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Due to privacy concerns, multi-party gradient tree boosting algorithms have become widely popular amongst machine learning researchers and practitioners. However, limited existing works have focused on vertically partitioned datasets, and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Kennedy Edemacu , Beakcheol Jang , Jong Wook Kim

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

Federated Learning (FL) represents a significant advancement in distributed machine learning, enabling multiple participants to collaboratively train models without sharing raw data. This decentralized approach enhances privacy by keeping…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-10 Jaydip Sen , Hetvi Waghela , Sneha Rakshit

We propose a privacy-preserving framework for learning visual classifiers by leveraging distributed private image data. This framework is designed to aggregate multiple classifiers updated locally using private data and to ensure that no…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-31 Ryo Yonetani , Vishnu Naresh Boddeti , Kris M. Kitani , Yoichi Sato

Institutions may benefit from collaborative inference on time-series data. In settings where privacy is necessary, multi-party computation (MPC) is a straightforward approach to providing strong guarantees, yet it remains prohibitively…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Lucas Fenaux , Larris Xie , Aditya Bang , Alex Zhang , Kevin Wilson , Florian Kerschbaum

Federated Learning has rapidly expanded from its original inception to now have a large body of research, several frameworks, and sold in a variety of commercial offerings. Thus, its security and robustness is of significant importance.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Simone Bottoni , Giulio Zizzo , Stefano Braghin , Alberto Trombetta

Distributed machine learning is an approach allowing different parties to learn a model over all data sets without disclosing their own data. In this paper, we propose a weighted distributed differential privacy (WD-DP) empirical risk…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Yilin Kang , Yong Liu , Weiping Wang

Vertical Federated Learning (VFL) enables collaborative model training across feature-partitioned devices, yet its reliance on device-server information exchange introduces significant communication overhead and privacy risks. Downlink…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Jianing Zhang , Evan Chen , Dong-Jun Han , Chaoyue Liu , Christopher G. Brinton

The widespread deployment of products powered by machine learning models is raising concerns around data privacy and information security worldwide. To address this issue, Federated Learning was first proposed as a privacy-preserving…

Federated Learning (FL) emerged as a paradigm for conducting machine learning across broad and decentralized datasets, promising enhanced privacy by obviating the need for direct data sharing. However, recent studies show that attackers can…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-28 Xueluan Gong , Yuji Wang , Shuaike Li , Mengyuan Sun , Songze Li , Qian Wang , Kwok-Yan Lam , Chen Chen

In this paper, we present a secure logistic regression training protocol and its implementation, with a new subprotocol to securely compute the activation function. To the best of our knowledge, we present the fastest existing secure…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-03-04 Martine De Cock , Rafael Dowsley , Anderson C. A. Nascimento , Davis Railsback , Jianwei Shen , Ariel Todoki

The gradient inversion attack has been demonstrated as a significant privacy threat to federated learning (FL), particularly in continuous domains such as vision models. In contrast, it is often considered less effective or highly dependent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Xinguo Feng , Zhongkui Ma , Zihan Wang , Eu Joe Chegne , Mengyao Ma , Alsharif Abuadbba , Guangdong Bai

Differentially private stochastic gradient descent (DP-SGD) is the canonical approach to private deep learning. While the current privacy analysis of DP-SGD is known to be tight in some settings, several empirical results suggest that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Anvith Thudi , Hengrui Jia , Casey Meehan , Ilia Shumailov , Nicolas Papernot

Federated Learning is a privacy preserving decentralized machine learning paradigm designed to collaboratively train models across multiple clients by exchanging gradients to the server and keeping private data local. Nevertheless, recent…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Isaac Baglin , Xiatian Zhu , Simon Hadfield

While many solutions for privacy-preserving convex empirical risk minimization (ERM) have been developed, privacy-preserving nonconvex ERM remains a challenge. We study nonconvex ERM, which takes the form of minimizing a finite-sum of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-03 Lingxiao Wang , Bargav Jayaraman , David Evans , Quanquan Gu

In the era of big data, the need to expand the amount of data through data sharing to improve model performance has become increasingly compelling. As a result, effective collaborative learning models need to be developed with respect to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Huiwen Wu , Cen Chen , Li Wang

Federated Learning (FL) enables collaborative training of models across distributed clients without sharing local data, addressing privacy concerns in decentralized systems. However, the gradient-sharing process exposes private data to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Mingcong Xu , Xiaojin Zhang , Wei Chen , Hai Jin

Gradient inversion attack enables recovery of training samples from model gradients in federated learning (FL), and constitutes a serious threat to data privacy. To mitigate this vulnerability, prior work proposed both principled defenses…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Ruihan Wu , Xiangyu Chen , Chuan Guo , Kilian Q. Weinberger

Machine Learning (ML) has emerged as one of data science's most transformative and influential domains. However, the widespread adoption of ML introduces privacy-related concerns owing to the increasing number of malicious attacks targeting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-29 Eugene Frimpong , Khoa Nguyen , Mindaugas Budzys , Tanveer Khan , Antonis Michalas

Collaborative learning enables two or more participants, each with their own training dataset, to collaboratively learn a joint model. It is desirable that the collaboration should not cause the disclosure of either the raw datasets of each…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-07-15 Yanjun Zhang , Guangdong Bai , Xue Li , Caitlin Curtis , Chen Chen , Ryan K L Ko