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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

We consider a federated representation learning framework, where with the assistance of a central server, a group of $N$ distributed clients train collaboratively over their private data, for the representations (or embeddings) of a set of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-05 Jiaxiang Tang , Jinbao Zhu , Songze Li , Lichao Sun

Federated Learning (FL) enables many resource-limited devices to train a model collaboratively without data sharing. However, many existing works focus on model-homogeneous FL, where the global and local models are the same size, ignoring…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-17 Hongda Wu , Ping Wang , C V Aswartha Narayana

Vertical federated learning (VFL), a variant of Federated Learning (FL), has recently drawn increasing attention as the VFL matches the enterprises' demands of leveraging more valuable features to achieve better model performance. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-09 Yuanqin He , Yan Kang , Xinyuan Zhao , Jiahuan Luo , Lixin Fan , Yuxing Han , Qiang Yang

Recent advances in personalized federated learning have focused on addressing client model heterogeneity. However, most existing methods still require external data, rely on model decoupling, or adopt partial learning strategies, which can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Chen Zhang , Husheng Li , Xiang Liu , Linshan Jiang , Danxin Wang

Federated learning (FL) is the most popular distributed machine learning technique. FL allows machine-learning models to be trained without acquiring raw data to a single point for processing. Instead, local models are trained with local…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-06 Qun Li , Chandra Thapa , Lawrence Ong , Yifeng Zheng , Hua Ma , Seyit A. Camtepe , Anmin Fu , Yansong Gao

Autoencoders are popular neural networks that are able to compress high dimensional data to extract relevant latent information. TabNet is a state-of-the-art neural network model designed for tabular data that utilizes an autoencoder…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-26 Mohamed Rashad , Zilong Zhao , Jeremie Decouchant , Lydia Y. Chen

Federated learning (FL) has been proposed to allow collaborative training of machine learning (ML) models among multiple parties where each party can keep its data private. In this paradigm, only model updates, such as model weights or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-18 Runhua Xu , Nathalie Baracaldo , Yi Zhou , Ali Anwar , James Joshi , Heiko Ludwig

Federated learning (FL) has shown great potential in medical image computing since it provides a decentralized learning paradigm that allows multiple clients to train a model collaboratively without privacy leakage. However, current studies…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Meilu Zhu , Qiushi Yang , Zhifan Gao , Yixuan Yuan , Jun Liu

Along with the rapid expansion of information technology and digitalization of health data, there is an increasing concern on maintaining data privacy while garnering the benefits in medical field. Two critical challenges are identified:…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-05-05 Sicong Che , Hao Peng , Lichao Sun , Yong Chen , Lifang He

Vertical federated learning (VFL) has attracted greater and greater interest since it enables multiple parties possessing non-overlapping features to strengthen their machine learning models without disclosing their private data and model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Changxin Liu , Zhenan Fan , Zirui Zhou , Yang Shi , Jian Pei , Lingyang Chu , Yong Zhang

Federated learning is a decentralized and privacy-preserving technique that enables multiple clients to collaborate with a server to learn a global model without exposing their private data. However, the presence of statistical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Shiyu Liu , Shaogao Lv , Dun Zeng , Zenglin Xu , Hui Wang , Yue Yu

Vertical federated learning (VFL) is an emerging paradigm that enables collaborators to build machine learning models together in a distributed fashion. In general, these parties have a group of users in common but own different features.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-04 Pengyu Qiu , Xuhong Zhang , Shouling Ji , Changjiang Li , Yuwen Pu , Xing Yang , Ting Wang

Vertical Federated Learning (VFL) is a trending collaborative machine learning model training solution. Existing industrial frameworks employ secure multi-party computation techniques such as homomorphic encryption to ensure data security…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Pengyu Qiu , Xuhong Zhang , Shouling Ji , Chong Fu , Xing Yang , Ting Wang

Federated learning (FL) is a kind of distributed machine learning framework, where the global model is generated on the centralized aggregation server based on the parameters of local models, addressing concerns about privacy leakage caused…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Chenhao Xu , Youyang Qu , Yong Xiang , Longxiang Gao

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

Federated learning is a promising paradigm that allows multiple clients to collaboratively train a model without sharing the local data. However, the presence of heterogeneous devices in federated learning, such as mobile phones and IoT…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Kai Zhang , Yutong Dai , Hongyi Wang , Eric Xing , Xun Chen , Lichao Sun

Many application scenarios call for training a machine learning model among multiple participants. Federated learning (FL) was proposed to enable joint training of a deep learning model using the local data in each party without revealing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-12 Kai-Fung Chu , Lintao Zhang

This paper addresses the critical challenge of unlearning in Vertical Federated Learning (VFL), a setting that has received far less attention than its horizontal counterpart. Specifically, we propose the first method tailored to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Hanlin Gu , Hong Xi Tae , Lixin Fan , Chee Seng Chan

Vertical Federated Learning (VFL) attracts increasing attention because it empowers multiple parties to jointly train a privacy-preserving model over vertically partitioned data. Recent research has shown that applying zeroth-order…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-30 Ganyu Wang , Qingsong Zhang , Li Xiang , Boyu Wang , Bin Gu , Charles Ling