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Federated Learning has rapidly expanded from its original inception to now have a large body of research, several frameworks, and sold in a variety of commercial offerings. Thus, its security and robustness is of significant importance.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Simone Bottoni , Giulio Zizzo , Stefano Braghin , Alberto Trombetta

The majority of work in privacy-preserving federated learning (FL) has been focusing on horizontally partitioned datasets where clients share the same sets of features and can train complete models independently. However, in many…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-22 Xinchi Qiu , Heng Pan , Wanru Zhao , Chenyang Ma , Pedro Porto Buarque de Gusmão , Nicholas D. Lane

Secure aggregation (SA) is fundamental to privacy preservation in federated learning (FL), enabling model aggregation while preventing disclosure of individual user updates. This paper addresses hierarchical secure aggregation (HSA) against…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Min Xu , Xuejiao Han , Kai Wan , Gennian Ge

In the realm of power systems, the increasing involvement of residential users in load forecasting applications has heightened concerns about data privacy. Specifically, the load data can inadvertently reveal the daily routines of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-13 Yi Dong , Yingjie Wang , Mariana Gama , Mustafa A. Mustafa , Geert Deconinck , Xiaowei Huang

Federated learning (FL) is a distributed machine learning paradigm enabling multiple clients to train a model collaboratively without exposing their local data. Among FL schemes, clustering is an effective technique addressing the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Yunan Wei , Shengnan Zhao , Chuan Zhao , Zhe Liu , Zhenxiang Chen , Minghao Zhao

Secure aggregation is motivated by federated learning (FL) where a cloud server aims to compute an {aggregated} model (i.e., weights of deep neural networks) of the locally-trained models of numerous clients {through an iterative…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Xiang Zhang , Zhou Li , Kai Wan , Hua Sun , Mingyue Ji , Giuseppe Caire

Federated learning (FL) enables collaborative model training across distributed nodes without exposing raw data, but its decentralized nature makes it vulnerable in trust-deficient environments. Inference attacks may recover sensitive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Guanjie Cheng , Mengzhen Yang , Xinkui Zhao , Shuyi Yu , Tianyu Du , Yangyang Wu , Mengying Zhu , Shuiguang Deng

Federated machine learning leverages edge computing to develop models from network user data, but privacy in federated learning remains a major challenge. Techniques using differential privacy have been proposed to address this, but bring…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Timothy Stevens , Christian Skalka , Christelle Vincent , John Ring , Samuel Clark , Joseph Near

We propose and experimentally evaluate a novel secure aggregation algorithm targeted at cross-organizational federated learning applications with a fixed set of participating learners. Our solution organizes learners in a chain and encrypts…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-08-16 Thomas Sandholm , Sayandev Mukherjee , Bernardo A. Huberman

Federated learning has emerged as a privacy-preserving machine learning approach where multiple parties can train a single model without sharing their raw training data. Federated learning typically requires the utilization of multi-party…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Runhua Xu , Nathalie Baracaldo , Yi Zhou , Ali Anwar , Swanand Kadhe , Heiko Ludwig

In federated learning, multiple parties collaborate in order to train a global model over their respective datasets. Even though cryptographic primitives (e.g., homomorphic encryption) can help achieve data privacy in this setting, some…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-11-13 Javad Ghareh Chamani , Dimitrios Papadopoulos

Federated Learning (FL) enables collaborative model training without sharing raw data but suffers from limited scalability, high communication costs, and privacy risks due to its centralized architecture. This paper proposes FedSelect-ME, a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Hanie Vatani , Reza Ebrahimi Atani

Federated learning (FL) allows a large number of clients to collaboratively train machine learning (ML) models by sending only their local gradients to a central server for aggregation in each training iteration, without sending their raw…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Fucai Luo , Saif Al-Kuwari , Haiyan Wang , Xingfu Yan

Federated learning (FL) has emerged as a promising paradigm in machine learning, enabling collaborative model training across decentralized devices without the need for raw data sharing. In FL, a global model is trained iteratively on local…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Kanishka Ranaweera , Azadeh Ghari Neiat , Xiao Liu , Bipasha Kashyap , Pubudu N. Pathirana

This work studies privacy-preserving federated learning (ppFL) under unreliable communication. In ppFL, zero-sum privacy noises enables privacy protection without sacrificing model accuracy, effectively overcoming the privacy-utility…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Shudi Weng , Chao Ren , Yizhou Zhao , Ming Xiao , Mikael Skoglund

Federated Learning (FL) has emerged as a promising approach for collaborative machine learning, addressing data privacy concerns. However, existing FL platforms and frameworks often present challenges for software engineers in terms of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-09-07 Hongyi Zhang , Jan Bosch , Helena Holmström Olsson

Federated Learning (FL) enables collaborative machine learning across decentralized data sources without sharing raw data. It offers a promising approach to privacy-preserving AI. However, FL remains vulnerable to adversarial threats from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Kun Yang , Neena Imam

Federated Learning (FL) allows parties to learn a shared prediction model by delegating the training computation to clients and aggregating all the separately trained models on the server. To prevent private information being inferred from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-13 Kwing Hei Li , Pedro Porto Buarque de Gusmão , Daniel J. Beutel , Nicholas D. Lane

Recently, Google and other 24 institutions proposed a series of open challenges towards federated learning (FL), which include application expansion and homomorphic encryption (HE). The former aims to expand the applicable machine learning…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-04-13 Yang Liu , Zhuo Ma , Ximeng Liu , Siqi Ma , Surya Nepal , Robert Deng

Federated learning (FL) enables collaborative model training while preserving user data privacy by keeping data local. Despite these advantages, FL remains vulnerable to privacy attacks on user updates and model parameters during training…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-12 Yiwei Zhang , Rouzbeh Behnia , Attila A. Yavuz , Reza Ebrahimi , Elisa Bertino