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Federated Learning (FL) is a collaborative method for training machine learning models while preserving the confidentiality of the participants' training data. Nevertheless, FL is vulnerable to reconstruction attacks that exploit shared…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Enrico Sorbera , Federica Zanetti , Giacomo Brandi , Alessandro Tomasi , Roberto Doriguzzi-Corin , Silvio Ranise

Federated learning (FL) is a type of distributed machine learning at the wireless edge that preserves the privacy of clients' data from adversaries and even the central server. Existing federated learning approaches either use (i) secure…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Mitra Hassani , Reza Gholizadeh

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) has gained widespread popularity in recent years due to the fast booming of advanced machine learning and artificial intelligence along with emerging security and privacy threats. FL enables efficient model…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-03-27 Ervin Moore , Ahmed Imteaj , Shabnam Rezapour , M. Hadi Amini

Federated learning has emerged as a prominent privacy-preserving technique for leveraging large-scale distributed datasets by sharing gradients instead of raw data. However, recent studies indicate that private training data can still be…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Tamer Ahmed Eltaras , Qutaibah Malluhi , Alessandro Savino , Stefano Di Carlo , Adnan Qayyum

We consider a federated representation learning framework, where with the assistance of a central server, a group of $N$ distributed clients train collaboratively over their private data, for the representations (or embeddings) of a set of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-05 Jiaxiang Tang , Jinbao Zhu , Songze Li , Lichao Sun

The concept of federated learning (FL) was first proposed by Google in 2016. Thereafter, FL has been widely studied for the feasibility of application in various fields due to its potential to make full use of data without compromising the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-19 Wenti Yang , Naiyu Wang , Zhitao Guan , Longfei Wu , Xiaojiang Du , Mohsen Guizani

Nowadays, machine learning algorithms continue to grow in complexity and require a substantial amount of computational resources and energy. For these reasons, there is a growing awareness of the development of new green algorithms and…

A key operation in federated learning is the aggregation of gradient vectors generated by individual client nodes. We develop a method based on multiparty homomorphic encryption (MPHE) that enables the central node to compute this…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Erfan Hosseini , Shuangyi Chen , Ashish Khisti

Federated learning (FL) enables multiple clients to train a machine learning model collaboratively without exchanging their local data. Federated unlearning is an inverse FL process that aims to remove a specified target client's…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-27 Guanghao Li , Li Shen , Yan Sun , Yue Hu , Han Hu , Dacheng Tao

Federated Learning (FL) is a distributed learning paradigm that enhances users privacy by eliminating the need for clients to share raw, private data with the server. Despite the success, recent studies expose the vulnerability of FL to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-15 Jing Wu , Munawar Hayat , Mingyi Zhou , Mehrtash Harandi

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

We present a novel privacy-preserving model aggregation for asynchronous federated learning, named PPA-AFL that removes the restriction of synchronous aggregation of local model updates in federated learning, while enabling the protection…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Jianxiang Zhao , Xiangman Li , Jianbing Ni

Federated Learning (FL) has become very popular since it enables clients to train a joint model collaboratively without sharing their private data. However, FL has been shown to be susceptible to backdoor and inference attacks. While in the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-08-02 Huimin Li , Phillip Rieger , Shaza Zeitouni , Stjepan Picek , Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi

Homomorphic encryption is a very useful gradient protection technique used in privacy preserving federated learning. However, existing encrypted federated learning systems need a trusted third party to generate and distribute key pairs to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-11-26 Hangyu Zhu , Rui Wang , Yaochu Jin , Kaitai Liang , Jianting Ning

Federated learning (FL) enables multiple clients to collaboratively train models without sharing their local data, and becomes an important privacy-preserving machine learning framework. However, classical FL faces serious security and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-07-27 Jingwei Yi , Fangzhao Wu , Huishuai Zhang , Bin Zhu , Tao Qi , Guangzhong Sun , Xing Xie

Federated Learning (FL) enables collaborative model training across distributed clients while preserving user privacy. Recently, Federated Unlearning (FU) has emerged to address the "right to be forgotten" and to remove the influence of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Ruinan Jin , Minghui Chen , Qiong Zhang , Xiaoxiao Li

Federated learning (FL) is an emerging distributed machine learning framework for collaborative model training with a network of clients (edge devices). FL offers default client privacy by allowing clients to keep their sensitive data on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-24 Wenqi Wei , Ling Liu , Margaret Loper , Ka-Ho Chow , Mehmet Emre Gursoy , Stacey Truex , Yanzhao Wu

Federated learning is a promising framework for learning over decentralized data spanning multiple regions. This approach avoids expensive central training data aggregation cost and can improve privacy because distributed sites do not have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Beomyeol Jeon , S. M. Ferdous , Muntasir Raihan Rahman , Anwar Walid

Bidirectional privacy-preservation federated learning is crucial as both local gradients and the global model may leak privacy. However, only a few works attempt to achieve it, and they often face challenges such as excessive communication…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Xue Yang , Depan Peng , Yan Feng , Xiaohu Tang , Weijun Fang , Jun Shao