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\textit{Federated learning} (FL) and \textit{split learning} (SL) are prevailing distributed paradigms in recent years. They both enable shared global model training while keeping data localized on users' devices. The former excels in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Wei Wan , Yuxuan Ning , Shengshan Hu , Lulu Xue , Minghui Li , Leo Yu Zhang , Hai Jin

Extending recommender systems to federated learning (FL) frameworks to protect the privacy of users or platforms while making recommendations has recently gained widespread attention in academia. This is due to the natural coupling of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Yunqi Mi , Jiakui Shen , Guoshuai Zhao , Jialie Shen , Xueming Qian

Federated recommendation addresses the data silo and privacy problems altogether for recommender systems. Current federated recommender systems mainly utilize cryptographic or obfuscation methods to protect the original ratings from…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Liu Yang , Junxue Zhang , Di Chai , Leye Wang , Kun Guo , Kai Chen , Qiang Yang

Property inference attacks consider an adversary who has access to the trained model and tries to extract some global statistics of the training data. In this work, we study property inference in scenarios where the adversary can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-28 Melissa Chase , Esha Ghosh , Saeed Mahloujifar

Federated learning (FL) has become an emerging machine learning technique lately due to its efficacy in safeguarding the client's confidential information. Nevertheless, despite the inherent and additional privacy-preserving mechanisms…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-09-22 Md Tamjid Hossain , Shafkat Islam , Shahriar Badsha , Haoting Shen

Due to the greatly improved capabilities of devices, massive data, and increasing concern about data privacy, Federated Learning (FL) has been increasingly considered for applications to wireless communication networks (WCNs). Wireless FL…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-12-15 Yichen Wan , Youyang Qu , Wei Ni , Yong Xiang , Longxiang Gao , Ekram Hossain

Federated recommender systems (FedRS) have emerged as a paradigm for protecting user privacy by keeping interaction data on local devices while coordinating model training through a central server. However, most existing federated…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Liang Qu , Jianxin Li , Wei Yuan , Shangfei Zheng , Lu Chen , Chengfei Liu , Hongzhi Yin

Federated learning is inherently vulnerable to model poisoning attacks because its decentralized nature allows attackers to participate with compromised devices. In model poisoning attacks, the attacker reduces the model's performance on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Ashwinee Panda , Saeed Mahloujifar , Arjun N. Bhagoji , Supriyo Chakraborty , Prateek Mittal

Federated Distillation (FD) is a novel and promising distributed machine learning paradigm, where knowledge distillation is leveraged to facilitate a more efficient and flexible cross-device knowledge transfer in federated learning. By…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Yuhan Tang , Zhiyuan Wu , Bo Gao , Tian Wen , Yuwei Wang , Sheng Sun

Federated recommendation is a new Internet service architecture that aims to provide privacy-preserving recommendation services in federated settings. Existing solutions are used to combine distributed recommendation algorithms and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Chunxu Zhang , Guodong Long , Tianyi Zhou , Peng Yan , Zijian Zhang , Chengqi Zhang , Bo Yang

This paper presents the design and implementation of a Federated Learning (FL) testbed, focusing on its application in cybersecurity and evaluating its resilience against poisoning attacks. Federated Learning allows multiple clients to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Hao Jian Huang , Hakan T. Otal , M. Abdullah Canbaz

Federated learning allows for clients in a distributed system to jointly train a machine learning model. However, clients' models are vulnerable to attacks during the training and testing phases. In this paper, we address the issue of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Taejin Kim , Shubhranshu Singh , Nikhil Madaan , Carlee Joe-Wong

Advances in distributed machine learning can empower future communications and networking. The emergence of federated learning (FL) has provided an efficient framework for distributed machine learning, which, however, still faces many…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Zhilin Wang , Qiao Kang , Xinyi Zhang , Qin Hu

Deep learning-based recommender systems have become an integral part of several online platforms. However, their black-box nature emphasizes the need for explainable artificial intelligence (XAI) approaches to provide human-understandable…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Ziheng Chen , Fabrizio Silvestri , Jia Wang , Yongfeng Zhang , Gabriele Tolomei

The decentralized nature of federated learning, that often leverages the power of edge devices, makes it vulnerable to attacks against privacy and security. The privacy risk for a peer is that the model update she computes on her private…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-08-05 Josep Domingo-Ferrer , Alberto Blanco-Justicia , Jesús Manjón , David Sánchez

Federated Learning systems are increasingly subjected to a multitude of model poisoning attacks from clients. Among these, edge-case attacks that target a small fraction of the input space are nearly impossible to detect using existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-15 Kiran Purohit , Soumi Das , Sourangshu Bhattacharya , Santu Rana

We introduce a new class of attacks on machine learning models. We show that an adversary who can poison a training dataset can cause models trained on this dataset to leak significant private details of training points belonging to other…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-10-07 Florian Tramèr , Reza Shokri , Ayrton San Joaquin , Hoang Le , Matthew Jagielski , Sanghyun Hong , Nicholas Carlini

As in-the-wild data are increasingly involved in the training stage, machine learning applications become more susceptible to data poisoning attacks. Such attacks typically lead to test-time accuracy degradation or controlled misprediction.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-11-02 Yufei Chen , Chao Shen , Yun Shen , Cong Wang , Yang Zhang

Federated learning (FL) provides an efficient paradigm to jointly train a global model leveraging data from distributed users. As local training data comes from different users who may not be trustworthy, several studies have shown that FL…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-01-02 Chulin Xie , Yunhui Long , Pin-Yu Chen , Qinbin Li , Arash Nourian , Sanmi Koyejo , Bo Li

In Federated Learning (FL), a set of clients collaboratively train a machine learning model (called global model) without sharing their local training data. The local training data of clients is typically non-i.i.d. and heterogeneous,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Zhangchen Xu , Fengqing Jiang , Luyao Niu , Jinyuan Jia , Bo Li , Radha Poovendran