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Federated Learning is a privacy preserving decentralized machine learning paradigm designed to collaboratively train models across multiple clients by exchanging gradients to the server and keeping private data local. Nevertheless, recent…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Isaac Baglin , Xiatian Zhu , Simon Hadfield

Federated Learning (FL) systems are gaining popularity as a solution to training Machine Learning (ML) models from large-scale user data collected on personal devices (e.g., smartphones) without their raw data leaving the device. At the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Tribhuvanesh Orekondy , Seong Joon Oh , Yang Zhang , Bernt Schiele , Mario Fritz

One of the key advantages of Federated Learning (FL) is its ability to collaboratively train a Machine Learning (ML) model while keeping clients' data on-site. However, this can create a false sense of security. Despite not sharing private…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Vincenzo Carletti , Pasquale Foggia , Carlo Mazzocca , Giuseppe Parrella , Mario Vento

Federated learning is a learning method for training models over multiple participants without directly sharing their raw data, and it has been expected to be a privacy protection method for training data. In contrast, attack methods have…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-08-02 Rei Aso , Sayaka Shiota , Hitoshi Kiya

Program fuzzing---providing randomly constructed inputs to a computer program---has proved to be a powerful way to uncover bugs, find security vulnerabilities, and generate test inputs that increase code coverage. In many applications,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Zi Wang , Ben Liblit , Thomas Reps

In low-altitude wireless networks (LAWN), federated learning (FL) enables collaborative intelligence among unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) devices while keeping raw sensing data local. Due to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Yuhua Xu , Mingtao Jiang , Chenfei Hu , Yinglong Wang , Chuan Zhang , Meng Li , Ming Lu , Liehuang Zhu

Adapting Foundation Models (FMs) for downstream tasks through Federated Learning (FL) emerges a promising strategy for protecting data privacy and valuable FMs. Existing methods fine-tune FM by allocating sub-FM to clients in FL, however,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Zhaopeng Peng , Xiaoliang Fan , Yufan Chen , Zheng Wang , Shirui Pan , Chenglu Wen , Ruisheng Zhang , Cheng Wang

Recent works in federated learning (FL) have shown the utility of leveraging transfer learning for balancing the benefits of FL and centralized learning. In this setting, federated training happens after a stable point has been reached…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Ahaan Dabholkar , Atul Sharma , Z. Berkay Celik , Saurabh Bagchi

Flow-Updating (FU) is a fault-tolerant technique that has proved to be efficient in practice for the distributed computation of aggregate functions in communication networks where individual processors do not have access to global…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2012-11-16 Paulo S. Almeida , Carlos Baquero , Martin Farach-Colton , Paulo Jesus , Miguel A. Mosteiro

Federated learning becomes a prominent approach when different entities want to learn collaboratively a common model without sharing their training data. However, Federated learning has two main drawbacks. First, it is quite bandwidth…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Raouf Kerkouche , Gergely Ács , Claude Castelluccia , Pierre Genevès

Federated Learning (FL) plays a critical role in distributed systems. In these systems, data privacy and confidentiality hold paramount importance, particularly within edge-based data processing systems such as IoT devices deployed in smart…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-08 Humaid Ahmed Desai , Amr Hilal , Hoda Eldardiry

This paper introduces a privacy-preserving distributed learning framework via private-key homomorphic encryption. Thanks to the randomness of the quantization of gradients, our learning with error (LWE) based encryption can eliminate the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-02-05 Guangfeng Yan , Shanxiang Lyu , Hanxu Hou , Zhiyong Zheng , Linqi Song

Federated learning reduces the risk of information leakage, but remains vulnerable to attacks. We investigate how several neural network design decisions can defend against gradients inversion attacks. We show that overlapping gradients…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-28 Shaltiel Eloul , Fran Silavong , Sanket Kamthe , Antonios Georgiadis , Sean J. Moran

Federated learning is a collaborative method that aims to preserve data privacy while creating AI models. Current approaches to federated learning tend to rely heavily on secure aggregation protocols to preserve data privacy. However, to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-11-14 John Reuben Gilbert

Federated learning (FL) is a collaborative learning paradigm allowing multiple clients to jointly train a model without sharing their training data. However, FL is susceptible to poisoning attacks, in which the adversary injects manipulated…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Hossein Fereidooni , Alessandro Pegoraro , Phillip Rieger , Alexandra Dmitrienko , Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi

Recent studies have revealed severe privacy risks in federated learning, represented by Gradient Leakage Attacks. However, existing studies mainly aim at increasing the privacy attack success rate and overlook the high computation costs for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Nawrin Tabassum , Ka-Ho Chow , Xuyu Wang , Wenbin Zhang , Yanzhao Wu

Federated learning is a machine learning setting where a set of edge devices collaboratively train a model under the orchestration of a central server without sharing their local data. At each communication round of federated learning, edge…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-23 Rui Hu , Yuanxiong Guo , Yanmin Gong

Gradient inversion attack enables recovery of training samples from model gradients in federated learning (FL), and constitutes a serious threat to data privacy. To mitigate this vulnerability, prior work proposed both principled defenses…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Ruihan Wu , Xiangyu Chen , Chuan Guo , Kilian Q. Weinberger

Decentralized Federated Learning (DFL) enables collaborative model training without a central server, but it remains vulnerable to privacy leakage because shared model updates can expose sensitive information through inversion,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Fardin Jalil Piran , Zhiling Chen , Yang Zhang , Qianyu Zhou , Jiong Tang , Farhad Imani

Federated Learning (FL) aims to protect data privacy by enabling clients to collectively train machine learning models without sharing their raw data. However, recent studies demonstrate that information exchanged during FL is subject to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Pengxin Guo , Shuang Zeng , Wenhao Chen , Xiaodan Zhang , Weihong Ren , Yuyin Zhou , Liangqiong Qu