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As a crucial building block in vertical Federated Learning (vFL), Split Learning (SL) has demonstrated its practice in the two-party model training collaboration, where one party holds the features of data samples and another party holds…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-04-10 Shangyu Xie , Xin Yang , Yuanshun Yao , Tianyi Liu , Taiqing Wang , Jiankai Sun

Federated learning enables multiple users to build a joint model by sharing their model updates (gradients), while their raw data remains local on their devices. In contrast to the common belief that this provides privacy benefits, we here…

As a practical privacy-preserving learning method, split learning has drawn much attention in academia and industry. However, its security is constantly being questioned since the intermediate results are shared during training and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-05-30 Fei Zheng , Chaochao Chen , Lingjuan Lyu , Xinyi Fu , Xing Fu , Weiqiang Wang , Xiaolin Zheng , Jianwei Yin

Vertical federated learning (VFL) enables multiple parties with disjoint features of a common user set to train a machine learning model without sharing their private data. Tree-based models have become prevalent in VFL due to their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Hideaki Takahashi , Jingjing Liu , Yang Liu

Though vertical federated learning (VFL) is generally considered to be privacy-preserving, recent studies have shown that VFL system is vulnerable to label inference attacks originating from various attack surfaces. Among these attacks, the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Juntao Tan , Lan Zhang , Zhonghao Hu , Kai Yang , Peng Ran , Bo Li

Vertical Federated Learning (VFL) has emerged as a promising paradigm for collaborative model training across distributed feature spaces, which enables privacy-preserving learning without sharing raw data. However, recent studies have…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Zeyu Yan , Yanfei Yao , Xuanbing Wen , Shixiong Zhang , Juli Zhang , Kai Fan

Vertical federated learning (VFL) allows an active party with a top model, and multiple passive parties with bottom models to collaborate. In this scenario, passive parties possessing only features may attempt to infer active party's…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Yige Liu , Dexuan Xu , Zimai Guo , Yongzhi Cao , Hanpin Wang

Split Neural Network, as one of the most common architectures used in vertical federated learning, is popular in industry due to its privacy-preserving characteristics. In this architecture, the party holding the labels seeks cooperation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Ying He , Mingyang Niu , Jingyu Hua , Yunlong Mao , Xu Huang , Chen Li , Sheng Zhong

Vertical Federated Learning (VFL) is widely utilized in real-world applications to enable collaborative learning while protecting data privacy and safety. However, previous works show that parties without labels (passive parties) in VFL can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-01 Tianyuan Zou , Yang Liu , Ya-Qin Zhang

This paper addresses the critical challenge of unlearning in Vertical Federated Learning (VFL), a setting that has received far less attention than its horizontal counterpart. Specifically, we propose the first method tailored to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Hanlin Gu , Hong Xi Tae , Lixin Fan , Chee Seng Chan

In a vertical federated learning (VFL) scenario where features and model are split into different parties, communications of sample-specific updates are required for correct gradient calculations but can be used to deduce important…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-14 Yang Liu , Tianyuan Zou , Yan Kang , Wenhan Liu , Yuanqin He , Zhihao Yi , Qiang Yang

Federated Learning (FL) is a widely adopted privacy-preserving machine learning approach where private data remains local, enabling secure computations and the exchange of local model gradients between local clients and third-party…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Hanchi Ren , Jingjing Deng , Xianghua Xie

Vertical Federated Learning (VFL) is a category of Federated Learning in which models are trained collaboratively among parties with vertically partitioned data. Typically, in a VFL scenario, the labels of the samples are kept private from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-27 Marco Arazzi , Serena Nicolazzo , Antonino Nocera

Federated Learning (FL) is a distributed learning paradigm that enhances users privacy by eliminating the need for clients to share raw, private data with the server. Despite the success, recent studies expose the vulnerability of FL to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-15 Jing Wu , Munawar Hayat , Mingyi Zhou , Mehrtash Harandi

Federated Learning (FL) has become a cornerstone of privacy protection, shifting the paradigm towards localizing sensitive data while only sending model gradients to a central server. This strategy is designed to reinforce privacy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-14 H. Yi , H. Ren , C. Hu , Y. Li , J. Deng , X. Xie

Vertical federated learning (VFL) enables multiple parties with disjoint features to collaboratively train models without sharing raw data. While privacy vulnerabilities of VFL are extensively-studied, its security threats-particularly…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Juntao Tan , Anran Li , Quanchao Liu , Peng Ran , Lan Zhang

Federated learning (FL) is vulnerable to backdoor attacks, where adversaries alter model behavior on target classification labels by embedding triggers into data samples. While these attacks have received considerable attention in…

Federated learning has gained great attention recently as a privacy-enhancing tool to jointly train a machine learning model by multiple parties. As a sub-category, vertical federated learning (vFL) focuses on the scenario where features…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-26 Jiankai Sun , Xin Yang , Yuanshun Yao , Junyuan Xie , Di Wu , Chong Wang

Vertical Federated Learning (VFL) enables an orchestrating active party to perform a machine learning task by cooperating with passive parties that provide additional task-related features for the same training data entities. While prior…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Weiyang He , Chip-Hong Chang

Federated learning (FL) enables distributed participants to collaboratively learn a global model without revealing their private data to each other. Recently, vertical FL, where the participants hold the same set of samples but with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Juntao Tan , Lan Zhang , Yang Liu , Anran Li , Ye Wu
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