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In federated learning (FL) with top $r$ sparsification, millions of users collectively train a machine learning (ML) model locally, using their personal data by only communicating the most significant $r$ fraction of updates to reduce the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-12-23 Sajani Vithana , Sennur Ulukus

Local Differential Privacy (LDP) is now widely adopted in large-scale systems to collect and analyze sensitive data while preserving users' privacy. However, almost all LDP protocols rely on a semi-trust model where users are…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Rong Du , Qingqing Ye , Yue Fu , Haibo Hu , Jin Li , Chengfang Fang , Jie Shi

Secure model aggregation is a key component of federated learning (FL) that aims at protecting the privacy of each user's individual model while allowing for their global aggregation. It can be applied to any aggregation-based FL approach…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-03 Jinhyun So , Chaoyang He , Chien-Sheng Yang , Songze Li , Qian Yu , Ramy E. Ali , Basak Guler , Salman Avestimehr

Federated learning (FL) enables distributed clients to collaboratively train a machine learning model without sharing raw data with each other. However, it suffers the leakage of private information from uploading models. In addition, as…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-12-25 Kang Wei , Jun Li , Chuan Ma , Ming Ding , Feng Shu , Haitao Zhao , Wen Chen , Hongbo Zhu

We consider the problem of training a $d$ dimensional model with distributed differential privacy (DP) where secure aggregation (SecAgg) is used to ensure that the server only sees the noisy sum of $n$ model updates in every training round.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-09 Wei-Ning Chen , Christopher A. Choquette-Choo , Peter Kairouz , Ananda Theertha Suresh

Federated learning (FL) enables collaborative model training without sharing raw data, but individual model updates may still leak sensitive information. Secure aggregation (SecAgg) mitigates this risk by allowing the server to access only…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Takumi Suimon , Yuki Koizumi , Junji Takemasa , Toru Hasegawa

Deep Learning has recently become hugely popular in machine learning, providing significant improvements in classification accuracy in the presence of highly-structured and large databases. Researchers have also considered privacy…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-09-15 Briland Hitaj , Giuseppe Ateniese , Fernando Perez-Cruz

Current deep learning (DL) systems rely on a centralized computing paradigm which limits the amount of available training data, increases system latency, and adds privacy and security constraints. On-device learning, enabled by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-15 Sai Aparna Aketi , Amandeep Singh , Jan Rabaey

Strict privacy is of paramount importance in distributed machine learning. Federated learning, with the main idea of communicating only what is needed for learning, has been recently introduced as a general approach for distributed learning…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-07-14 Mikko A. Heikkilä , Antti Koskela , Kana Shimizu , Samuel Kaski , Antti Honkela

Secure linear aggregation is to linearly aggregate private inputs of different users with privacy protection. The server in a federated learning (FL) environment can fulfill any linear computation on private inputs of users through the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-11-23 Haibo Tian , Fangguo Zhang , Yunfeng Shao , Bingshuai Li

Federated learning (FL) allows multiple devices to train a model collaboratively without sharing their data. Despite its benefits, FL is vulnerable to privacy leakage and poisoning attacks. To address the privacy concern, secure aggregation…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Peihua Mai , Ran Yan , Yan Pang

Financial fraud increasingly exploits institutional boundaries: laundering networks distribute transactions across multiple banks because no single institution can observe the full pattern. Federated Learning (FL) enables collaborative…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Prajwal Panth , Nishant Nigam

Leveraging federated learning (FL) to enable cross-domain privacy-sensitive data mining represents a vital breakthrough to accomplish privacy-preserving learning. However, attackers can infer the original user data by analyzing the uploaded…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Siqing Zhang , Yong Liao , Pengyuan Zhou

Scientific collaborations benefit from collaborative learning of distributed sources, but remain difficult to achieve when data are sensitive. In recent years, privacy preserving techniques have been widely studied to analyze distributed…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-06-30 Guanhong Miao , A. Adam Ding , Samuel S. Wu

Federated learning enables multiple data owners to jointly train a machine learning model without revealing their private datasets. However, a malicious aggregation server might use the model parameters to derive sensitive information about…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-02-16 Yash More , Prashanthi Ramachandran , Priyam Panda , Arup Mondal , Harpreet Virk , Debayan Gupta

The pervasive adoption of Internet-connected digital services has led to a growing concern in the personal data privacy of their customers. On the other hand, machine learning (ML) techniques have been widely adopted by digital service…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-05-13 Jiale Guo , Ziyao Liu , Kwok-Yan Lam , Jun Zhao , Yiqiang Chen , Chaoping Xing

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

With the emergence of privacy leaks in federated learning, secure aggregation protocols that mainly adopt either homomorphic encryption or threshold secret sharing have been widely developed for federated learning to protect the privacy of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-06-03 Xue Yang , Zifeng Liu , Xiaohu Tang , Rongxing Lu , Bo Liu

Decentralized learning (DL) enables collaborative learning without a server and without training data leaving the users' devices. However, the models shared in DL can still be used to infer training data. Conventional defenses such as…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Sayan Biswas , Mathieu Even , Anne-Marie Kermarrec , Laurent Massoulie , Rafael Pires , Rishi Sharma , Martijn de Vos

We consider the problem of maintaining sparsity in private distributed storage of confidential machine learning data. In many applications, e.g., face recognition, the data used in machine learning algorithms is represented by sparse…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-15 Marvin Xhemrishi , Maximilian Egger , Rawad Bitar