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This paper proposes FedSVA, an explainable differential privacy (DP) mechanism for federated learning (FL) that dynamically calibrates noise injection based on the privacy contribution of attributes via Shapley Values. Unlike heuristic DP…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Yunbo Li , Jiaping Gui , Yue Wu

Establishing how a set of learners can provide privacy-preserving federated learning in a fully decentralized (peer-to-peer, no coordinator) manner is an open problem. We propose the first privacy-preserving consensus-based algorithm for…

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In this paper, we develop a novel online federated learning framework for classification, designed to handle streaming data from multiple clients while ensuring data privacy and computational efficiency. Our method leverages the generalized…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-03-20 Wenxing Guo , Jinhan Xie , Jianya Lu , Bei jiang , Hongsheng Dai , Linglong Kong

In the evolving landscape of machine learning (ML), Federated Learning (FL) presents a paradigm shift towards decentralized model training while preserving user data privacy. This paper introduces the concept of ``privacy drift", an…

Personalized federated learning (PFL), e.g., the renowned Ditto, strikes a balance between personalization and generalization by conducting federated learning (FL) to guide personalized learning (PL). While FL is unaffected by personalized…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Xiyu Zhao , Qimei Cui , Weicai Li , Wei Ni , Ekram Hossain , Quan Z. Sheng , Xiaofeng Tao , Ping Zhang

Federated learning (FL) is a new distributed learning paradigm, with privacy, utility, and efficiency as its primary pillars. Existing research indicates that it is unlikely to simultaneously attain infinitesimal privacy leakage, utility…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-22 Xiaojin Zhang , Anbu Huang , Lixin Fan , Kai Chen , Qiang Yang

In today's world, the rapid expansion of IoT networks and the proliferation of smart devices in our daily lives, have resulted in the generation of substantial amounts of heterogeneous data. These data forms a stream which requires special…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Sofia Zahri , Hajar Bennouri , Ahmed M. Abdelmoniem

Machine learning models require datasets for effective training, but directly sharing raw data poses significant privacy risk such as membership inference attacks (MIA). To mitigate the risk, privacy-preserving techniques such as data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Yi Yin , Guangquan Zhang , Hua Zuo , Jie Lu

We present a unified information-theoretic framework elucidating the interplay between stability, privacy, and the generalization performance of quantum learning algorithms. We establish a bound on the expected generalization error in terms…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-06 Ayanava Dasgupta , Naqueeb Ahmad Warsi , Masahito Hayashi

Train machine learning models on sensitive user data has raised increasing privacy concerns in many areas. Federated learning is a popular approach for privacy protection that collects the local gradient information instead of real data.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-05-24 Lichao Sun , Jianwei Qian , Xun Chen

The Internet-of-Things (IoT) generates vast quantities of data, much of it attributable to individuals' activity and behaviour. Gathering personal data and performing machine learning tasks on this data in a central location presents a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-09 Christopher Briggs , Zhong Fan , Peter Andras

While federated learning (FL) eliminates the transmission of raw data over a network, it is still vulnerable to privacy breaches from the communicated model parameters. In this work, we propose Multi-Tier Federated Learning with Multi-Tier…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-11 Evan Chen , Frank Po-Chen Lin , Dong-Jun Han , Christopher G. Brinton

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

A key feature of federated learning (FL) is to preserve the data privacy of end users. However, there still exist potential privacy leakage in exchanging gradients under FL. As a result, recent research often explores the differential…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Yuntao Wang , Zhou Su , Yanghe Pan , Tom H Luan , Ruidong Li , Shui Yu

While recent years have witnessed the advancement in big data and Artificial Intelligence (AI), it is of much importance to safeguard data privacy and security. As an innovative approach, Federated Learning (FL) addresses these concerns by…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Chunlu Chen , Ji Liu , Haowen Tan , Xingjian Li , Kevin I-Kai Wang , Peng Li , Kouichi Sakurai , Dejing Dou

Federated learning is an emerging technique used to prevent the leakage of private information. Unlike centralized learning that needs to collect data from users and store them collectively on a cloud server, federated learning makes it…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-11 Hangyu Zhu , Yaochu Jin

Federated learning (FL) has emerged as a practical solution to tackle data silo issues without compromising user privacy. One of its variants, vertical federated learning (VFL), has recently gained increasing attention as the VFL matches…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Yan Kang , Jiahuan Luo , Yuanqin He , Xiaojin Zhang , Lixin Fan , Qiang Yang

Differential privacy (DP) has become the standard for private data analysis. Certain machine learning applications only require privacy protection for specific protected attributes. Using naive variants of differential privacy in such use…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Saeed Mahloujifar , Chuan Guo , G. Edward Suh , Kamalika Chaudhuri

The advent of federated learning has facilitated large-scale data exchange amongst machine learning models while maintaining privacy. Despite its brief history, federated learning is rapidly evolving to make wider use more practical. One of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Ehsan Hallaji , Roozbeh Razavi-Far , Mehrdad Saif