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Vertical Federated Learning (VFL), which has a broad range of real-world applications, has received much attention in both academia and industry. Enterprises aspire to exploit more valuable features of the same users from diverse…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-22 Wenguo Li , Xinling Guo , Xu Jiao , Tiancheng Huang , Xiaoran Yan , Yao Yang

Machine learning models are often trained on sensitive data (e.g., medical records and race/gender) that is distributed across different "silos" (e.g., hospitals). These federated learning models may then be used to make consequential…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-13 Devansh Gupta , A. S. Poornash , Andrew Lowy , Meisam Razaviyayn

Federated Learning (FL) is a paradigm for large-scale distributed learning which faces two key challenges: (i) efficient training from highly heterogeneous user data, and (ii) protecting the privacy of participating users. In this work, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-06 Maxence Noble , Aurélien Bellet , Aymeric Dieuleveut

Machine learning (ML) models trained on datasets owned by different organizations and physically located in remote databases offer benefits in many real-world use cases. State regulations or business requirements often prevent data transfer…

Federated Learning (FL) has emerged as a promising distributed learning paradigm with an added advantage of data privacy. With the growing interest in having collaboration among data owners, FL has gained significant attention of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Afsana Khan , Marijn ten Thij , Anna Wilbik

This paper proposes a privacy-preserving data fusion method for traffic state estimation (TSE). Unlike existing works that assume all data sources to be accessible by a single trusted party, we explicitly address data privacy concerns that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Qiqing Wang , Kaidi Yang

Due to the rising concerns on privacy protection, how to build machine learning (ML) models over different data sources with security guarantees is gaining more popularity. Vertical federated learning (VFL) describes such a case where ML…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-17 Fangcheng Fu , Huanran Xue , Yong Cheng , Yangyu Tao , Bin Cui

The advent of smart meters has enabled pervasive collection of energy consumption data for training short-term load forecasting models. In response to privacy concerns, federated learning (FL) has been proposed as a privacy-preserving…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Shourya Bose , Yu Zhang , Kibaek Kim

Multimodal time-to-event prediction often requires integrating sensitive data distributed across multiple parties, making centralized model training impractical due to privacy constraints. At the same time, most existing multimodal survival…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-04-03 Abhilash Kar , Basisth Saha , Tanmay Sen , Biswabrata Pradhan

Horizontal Federated learning (FL) handles multi-client data that share the same set of features, and vertical FL trains a better predictor that combine all the features from different clients. This paper targets solving vertical FL in an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-02 Tianyi Chen , Xiao Jin , Yuejiao Sun , Wotao Yin

Federated learning (FL) is a distributed learning paradigm that allows multiple decentralized clients to collaboratively learn a common model without sharing local data. Although local data is not exposed directly, privacy concerns…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-02 Tongxin Yin , Xuwei Tan , Xueru Zhang , Mohammad Mahdi Khalili , Mingyan Liu

We present Poisson Binomial Mechanism Vertical Federated Learning (PBM-VFL), a communication-efficient Vertical Federated Learning algorithm with Differential Privacy guarantees. PBM-VFL combines Secure Multi-Party Computation with the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Linh Tran , Timothy Castiglia , Stacy Patterson , Ana Milanova

Federated learning is a technique that enables distributed clients to collaboratively learn a shared machine learning model while keeping their training data localized. This reduces data privacy risks, however, privacy concerns still exist…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-24 Vaikkunth Mugunthan , Anton Peraire-Bueno , Lalana Kagal

Spatiotemporal forecasting has emerged as an indispensable building block of diverse smart city applications, such as intelligent transportation and smart energy management. Recent advancements have uncovered that the performance of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-30 Shuowei Cai , Hao Liu

Smart meter measurements, though critical for accurate demand forecasting, face several drawbacks including consumers' privacy, data breach issues, to name a few. Recent literature has explored Federated Learning (FL) as a promising…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-03-29 Muhammad Akbar Husnoo , Adnan Anwar , Nasser Hosseinzadeh , Shama Naz Islam , Abdun Naser Mahmood , Robin Doss

Federated learning (FL) has emerged as a privacy solution for collaborative distributed learning where clients train AI models directly on their devices instead of sharing their data with a centralized (potentially adversarial) server.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-08 Haleh Hayati , Carlos Murguia , Nathan van de Wouw

The increasing demand for privacy-preserving collaborative learning has given rise to a new computing paradigm called federated learning (FL), in which clients collaboratively train a machine learning (ML) model without revealing their…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Zhifeng Jiang , Wei Wang , Bo Li , Qiang Yang

After entering the era of big data, more and more companies build services with machine learning techniques. However, it is costly for companies to collect data and extract helpful handcraft features on their own. Although it is a way to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Huan-Chih Wang , Ja-Ling Wu

Federated learning is a new framework that protects data privacy and allows multiple devices to cooperate in training machine learning models. Previous studies have proposed multiple approaches to eliminate the challenges posed by non-iid…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-13 Shunxin Guo , Hongsong Wang , Shuxia Lin , Xu Yang , Xin Geng

Vertical Federated Learning (VFL) has emerged as a collaborative training paradigm that allows participants with different features of the same group of users to accomplish cooperative training without exposing their raw data or model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-17 Tianyuan Zou , Zixuan Gu , Yu He , Hideaki Takahashi , Yang Liu , Ya-Qin Zhang