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Reconstruction attacks against federated learning (FL) aim to reconstruct users' samples through users' uploaded gradients. Local differential privacy (LDP) is regarded as an effective defense against various attacks, including sample…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-13 Zhichao You , Xuewen Dong , Shujun Li , Ximeng Liu , Siqi Ma , Yulong Shen

Building recommendation systems via federated learning (FL) is a new emerging challenge for advancing next-generation Internet service and privacy protection. Existing approaches train shared item embedding by FL while keeping the user…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-09 Zhiwei Li , Guodong Long , Tianyi Zhou

The spread of various forms of offensive speech online is an important concern in social media. While platforms have been investing heavily in ways of coping with this problem, the question of privacy remains largely unaddressed. Models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-18 Marcos Zampieri , Damith Premasiri , Tharindu Ranasinghe

Federated learning enables training a global machine learning model from data distributed across multiple sites, without having to move the data. This is particularly relevant in healthcare applications, where data is rife with personal,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-02-24 Olivia Choudhury , Aris Gkoulalas-Divanis , Theodoros Salonidis , Issa Sylla , Yoonyoung Park , Grace Hsu , Amar Das

Federated Learning (FL) has emerged as a machine learning approach able to preserve the privacy of user's data. Applying FL, clients train machine learning models on a local dataset and a central server aggregates the learned parameters…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Luiz Leite , Yuri Santo , Bruno L. Dalmazo , André Riker

Federated Learning (FL) has gained significant recent attention in machine learning for its enhanced privacy and data security, making it indispensable in fields such as healthcare, finance, and personalized services. This paper…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-11-26 Jingyang Li , T. Tony Cai , Dong Xia , Anru R. Zhang

With the rapid adoption of Federated Learning (FL) as the training and tuning protocol for applications utilizing Large Language Models (LLMs), recent research highlights the need for significant modifications to FL to accommodate the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-03-11 Minh N. Vu , Truc Nguyen , Tre' R. Jeter , My T. Thai

Federated learning (FL) aims to protect data privacy by cooperatively learning a model without sharing private data among users. For Federated Learning of Deep Neural Network with billions of model parameters, existing privacy-preserving…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-28 Hanlin Gu , Lixin Fan , Bowen Li , Yan Kang , Yuan Yao , Qiang Yang

Recommender systems can be privacy-sensitive. To protect users' private historical interactions, federated learning has been proposed in distributed learning for user representations. Using federated recommender (FedRec) systems, users can…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Qi Hu , Yangqiu Song

Federated learning (FL) is an appealing paradigm that allows a group of machines (a.k.a. clients) to learn collectively while keeping their data local. However, due to the heterogeneity between the clients' data distributions, the model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Youssef Allouah , Abdellah El Mrini , Rachid Guerraoui , Nirupam Gupta , Rafael Pinot

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

We present a novel privacy-preserving model aggregation for asynchronous federated learning, named PPA-AFL that removes the restriction of synchronous aggregation of local model updates in federated learning, while enabling the protection…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Jianxiang Zhao , Xiangman Li , Jianbing Ni

Federated learning (FL) is a popular paradigm for collaborative training which avoids direct data exposure between clients. However, data privacy issues still remain: FL-trained large language models are capable of memorizing and completing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Thierry Bossy , Julien Vignoud , Tahseen Rabbani , Juan R. Troncoso Pastoriza , Martin Jaggi

In times of epidemics, swift reaction is necessary to mitigate epidemic spreading. For this reaction, localized approaches have several advantages, limiting necessary resources and reducing the impact of interventions on a larger scale.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Raouf Kerkouche , Henrik Zunker , Mario Fritz , Martin J. Kühn

Federated Learning (FL) refers to distributed protocols that avoid direct raw data exchange among the participating devices while training for a common learning task. This way, FL can potentially reduce the information on the local data…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Dongzhu Liu , Osvaldo Simeone

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

The increasing digitalization of education presents unprecedented opportunities for data-driven personalization, but it also introduces significant challenges to student data privacy. Conventional recommender systems rely on centralized…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Rodrigo Tertulino , Ricardo Almeida

With the introduction of regulations related to the ``right to be forgotten", federated learning (FL) is facing new privacy compliance challenges. To address these challenges, researchers have proposed federated unlearning (FU). However,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Lei Zhou , Youwen Zhu

Vertical Federated Learning (VFL) enables collaborative model training across organizations that share common user samples but hold disjoint feature spaces. Despite its potential, VFL is susceptible to feature inference attacks, in which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Sindhuja Madabushi , Ahmad Faraz Khan , Haider Ali , Ananthram Swami , Rui Ning , Hongyi Wu , Jin-Hee Cho

Personalized federated learning (PFL) offers a solution to balancing personalization and generalization by conducting federated learning (FL) to guide personalized learning (PL). Little attention has been given to wireless PFL (WPFL), where…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Xiyu Zhao , Qimei Cui , Ziqiang Du , Weicai Li , Xi Yu , Wei Ni , Ji Zhang , Xiaofeng Tao , Ping Zhang