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Federated Learning (FL) is a machine learning paradigm where local nodes collaboratively train a central model while the training data remains decentralized. Existing FL methods typically share model parameters or employ co-distillation to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-09-13 Xuan Gong , Abhishek Sharma , Srikrishna Karanam , Ziyan Wu , Terrence Chen , David Doermann , Arun Innanje

Federated learning may be subject to both global aggregation attacks and distributed poisoning attacks. Blockchain technology along with incentive and penalty mechanisms have been suggested to counter these. In this paper, we explore…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-06-24 Jonathan Heiss , Elias Grünewald , Nikolas Haimerl , Stefan Schulte , Stefan Tai

Federated Learning (FL) has emerged as a prominent distributed learning paradigm. Within the scope of privacy preservation, information privacy regulations such as GDPR entitle users to request the removal (or unlearning) of their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-24 Ayush K. Varshney , Konstantinos Vandikas , Vicenç Torra

Collaborative machine learning in sensitive domains demands scalable, privacy preserving solutions for enterprise deployment. Conventional Federated Learning (FL) relies on a central server, introducing single points of failure and privacy…

Federated learning (FL) is an emerging paradigm of collaborative machine learning that preserves user privacy while building powerful models. Nevertheless, due to the nature of open participation by self-interested entities, it needs to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-02-18 Yanci Zhang , Han Yu

Federated learning (FL), an attractive and promising distributed machine learning paradigm, has sparked extensive interest in exploiting tremendous data stored on ubiquitous mobile devices. However, conventional FL suffers severely from…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-06-09 Qian Chen , Zilong Wang , Jiawei Chen , Haonan Yan , Xiaodong Lin

Federated Learning (FL) is a distributed learning technique that maintains data privacy by providing a decentralized training method for machine learning models using distributed big data. This promising Federated Learning approach has also…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-11 Prakash Chourasia , Tamkanat E Ali , Sarwan Ali , Murray Pattersn

Federated learning (FL) is a promising approach to enabling collaborative model training without centralized data sharing, a crucial requirement in scientific domains where data privacy, ownership, and compliance constraints are critical.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Zilinghan Li , Aditya Sinha , Yijiang Li , Kyle Chard , Kibaek Kim , Ravi Madduri

Federated learning (FL) is an emerging machine learning paradigm involving multiple clients, e.g., mobile phone devices, with an incentive to collaborate in solving a machine learning problem coordinated by a central server. FL was proposed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-04 Samuel Horváth

Federated learning (FL) has great potential for large-scale machine learning (ML) without exposing raw data.Differential privacy (DP) is the de facto standard of privacy protection with provable guarantees.Advances in ML suggest that DP…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Xuebin Ren , Shusen Yang , Cong Zhao , Julie McCann , Zongben Xu

In the realm of real-world devices, centralized servers in Federated Learning (FL) present challenges including communication bottlenecks and susceptibility to a single point of failure. Additionally, contemporary devices inherently exhibit…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-15 Yasser H. Khalil , Amir H. Estiri , Mahdi Beitollahi , Nader Asadi , Sobhan Hemati , Xu Li , Guojun Zhang , Xi Chen

Federated learning allows multiple participants to collaboratively train an efficient model without exposing data privacy. However, this distributed machine learning training method is prone to attacks from Byzantine clients, which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-09 Chunjiang Che , Xiaoli Li , Chuan Chen , Xiaoyu He , Zibin Zheng

In this paper, we investigate the problem of decentralized federated learning (DFL) in Internet of things (IoT) systems, where a number of IoT clients train models collectively for a common task without sharing their private training data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-13 Chengxi Li , Gang Li , Pramod K. Varshney

This paper introduces the zk-IoT framework, a novel approach to enhancing the security of Internet of Things (IoT) ecosystems through the use of Zero-Knowledge Proofs (ZKPs) on blockchain platforms. Our framework ensures the integrity of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Gholamreza Ramezan , Ehsan Meamari

Federated learning (FL) is a burgeoning distributed machine learning framework where a central parameter server (PS) coordinates many local users to train a globally consistent model. Conventional federated learning inevitably relies on a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-13 Zhikun Chen , Daofeng Li , Jinkang Zhu , Sihai Zhang

Decentralized federated learning (DFL) enables edge devices to collaboratively train models through local training and fully decentralized device-to-device (D2D) model exchanges. However, these energy-intensive operations often rapidly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Kai Zhang , Xuanyu Cao , Khaled B. Letaief

Federated Learning (FL) emerged as a learning method to enable the server to train models over data distributed among various clients. These clients are protective about their data being leaked to the server, any other client, or an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-27 Uday Bhaskar , Varul Srivastava , Avyukta Manjunatha Vummintala , Naresh Manwani , Sujit Gujar

Secure aggregation protocols ensure the privacy of users' data in federated learning by preventing the disclosure of local gradients. Many existing protocols impose significant communication and computational burdens on participants and may…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Rouzbeh Behnia , Arman Riasi , Reza Ebrahimi , Sherman S. M. Chow , Balaji Padmanabhan , Thang Hoang

Zero-knowledge proofs (ZKPs) have emerged as a promising solution to address the scalability challenges in modern blockchain systems. This study proposes a methodology for generating and verifying ZKPs to ensure the computational integrity…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Oleksandr Kuznetsov , Anton Yezhov , Vladyslav Yusiuk , Kateryna Kuznetsova

Federated Learning (FL) facilitates collaborative training of a global model whose performance is boosted by private data owned by distributed clients, without compromising data privacy. Yet the wide applicability of FL is hindered by…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Xinyuan Zhao , Hanlin Gu , Lixin Fan , Yuxing Han , Qiang Yang