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Federated Learning (FL) has gained significant attention in distributed machine learning by enabling collaborative model training across decentralized system while preserving data privacy. Although extensive research has addressed…

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Federated learning (FL) systems are susceptible to attacks from malicious actors who might attempt to corrupt the training model through various poisoning attacks. FL also poses new challenges in addressing group bias, such as ensuring fair…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-08 Viktor Valadi , Xinchi Qiu , Pedro Porto Buarque de Gusmão , Nicholas D. Lane , Mina Alibeigi

The integration of fairness and privacy in centralized data-driven applications is critical, especially as these systems increasingly influence sectors with significant societal impact. Current methods rarely address privacy, fairness, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Imesh Ekanayake , Elham Naghizade , Jeffrey Chan

A key promise of machine learning is the ability to assist users with personal tasks. Because the personal context required to make accurate predictions is often sensitive, we require systems that protect privacy. A gold standard…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-03 Simran Arora , Christopher Ré

Federated learning (FL) has enabled multiple data owners (a.k.a. FL clients) to train machine learning models collaboratively without revealing private data. Since the FL server can only engage a limited number of clients in each training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-21 Yuxin Shi , Zelei Liu , Zhuan Shi , Han Yu

Since federated learning (FL) has been introduced as a decentralized learning technique with privacy preservation, statistical heterogeneity of distributed data stays the main obstacle to achieve robust performance and stable convergence in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-08 Yanhang Shi , Siguang Chen , Haijun Zhang

Federated Learning (FL) represents a significant advancement in distributed machine learning, enabling multiple participants to collaboratively train models without sharing raw data. This decentralized approach enhances privacy by keeping…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-10 Jaydip Sen , Hetvi Waghela , Sneha Rakshit

Aiming at privacy preservation, Federated Learning (FL) is an emerging machine learning approach enabling model training on decentralized devices or data sources. The learning mechanism of FL relies on aggregating parameter updates from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Jiayan Chen , Zhirong Qian , Tianhui Meng , Xitong Gao , Tian Wang , Weijia Jia

Federated learning (FL) enables multiple data owners (a.k.a. FL clients) to collaboratively train machine learning models without disclosing sensitive private data. Existing FL research mostly focuses on the monopoly scenario in which a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-09 Yuxin Shi , Han Yu

Modern data aggregation often involves a platform collecting data from a network of users with various privacy options. Platforms must solve the problem of how to allocate incentives to users to convince them to share their data. This paper…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Justin Kang , Ramtin Pedarsani , Kannan Ramchandran

In real-world federated learning (FL) systems, client participation is intermittent, heterogeneous, and often correlated with data characteristics or resource constraints. Existing fairness approaches in FL primarily focus on equalizing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Stefan Behfar , Richard Mortier

To reduce the communication overhead caused by parallel training of multiple clients, various federated learning (FL) techniques use random client sampling. Nonetheless, ensuring the efficacy of random sampling and determining the optimal…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Kirandeep Kaur , Sujit Gujar , Shweta Jain

Federated learning (FL) has emerged as a promising paradigm for distributed machine learning, enabling collaborative training of a global model across multiple local devices without requiring them to share raw data. Despite its…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Dang Qua Nguyen , Morteza Hashemi , Erik Perrins , Sergiy A. Vorobyov , David J. Love , Taejoon Kim

Federated Learning (FL) has become a viable technique for realizing privacy-enhancing distributed deep learning on the network edge. Heterogeneous hardware, unreliable client devices, and energy constraints often characterize edge computing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Herbert Woisetschläger , Alexander Erben , Ruben Mayer , Shiqiang Wang , Hans-Arno Jacobsen

Security, privacy, and fairness have become critical in the era of data science and machine learning. More and more we see that achieving universally secure, private, and fair systems is practically impossible. We have seen for example how…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-05-24 Jure Sokolic , Qiang Qiu , Miguel R. D. Rodrigues , Guillermo Sapiro

Federated Learning (FL) is a privacy-focused machine learning paradigm that collaboratively trains models directly on edge devices. Simulation plays an essential role in FL adoption, helping develop novel aggregation and client sampling…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Lorenzo Sani , Pedro Porto Buarque de Gusmão , Alex Iacob , Wanru Zhao , Xinchi Qiu , Yan Gao , Javier Fernandez-Marques , Nicholas Donald Lane

Federated Learning is an important emerging distributed training paradigm that keeps data private on clients. It is now well understood that by controlling only a small subset of FL clients, it is possible to introduce a backdoor to a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Joseph Rance , Filip Svoboda

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

To protect clients' right to be forgotten in federated learning, federated unlearning aims to remove the data contribution of leaving clients from the global learned model. While current studies mainly focused on enhancing unlearning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Siyuan Wen , Meng Zhang , Yang Yang , Ningning Ding

As the frontier of machine learning applications moves further into human interaction, multiple concerns arise regarding automated decision-making. Two of the most critical issues are fairness and data privacy. On the one hand, one must…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-28 Tânia Carvalho , Nuno Moniz , Luís Antunes