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Federated learning has emerged as a popular paradigm for collaboratively training a model from data distributed among a set of clients. This learning setting presents, among others, two unique challenges: how to protect privacy of the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-05-07 Hanieh Hashemi , Yongqin Wang , Chuan Guo , Murali Annavaram

In federated learning, multiple client devices jointly learn a machine learning model: each client device maintains a local model for its local training dataset, while a master device maintains a global model via aggregating the local…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-11-23 Minghong Fang , Xiaoyu Cao , Jinyuan Jia , Neil Zhenqiang Gong

We propose Byzantine-robust federated learning protocols with nearly optimal statistical rates. In contrast to prior work, our proposed protocols improve the dimension dependence and achieve a tight statistical rate in terms of all the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Banghua Zhu , Lun Wang , Qi Pang , Shuai Wang , Jiantao Jiao , Dawn Song , Michael I. Jordan

Federated Learning (FL) has become a powerful technique for training Machine Learning (ML) models in a decentralized manner, preserving the privacy of the training datasets involved. However, the decentralized nature of FL limits the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Enrique Mármol Campos , Aurora González Vidal , José Luis Hernández Ramos , Antonio Skarmeta

Federated learning (FL) enables a collaborative environment for training machine learning models without sharing training data between users. This is typically achieved by aggregating model gradients on a central server. Decentralized…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Siddhartha Bhattacharya , Daniel Helo , Joshua Siegel

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

This paper develops a comprehensive framework to address three critical trustworthy challenges in federated learning (FL): robustness against Byzantine attacks, fairness, and privacy preservation. To improve the system's defense against…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Alina Basharat , Yijun Bian , Ping Xu , Zhi Tian

Federated learning (FL) is an emerging distributed machine learning paradigm proposed for privacy preservation. Unlike traditional centralized learning approaches, FL enables multiple users to collaboratively train a shared global model…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Hangyu Zhu , Liyuan Huang , Zhenping Xie

Network traffic prediction plays a crucial role in intelligent network operation. Traditional prediction methods often rely on centralized training, necessitating the transfer of vast amounts of traffic data to a central server. This…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Hui Ma , Kai Yang , Yang Jiao

Multi-task learning is an effective way to address the challenge of model personalization caused by high data heterogeneity in federated learning. However, extending multi-task learning to the online decentralized federated learning setting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Olusola Odeyomi , Sofiat Olaosebikan , Ajibuwa Opeyemi , Oluwadoyinsola Ige

Federated learning is a novel framework that enables resource-constrained edge devices to jointly learn a model, which solves the problem of data protection and data islands. However, standard federated learning is vulnerable to Byzantine…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Kun Zhai , Qiang Ren , Junli Wang , Chungang Yan

The increasing popularity of the federated learning (FL) framework due to its success in a wide range of collaborative learning tasks also induces certain security concerns. Among many vulnerabilities, the risk of Byzantine attacks is of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-02 Kerem Ozfatura , Emre Ozfatura , Alptekin Kupcu , Deniz Gunduz

Secure federated learning is a privacy-preserving framework to improve machine learning models by training over large volumes of data collected by mobile users. This is achieved through an iterative process where, at each iteration, users…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Jinhyun So , Basak Guler , A. Salman Avestimehr

Federated Learning (FL) enables decentralized model training without sharing raw data. However, it remains vulnerable to Byzantine attacks, which can compromise the aggregation of locally updated parameters at the central server.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Shiyuan Zuo , Rongfei Fan , Cheng Zhan , Jie Xu , Puning Zhao , Han Hu

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) is recognized as a key enabling technology to provide intelligent services for future wireless networks and industrial systems with delay and privacy guarantees. However, the performance of wireless FL can be…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-05-25 Shaoming Huang , Yong Zhou , Ting Wang , Yuanming Shi

Federated recommendation systems can provide good performance without collecting users' private data, making them attractive. However, they are susceptible to low-cost poisoning attacks that can degrade their performance. In this paper, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-16 Chen Chen , Jingfeng Zhang , Anthony K. H. Tung , Mohan Kankanhalli , Gang Chen

Federated learning (FL) has enabled training models collaboratively from multiple data owning parties without sharing their data. Given the privacy regulations of patient's healthcare data, learning-based systems in healthcare can greatly…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-09-18 Matei Grama , Maria Musat , Luis Muñoz-González , Jonathan Passerat-Palmbach , Daniel Rueckert , Amir Alansary

Federated Learning (FL) enables multiple clients to collaboratively train models without sharing raw data, but is vulnerable to Byzantine attacks and data heterogeneity, which can severely degrade performance. Existing Byzantine-robust…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Shiyuan Zuo , Xingrun Yan , Rongfei Fan , Li Shen , Puning Zhao , Jie Xu , Han Hu

The decentralized nature of federated learning, that often leverages the power of edge devices, makes it vulnerable to attacks against privacy and security. The privacy risk for a peer is that the model update she computes on her private…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-08-05 Josep Domingo-Ferrer , Alberto Blanco-Justicia , Jesús Manjón , David Sánchez