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Low-quality results have been a long-standing problem on microtask crowdsourcing platforms, driving away requesters and justifying low wages for workers. To date, workers have been blamed for low-quality results: they are said to make as…

Federated learning enables distributed clients to collaborate on training while storing their data locally to protect client privacy. However, due to the heterogeneity of data, models, and devices, the final global model may need to perform…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Wolong Xing , Zhenkui Shi , Hongyan Peng , Xiantao Hu , Xianxian Li

Federated Learning (FL) enables collaborative model training across multiple clients while preserving data privacy. Traditional FL methods often use a global model to fit all clients, assuming that clients' data are independent and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Dario Fenoglio , Mohan Li , Pietro Barbiero , Nicholas D. Lane , Marc Langheinrich , Martin Gjoreski

Federated learning has recently gained popularity as a framework for distributed clients to collaboratively train a machine learning model using local data. While traditional federated learning relies on a central server for model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-03 I-Cheng Lin , Osman Yagan , Carlee Joe-Wong

Incentive mechanism is crucial for federated learning (FL) when rational clients do not have the same interests in the global model as the server. However, due to system heterogeneity and limited budget, it is generally impractical for the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Bing Luo , Yutong Feng , Shiqiang Wang , Jianwei Huang , Leandros Tassiulas

Existing traffic flow forecasting approaches by deep learning models achieve excellent success based on a large volume of datasets gathered by governments and organizations. However, these datasets may contain lots of user's private data,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-04 Yi Liu , James J. Q. Yu , Jiawen Kang , Dusit Niyato , Shuyu Zhang

A common privacy issue in traditional machine learning is that data needs to be disclosed for the training procedures. In situations with highly sensitive data such as healthcare records, accessing this information is challenging and often…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-03-31 Pavlos Papadopoulos , Will Abramson , Adam J. Hall , Nikolaos Pitropakis , William J. Buchanan

Federated learning (FL) enables distributed clients to collaboratively train a global model using local private data. Nevertheless, recent studies show that conventional FL algorithms still exhibit deficiencies in privacy protection, and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Ruiyang Wang , Rong Pan , Zhengan Yao

Federated Learning is an emerging distributed collaborative learning paradigm adopted by many of today's applications, e.g., keyboard prediction and object recognition. Its core principle is to learn from large amount of users data while…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-11-16 Jiyue Huang , Rania Talbi , Zilong Zhao , Sara Boucchenak , Lydia Y. Chen , Stefanie Roos

Privacy-preserving distributed model training is crucial for modern machine learning applications, yet existing Federated Learning approaches struggle with heterogeneous data distributions and varying computational capabilities. Traditional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Michael A. Helcig , Stefan Nastic

This paper reports on the challenges and lessons we learned while running controlled experiments in crowdsourcing platforms. Crowdsourcing is becoming an attractive technique to engage a diverse and large pool of subjects in experimental…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-11-06 Jorge Ramírez , Marcos Baez , Fabio Casati , Luca Cernuzzi , Boualem Benatallah

In a crowdsourcing contest, a principal holding a task posts it to a crowd. People in the crowd then compete with each other to win the rewards. Although in real life, a crowd is usually networked and people influence each other via social…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-11-23 Qi Shi , Dong Hao

Specialized worker profiles of crowdsourcing platforms may contain a large amount of identifying and possibly sensitive personal information (e.g., personal preferences, skills, available slots, available devices) raising strong privacy…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-07-13 Joris Duguépéroux , Tristan Allard

With the booming development of prosumers, there is an urgent need for a prosumer energy management system to take full advantage of the flexibility of prosumers and take into account the interests of other parties. However, building such a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Yunfeng Li , Xiaolin Li Zhitao Li , Gangqiang Li

Federated recommendations leverage the federated learning (FL) techniques to make privacy-preserving recommendations. Though recent success in the federated recommender system, several vital challenges remain to be addressed: (i) The…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-08-25 Sichun Luo , Yuanzhang Xiao , Yang Liu , Congduan Li , Linqi Song

The unique artistic style is crucial to artists' occupational competitiveness, yet prevailing Art Commission Platforms rarely support style-based retrieval. Meanwhile, the fast-growing generative AI techniques aggravate artists' concerns…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-26 Changjuan Ran , Yeting Guo , Fang Liu , Shenglan Cui , Yunfan Ye

Federated Learning (FL) has emerged as a prominent privacy-preserving technique for enabling use cases like confidential clinical machine learning. FL operates by aggregating models trained by remote devices which owns the data. Thus, FL…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Michael Duchesne , Kaiwen Zhang , Chamseddine Talhi

With the increasing importance of data sharing for collaboration and innovation, it is becoming more important to ensure that data is managed and shared in a secure and trustworthy manner. Data governance is a common approach to managing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Amir Jaberzadeh , Ajay Kumar Shrestha , Faijan Ahamad Khan , Mohammed Afaan Shaikh , Bhargav Dave , Jason Geng

News recommendation is critical for personalized news access. Most existing news recommendation methods rely on centralized storage of users' historical news click behavior data, which may lead to privacy concerns and hazards. Federated…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-05-31 Jingwei Yi , Fangzhao Wu , Chuhan Wu , Ruixuan Liu , Guangzhong Sun , Xing Xie

To strengthen data privacy and security, federated learning as an emerging machine learning technique is proposed to enable large-scale nodes, e.g., mobile devices, to distributedly train and globally share models without revealing their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-25 Jiawen Kang , Zehui Xiong , Dusit Niyato , Han Yu , Ying-Chang Liang , Dong In Kim