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Federated learning (FL) has enabled training models collaboratively from multiple data owning parties without sharing their data. Given the privacy regulations of patient's healthcare data, learning-based systems in healthcare can greatly…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-09-18 Matei Grama , Maria Musat , Luis Muñoz-González , Jonathan Passerat-Palmbach , Daniel Rueckert , Amir Alansary

Inspired by recent work of Islamov et al (2021), we propose a family of Federated Newton Learn (FedNL) methods, which we believe is a marked step in the direction of making second-order methods applicable to FL. In contrast to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Mher Safaryan , Rustem Islamov , Xun Qian , Peter Richtárik

Inspired by the recent work FedNL (Safaryan et al, FedNL: Making Newton-Type Methods Applicable to Federated Learning), we propose a new communication efficient second-order framework for Federated learning, namely FLECS. The proposed…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-06-07 Artem Agafonov , Dmitry Kamzolov , Rachael Tappenden , Alexander Gasnikov , Martin Takáč

Privacy and Byzantine resilience (BR) are two crucial requirements of modern-day distributed machine learning. The two concepts have been extensively studied individually but the question of how to combine them effectively remains…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-06 Rachid Guerraoui , Nirupam Gupta , Rafael Pinot , Sebastien Rouault , John Stephan

Establishing how a set of learners can provide privacy-preserving federated learning in a fully decentralized (peer-to-peer, no coordinator) manner is an open problem. We propose the first privacy-preserving consensus-based algorithm for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Yang Lu , Zhengxin Yu , Neeraj Suri

Federated Learning (FL) enables collaborative model training across multiple clients without sharing private data. We consider FL scenarios wherein FL clients are subject to adversarial (Byzantine) attacks, while the FL server is trusted…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Emmanouil Kritharakis , Dusan Jakovetic , Antonios Makris , Konstantinos Tserpes

Federated learning (FL) is a decentralized machine learning paradigm in which multiple clients collaboratively train a global model by exchanging only model updates with the central server without sharing the local data of the clients. Due…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Jonas Klotz , Barış Büyüktaş , Begüm Demir

In federated learning, communication cost is often a critical bottleneck to scale up distributed optimization algorithms to collaboratively learn a model from millions of devices with potentially unreliable or limited communication and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-24 Farzin Haddadpour , Mohammad Mahdi Kamani , Aryan Mokhtari , Mehrdad Mahdavi

Federated learning (FL) is a promising solution to enable many AI applications, where sensitive datasets from distributed clients are needed for collaboratively training a global model. FL allows the clients to participate in the training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-09 Houssem Sifaou , Geoffrey Ye Li

Despite Federated Learning (FL) employing gradient aggregation at the server for distributed training to prevent the privacy leakage of raw data, private information can still be divulged through the analysis of uploaded gradients from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Tianzhe Xiao , Yichen Li , Yu Zhou , Yining Qi , Yi Liu , Wei Wang , Haozhao Wang , Yi Wang , Ruixuan Li

The powerful cooperation of federated learning (FL) and differential privacy~(DP) provides a promising paradigm for the large-scale private clients. However, existing analyses in FL-DP mostly rely on the composition theorem and cannot…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Yan Sun , Qixin Zhang , Li Shen , Dacheng Tao

Federated learning (FL) enables collaborative training across clients while preserving privacy. While most existing FL methods assume homogeneous model architectures, client heterogeneity in both data and resources makes this assumption…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Yuan Yao , Lixu Wang , Jiaqi Wu , Jin Song , Simin Chen , Zehua Wang , Zijian Tian , Wei Chen , Huixia Li , Xiaoxiao Li

Federated Learning (FL) is a distributed machine learning approach that enables training on decentralized data while preserving privacy. However, FL systems often involve resource-constrained client devices with limited computational power,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-28 Alexander Herzog , Robbie Southam , Ioannis Mavromatis , Aftab Khan

Distributed learning has many computational benefits but is vulnerable to attacks from a subset of devices transmitting incorrect information. This paper investigates Byzantine-resilient algorithms in a decentralized setting, where devices…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Renaud Gaucher , Aymeric Dieuleveut , Hadrien Hendrikx

Reducing communication overhead in federated learning (FL) is challenging but crucial for large-scale distributed privacy-preserving machine learning. While methods utilizing sparsification or others can largely lower the communication…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Yuhao Zhou , Mingjia Shi , Yuanxi Li , Qing Ye , Yanan Sun , Jiancheng Lv

Federated Learning (FL) enables collaborative model training across distributed medical institutions while preserving patient privacy, but remains vulnerable to Byzantine attacks and statistical heterogeneity. We present OptiGradTrust, a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Mohammad Karami , Fatemeh Ghassemi , Hamed Kebriaei , Hamid Azadegan

Federated learning (FL) is an emerging paradigm that allows a central server to train machine learning models using remote users' data. Despite its growing popularity, FL faces challenges in preserving the privacy of local datasets, its…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Natalie Lang , Nir Shlezinger , Rafael G. L. D'Oliveira , Salim El Rouayheb

Smart meter measurements, though critical for accurate demand forecasting, face several drawbacks including consumers' privacy, data breach issues, to name a few. Recent literature has explored Federated Learning (FL) as a promising…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-03-29 Muhammad Akbar Husnoo , Adnan Anwar , Nasser Hosseinzadeh , Shama Naz Islam , Abdun Naser Mahmood , Robin Doss

Building recommendation systems via federated learning (FL) is a new emerging challenge for advancing next-generation Internet service and privacy protection. Existing approaches train shared item embedding by FL while keeping the user…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-09 Zhiwei Li , Guodong Long , Tianyi Zhou

Federated learning (FL) enables a collaborative environment for training machine learning models without sharing training data between users. This is typically achieved by aggregating model gradients on a central server. Decentralized…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Siddhartha Bhattacharya , Daniel Helo , Joshua Siegel