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Federated learning is a popular collaborative learning approach that enables clients to train a global model without sharing their local data. Vertical federated learning (VFL) deals with scenarios in which the data on clients have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-31 Jingwei Sun , Ziyue Xu , Dong Yang , Vishwesh Nath , Wenqi Li , Can Zhao , Daguang Xu , Yiran Chen , Holger R. Roth

Vertical federated learning (VFL) enables multiple parties with disjoint features to collaboratively train models without sharing raw data. While privacy vulnerabilities of VFL are extensively-studied, its security threats-particularly…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Juntao Tan , Anran Li , Quanchao Liu , Peng Ran , Lan Zhang

Federated learning (FL) is a privacy-preserving machine learning framework that enables multiple nodes to train models on their local data and periodically average weight updates to benefit from other nodes' training. Each node's goal is to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Ethan Wilson , Kai Yue , Chau-Wai Wong , Huaiyu Dai

Most work in privacy-preserving federated learning (FL) has focused on horizontally partitioned datasets where clients hold the same features and train complete client-level models independently. However, individual data points are often…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Xinchi Qiu , Heng Pan , Wanru Zhao , Yan Gao , Pedro P. B. Gusmao , William F. Shen , Chenyang Ma , Nicholas D. Lane

Recently, large language models (LLMs) have drawn extensive attention from academia and the public, due to the advent of the ChatGPT. While LLMs show their astonishing ability in text generation for various tasks, privacy concerns limit…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-27 Fei Zheng

Vertical federated learning (VFL) enables the collaborative training of machine learning (ML) models in settings where the data is distributed amongst multiple parties who wish to protect the privacy of their individual data. Notably, in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Shuangyi Chen , Anuja Modi , Shweta Agrawal , Ashish Khisti

Federated learning (FL) enables learning a global machine learning model from local data distributed among a set of participating workers. This makes it possible i) to train more accurate models due to learning from rich joint training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Najeeb Jebreel , Josep Domingo-Ferrer

Federated learning (FL) enables collaborative model training across distributed nodes without exposing raw data, but its decentralized nature makes it vulnerable in trust-deficient environments. Inference attacks may recover sensitive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Guanjie Cheng , Mengzhen Yang , Xinkui Zhao , Shuyi Yu , Tianyu Du , Yangyang Wu , Mengying Zhu , Shuiguang Deng

Vertical Federated Learning (VFL) enables collaborative model training across organizations that share common user samples but hold disjoint feature spaces. Despite its potential, VFL is susceptible to feature inference attacks, in which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Sindhuja Madabushi , Ahmad Faraz Khan , Haider Ali , Ananthram Swami , Rui Ning , Hongyi Wu , Jin-Hee Cho

Federated Learning (FL) is an emerging distributed machine learning paradigm enabling multiple clients to train a global model collaboratively without sharing their raw data. While FL enhances data privacy by design, it remains vulnerable…

Traditional defenses against Deep Leakage (DL) attacks in Federated Learning (FL) primarily focus on obfuscation, introducing noise, transformations or encryption to degrade an attacker's ability to reconstruct private data. While effective…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Isaac Baglin , Xiatian Zhu , Simon Hadfield

Federated learning (FL) is a privacy-preserving paradigm for training collective machine learning models with locally stored data from multiple participants. Vertical federated learning (VFL) deals with the case where participants sharing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-31 Siwei Feng , Han Yu

Vertical federated learning is a collaborative machine learning framework to train deep leaning models on vertically partitioned data with privacy-preservation. It attracts much attention both from academia and industry. Unfortunately,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-21 Wensheng Xia , Ying Li , Lan Zhang , Zhonghai Wu , Xiaoyong Yuan

Deep learning has shown incredible potential across a wide array of tasks, and accompanied by this growth has been an insatiable appetite for data. However, a large amount of data needed for enabling deep learning is stored on personal…

Privacy-preserving federated learning (PPFL) aims to train a global model for multiple clients while maintaining their data privacy. However, current PPFL protocols exhibit one or more of the following insufficiencies: considerable…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Wenhan Dong , Chao Lin , Xinlei He , Shengmin Xu , Xinyi Huang

Federated learning allows multiple participants to conduct joint modeling without disclosing their local data. Vertical federated learning (VFL) handles the situation where participants share the same ID space and different feature spaces.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-19 Yimin Huang , Xinyu Feng , Wanwan Wang , Hao He , Yukun Wang , Ming Yao

Federated learning (FL) has attracted significant attention for enabling collaborative learning without exposing private data. Among the primary variants of FL, vertical federated learning (VFL) addresses feature-partitioned data held by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Kihun Hong , Sejun Park , Ganguk Hwang

Federated learning (FL) represents a novel paradigm to machine learning, addressing critical issues related to data privacy and security, yet suffering from data insufficiency and imbalance. The emergence of foundation models (FMs) provides…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-11-02 Xi Li , Songhe Wang , Chen Wu , Hao Zhou , Jiaqi Wang

Federated Learning (FL) is a popular distributed machine learning paradigm that enables jointly training a global model without sharing clients' data. However, its repetitive server-client communication gives room for backdoor attacks with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-20 Pei Fang , Jinghui Chen

Federated learning (FL) is a distributed learning paradigm that allows multiple decentralized clients to collaboratively learn a common model without sharing local data. Although local data is not exposed directly, privacy concerns…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-02 Tongxin Yin , Xuwei Tan , Xueru Zhang , Mohammad Mahdi Khalili , Mingyan Liu