English
Related papers

Related papers: Similarity-based Label Inference Attack against Tr…

200 papers

This paper presents a holistic approach to gradient leakage resilient distributed Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD). First, we analyze two types of strategies for privacy-enhanced federated learning: (i) gradient pruning with random…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-12 Wenqi Wei , Ling Liu , Jingya Zhou , Ka-Ho Chow , Yanzhao Wu

In this paper, we address the problem of privacy-preserving distributed learning and the evaluation of machine-learning models by analyzing it in the widespread MapReduce abstraction that we extend with privacy constraints. We design…

It is widely believed that sharing gradients will not leak private training data in distributed learning systems such as Collaborative Learning and Federated Learning, etc. Recently, Zhu et al. presented an approach which shows the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-09 Bo Zhao , Konda Reddy Mopuri , Hakan Bilen

Federated learning has emerged as a prominent privacy-preserving technique for leveraging large-scale distributed datasets by sharing gradients instead of raw data. However, recent studies indicate that private training data can still be…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Tamer Ahmed Eltaras , Qutaibah Malluhi , Alessandro Savino , Stefano Di Carlo , Adnan Qayyum

Federated learning facilitates the collaborative training of models without the sharing of raw data. However, recent attacks demonstrate that simply maintaining data locality during training processes does not provide sufficient privacy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-16 Stacey Truex , Nathalie Baracaldo , Ali Anwar , Thomas Steinke , Heiko Ludwig , Rui Zhang , Yi Zhou

A large body of work shows that machine learning (ML) models can leak sensitive or confidential information about their training data. Recently, leakage due to distribution inference (or property inference) attacks is gaining attention. In…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Valentin Hartmann , Léo Meynent , Maxime Peyrard , Dimitrios Dimitriadis , Shruti Tople , Robert West

Federated Learning (FL) framework brings privacy benefits to distributed learning systems by allowing multiple clients to participate in a learning task under the coordination of a central server without exchanging their private data.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Zhuohang Li , Jiaxin Zhang , Luyang Liu , Jian Liu

Data privacy has become an increasingly important issue in Machine Learning (ML), where many approaches have been developed to tackle this challenge, e.g. cryptography (Homomorphic Encryption (HE), Differential Privacy (DP), etc.) and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-13 Hanchi Ren , Jingjing Deng , Xianghua Xie

Split Federated Learning (SplitFed) combines federated and split learning to preserve privacy while reducing client-side computation. However, in medical image segmentation, heterogeneous label quality across clients can significantly…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-13 Zahra Hafezi Kafshgari , Hadi Hadizadeh , Parvaneh Saeedi

This work focuses on the challenges of non-IID data and stragglers/dropouts in federated learning. We introduce and explore a privacy-flexible paradigm that models parts of the clients' local data as non-private, offering a more versatile…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-05 Okko Makkonen , Sampo Niemelä , Camilla Hollanti , Serge Kas Hanna

Unlike traditional central training, federated learning (FL) improves the performance of the global model by sharing and aggregating local models rather than local data to protect the users' privacy. Although this training approach appears…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-27 Jiahui Geng , Yongli Mou , Feifei Li , Qing Li , Oya Beyan , Stefan Decker , Chunming Rong

A new collaborative learning, called split learning, was recently introduced, aiming to protect user data privacy without revealing raw input data to a server. It collaboratively runs a deep neural network model where the model is split…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-03-30 Sharif Abuadbba , Kyuyeon Kim , Minki Kim , Chandra Thapa , Seyit A. Camtepe , Yansong Gao , Hyoungshick Kim , Surya Nepal

Federated learning (FL) allows the collaborative training of AI models without needing to share raw data. This capability makes it especially interesting for healthcare applications where patient and data privacy is of utmost concern.…

Annotating the dataset with high-quality labels is crucial for performance of deep network, but in real world scenarios, the labels are often contaminated by noise. To address this, some methods were proposed to automatically split clean…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Daehwan Kim , Kwangrok Ryoo , Hansang Cho , Seungryong Kim

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

Split Learning (SL) and Federated Learning (FL) are two prominent distributed collaborative learning techniques that maintain data privacy by allowing clients to never share their private data with other clients and servers, and fined…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Momin Ahmad Khan , Virat Shejwalkar , Amir Houmansadr , Fatima Muhammad Anwar

Federated Learning (FL) enables collaborative model building among a large number of participants without the need for explicit data sharing. But this approach shows vulnerabilities when privacy inference attacks are applied to it. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-26 Pretom Roy Ovi , Emon Dey , Nirmalya Roy , Aryya Gangopadhyay

Federated learning (FL) has emerged as a privacy-preserving machine learning approach where multiple parties share gradient information rather than original user data. Recent work has demonstrated that gradient inversion attacks can exploit…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Jin Qian , Kaimin Wei , Yongdong Wu , Jilian Zhang , Jipeng Chen , Huan Bao

Recent studies have shown that distributed machine learning is vulnerable to gradient inversion attacks, where private training data can be reconstructed by analyzing the gradients of the models shared in training. Previous attacks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Weijun Li , Qiongkai Xu , Mark Dras

With the emerging trend of large generative models, ControlNet is introduced to enable users to fine-tune pre-trained models with their own data for various use cases. A natural question arises: how can we train ControlNet models while…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-16 Dixi Yao