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Federated learning has recently emerged as a paradigm promising the benefits of harnessing rich data from diverse sources to train high quality models, with the salient features that training datasets never leave local devices. Only model…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-02-07 Yifeng Zheng , Shangqi Lai , Yi Liu , Xingliang Yuan , Xun Yi , Cong Wang

Federated learning is a computing paradigm that enhances privacy by enabling multiple parties to collaboratively train a machine learning model without revealing personal data. However, current research indicates that traditional federated…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-01-10 Runhua Xu , Bo Li , Chao Li , James B. D. Joshi , Shuai Ma , Jianxin Li

Federated learning (FL) faces two structural tensions: gradient sharing enables data-reconstruction attacks, while non-IID client distributions degrade aggregation quality. We introduce PTOPOFL, a framework that addresses both challenges…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Kelly L Vomo-Donfack , Adryel Hoszu , Grégory Ginot , Ian Morilla

Federated learning (FL) enables collaborative model training across distributed nodes without exposing raw data, but its decentralized nature makes it vulnerable in trust-deficient environments. Inference attacks may recover sensitive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Guanjie Cheng , Mengzhen Yang , Xinkui Zhao , Shuyi Yu , Tianyu Du , Yangyang Wu , Mengying Zhu , Shuiguang Deng

Federated learning (FL) is increasingly becoming the default approach for training machine learning models across decentralized Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices. A key advantage of FL is that no raw data are communicated across the network,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Samir Rajani , Dario Dematties , Nathaniel Hudson , Kyle Chard , Nicola Ferrier , Rajesh Sankaran , Peter Beckman

Federated data analytics is a framework for distributed data analysis where a server compiles noisy responses from a group of distributed low-bandwidth user devices to estimate aggregate statistics. Two major challenges in this framework…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-10 Kamalika Chaudhuri , Chuan Guo , Mike Rabbat

Federated learning using mobile and Internet of Things devices requires not only the ability to handle heterogeneity of clients' data distributions but also high adaptability to varying communication environments. We propose FedHAW…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Ayano Nakai-Kasai , Tadashi Wadayama

Federated Instruction Tuning (FIT) enables collaborative instruction tuning of large language models across multiple organizations (clients) in a cross-silo setting without requiring the sharing of private instructions. Recent findings on…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Haodong Zhao , Jinming Hu , Zhaomin Wu , Zongru Wu , Wei Du , Junyi Hou , Caibei Zhao , Zhuosheng Zhang , Bingsheng He , Gongshen Liu

Synchronous updates may compromise the efficiency of cross-device federated learning once the number of active clients increases. The \textit{FedBuff} algorithm (Nguyen et al., 2022) alleviates this problem by allowing asynchronous updates…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-21 Mohammad Taha Toghani , César A. Uribe

Train machine learning models on sensitive user data has raised increasing privacy concerns in many areas. Federated learning is a popular approach for privacy protection that collects the local gradient information instead of real data.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-05-24 Lichao Sun , Jianwei Qian , Xun Chen

In the evolving landscape of Federated Learning (FL), the challenge of ensuring data integrity against poisoning attacks is paramount, particularly for applications demanding stringent privacy preservation. Traditional anomaly detection…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-03-18 Zahir Alsulaimawi

This paper proposes a locally differentially private federated learning algorithm for strongly convex but possibly nonsmooth problems that protects the gradients of each worker against an honest but curious server. The proposed algorithm…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-03 Jiaojiao Zhang , Dominik Fay , Mikael Johansson

Asynchronous Federated Learning with Buffered Aggregation (FedBuff) is a state-of-the-art algorithm known for its efficiency and high scalability. However, it has a high communication cost, which has not been examined with quantized…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-02 Tomas Ortega , Hamid Jafarkhani

News recommendation is critical for personalized news access. Most existing news recommendation methods rely on centralized storage of users' historical news click behavior data, which may lead to privacy concerns and hazards. Federated…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-05-31 Jingwei Yi , Fangzhao Wu , Chuhan Wu , Ruixuan Liu , Guangzhong Sun , Xing Xie

With the increasing number of data collectors such as smartphones, immense amounts of data are available. Federated learning was developed to allow for distributed learning on a massive scale whilst still protecting each users' privacy.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-12 David Enthoven , Zaid Al-Ars

The idea of federated learning is to collaboratively train a neural network on a server. Each user receives the current weights of the network and in turns sends parameter updates (gradients) based on local data. This protocol has been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-14 Jonas Geiping , Hartmut Bauermeister , Hannah Dröge , Michael Moeller

Collaborative training of a machine learning model comes with a risk of sharing sensitive or private data. Federated learning offers a way of collectively training a single global model without the need to share client data, by sharing only…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Damian Harenčák , Lukáš Gajdošech , Martin Madaras

Federated Learning is a machine learning setting that reduces direct data exposure, improving the privacy guarantees of machine learning models. Yet, the exchange of model updates between the participants and the aggregator can still leak…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Pablo Montaña-Fernández , Ines Ortega-Fernandez

Federated learning is a widely used distributed deep learning framework that protects the privacy of each client by exchanging model parameters rather than raw data. However, federated learning suffers from high communication costs, as a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-20 Guang Yang , Ke Mu , Chunhe Song , Zhijia Yang , Tierui Gong

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