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Federated learning (FL) has attracted much attention as a privacy-preserving distributed machine learning framework, where many clients collaboratively train a machine learning model by exchanging model updates with a parameter server…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-09 Yuchang Sun , Jiawei Shao , Songze Li , Yuyi Mao , Jun Zhang

Federated learning (FL) enables collaborative model training while preserving user data privacy by keeping data local. Despite these advantages, FL remains vulnerable to privacy attacks on user updates and model parameters during training…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-12 Yiwei Zhang , Rouzbeh Behnia , Attila A. Yavuz , Reza Ebrahimi , Elisa Bertino

Quantum Federated Learning (QFL) is an emerging field that harnesses advances in Quantum Computing (QC) to improve the scalability and efficiency of decentralized Federated Learning (FL) models. This paper provides a systematic and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Aakar Mathur , Ashish Gupta , Sajal K. Das

Quantum federated learning (QFL) merges the privacy advantages of federated systems with the computational potential of quantum neural networks (QNNs), yet its vulnerability to adversarial attacks remains poorly understood. This work…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Walid El Maouaki , Nouhaila Innan , Alberto Marchisio , Taoufik Said , Mohamed Bennai , Muhammad Shafique

Efficient and secure federated learning (FL) is a critical challenge for resource-limited devices, especially mobile devices. Existing secure FL solutions commonly incur significant overhead, leading to a contradiction between efficiency…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Yunlong Mao , Mingyang Niu , Ziqin Dang , Chengxi Li , Hanning Xia , Yuejuan Zhu , Haoyu Bian , Yuan Zhang , Jingyu Hua , Sheng Zhong

This article illustrates a novel Quantum Secure Aggregation (QSA) scheme that is designed to provide highly secure and efficient aggregation of local model parameters for federated learning. The scheme is secure in protecting private model…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-18 Yichi Zhang , Chao Zhang , Cai Zhang , Lixin Fan , Bei Zeng , Qiang Yang

Federated Learning enables mobile devices to collaboratively learn a shared inference model while keeping all the training data on a user's device, decoupling the ability to do machine learning from the need to store the data in the cloud.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-12-03 Keith Bonawitz , Fariborz Salehi , Jakub Konečný , Brendan McMahan , Marco Gruteser

Federated Learning (FL) is a Machine Learning (ML) technique that aims to reduce the threats to user data privacy. Training is done using the raw data on the users' device, called clients, and only the training results, called gradients,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-07-18 Sneha Kanchan , Jae Won Jang , Jun Yong Yoon , Bong Jun Choi

Quantum federated learning (QFL) is a combination of distributed quantum computing and federated machine learning, integrating the strengths of both to enable privacy-preserving decentralized learning with quantum-enhanced capabilities. It…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Dinh C. Nguyen , Md Raihan Uddin , Shaba Shaon , Ratun Rahman , Octavia Dobre , Dusit Niyato

Federated Learning (FL) represents a promising approach to typical privacy concerns associated with centralized Machine Learning (ML) deployments. Despite its well-known advantages, FL is vulnerable to security attacks such as Byzantine…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-16 Enrique Mármol Campos , Aurora González Vidal , José Luis Hernández Ramos , Antonio Skarmeta

Federated learning is a distributed collaborative machine learning paradigm that has gained strong momentum in recent years. In federated learning, a central server periodically coordinates models with clients and aggregates the models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-28 Mengdi Wang , Anna Bodonhelyi , Efe Bozkir , Enkelejda Kasneci

Federated Learning (FL), a distributed machine learning paradigm, has been adapted to mitigate privacy concerns for customers. Despite their appeal, there are various inference attacks that can exploit shared-plaintext model updates to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-07-20 Hua Ma , Qun Li , Yifeng Zheng , Zhi Zhang , Xiaoning Liu , Yansong Gao , Said F. Al-Sarawi , Derek Abbott

Even though recent years have seen many attacks exposing severe vulnerabilities in Federated Learning (FL), a holistic understanding of what enables these attacks and how they can be mitigated effectively is still lacking. In this work, we…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-01-27 Hidde Lycklama , Lukas Burkhalter , Alexander Viand , Nicolas Küchler , Anwar Hithnawi

Federated learning (FL) is a distributed learning paradigm that preserves users' data privacy while leveraging the entire dataset of all participants. In FL, multiple models are trained independently on the clients and aggregated centrally…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-11 Amin Eslami Abyane , Derui Zhu , Roberto Souza , Lei Ma , Hadi Hemmati

Federated learning (FL) is a popular privacy-preserving edge-to-cloud technique used for training and deploying artificial intelligence (AI) models on edge devices. FL aims to secure local client data while also collaboratively training a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Evan Gronberg , Liv d'Aliberti , Magnus Saebo , Aurora Hook

Quantum Federated Learning (QFL) promises to revolutionize distributed machine learning by combining the computational power of quantum devices with collaborative model training. Yet, privacy of both data and models remains a critical…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Dev Gurung , Shiva Raj Pokhrel

Federated learning (FL) has become one of the key methods for privacy-preserving collaborative learning, as it enables the transfer of models without requiring local data exchange. Within the FL framework, an aggregation algorithm is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-13 Haizhou Zhang , Xianjia Yu , Tomi Westerlund

We consider a foundational unsupervised learning task of $k$-means data clustering, in a federated learning (FL) setting consisting of a central server and many distributed clients. We develop SecFC, which is a secure federated clustering…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-01 Songze Li , Sizai Hou , Baturalp Buyukates , Salman Avestimehr

Quantum Federated Learning (QFL) is an emerging interdisciplinary field that merges the principles of Quantum Computing (QC) and Federated Learning (FL), with the goal of leveraging quantum technologies to enhance privacy, security, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Chao Ren , Rudai Yan , Huihui Zhu , Han Yu , Minrui Xu , Yuan Shen , Yan Xu , Ming Xiao , Zhao Yang Dong , Mikael Skoglund , Dusit Niyato , Leong Chuan Kwek

Federated learning (FL) facilitates collaborative training of machine learning models among a large number of clients while safeguarding the privacy of their local datasets. However, FL remains susceptible to vulnerabilities such as privacy…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Xincheng Li , Jianting Ning , Geong Sen Poh , Leo Yu Zhang , Xinchun Yin , Tianwei Zhang