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This paper introduces \texttt{FedMPDD} (\textbf{Fed}erated Learning via \textbf{M}ulti-\textbf{P}rojected \textbf{D}irectional \textbf{D}erivatives), a novel algorithm that simultaneously optimizes bandwidth utilization and enhances privacy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-25 Mohammadreza Rostami , Solmaz S. Kia

Privacy, security and data governance constraints rule out a brute force process in the integration of cross-silo data, which inherits the development of the Internet of Things. Federated learning is proposed to ensure that all parties can…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Dongqi Cai , Tao Fan , Yan Kang , Lixin Fan , Mengwei Xu , Shangguang Wang , Qiang Yang

Federated Learning (FL) enables model training across decentralized devices by communicating solely local model updates to an aggregation server. Although such limited data sharing makes FL more secure than centralized approached, FL…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-06-14 Vasileios Tsouvalas , Samaneh Mohammadi , Ali Balador , Tanir Ozcelebi , Francesco Flammini , Nirvana Meratnia

Federated learning is a framework for distributed optimization that places emphasis on communication efficiency. In particular, it follows a client-server broadcast model and is particularly appealing because of its ability to accommodate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Han Wang , Siddartha Marella , James Anderson

Federated Learning (FL) enables decentralised model training across distributed clients without requiring data centralisation. However, the generalisation performance of the global model is usually degraded by data heterogeneity across…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Ozgu Goksu , Nicolas Pugeault

Federated learning (FL) is an emerging paradigm that allows a central server to train machine learning models using remote users' data. Despite its growing popularity, FL faces challenges in preserving the privacy of local datasets, its…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Natalie Lang , Nir Shlezinger , Rafael G. L. D'Oliveira , Salim El Rouayheb

In 6G mobile communication systems, various AI-based network functions and applications have been standardized. Federated learning (FL) is adopted as the core learning architecture for 6G systems to avoid privacy leakage from mobile user…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Seyoung Ahn , Soohyeong Kim , Yongseok Kwon , Joohan Park , Jiseung Youn , Sunghyun Cho

In this paper, we study the fundamental limits of hierarchical secure aggregation under unreliable communication. We consider a hierarchical network where each client connects to multiple relays, and both client-to-relay and relay-to-server…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Shudi Weng , Xiang Zhang , Yizhou Zhao , Giuseppe Caire , Ming Xiao , Mikael Skoglund

Federated learning (FL) enables geographically dispersed edge devices (i.e., clients) to learn a global model without sharing the local datasets, where each client performs gradient descent with its local data and uploads the gradients to a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-12-19 Heting Liu , Fang He , Guohong Cao

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 algorithms are developed both for efficiency reasons and to ensure the privacy and confidentiality of personal and business data, respectively. Despite no data being shared explicitly, recent studies showed that the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Balázs Pejó , Gergely Biczók

In this paper, we consider federated learning (FL) over a noisy fading multiple access channel (MAC), where an edge server aggregates the local models transmitted by multiple end devices through over-the-air computation (AirComp). To…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-11-16 Shuhao Xia , Jingyang Zhu , Yuhan Yang , Yong Zhou , Yuanming Shi , Wei Chen

Hierarchical federated learning (HFL) has emerged as an effective paradigm to enhance link quality between clients and the server. However, ensuring model accuracy while preserving privacy under unreliable communication remains a key…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Shudi Weng , Ming Xiao , Mikael Skoglund

In this paper, we propose feature-based federated transfer learning as a novel approach to improve communication efficiency by reducing the uplink payload by multiple orders of magnitude compared to that of existing approaches in federated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-16 Feng Wang , M. Cenk Gursoy , Senem Velipasalar

Secure Multiparty Computation (MPC) can improve the security and privacy of data owners while allowing analysts to perform high quality analytics. Secure aggregation is a secure distributed mechanism to support federated deep learning…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-05-04 Timothy Stevens , Joseph Near , Christian Skalka

This paper investigates the feasibility of federated representation learning under the constraints of communication cost and privacy protection. Existing works either conduct annotation-guided local training which requires frequent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Haizhou Shi , Youcai Zhang , Zijin Shen , Siliang Tang , Yaqian Li , Yandong Guo , Yueting Zhuang

Embedding layers are commonly used to map discrete symbols into continuous embedding vectors that reflect their semantic meanings. Despite their effectiveness, the number of parameters in an embedding layer increases linearly with the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-29 Ting Chen , Lala Li , Yizhou Sun

Federated learning (FL) enables collaborative training across organizations without sharing raw data, but it is hindered by statistical heterogeneity (non-i.i.d.\ client data) and by instability of naive weight averaging under client drift.…

Federated learning (FL) enables collaborative model training across distributed devices without sharing raw data, but applying FL to multi-modal settings introduces significant challenges. Clients typically possess heterogeneous modalities…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Mohamed Badi , Chaouki Ben Issaid , Mehdi Bennis

Communication efficiency is a widely recognised research problem in Federated Learning (FL), with recent work focused on developing techniques for efficient compression, distribution and aggregation of model parameters between clients and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Chamath Palihawadana , Nirmalie Wiratunga , Anjana Wijekoon , Harsha Kalutarage