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Federated learning (FL) enables decentralized model training without centralizing raw data. However, practical FL deployments often face a key realistic challenge: Clients participate intermittently in server aggregation and with unknown,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Herlock , Rahimi , Dionysis Kalogerias

Federated learning enables a large amount of edge computing devices to jointly learn a model without data sharing. As a leading algorithm in this setting, Federated Averaging (\texttt{FedAvg}) runs Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD) in…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-06-26 Xiang Li , Kaixuan Huang , Wenhao Yang , Shusen Wang , Zhihua Zhang

Federated learning (FL) enables collaborative model training among multiple clients without the need to expose raw data. Its ability to safeguard privacy, at the heart of FL, has recently been a hot-button debate topic. To elaborate,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Mingyuan Fan , Fuyi Wang , Cen Chen , Jianying Zhou

Federated training methods have gained popularity for graph learning with applications including friendship graphs of social media sites and customer-merchant interaction graphs of huge online marketplaces. However, privacy regulations…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-23 Siddharth Ambekar , Yuhang Yao , Ryan Li , Carlee Joe-Wong

Federated learning (FL) is a promising framework for privacy-preserving collaborative learning, where model training tasks are distributed to clients and only the model updates need to be collected at a server. However, when being deployed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Yuchang Sun , Yuyi Mao , Jun Zhang

In Federated Learning (FL) client devices connected over the internet collaboratively train a machine learning model without sharing their private data with a central server or with other clients. The seminal Federated Averaging (FedAvg)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-17 Jed Mills , Jia Hu , Geyong Min

Graph federated recommendation systems offer a privacy-preserving alternative to traditional centralized recommendation architectures, which often raise concerns about data security. While federated learning enables personalized…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Aymen Rayane Khouas , Mohamed Reda Bouadjenek , Hakim Hacid , Sunil Aryal

A widely recognized difficulty in federated learning arises from the statistical heterogeneity among clients: local datasets often originate from distinct yet not entirely unrelated probability distributions, and personalization is,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-03-12 Shuxiao Chen , Qinqing Zheng , Qi Long , Weijie J. Su

Android malware attacks are increasing daily at a tremendous volume, making Android users more vulnerable to cyber-attacks. Researchers have developed many machine learning (ML)/ deep learning (DL) techniques to detect and mitigate android…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-04-28 Ayushi Chaudhuri , Arijit Nandi , Buddhadeb Pradhan

Machine Learning (ML) techniques have shown strong potential for network traffic analysis; however, their effectiveness depends on access to representative, up-to-date datasets, which is limited in cybersecurity due to privacy and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Roberto Doriguzzi-Corin , Petr Sabel , Silvio Cretti , Silvio Ranise

Federated Graph Neural Networks (FedGNNs) facilitate collaborative learning across multiple clients with graph-structured data while preserving user privacy. However, emerging research indicates that within this setting, shared model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Suprim Nakarmi , Junggab Son , Yue Zhao , Zuobin Xiong

In this paper, we propose the FedFeat+ framework, which distinctively separates feature extraction from classification. We develop a two-tiered model training process: following local training, clients transmit their weights and some…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Mrityunjoy Gain , Kitae Kim , Avi Deb Raha , Apurba Adhikary , Eui-Nam Huh , Zhu Han , Choong Seon Hong

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

Recently, the ever-growing demand for privacy-oriented machine learning has motivated researchers to develop federated and decentralized learning techniques, allowing individual clients to train models collaboratively without disclosing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-15 David Roschewitz , Mary-Anne Hartley , Luca Corinzia , Martin Jaggi

Federated learning enables collaborative model training across distributed clients, yet vanilla FL exposes client updates to the central server. Secure-aggregation schemes protect privacy against an honest-but-curious server, but existing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Haaris Mehmood , Giorgos Tatsis , Dimitrios Alexopoulos , Karthikeyan Saravanan , Jie Xu , Anastasios Drosou , Mete Ozay

Federated learning (FL) is gaining increasing attention as an emerging collaborative machine learning approach, particularly in the context of large-scale computing and data systems. However, the fundamental algorithm of FL, Federated…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Jianyi Zhang , Ziyin Zhou , Yilong Li , Qichao Jin

In federated learning (FL), clients usually have diverse participation statistics that are unknown a priori, which can significantly harm the performance of FL if not handled properly. Existing works aiming at addressing this problem are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Shiqiang Wang , Mingyue Ji

Federated learning on heterogeneous (non-IID) client data experiences slow convergence due to client drift. To address this challenge, we propose Kuramoto-FedAvg, a federated optimization algorithm that reframes the weight aggregation step…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Aggrey Muhebwa , Khotso Selialia , Fatima Anwar , Khalid K. Osman

Recent demands on data privacy have called for federated learning (FL) as a new distributed learning paradigm in massive and heterogeneous networks. Although many FL algorithms have been proposed, few of them have considered the matrix…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-02 Shuai Wang , Tsung-Hui Chang

Federated learning (FL) allows participants to collaboratively train machine learning models while keeping their data local, making it ideal for collaborations among healthcare institutions on sensitive data. However, in this paper, we…