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Secure federated learning is a privacy-preserving framework to improve machine learning models by training over large volumes of data collected by mobile users. This is achieved through an iterative process where, at each iteration, users…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Jinhyun So , Basak Guler , A. Salman Avestimehr

Federated learning (FL) is emerging as a sought-after distributed machine learning architecture, offering the advantage of model training without direct exposure of raw data. With advancements in network infrastructure, FL has been…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Xiao Li , Weili Wu

Federated learning (FL) based on the centralized design faces both challenges regarding the trust issue and a single point of failure. To alleviate these issues, blockchain-aided decentralized FL (BDFL) introduces the decentralized network…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Jun Li , Weiwei Zhang , Kang Wei , Guangji Chen , Feng Shu , Wen Chen , Shi Jin

Federated learning (FL) is a distributed machine learning (ML) technique that enables collaborative training in which devices perform learning using a local dataset while preserving their privacy. This technique ensures privacy,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-01-28 Hajar Moudoud , Soumaya Cherkaoui , Lyes Khoukhi

In Federated Reinforcement Learning (FRL), agents aim to collaboratively learn a common task, while each agent is acting in its local environment without exchanging raw trajectories. Existing approaches for FRL either (a) do not provide any…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Philip Jordan , Florian Grötschla , Flint Xiaofeng Fan , Roger Wattenhofer

While being an effective framework of learning a shared model across multiple edge devices, federated learning (FL) is generally vulnerable to Byzantine attacks from adversarial edge devices. While existing works on FL mitigate such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Youngjoon Lee , Sangwoo Park , Joonhyuk Kang

Federated learning has been widely studied and applied to various scenarios. In mobile computing scenarios, federated learning protects users from exposing their private data, while cooperatively training the global model for a variety of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Yuzheng Li , Chuan Chen , Nan Liu , Huawei Huang , Zibin Zheng , Qiang Yan

Federated learning (FL) is a promising distributed learning solution that only exchanges model parameters without revealing raw data. However, the centralized architecture of FL is vulnerable to the single point of failure. In addition, FL…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-12 Hang Chen , Syed Ali Asif , Jihong Park , Chien-Chung Shen , Mehdi Bennis

Federated reinforcement learning (FRL) allows agents to jointly learn a global decision-making policy under the guidance of a central server. While FRL has advantages, its decentralized design makes it prone to poisoning attacks. To…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-13 Minghong Fang , Xilong Wang , Neil Zhenqiang Gong

Federated Learning (FL) enables heterogeneous clients to collaboratively train a shared model without centralizing their raw data, offering an inherent level of privacy. However, gradients and model updates can still leak sensitive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Rustem Islamov , Grigory Malinovsky , Alexander Gaponov , Aurelien Lucchi , Peter Richtárik , Eduard Gorbunov

Federated learning (FL) is an emerging machine learning paradigm, in which clients jointly learn a model with the help of a cloud server. A fundamental challenge of FL is that the clients are often heterogeneous, e.g., they have different…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-12-14 Minghong Fang , Jia Liu , Neil Zhenqiang Gong , Elizabeth S. Bentley

While centralized servers pose a risk of being a single point of failure, decentralized approaches like blockchain offer a compelling solution by implementing a consensus mechanism among multiple entities. Merging distributed computing with…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-03-29 Ji Liu , Chunlu Chen , Yu Li , Lin Sun , Yulun Song , Jingbo Zhou , Bo Jing , Dejing Dou

Federated learning systems that jointly preserve Byzantine robustness and privacy have remained an open problem. Robust aggregation, the standard defense for Byzantine attacks, generally requires server access to individual updates or…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-10-07 Raj Kiriti Velicheti , Derek Xia , Oluwasanmi Koyejo

Federated recommendation systems can provide good performance without collecting users' private data, making them attractive. However, they are susceptible to low-cost poisoning attacks that can degrade their performance. In this paper, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-16 Chen Chen , Jingfeng Zhang , Anthony K. H. Tung , Mohan Kankanhalli , Gang Chen

Given sufficient data from multiple edge devices, federated learning (FL) enables training a shared model without transmitting private data to the central server. However, FL is generally vulnerable to Byzantine attacks from compromised…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Youngjoon Lee , Jinu Gong , Joonhyuk Kang

Recently, blockchain-based federated learning (BFL) has attracted intensive research attention due to that the training process is auditable and the architecture is serverless avoiding the single point failure of the parameter server in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-15 Laizhong Cui , Xiaoxin Su , Yipeng Zhou

Federated Learning (FL) is a distributed machine learning paradigm where data is distributed among clients who collaboratively train a model in a computation process coordinated by a central server. By assigning a weight to each client…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-19 Amit Portnoy , Yoav Tirosh , Danny Hendler

In this paper, we investigate the problem of distributed learning (DL) in the presence of Byzantine attacks. For this problem, various robust bounded aggregation (RBA) rules have been proposed at the central server to mitigate the impact of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Chengxi Li , Ming Xiao , Mikael Skoglund

With the technological advances in machine learning, effective ways are available to process the huge amount of data generated in real life. However, issues of privacy and scalability will constrain the development of machine learning.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Zhilin Wang , Qin Hu , Minghui Xu , Yan Zhuang , Yawei Wang , Xiuzhen Cheng

Federated learning (FL) has gained attention as a distributed learning paradigm for its data privacy benefits and accelerated convergence through parallel computation. Traditional FL relies on a server-client (SC) architecture, where a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Minghong Fang , Zhuqing Liu , Xuecen Zhao , Jia Liu