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Generative AI has made impressive strides in enabling users to create diverse and realistic visual content such as images, videos, and audio. However, training generative models on large centralized datasets can pose challenges in terms of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Fiona Victoria Stanley Jothiraj , Afra Mashhadi

The widespread adoption of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been driven by significant advances in intelligent system research. However, this progress has raised concerns about data privacy, leading to a growing awareness of the need for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Md. Tanzib Hosain , Asif Zaman , Md. Shahriar Sajid , Shadman Sakeeb Khan , Shanjida Akter

Federated Learning (FL), a distributed machine learning paradigm, has been adapted to mitigate privacy concerns for customers. Despite their appeal, there are various inference attacks that can exploit shared-plaintext model updates to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-07-20 Hua Ma , Qun Li , Yifeng Zheng , Zhi Zhang , Xiaoning Liu , Yansong Gao , Said F. Al-Sarawi , Derek Abbott

With the rise of large language models, service providers offer language models as a service, enabling users to fine-tune customized models via uploaded private datasets. However, this raises concerns about sensitive data leakage. Prior…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Yi Liu , Weixiang Han , Chengjun Cai , Xingliang Yuan , Cong Wang

Federated learning (FL) is a distributed machine learning approach that allows multiple clients to collaboratively train a model without sharing their raw data. To prevent sensitive information from being inferred through the model updates…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-23 Zhenxiao Zhang , Yuanxiong Guo , Yanmin Gong

Gradient leakage attacks pose a significant threat to the privacy guarantees of federated learning. While distortion-based protection mechanisms are commonly employed to mitigate this issue, they often lead to notable performance…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-12-19 Haoyang Li , Wei Chen , Xiaojin Zhang

Federated Learning (FL) enables collaborative training of models across distributed clients without sharing local data, addressing privacy concerns in decentralized systems. However, the gradient-sharing process exposes private data to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Mingcong Xu , Xiaojin Zhang , Wei Chen , Hai Jin

This work tackles the challenges of data heterogeneity and communication limitations in decentralized federated learning. We focus on creating a collaboration graph that guides each client in selecting suitable collaborators for training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Salma Kharrat , Marco Canini , Samuel Horvath

Face recognition technology has been deployed in various real-life applications. The most sophisticated deep learning-based face recognition systems rely on training millions of face images through complex deep neural networks to achieve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-25 Dong Han , Yong Li , Joachim Denzler

The emergence of vertical federated learning (VFL) has stimulated concerns about the imperfection in privacy protection, as shared feature embeddings may reveal sensitive information under privacy attacks. This paper studies the delicate…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-08-07 Yuxi Mi , Hongquan Liu , Yewei Xia , Yiheng Sun , Jihong Guan , Shuigeng Zhou

Federated Learning (FL) is a distributed learning paradigm that enables mutually untrusting clients to collaboratively train a common machine learning model. Client data privacy is paramount in FL. At the same time, the model must be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-18 Hamid Mozaffari , Virendra J. Marathe , Dave Dice

Fine-tuning large language models (LLMs) raises privacy concerns due to the risk of exposing sensitive training data. Federated learning (FL) mitigates this risk by keeping training samples on local devices, while facing the following…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-15 Zhichao You , Xuewen Dong , Ke Cheng , Xutong Mu , Jiaxuan Fu , Shiyang Ma , Qiang Qu , Yulong Shen

Privacy has become a major concern in machine learning. In fact, the federated learning is motivated by the privacy concern as it does not allow to transmit the private data but only intermediate updates. However, federated learning does…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-19 Qiongxiu Li , Jaron Skovsted Gundersen , Katrine Tjell , Rafal Wisniewski , Mads Græsbøll Christensen

Federated learning (FL) has emerged as a promising framework for distributed machine learning. It enables collaborative learning among multiple clients, utilizing distributed data and computing resources. However, FL faces challenges in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-23 Hojat Allah Salehi , Md Jueal Mia , S. Sandeep Pradhan , M. Hadi Amini , Farhad Shirani

A key factor in developing high performing machine learning models is the availability of sufficiently large datasets. This work is motivated by applications arising in Software as a Service (SaaS) companies where there exist numerous…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-05 Sophia Collet , Robert Dadashi , Zahi N. Karam , Chang Liu , Parinaz Sobhani , Yevgeniy Vahlis , Ji Chao Zhang

Federated learning (FL) enables distributed clients to collaboratively train a global model using local private data. Nevertheless, recent studies show that conventional FL algorithms still exhibit deficiencies in privacy protection, and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Ruiyang Wang , Rong Pan , Zhengan Yao

As the demand for privacy in visual data management grows, safeguarding sensitive information has become a critical challenge. This paper addresses the need for privacy-preserving solutions in large-scale visual data processing by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Pedro Santos , Tânia Carvalho , Filipe Magalhães , Luís Antunes

The proliferation of Internet of Things devices and advances in communication technology have unleashed an explosion of personal data, amplifying privacy concerns amid stringent regulations like GDPR and CCPA. Federated Learning offers a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Fan Wan , Yuchen Li , Xueqi Qiu , Rui Sun , Leyuan Zhang , Xingyu Miao , Tianyu Zhang , Haoran Duan , Yang Long

The rapid growth of social media has led to the widespread sharing of individual portrait images, which pose serious privacy risks due to the capabilities of automatic face recognition (AFR) systems for mass surveillance. Hence, protecting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Ali Salar , Qing Liu , Yingli Tian , Guoying Zhao

One-shot federated learning enables multi-site inference with minimal communication. However, sharing summary statistics can still leak sensitive individual-level information when sites have only a small number of patients. In particular,…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-04-02 Keisuke Hanada , Toshio Shimokawa , Kazushi Maruo