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Federated learning (FL) faces persistent robustness challenges due to non-IID data distributions and adversarial client behavior. A promising mitigation strategy is contribution evaluation, which enables adaptive aggregation by quantifying…

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Vertical federated learning (VFL) is a promising category of federated learning for the scenario where data is vertically partitioned and distributed among parties. VFL enriches the description of samples using features from different…

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Shapley value is a classic notion from game theory, historically used to quantify the contributions of individuals within groups, and more recently applied to assign values to data points when training machine learning models. Despite its…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-28 Amirata Ghorbani , Michael P. Kim , James Zou

The Shapley value (SV) and Least core (LC) are classic methods in cooperative game theory for cost/profit sharing problems. Both methods have recently been proposed as a principled solution for data valuation tasks, i.e., quantifying the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-08 Tianhao Wang , Yu Yang , Ruoxi Jia

Federated learning (FL) enables multiple clients to collaboratively train machine learning models without sharing local data. In particular, decentralized FL (DFL), where clients exchange models without a central server, has gained…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Honoka Anada , Tatsuya Kaneko , Shinya Takamaeda-Yamazaki

Recently, lots of algorithms have been proposed for learning a fair classifier from decentralized data. However, many theoretical and algorithmic questions remain open. First, is federated learning necessary, i.e., can we simply train…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-08 Yuchen Zeng , Hongxu Chen , Kangwook Lee

"How much is my data worth?" is an increasingly common question posed by organizations and individuals alike. An answer to this question could allow, for instance, fairly distributing profits among multiple data contributors and determining…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Ruoxi Jia , David Dao , Boxin Wang , Frances Ann Hubis , Nick Hynes , Nezihe Merve Gurel , Bo Li , Ce Zhang , Dawn Song , Costas Spanos

Vertical federated learning trains models from feature-partitioned datasets across multiple clients, who collaborate without sharing their local data. Standard approaches assume that all feature partitions are available during both training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-23 Pedro Valdeira , Shiqiang Wang , Yuejie Chi

Federated Learning (FL) enables collaborative model training across distributed devices while preserving data privacy. Nonetheless, the heterogeneity of edge devices often leads to inconsistent performance of the globally trained models,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Lin Wang , Zhichao Wang , Ye Shi , Sai Praneeth Karimireddy , Xiaoying Tang

Cross-silo federated learning allows multiple organizations to collaboratively train machine learning models without sharing raw data, but client updates can still leak sensitive information through inference attacks. Secure aggregation…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Delio Jaramillo Velez , Gergely Biczok , Alexandre Graell i Amat , Johan Ostman , Balazs Pejo

In collaborative machine learning (CML), data valuation, i.e., evaluating the contribution of each client's data to the machine learning model, has become a critical task for incentivizing and selecting positive data contributions. However,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Shuyuan Zheng , Sudong Cai , Chuan Xiao , Yang Cao , Jianbin Qin , Masatoshi Yoshikawa , Makoto Onizuka

As the decisions made or influenced by machine learning models increasingly impact our lives, it is crucial to detect, understand, and mitigate unfairness. But even simply determining what "unfairness" should mean in a given context is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-16 Tom Begley , Tobias Schwedes , Christopher Frye , Ilya Feige

Vertical Federated Learning (VFL) has emerged as a popular machine learning paradigm, enabling model training across the data and the task parties with different features about the same user set while preserving data privacy. In production…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-26 Yue Cui , Liuyi Yao , Zitao Li , Yaliang Li , Bolin Ding , Xiaofang Zhou

As a decentralized training approach, federated learning enables multiple organizations to jointly train a model without exposing their private data. This work investigates vertical federated learning (VFL) to address scenarios where…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Yun Tian , He Wang , Laixin Xie , Xiaojuan Ma , Quan Li

Federated learning is a learning paradigm to enable collaborative learning across different parties without revealing raw data. Notably, vertical federated learning (VFL), where parties share the same set of samples but only hold partial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-24 Zhaomin Wu , Qinbin Li , Bingsheng He

Vertical federated learning (VFL) has emerged as a paradigm for collaborative model estimation across multiple clients, each holding a distinct set of covariates. This paper introduces the first comprehensive framework for fitting Bayesian…

Computation · Statistics 2024-05-08 Conor Hassan , Matthew Sutton , Antonietta Mira , Kerrie Mengersen

Client contribution estimation in Federated Learning is necessary for identifying clients' importance and for providing fair rewards. Current methods often rely on server-side validation data or self-reported client information, which can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Asim Ukaye , Mubarak Abdu-Aguye , Nurbek Tastan , Karthik Nandakumar

Federated Learning (FL), introduced in 2016, was designed to enhance data privacy in collaborative model training environments. Among the FL paradigm, horizontal FL, where clients share the same set of features but different data samples,…

Vertical federated learning (VFL) is a promising approach for collaboratively training machine learning models using private data partitioned vertically across different parties. Ideally in a VFL setting, the active party (party possessing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Afsana Khan , Marijn ten Thij , Frank Thuijsman , Anna Wilbik

Algorithmic fairness is of utmost societal importance, yet state-of-the-art large-scale machine learning models require training with massive datasets that are frequently biased. In this context, pre-processing methods that focus on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Adrian Arnaiz-Rodriguez , Nuria Oliver