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Federated learning (FL) is an emerging paradigm of collaborative machine learning that preserves user privacy while building powerful models. Nevertheless, due to the nature of open participation by self-interested entities, it needs to…

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Vertical federated learning (VFL) is a promising category of federated learning for the scenario where data is vertically partitioned and distributed among parties. VFL enriches the description of samples using features from different…

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Vertical federated learning (VFL) allows an active party with labeled feature to leverage auxiliary features from the passive parties to improve model performance. Concerns about the private feature and label leakage in both the training…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-02-01 Hanlin Gu , Jiahuan Luo , Yan Kang , Lixin Fan , Qiang Yang

Federated learning (FL) has been proposed to allow collaborative training of machine learning (ML) models among multiple parties where each party can keep its data private. In this paradigm, only model updates, such as model weights or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-18 Runhua Xu , Nathalie Baracaldo , Yi Zhou , Ali Anwar , James Joshi , Heiko Ludwig

Federated learning (FL) is a privacy-preserving learning technique that enables distributed computing devices to train shared learning models across data silos collaboratively. Existing FL works mostly focus on designing advanced FL…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-20 Yash Travadi , Le Peng , Xuan Bi , Ju Sun , Mochen Yang

At the intersection of the cutting-edge technologies and privacy concerns, Federated Learning (FL) with its distributed architecture, stands at the forefront in a bid to facilitate collaborative model training across multiple clients while…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Noorain Mukhtiar , Adnan Mahmood , Quan Z. Sheng

Federated learning (FL) has attracted significant attention for enabling collaborative learning without exposing private data. Among the primary variants of FL, vertical federated learning (VFL) addresses feature-partitioned data held by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Kihun Hong , Sejun Park , Ganguk Hwang

Federated Learning (FL) enables collaborative model training without data sharing, yet participants face a fundamental challenge, e.g., simultaneously ensuring fairness across demographic groups while protecting sensitive client data. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Kangkang Sun , Jun Wu , Minyi Guo , Jianhua Li , Jianwei Huang

Vertical Federated Learning (VFL) has emerged as one of the most predominant approaches for secure collaborative machine learning where the training data is partitioned by features among multiple parties. Most VFL algorithms primarily rely…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-06-29 Mingxuan Fan , Yilun Jin , Liu Yang , Zhenghang Ren , Kai Chen

Federated learning with differential privacy, or private federated learning, provides a strategy to train machine learning models while respecting users' privacy. However, differential privacy can disproportionately degrade the performance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-18 Borja Rodríguez-Gálvez , Filip Granqvist , Rogier van Dalen , Matt Seigel

Group fairness ensures that the outcome of machine learning (ML) based decision making systems are not biased towards a certain group of people defined by a sensitive attribute such as gender or ethnicity. Achieving group fairness in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-30 Sikha Pentyala , Nicola Neophytou , Anderson Nascimento , Martine De Cock , Golnoosh Farnadi

Vertical federated learning (VFL), a variant of Federated Learning (FL), has recently drawn increasing attention as the VFL matches the enterprises' demands of leveraging more valuable features to achieve better model performance. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-09 Yuanqin He , Yan Kang , Xinyuan Zhao , Jiahuan Luo , Lixin Fan , Yuxing Han , Qiang Yang

Autoencoders are popular neural networks that are able to compress high dimensional data to extract relevant latent information. TabNet is a state-of-the-art neural network model designed for tabular data that utilizes an autoencoder…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-26 Mohamed Rashad , Zilong Zhao , Jeremie Decouchant , Lydia Y. Chen

Achieving fairness across diverse clients in Federated Learning (FL) remains a significant challenge due to the heterogeneity of the data and the inaccessibility of sensitive attributes from clients' private datasets. This study addresses…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-26 Disha Makhija , Xing Han , Joydeep Ghosh , Yejin Kim

Vertical Federated Learning (VFL) is an emergent distributed machine learning paradigm for collaborative learning between clients who have disjoint features of common entities. However, standard VFL lacks fault tolerance, with each…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Avi Amalanshu , Yash Sirvi , David I. Inouye

Federated Learning (FL) has emerged as a vital paradigm in modern machine learning that enables collaborative training across decentralized data sources without exchanging raw data. This approach not only addresses privacy concerns but also…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Zahra Kharaghani , Ali Dadras , Tommy Löfstedt

Recently, lots of algorithms have been proposed for learning a fair classifier from decentralized data. However, many theoretical and algorithmic questions remain open. First, is federated learning necessary, i.e., can we simply train…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-08 Yuchen Zeng , Hongxu Chen , Kangwook Lee

Federated learning (FL) enables multiple parties to collaboratively train a machine learning model without sharing their data; rather, they train their own model locally and send updates to a central server for aggregation. Depending on how…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-25 Mohammad Naseri , Yufei Han , Emiliano De Cristofaro

In recent years, data are typically distributed in multiple organizations while the data security is becoming increasingly important. Federated Learning (FL), which enables multiple parties to collaboratively train a model without…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-03-13 Ji Liu , Xuehai Zhou , Lei Mo , Shilei Ji , Yuan Liao , Zheng Li , Qin Gu , Dejing Dou

Vertical Federated Learning (VFL) is a trending collaborative machine learning model training solution. Existing industrial frameworks employ secure multi-party computation techniques such as homomorphic encryption to ensure data security…

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