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Different from conventional federated learning, personalized federated learning (PFL) is able to train a customized model for each individual client according to its unique requirement. The mainstream approach is to adopt a kind of weighted…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Jiahao Liu , Jiang Wu , Jinyu Chen , Miao Hu , Yipeng Zhou , Di Wu

We consider information-theoretic privacy in federated submodel learning, where a global server has multiple submodels. Compared to the privacy considered in the conventional federated submodel learning where secure aggregation is adopted…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-19 Minchul Kim , Jungwoo Lee

Federated Learning (FL) enables clients to collaboratively train machine learning models without sharing local data, preserving privacy in diverse environments. While traditional FL approaches preserve privacy, they often struggle with high…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-03 Nan Li , Xiaolu Wang , Xiao Du , Puyu Cai , Ting Wang

Federated learning enables distributed clients to collaborate on training while storing their data locally to protect client privacy. However, due to the heterogeneity of data, models, and devices, the final global model may need to perform…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Wolong Xing , Zhenkui Shi , Hongyan Peng , Xiantao Hu , Xianxian Li

Federated Learning (FL) enables collaborative model training while preserving data privacy, but its practical deployment is hampered by system and statistical heterogeneity. While federated network pruning offers a path to mitigate these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Zheng Jiang , Nan He , Yiming Chen , Lifeng Sun

Private computation in a distributed storage system (DSS) is a generalization of the private information retrieval (PIR) problem. In such setting a user wishes to compute a function of $f$ messages stored in $n$ noncolluding coded…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-06 Sarah A. Obead , Hsuan-Yin Lin , Eirik Rosnes , Jörg Kliewer

In federated learning (FL) with top $r$ sparsification, millions of users collectively train a machine learning (ML) model locally, using their personal data by only communicating the most significant $r$ fraction of updates to reduce the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-12-23 Sajani Vithana , Sennur Ulukus

Federated learning (FL) enables distributed learning across edge devices while protecting data privacy. However, the learning accuracy decreases due to the heterogeneity of devices' data, and the computation and communication latency…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Xiaonan Liu , Tharmalingam Ratnarajah , Mathini Sellathurai , Yonina C. Eldar

Scalability and privacy are two critical concerns for cross-device federated learning (FL) systems. In this work, we identify that synchronous FL - synchronized aggregation of client updates in FL - cannot scale efficiently beyond a few…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-08 John Nguyen , Kshitiz Malik , Hongyuan Zhan , Ashkan Yousefpour , Michael Rabbat , Mani Malek , Dzmitry Huba

Federated learning was proposed with an intriguing vision of achieving collaborative machine learning among numerous clients without uploading their private data to a cloud server. However, the conventional framework requires each client to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-12 Chaoyue Niu , Fan Wu , Shaojie Tang , Lifeng Hua , Rongfei Jia , Chengfei Lv , Zhihua Wu , Guihai Chen

Personalized federated learning (PFL) studies effective model personalization to address the data heterogeneity issue among clients in traditional federated learning (FL). Existing PFL approaches mainly generate personalized models by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-06 Danni Peng , Yuan Wang , Huazhu Fu , Jinpeng Jiang , Yong Liu , Rick Siow Mong Goh , Qingsong Wei

Suppose there are $N$ distributed databases each storing a full set of $M$ independent files. A user wants to retrieve $r$ out of the $M$ files without revealing the identity of the $r$ files. When $r=1$ it is the classic problem of private…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-04-12 Zhifang Zhang , Jingke Xu

Private information retrieval (PIR) is a privacy setting that allows a user to download a required message from a set of messages stored in a system of databases without revealing the index of the required message to the databases. PIR was…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-04-28 Sajani Vithana , Zhusheng Wang , Sennur Ulukus

Personalized Federated Learning aims at addressing the challenges of non-IID data in collaborative model training. However, existing methods struggle to balance personalization and generalization, often oversimplifying client similarities…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Mattia Giovanni Campana , Franca Delmastro

Large Language Models (LLMs) achieve state-of-the-art performance but are challenging to deploy due to their high computational and storage demands. Pruning can reduce model size, yet existing methods assume public access to calibration…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-20 Guangji Bai , Yijiang Li , Zilinghan Li , Liang Zhao , Kibaek Kim

Personalized News Recommendation systems (PNR) have emerged as a solution to information overload by predicting and suggesting news items tailored to individual user interests. However, traditional PNR systems face several challenges,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Mehdi Khalaj , Shahrzad Golestani Najafabadi , Julita Vassileva

In Private Information Retrieval (PIR), one wants to download a file from a database without revealing to the database which file is being downloaded. Much attention has been paid to the case of the database being encoded across several…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-06-23 Razane Tajeddine , Oliver W. Gnilke , David Karpuk , Ragnar Freij-Hollanti , Camilla Hollanti , Salim El Rouayheb

Personalized federated learning is extensively utilized in scenarios characterized by data heterogeneity, facilitating more efficient and automated local training on data-owning terminals. This includes the automated selection of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Chuanyin Wang , Yifei Zhang , Neng Gao , Qiang Luo

Federated learning enables the deployment of machine learning to problems for which centralized data collection is impractical. Adding differential privacy guarantees bounds on privacy while data are contributed to a global model. Adding…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Andrew Silva , Katherine Metcalf , Nicholas Apostoloff , Barry-John Theobald

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