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Healthcare federated learning requires strong privacy guarantees while maintaining computational efficiency across resource-constrained medical institutions. This paper presents MedHE, a novel framework combining adaptive gradient…

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Federated Learning (FL) is a collaborative learning framework that enables edge devices to collaboratively learn a global model while keeping raw data locally. Although FL avoids leaking direct information from local datasets, sensitive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Zhenxiao Zhang , Yuanxiong Guo , Yuguang Fang , Yanmin Gong

Federated Learning (FL) in the Internet of Things (IoT) environments can enhance machine learning by utilising decentralised data, but at the same time, it might introduce significant privacy and security concerns due to the constrained…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-26 Adel ElZemity , Budi Arief

Knowledge graph embedding (KGE) has caught significant interest for its effectiveness in knowledge graph completion (KGC), specifically link prediction (LP), with recent KGE models cracking the LP benchmarks. Despite the rapidly growing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-16 Shurong Wang , Yufei Zhang , Xuliang Huang , Hongwei Wang

This paper investigates the feasibility of federated representation learning under the constraints of communication cost and privacy protection. Existing works either conduct annotation-guided local training which requires frequent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Haizhou Shi , Youcai Zhang , Zijin Shen , Siliang Tang , Yaqian Li , Yandong Guo , Yueting Zhuang

Federated learning (FL) provides a variety of privacy advantages by allowing clients to collaboratively train a model without sharing their private data. However, recent studies have shown that private information can still be leaked…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-12 Yue Cui , Syed Irfan Ali Meerza , Zhuohang Li , Luyang Liu , Jiaxin Zhang , Jian Liu

A key to knowledge graph embedding (KGE) is to choose a proper representation space, e.g., point-wise Euclidean space and complex vector space. In this paper, we propose a unified perspective of embedding and introduce uncertainty into KGE…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Changyi Xiao , Xiangnan He , Yixin Cao

Quantum Federated Learning (QFL) promises to revolutionize distributed machine learning by combining the computational power of quantum devices with collaborative model training. Yet, privacy of both data and models remains a critical…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Dev Gurung , Shiva Raj Pokhrel

To provide more accurate, diverse, and explainable recommendation, it is compulsory to go beyond modeling user-item interactions and take side information into account. Traditional methods like factorization machine (FM) cast it as a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-11 Xiang Wang , Xiangnan He , Yixin Cao , Meng Liu , Tat-Seng Chua

In distributed learning settings, models are iteratively updated with shared gradients computed from potentially sensitive user data. While previous work has studied various privacy risks of sharing gradients, our paper aims to provide a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-02 Zhuohang Li , Andrew Lowy , Jing Liu , Toshiaki Koike-Akino , Kieran Parsons , Bradley Malin , Ye Wang

Federated learning is a promising distributed learning paradigm that enables collaborative model training without exposing local client data, thereby protecting data privacy. However, it also brings new threats and challenges. The…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Nina Cai , Jinguang Han , Weizhi Meng

Currently, graph learning models are indispensable tools to help researchers explore graph-structured data. In academia, using sufficient training data to optimize a graph model on a single device is a typical approach for training a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Haoran Yang , Xiangyu Zhao , Muyang Li , Hongxu Chen , Guandong Xu

Knowledge graph reasoning (KGR), which answers complex, logical queries over large knowledge graphs (KGs), represents an important artificial intelligence task with a range of applications. Many KGs require extensive domain expertise and…

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Many real-world data comes in the form of graphs, such as social networks and protein structure. To fully utilize the information contained in graph data, a new family of machine learning (ML) models, namely graph neural networks (GNNs),…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-02-11 Xinlei He , Rui Wen , Yixin Wu , Michael Backes , Yun Shen , Yang Zhang

Communication complexity and privacy are the two key challenges in Federated Learning where the goal is to perform a distributed learning through a large volume of devices. In this work, we introduce FedSKETCH and FedSKETCHGATE algorithms…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-08-13 Farzin Haddadpour , Belhal Karimi , Ping Li , Xiaoyun Li

Knowledge graph embeddings (KGEs) were originally developed to infer true but missing facts in incomplete knowledge repositories. In this paper, we link knowledge graph completion and counterfactual reasoning via our new task CFKGR. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Lena Zellinger , Andreas Stephan , Benjamin Roth

Federated Learning (FL) enables collaborative model training while preserving data privacy; however, balancing privacy preservation (PP) and fairness poses significant challenges. In this paper, we present the first unified large-scale…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Dawood Wasif , Dian Chen , Sindhuja Madabushi , Nithin Alluru , Terrence J. Moore , Jin-Hee Cho

Communication cost and privacy are two major considerations in federated learning (FL). For communication cost, gradient compression by sketching the clients' transmitted model updates is often used for reducing per-round communication. For…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Qiaobo Li , Zhijie Chen , Arindam Banerjee

Federated learning has emerged as a viable distributed solution to train machine learning models without the actual need to share data with the central aggregator. However, standard neural network-based federated learning models have been…

In response to growing concerns about user privacy, federated learning has emerged as a promising tool to train statistical models over networks of devices while keeping data localized. Federated learning methods run training tasks directly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-06 Zaoxing Liu , Tian Li , Virginia Smith , Vyas Sekar