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Vertical federated learning (VFL) is an emerging paradigm that allows different parties (e.g., organizations or enterprises) to collaboratively build machine learning models with privacy protection. In the training phase, VFL only exchanges…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-01 Fangcheng Fu , Xupeng Miao , Jiawei Jiang , Huanran Xue , Bin Cui

Traditional vertical federated learning schema suffers from two main issues: 1) restricted applicable scope to overlapped samples and 2) high system challenge of real-time federated serving, which limits its application to advertising…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Wenjie Li , Shu-Tao Xia , Jiangke Fan , Teng Zhang , Xingxing Wang

Vertical Federated Learning (VFL) is a federated learning paradigm where multiple participants, who share the same set of samples but hold different features, jointly train machine learning models. Although VFL enables collaborative machine…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-02-07 Lei Yu , Meng Han , Yiming Li , Changting Lin , Yao Zhang , Mingyang Zhang , Yan Liu , Haiqin Weng , Yuseok Jeon , Ka-Ho Chow , Stacy Patterson

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

Vertical federated learning (VFL), where data features are stored in multiple parties distributively, is an important area in machine learning. However, the communication complexity for VFL is typically very high. In this paper, we propose…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-27 Lingxiao Huang , Zhize Li , Jialin Sun , Haoyu Zhao

We propose Flexible Vertical Federated Learning (Flex-VFL), a distributed machine algorithm that trains a smooth, non-convex function in a distributed system with vertically partitioned data. We consider a system with several parties that…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-08-31 Timothy Castiglia , Shiqiang Wang , Stacy Patterson

Federated learning (FL) has recently emerged as a transformative paradigm that jointly train a model with distributed data sets in IoT while avoiding the need for central data collection. Due to the limited observation range, such data sets…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-13 Shuo Wan , Jiaxun Lu , Pingyi Fan , Yunfeng Shao , Chenghui Peng , Khaled B. Letaief

Vertical Federated Learning (VFL) attracts increasing attention because it empowers multiple parties to jointly train a privacy-preserving model over vertically partitioned data. Recent research has shown that applying zeroth-order…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-30 Ganyu Wang , Qingsong Zhang , Li Xiang , Boyu Wang , Bin Gu , Charles Ling

Horizontal Federated learning (FL) handles multi-client data that share the same set of features, and vertical FL trains a better predictor that combine all the features from different clients. This paper targets solving vertical FL in an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-02 Tianyi Chen , Xiao Jin , Yuejiao Sun , Wotao Yin

Federated Learning (FL) is a machine learning technique that enables multiple entities to collaboratively learn a shared model without exchanging their local data. Over the past decade, FL systems have achieved substantial progress, scaling…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Katharine Daly , Hubert Eichner , Peter Kairouz , H. Brendan McMahan , Daniel Ramage , Zheng Xu

Federated learning (FL) is a collaborative machine learning paradigm which ensures data privacy by training models across distributed datasets without centralizing sensitive information. Vertical Federated Learning (VFL), a kind of FL…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-02-13 Nikita Shrivastava , Drishya Uniyal , Bapi Chatterjee

Vertical Federated Learning (VFL) has garnered significant attention as a privacy-preserving machine learning framework for sample-aligned feature federation. However, traditional VFL approaches do not address the challenges of class and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Shuo Wang , Keke Gai , Jing Yu , Liehuang Zhu , Qi Wu

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

In vertical federated learning (VFL), multiple enterprises address aligned sample scarcity by leveraging massive locally unaligned samples to facilitate collaborative learning. However, unaligned samples across different parties in VFL can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Wei Guo , Yiyang Duan , Zhaojun Hu , Yiqi Tong , Fuzhen Zhuang , Xiao Zhang , Jin Dong , Ruofan Wu , Tengfei Liu , Yifan Sun

Vertical Federated Learning (vFL) allows multiple parties that own different attributes (e.g. features and labels) of the same data entity (e.g. a person) to jointly train a model. To prepare the training data, vFL needs to identify the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-11 Jiankai Sun , Xin Yang , Yuanshun Yao , Aonan Zhang , Weihao Gao , Junyuan Xie , Chong Wang

Federated learning (FL) is a distributed machine learning technique in which multiple clients cooperate to train a shared model without exchanging their raw data. However, heterogeneity of data distribution among clients usually leads to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-23 Yu Qiao , Seong-Bae Park , Sun Moo Kang , Choong Seon Hong

Many application scenarios call for training a machine learning model among multiple participants. Federated learning (FL) was proposed to enable joint training of a deep learning model using the local data in each party without revealing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-12 Kai-Fung Chu , Lintao Zhang

Although Deep Learning (DL) methods becoming increasingly popular in vulnerability detection, their performance is seriously limited by insufficient training data. This is mainly because few existing software organizations can maintain a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Peiheng Zhou , Ming Hu , Xingrun Quan , Yawen Peng , Xiaofei Xie , Yanxin Yang , Chengwei Liu , Yueming Wu , Mingsong Chen

Vertical Federated Learning (VFL) enables collaborative learning by integrating disjoint feature subsets from multiple clients/parties. However, VFL typically faces two key challenges: i) the requirement for perfectly aligned data samples…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Qinghua Yao , Xiangrui Xu , Zhize Li

Federated Learning (FL) is an evolving paradigm that enables multiple parties to collaboratively train models without sharing raw data. Among its variants, Vertical Federated Learning (VFL) is particularly relevant in real-world,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Zhaomin Wu , Junyi Hou , Yiqun Diao , Bingsheng He