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Privacy-preserving inference in edge computing paradigms encourages the users of machine-learning services to locally run a model on their private input and only share the models outputs for a target task with the server. We study how a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-02 Mohammad Malekzadeh , Deniz Gunduz

Federated learning (FL) enables collaborative model training across distributed clients while preserving data privacy. Despite its widespread adoption, most FL approaches focusing solely on privacy protection fall short in scenarios where…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-17 Jinqian Chen , Jihua Zhu

Federated learning (FL) is a popular distributed learning framework that can reduce privacy risks by not explicitly sharing private data. However, recent works demonstrated that sharing model updates makes FL vulnerable to inference…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-14 Jingwei Sun , Ang Li , Binghui Wang , Huanrui Yang , Hai Li , Yiran Chen

While machine learning (ML) has made tremendous progress during the past decade, recent research has shown that ML models are vulnerable to various security and privacy attacks. So far, most of the attacks in this field focus on…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Junhao Zhou , Yufei Chen , Chao Shen , Yang Zhang

Adversarial Training (AT) is crucial for obtaining deep neural networks that are robust to adversarial attacks, yet recent works found that it could also make models more vulnerable to privacy attacks. In this work, we further reveal this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-23 Jingyang Zhang , Yiran Chen , Hai Li

One of the key advantages of Federated Learning (FL) is its ability to collaboratively train a Machine Learning (ML) model while keeping clients' data on-site. However, this can create a false sense of security. Despite not sharing private…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Vincenzo Carletti , Pasquale Foggia , Carlo Mazzocca , Giuseppe Parrella , Mario Vento

Federated Learning (FL) is a machine learning (ML) approach that enables multiple decentralized devices or edge servers to collaboratively train a shared model without exchanging raw data. During the training and sharing of model updates…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-03-06 Ehsan Nowroozi , Imran Haider , Rahim Taheri , Mauro Conti

Vertical Federated Learning (VFL) is an emergent distributed machine learning paradigm for collaborative learning between clients who have disjoint features of common entities. However, standard VFL lacks fault tolerance, with each…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Avi Amalanshu , Yash Sirvi , David I. Inouye

Federated learning, which solves the problem of data island by connecting multiple computational devices into a decentralized system, has become a promising paradigm for privacy-preserving machine learning. This paper studies vertical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-08 Yuzhi Liang , Yixiang Chen

Federated learning (FL) attempts to train a global model by aggregating local models from distributed devices under the coordination of a central server. However, the existence of a large number of heterogeneous devices makes FL vulnerable…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-05-03 Wenqiang Sun , Sen Li , Yuchang Sun , Jun Zhang

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…

Federated Learning Networks (FLNs) have been envisaged as a promising paradigm to collaboratively train models among mobile devices without exposing their local privacy data. Due to the need for frequent model updates and communications,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-10-07 Yuan-Ai Xie , Jiawen Kang , Dusit Niyato , Nguyen Thi Thanh Van , Nguyen Cong Luong , Zhixin Liu , Han Yu

Federated learning (FL) provides an efficient paradigm to jointly train a global model leveraging data from distributed users. As local training data comes from different users who may not be trustworthy, several studies have shown that FL…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-01-02 Chulin Xie , Yunhui Long , Pin-Yu Chen , Qinbin Li , Arash Nourian , Sanmi Koyejo , Bo Li

Federated Learning (FL) is a technique that allows multiple parties to train a shared model collaboratively without disclosing their private data. It has become increasingly popular due to its distinct privacy advantages. However, FL models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-04 Syed Irfan Ali Meerza , Jian Liu

As machine learning (ML) becomes more and more powerful and easily accessible, attackers increasingly leverage ML to perform automated large-scale inference attacks in various domains. In such an ML-equipped inference attack, an attacker…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-09-20 Jinyuan Jia , Neil Zhenqiang Gong

This review paper takes a comprehensive look at malicious attacks against FL, categorizing them from new perspectives on attack origins and targets, and providing insights into their methodology and impact. In this survey, we focus on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-10 Xianghua Xie , Chen Hu , Hanchi Ren , Jingjing Deng

Vertical Federated Learning (VFL) has revolutionised collaborative machine learning by enabling privacy-preserving model training across multiple parties. However, it remains vulnerable to information leakage during intermediate computation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Achmad Ginanjar , Xue Li , Priyanka Singh , Wen Hua

Vertical federated learning (VFL) is an emerging paradigm that allows different parties (e.g., organizations or enterprises) to collaboratively build machine learning models with privacy protection. In the training phase, VFL only exchanges…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-01 Fangcheng Fu , Xupeng Miao , Jiawei Jiang , Huanran Xue , Bin Cui

Federated Learning (FL) represents a significant advancement in distributed machine learning, enabling multiple participants to collaboratively train models without sharing raw data. This decentralized approach enhances privacy by keeping…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-10 Jaydip Sen , Hetvi Waghela , Sneha Rakshit

When algorithmic decisions depend on data distributed across institutions, how can we ensure that an individual's outcome does not change arbitrarily based on a protected attribute? We study this question in vertical federated learning…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Dawood Wasif , Chandan K. Reddy , Terrence J. Moore , Jin-Hee Cho