep neural network (DNN) models, distributed synchronous stochastic gradient descent (S-SGD) is commonly used on a cluster of workers. However, the speedup brought by multiple workers is limited by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-03 Shaohuai Shi , Zhenheng Tang , Qiang Wang , Kaiyong Zhao , Xiaowen Chu

Federated Learning (FL) enables collaborative model training while preserving data privacy by keeping raw data locally stored on client devices, preventing access from other clients or the central server. However, recent studies reveal that…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Ren-Yi Huang , Dumindu Samaraweera , Prashant Shekhar , J. Morris Chang