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Federated Learning enables visual models to be trained on-device, bringing advantages for user privacy (data need never leave the device), but challenges in terms of data diversity and quality. Whilst typical models in the datacenter are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-20 Tzu-Ming Harry Hsu , Hang Qi , Matthew Brown

We propose Flexible Vertical Federated Learning (Flex-VFL), a distributed machine algorithm that trains a smooth, non-convex function in a distributed system with vertically partitioned data. We consider a system with several parties that…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-08-31 Timothy Castiglia , Shiqiang Wang , Stacy Patterson

Federated learning (FL) has been proposed to allow collaborative training of machine learning (ML) models among multiple parties where each party can keep its data private. In this paradigm, only model updates, such as model weights or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-18 Runhua Xu , Nathalie Baracaldo , Yi Zhou , Ali Anwar , James Joshi , Heiko Ludwig

Federated Learning (FL) is a distributed learning scheme to train a shared model across clients. One common and fundamental challenge in FL is that the sets of data across clients could be non-identically distributed and have different…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Junyi Zhu , Xingchen Ma , Matthew B. Blaschko

Over the recent years, Federated machine learning continues to gain interest and momentum where there is a need to draw insights from data while preserving the data provider's privacy. However, one among other existing challenges in the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Monik Raj Behera , Sudhir Upadhyay , Suresh Shetty

Federated Learning (FL) allows collaboration between different parties, while ensuring that the data across these parties is not shared. However, not every collaboration is helpful in terms of the resulting model performance. Therefore, it…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-21 Afsana Khan , Marijn ten Thij , Guangzhi Tang , Anna Wilbik

The Shapley value provides a principled framework for fairly distributing rewards among participants according to their individual contributions. While prior work has applied this concept to data valuation in machine learning, existing…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Zhuofan Jia , Jian Pei

Vertical Federated Learning (VFL) refers to the collaborative training of a model on a dataset where the features of the dataset are split among multiple data owners, while label information is owned by a single data owner. In this paper,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-18 Vaikkunth Mugunthan , Pawan Goyal , Lalana Kagal

While fairness-aware machine learning algorithms have been receiving increasing attention, the focus has been on centralized machine learning, leaving decentralized methods underexplored. Federated Learning is a decentralized form of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Teresa Salazar , Miguel Fernandes , Helder Araujo , Pedro Henriques Abreu

Federated learning enables a collaborative training and optimization of global models among a group of devices without sharing local data samples. However, the heterogeneity of data in federated learning can lead to unfair representation of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-03 Weikang Chen , Junping Du , Yingxia Shao , Jia Wang , Yangxi Zhou

Vertical federated learning is a collaborative machine learning framework to train deep leaning models on vertically partitioned data with privacy-preservation. It attracts much attention both from academia and industry. Unfortunately,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-21 Wensheng Xia , Ying Li , Lan Zhang , Zhonghai Wu , Xiaoyong Yuan

Federated learning makes it possible to train a machine learning model on decentralized data. Bayesian networks are probabilistic graphical models that have been widely used in artificial intelligence applications. Their popularity stems…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-22 Florian van Daalen , Lianne Ippel , Andre Dekker , Inigo Bermejo

Federated learning (FL) is a distributed learning paradigm that enables a large number of devices to collaboratively learn a model without sharing their raw data. Despite its practical efficiency and effectiveness, the iterative on-device…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-16 Bing Luo , Xiang Li , Shiqiang Wang , Jianwei Huang , Leandros Tassiulas

Federated learning (FL) has attracted significant attention for enabling collaborative learning without exposing private data. Among the primary variants of FL, vertical federated learning (VFL) addresses feature-partitioned data held by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Kihun Hong , Sejun Park , Ganguk Hwang

In federated learning (FL), fair and accurate measurement of the contribution of each federated participant is of great significance. The level of contribution not only provides a rational metric for distributing financial benefits among…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-01 Jie Zhao , Xinghua Zhu , Jianzong Wang , Jing Xiao

Over the recent years, Shapley value (SV), a solution concept from cooperative game theory, has found numerous applications in data analytics (DA). This paper presents the first comprehensive study of SV used throughout the DA workflow,…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Hong Lin , Shixin Wan , Zhongle Xie , Ke Chen , Meihui Zhang , Lidan Shou , Gang Chen

Additive feature explanations using Shapley values have become popular for providing transparency into the relative importance of each feature to an individual prediction of a machine learning model. While Shapley values provide a unique…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-21 Thomas W. Campbell , Heinrich Roder , Robert W. Georgantas , Joanna Roder

Recently, federated learning (FL) has emerged as a promising distributed machine learning (ML) technology, owing to the advancing computational and sensing capacities of end-user devices, however with the increasing concerns on users'…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Kang Wei , Jun Li , Chuan Ma , Ming Ding , Sha Wei , Fan Wu , Guihai Chen , Thilina Ranbaduge

Vertical federated learning (VFL) is an emerging paradigm that enables collaborators to build machine learning models together in a distributed fashion. In general, these parties have a group of users in common but own different features.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-04 Pengyu Qiu , Xuhong Zhang , Shouling Ji , Changjiang Li , Yuwen Pu , Xing Yang , Ting Wang

Measuring contributions is a classical problem in cooperative game theory where the Shapley value is the most well-known solution concept. In this paper, we establish the convergence property of the Shapley value in parametric Bayesian…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-15 Lucas Agussurja , Xinyi Xu , Bryan Kian Hsiang Low