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Federated Learning (FL) has emerged as a prominent distributed machine learning framework that enables geographically discrete clients to train a global model collaboratively while preserving their privacy-sensitive data. However, due to…

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Vertical Federated Learning (VFL) has garnered significant attention as a privacy-preserving machine learning framework for sample-aligned feature federation. However, traditional VFL approaches do not address the challenges of class and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Shuo Wang , Keke Gai , Jing Yu , Liehuang Zhu , Qi Wu

While deep learning models like Vision Transformer (ViT) have achieved significant advances, they typically require large datasets. With data privacy regulations, access to many original datasets is restricted, especially medical images.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Xinyuan Zhao , Yihang Wu , Ahmad Chaddad , Tareef Daqqaq , Reem Kateb

Federated Learning (FL) is a decentralized machine learning paradigm that enables collaborative model training across dispersed nodes without having to force individual nodes to share data. However, its broad adoption is hindered by the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Mohammad Mahdi Rahimi , Hasnain Irshad Bhatti , Younghyun Park , Humaira Kousar , Jaekyun Moon

Privacy concerns in machine learning are heightened by regulations such as the GDPR, which enforces the "right to be forgotten" (RTBF), driving the emergence of machine unlearning as a critical research field. Vertical Federated Learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Linian Wang , Leye Wang

Federated learning (FL) is a collaborative machine learning paradigm which ensures data privacy by training models across distributed datasets without centralizing sensitive information. Vertical Federated Learning (VFL), a kind of FL…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-02-13 Nikita Shrivastava , Drishya Uniyal , Bapi Chatterjee

Machine learning is typically framed from a perspective of i.i.d., and more importantly, isolated data. In parts, federated learning lifts this assumption, as it sets out to solve the real-world challenge of collaboratively learning a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Subarnaduti Paul , Lars-Joel Frey , Roshni Kamath , Kristian Kersting , Martin Mundt

The ongoing deployment of the Internet of Things (IoT)-based smart applications is spurring the adoption of machine learning as a key technology enabler. To overcome the privacy and overhead challenges of centralized machine learning, there…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-06-21 Latif U. Khan , Walid Saad , Zhu Han , Choong Seon Hong

Federated Learning is a distributed machine-learning environment that allows clients to learn collaboratively without sharing private data. This is accomplished by exchanging parameters. However, the differences in data distributions and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-17 Kuang Hangdong , Mi Bo

Federated Learning (FL) is a novel machine learning approach that allows the model trainer to access more data samples, by training the model across multiple decentralized data sources, while data access constraints are in place. Such…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-18 Andre Manoel , Mirian Hipolito Garcia , Tal Baumel , Shize Su , Jialei Chen , Dan Miller , Danny Karmon , Robert Sim , Dimitrios Dimitriadis

Federated learning in vehicular edge networks faces major challenges in efficient resource allocation, largely due to high vehicle mobility and the presence of imperfect channel state information. Many existing methods oversimplify these…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-04 Metehan Karatas , Subhrakanti Dey , Christian Rohner , Jose Mairton Barros da Silva

Healthcare industries frequently handle sensitive and proprietary data, and due to strict privacy regulations, they are often reluctant to share data directly. In today's context, Federated Learning (FL) stands out as a crucial remedy,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-08 Amandeep Singh Bhatia , David E. Bernal Neira

Federated learning (FL) is severely challenged by non-independent and identically distributed (non-IID) client data, a problem that degrades global model performance, especially in multimodal perception settings. Conventional methods often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Jing Liu , Zhengliang Guo , Yan Wang , Xiaoguang Zhu , Yao Du , Zehua Wang , Victor C. M. Leung

Vertical Federated Learning (VFL) has emerged as a critical approach in machine learning to address privacy concerns associated with centralized data storage and processing. VFL facilitates collaboration among multiple entities with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Yue Cui , Chung-ju Huang , Yuzhu Zhang , Leye Wang , Lixin Fan , Xiaofang Zhou , Qiang Yang

Vertical Federated Learning (vFL) allows multiple parties that own different attributes (e.g. features and labels) of the same data entity (e.g. a person) to jointly train a model. To prepare the training data, vFL needs to identify the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-11 Jiankai Sun , Xin Yang , Yuanshun Yao , Aonan Zhang , Weihao Gao , Junyuan Xie , Chong Wang

Vertical federated learning (VFL) allows an active party with a top model, and multiple passive parties with bottom models to collaborate. In this scenario, passive parties possessing only features may attempt to infer active party's…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Yige Liu , Dexuan Xu , Zimai Guo , Yongzhi Cao , Hanpin Wang

Existing Vertical FL (VFL) methods often struggle with realistic and unaligned data partitions, and incur into high communication costs and significant operational complexity. This work introduces a novel approach to VFL, Active Participant…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-20 Jon Irureta , Jon Imaz , Aizea Lojo , Javier Fernandez-Marques , Marco González , Iñigo Perona

Federated Learning (FL) is a machine learning paradigm that allows decentralized clients to learn collaboratively without sharing their private data. However, excessive computation and communication demands pose challenges to current FL…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-09-22 Yue Tan , Guodong Long , Jie Ma , Lu Liu , Tianyi Zhou , Jing Jiang

Federated Learning (FL) has emerged as a promising paradigm for privacy-preserving collaborative learning, yet data heterogeneity remains a critical challenge. While existing methods achieve progress in addressing data heterogeneity for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Yuhao Zhou , Jindi Lv , Yuxin Tian , Dan Si , Qing Ye , Jiancheng Lv

We propose Flexible Vertical Federated Learning (Flex-VFL), a distributed machine algorithm that trains a smooth, non-convex function in a distributed system with vertically partitioned data. We consider a system with several parties that…

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