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Vertical Federated Learning (VFL) offers a novel paradigm in machine learning, enabling distinct entities to train models cooperatively while maintaining data privacy. This method is particularly pertinent when entities possess datasets…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Mengde Han , Tianqing Zhu , Lefeng Zhang , Huan Huo , Wanlei Zhou

The most challenging, yet practical, setting of semi-supervised federated learning (SSFL) is where a few clients have fully labeled data whereas the other clients have fully unlabeled data. This is particularly common in healthcare settings…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Pramit Saha , Divyanshu Mishra , J. Alison Noble

Algorithm unrolling has emerged as a learning-based optimization paradigm that unfolds truncated iterative algorithms in trainable neural-network optimizers. We introduce Stochastic UnRolled Federated learning (SURF), a method that expands…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-08 Samar Hadou , Navid NaderiAlizadeh , Alejandro Ribeiro

Federated learning (FL) enables privacy-preserving collaborative training across distributed edge devices, but real deployments involve heterogeneous clients with different processing power, memory capacity, and communication latency, which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Beyazit Bestami Yuksel , Emrah Dikbiyik

This paper explores the multifaceted consequences of federated unlearning (FU) with data heterogeneity. We introduce key metrics for FU assessment, concentrating on verification, global stability, and local fairness, and investigate the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Jiaqi Shao , Tao Lin , Xuanyu Cao , Bing Luo

Machine Unlearning (MU) aims to selectively erase the influence of specific data points from pretrained models. However, most existing MU methods rely on the retain set to preserve model utility, which is often impractical due to privacy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Xindi Fan , Jing Wu , Mingyi Zhou , Pengwei Liang , Mehrtash Harandi , Dinh Phung

Federated Unlearning (FU) enables clients to selectively remove the influence of specific data from a trained federated learning model, addressing privacy concerns and regulatory requirements. However, existing FU methods often struggle to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Qi Guo , Zhen Tian , Minghao Yao , Yong Qi , Saiyu Qi , Yun Li , Jin Song Dong

Federated learning is a distributed paradigm that allows multiple parties to collaboratively train deep models without exchanging the raw data. However, the data distribution among clients is naturally non-i.i.d., which leads to severe…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Tianfei Zhou , Ender Konukoglu

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

Although Machine Learning (ML) can be seen as a promising tool to improve clinical decision-making for supporting the improvement of medication plans, clinical procedures, diagnoses, or medication prescriptions, it remains limited by access…

Federated Learning (FL) enables collaborative learning across distributed clients while preserving data privacy. However, FL faces significant challenges when dealing with heterogeneous data distributions, which can lead to suboptimal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Duy Phuong Nguyen , J. Pablo Munoz , Tanya Roosta , Ali Jannesari

Machine unlearning allows data owners to erase the impact of their specified data from trained models. Unfortunately, recent studies have shown that adversaries can recover the erased data, posing serious threats to user privacy. An…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Weiqi Wang , Chenhan Zhang , Zhiyi Tian , Shushu Liu , Shui Yu

Federated learning (FL) is a privacy preserving machine learning paradigm designed to collaboratively learn a global model without data leakage. Specifically, in a typical FL system, the central server solely functions as an coordinator to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Hangyu Zhu , Yuxiang Fan , Zhenping Xie

Machine unlearning is an emerging paradigm to remove the influence of specific training data (i.e., the forget set) from a model while preserving its knowledge of the rest of the data (i.e., the retain set). Previous approaches assume the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Thomas De Min , Subhankar Roy , Stéphane Lathuilière , Elisa Ricci , Massimiliano Mancini

Federated Learning (FL) offers a promising paradigm for training Large Language Models (LLMs) in a decentralized manner while preserving data privacy and minimizing communication overhead. This survey examines recent advancements in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-12 Youyang Qu , Ming Liu , Tianqing Zhu , Longxiang Gao , Shui Yu , Wanlei Zhou

Federated learning (FL) is a decentralized and privacy-preserving machine learning technique in which a group of clients collaborate with a server to learn a global model without sharing clients' data. One challenge associated with FL is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-27 Canh T. Dinh , Nguyen H. Tran , Tuan Dung Nguyen

Federated learning (FL) is a type of distributed machine learning at the wireless edge that preserves the privacy of clients' data from adversaries and even the central server. Existing federated learning approaches either use (i) secure…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Mitra Hassani , Reza Gholizadeh

With recent legislation on the right to be forgotten, machine unlearning has emerged as a crucial research area. It facilitates the removal of a user's data from federated trained machine learning models without the necessity for retraining…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-24 Houzhe Wang , Xiaojie Zhu , Chi Chen , Paulo Esteves-Veríssimo

Federated Learning (FL) represents a paradigm shift in the field of machine learning, offering an approach for a decentralized training of models across a multitude of devices while maintaining the privacy of local data. However, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-21 Tatjana Legler , Vinit Hegiste , Martin Ruskowski

Federated clustering (FC) is an unsupervised learning problem that arises in a number of practical applications, including personalized recommender and healthcare systems. With the adoption of recent laws ensuring the "right to be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Chao Pan , Jin Sima , Saurav Prakash , Vishal Rana , Olgica Milenkovic