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Federated Learning (FL) enables collaborative model training across distributed devices while preserving local data privacy, making it ideal for mobile and embedded systems. However, the decentralized nature of FL also opens vulnerabilities…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Kichang Lee , Yujin Shin , Jonghyuk Yun , Songkuk Kim , Jun Han , JeongGil Ko

Vertical Federated Learning (VFL) is a federated learning paradigm where multiple participants, who share the same set of samples but hold different features, jointly train machine learning models. Although VFL enables collaborative machine…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-02-07 Lei Yu , Meng Han , Yiming Li , Changting Lin , Yao Zhang , Mingyang Zhang , Yan Liu , Haiqin Weng , Yuseok Jeon , Ka-Ho Chow , Stacy Patterson

Graph Neural Networks(GNNs) are vulnerable to backdoor attacks, where adversaries implant malicious triggers to manipulate model predictions. Existing trigger generators are often simplistic in structure and overly reliant on specific…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Dongyi Liu , Jiangtong Li

Vertical federated learning (VFL) enables multiple parties with disjoint features to collaboratively train models without sharing raw data. While privacy vulnerabilities of VFL are extensively-studied, its security threats-particularly…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Juntao Tan , Anran Li , Quanchao Liu , Peng Ran , Lan Zhang

Federated learning (FL) has been proposed to allow collaborative training of machine learning (ML) models among multiple parties where each party can keep its data private. In this paradigm, only model updates, such as model weights or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-18 Runhua Xu , Nathalie Baracaldo , Yi Zhou , Ali Anwar , James Joshi , Heiko Ludwig

This paper addresses the critical challenge of unlearning in Vertical Federated Learning (VFL), a setting that has received far less attention than its horizontal counterpart. Specifically, we propose the first method tailored to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Hanlin Gu , Hong Xi Tae , Lixin Fan , Chee Seng Chan

Due to the highly sensitive nature of certain data in cross-border sharing, collaborative cross-border recommendations and data sharing are often subject to stringent privacy protection regulations, resulting in insufficient data for model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Zhizhong Tan , Jiexin Zheng , Xingxing Yang , Chi Zhang , Weiping Deng , Wenyong Wang

Federated Learning (FL) has emerged as a promising approach to address data privacy and confidentiality concerns by allowing multiple participants to construct a shared model without centralizing sensitive data. However, this decentralized…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Jahid Hasan

Federated learning (FL) allows the collaborative training of AI models without needing to share raw data. This capability makes it especially interesting for healthcare applications where patient and data privacy is of utmost concern.…

Graph Neural Network (GNN) research is rapidly advancing due to GNNs' capacity to learn distributed representations from graph-structured data. However, centralizing large volumes of real-world graph data for GNN training is often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-17 Kishan Gurumurthy , Himanshu Pal , Charu Sharma

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are known to be vulnerable to backdoor attacks, posing concerning threats to their reliable deployment. Recent research reveals that backdoors can be erased from infected DNNs by pruning a specific group of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Nan Li , Haiyang Yu , Ping Yi

Federated Learning (FL) facilitates collaborative model training while prioritizing privacy by avoiding direct data sharing. However, most existing articles attempt to address challenges within the model's internal parameters and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-10 Guannan Lai , Yihui Feng , Xin Yang , Xiaoyu Deng , Hao Yu , Shuyin Xia , Guoyin Wang , Tianrui Li

To protect user privacy and meet legal regulations, federated learning (FL) is attracting significant attention. Training neural machine translation (NMT) models with traditional FL algorithm (e.g., FedAvg) typically relies on multi-round…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-24 Yichao Du , Zhirui Zhang , Bingzhe Wu , Lemao Liu , Tong Xu , Enhong Chen

Federated Learning (FL), a privacy-preserving machine learning framework, faces significant data-related challenges. For example, the lack of suitable public datasets leads to ineffective information exchange, especially in heterogeneous…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Xi Li , Chen Wu , Jiaqi Wang

Graph Federated Learning (GFL) enables distributed graph representation learning while protecting the privacy of graph data. However, GFL suffers from heterogeneity arising from diverse node features and structural topologies across…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Wentao Yu , Sheng Wan , Shuo Chen , Bo Han , Chen Gong

The rapid progress of graph generation has raised new security concerns, particularly regarding backdoor vulnerabilities. Though prior work has explored backdoor attacks against diffusion models for image or unconditional graph generation,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Liang Ye , Shengqin Chen , Jiazhu Dai

Federated learning (FL) has been widely adopted as a decentralized training paradigm that enables multiple clients to collaboratively learn a shared model without exposing their local data. As concerns over data privacy and regulatory…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Bingguang Lu , Hongsheng Hu , Yuantian Miao , Shaleeza Sohail , Chaoxiang He , Shuo Wang , Xiao Chen

Transforming off-the-shelf deep neural network (DNN) models into dynamic multi-exit architectures can achieve inference and transmission efficiency by fragmenting and distributing a large DNN model in edge computing scenarios (e.g., edge…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-12-23 Tian Dong , Ziyuan Zhang , Han Qiu , Tianwei Zhang , Hewu Li , Terry Wang

Due to the greatly improved capabilities of devices, massive data, and increasing concern about data privacy, Federated Learning (FL) has been increasingly considered for applications to wireless communication networks (WCNs). Wireless FL…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-12-15 Yichen Wan , Youyang Qu , Wei Ni , Yong Xiang , Longxiang Gao , Ekram Hossain

Federated Learning (FL) is a new machine learning framework, which enables millions of participants to collaboratively train machine learning model without compromising data privacy and security. Due to the independence and confidentiality…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Anbu Huang