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Federated learning, as a promising machine learning approach, has emerged to leverage a distributed personalized dataset from a number of nodes, e.g., mobile devices, to improve performance while simultaneously providing privacy…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-10-16 Jiawen Kang , Zehui Xiong , Dusit Niyato , Yuze Zou , Yang Zhang , Mohsen Guizani

Machine unlearning (MU) is becoming a promising paradigm to achieve the "right to be forgotten", where the training trace of any chosen data points could be eliminated, while maintaining the model utility on general testing samples after…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Junjie Chen , Qian Chen , Jian Lou , Xiaoyu Zhang , Kai Wu , Zilong Wang

Data duplication within large-scale corpora often impedes large language models' (LLMs) performance and privacy. In privacy-concerned federated learning scenarios, conventional deduplication methods typically rely on trusted third parties…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Pukang Ye , Junwei Luo , Xiaolei Dong , Yunbo Yang

Federated Learning (FL) enables decentralized machine learning while preserving data privacy, making it ideal for sensitive applications where data cannot be shared. While FL has been widely studied in supervised contexts, its application…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Mirko Nardi , Lorenzo Valerio , Andrea Passarella

Machine unlearning in neural information retrieval (IR) systems requires removing specific data whilst maintaining model performance. Applying existing machine unlearning methods to IR may compromise retrieval effectiveness or inadvertently…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Jingrui Hou , Axel Finke , Georgina Cosma

Federated Recommendation (FR) is a new learning paradigm to tackle the learn-to-rank problem in a privacy-preservation manner. How to integrate multi-modality features into federated recommendation is still an open challenge in terms of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Chunxu Zhang , Weipeng Zhang , Guodong Long , Zhiheng Xue , Riting Xia , Bo Yang

Federated Learning (FL) is a decentralized machine learning framework that enables collaborative model training while respecting data privacy. In various applications, non-uniform availability or participation of users is unavoidable due to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Periklis Theodoropoulos , Konstantinos E. Nikolakakis , Dionysis Kalogerias

Federated learning is a promising privacy-preserving paradigm for distributed machine learning. In this context, there is sometimes a need for a specialized process called machine unlearning, which is required when the effect of some…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Heng Xu , Tianqing Zhu , Lefeng Zhang , Wanlei Zhou , Philip S. Yu

With the wealth of information produced by social networks, smartphones, medical or financial applications, speculations have been raised about the sensitivity of such data in terms of users' personal privacy and data security. To address…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-21 Vito Walter Anelli , Yashar Deldjoo , Tommaso Di Noia , Antonio Ferrara

With the increasing importance of data privacy and security, federated unlearning emerges as a new research field dedicated to ensuring that once specific data is deleted, federated learning models no longer retain or disclose related…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Houzhe Wang , Xiaojie Zhu , Chi Chen

With the rapid expansion of edge devices, such as IoT devices, where crucial data needed for machine learning applications is generated, it becomes essential to promote their participation in privacy-preserving Federated Learning (FL)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Hongrui Shi , Valentin Radu , Po Yang

The increasing interest in user privacy is leading to new privacy preserving machine learning paradigms. In the Federated Learning paradigm, a master machine learning model is distributed to user clients, the clients use their locally…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-01-30 Muhammad Ammad-ud-din , Elena Ivannikova , Suleiman A. Khan , Were Oyomno , Qiang Fu , Kuan Eeik Tan , Adrian Flanagan

Federated learning (FL) is a feasible technique to learn personalized recommendation models from decentralized user data. Unfortunately, federated recommender systems are vulnerable to poisoning attacks by malicious clients. Existing…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-02-11 Chuhan Wu , Fangzhao Wu , Tao Qi , Yongfeng Huang , Xing Xie

Federated learning is an emerging distributed machine learning framework aiming at protecting data privacy. Data heterogeneity is one of the core challenges in federated learning, which could severely degrade the convergence rate and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-11-27 Feifei Wang , Huiyun Tang , Yang Li

Federated Learning has been introduced as a new machine learning paradigm enhancing the use of local devices. At a server level, FL regularly aggregates models learned locally on distributed clients to obtain a more general model. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Anastasiia Usmanova , François Portet , Philippe Lalanda , German Vega

Much of the value that IoT (Internet-of-Things) devices bring to ``smart'' homes lies in their ability to automatically trigger other devices' actions: for example, a smart camera triggering a smart lock to unlock a door. Manually setting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Yuhang Yao , Mohammad Mahdi Kamani , Zhongwei Cheng , Lin Chen , Carlee Joe-Wong , Tianqiang Liu

Federated learning (FL) enables collaborative model training across distributed clients while preserving data privacy. However, data and system heterogeneity often cause catastrophic forgetting and unbounded drift in model updates, leading…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Taehwan Yoon , Bongjun Choi , Wesley De Neve

We study the problem of learning from positive and unlabeled (PU) data in the federated setting, where each client only labels a little part of their dataset due to the limitation of resources and time. Different from the settings in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-16 Xinyang Lin , Hanting Chen , Yixing Xu , Chao Xu , Xiaolin Gui , Yiping Deng , Yunhe Wang

Federated Learning (FL) has emerged as a significant paradigm for training machine learning models. This is due to its data-privacy-preserving property and its efficient exploitation of distributed computational resources. This is achieved…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Mustafa Ghaleb , Mohanad Obeed , Muhamad Felemban , Anas Chaaban , Halim Yanikomeroglu

Federated learning systems must support data deletion requests to comply with privacy regulations, yet retraining from scratch after each deletion is computationally prohibitive. We present HF-KCU, a method that removes a client's…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Ali Mahdavi , Azadeh Zamanifar , Amirfarhad Farhadi , Omid Kashefi