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Federated learning is the centralized training of statistical models from decentralized data on mobile devices while preserving the privacy of each device. We present a robust aggregation approach to make federated learning robust to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-08-04 Krishna Pillutla , Sham M. Kakade , Zaid Harchaoui

Secure aggregation is a critical component in federated learning (FL), which enables the server to learn the aggregate model of the users without observing their local models. Conventionally, secure aggregation algorithms focus only on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-28 Jinhyun So , Ramy E. Ali , Basak Guler , Jiantao Jiao , Salman Avestimehr

Federated learning has recently emerged as a paradigm promising the benefits of harnessing rich data from diverse sources to train high quality models, with the salient features that training datasets never leave local devices. Only model…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-02-07 Yifeng Zheng , Shangqi Lai , Yi Liu , Xingliang Yuan , Xun Yi , Cong Wang

Mobile keyboard suggestion is typically regarded as a word-level language modeling problem. Centralized machine learning technique requires massive user data collected to train on, which may impose privacy concerns for sensitive personal…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-22 Shaoxiong Ji , Shirui Pan , Guodong Long , Xue Li , Jing Jiang , Zi Huang

Secure aggregation is a cryptographic protocol that securely computes the aggregation of its inputs. It is pivotal in keeping model updates private in federated learning. Indeed, the use of secure aggregation prevents the server from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Dario Pasquini , Danilo Francati , Giuseppe Ateniese

Recent advances in differentially private federated learning (DPFL) algorithms have found that using correlated noise across the rounds of federated learning (DP-FTRL) yields provably and empirically better accuracy than using independent…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-16 Marshall Ball , James Bell-Clark , Adria Gascon , Peter Kairouz , Sewoong Oh , Zhiye Xie

Federated Learning (FL) enables collaborative learning without exposing clients' data. While clients only share model updates with the aggregator, studies reveal that aggregators can infer sensitive information from these updates. Secure…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Md. Kamrul Hossain , Walid Aljoby , Anis Elgabli , Ahmed M. Abdelmoniem , Khaled A. Harras

Federated Learning and Analytics (FLA) have seen widespread adoption by technology platforms for processing sensitive on-device data. However, basic FLA systems have privacy limitations: they do not necessarily require anonymization…

Asynchronous federated learning (AFL) is an effective method to address the challenge of device heterogeneity in cross-device federated learning. However, AFL is usually incompatible with existing secure aggregation protocols used to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-06-07 Kun Wang , Yi-Rui Yang , Wu-Jun Li

Recent attacks on federated learning demonstrate that keeping the training data on clients' devices does not provide sufficient privacy, as the model parameters shared by clients can leak information about their training data. A 'secure…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-09-24 Swanand Kadhe , Nived Rajaraman , O. Ozan Koyluoglu , Kannan Ramchandran

With the emergence of privacy leaks in federated learning, secure aggregation protocols that mainly adopt either homomorphic encryption or threshold secret sharing have been widely developed for federated learning to protect the privacy of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-06-03 Xue Yang , Zifeng Liu , Xiaohu Tang , Rongxing Lu , Bo Liu

This work focuses on the question of learning from a large number of devices with each device holding only a single sample of data. Several real-world applications exist to this one sample per client setup up including learning from fitness…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Praneeth Vepakomma , Amirhossein Reisizadeh , Samuel Horváth , Munther A. Dahleh

Federated learning (FL) enables multiple clients to collaboratively train models without sharing their local data, and becomes an important privacy-preserving machine learning framework. However, classical FL faces serious security and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-07-27 Jingwei Yi , Fangzhao Wu , Huishuai Zhang , Bin Zhu , Tao Qi , Guangzhong Sun , Xing Xie

Secure aggregation promises a heightened level of privacy in federated learning, maintaining that a server only has access to a decrypted aggregate update. Within this setting, linear layer leakage methods are the only data reconstruction…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Joshua C. Zhao , Ahmed Roushdy Elkordy , Atul Sharma , Yahya H. Ezzeldin , Salman Avestimehr , Saurabh Bagchi

Federated learning (FL) has become a prevalent distributed machine learning paradigm with improved privacy. After learning, the resulting federated model should be further personalized to each different client. While several methods have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-09 Bingyan Liu , Yao Guo , Xiangqun Chen

Personalized federated learning (PFL) tailors models to clients' unique data distributions while preserving privacy. However, existing aggregation-weight-based PFL methods often struggle with heterogeneous data, facing challenges in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Yuxia Sun , Aoxiang Sun , Siyi Pan , Zhixiao Fu , Jingcai Guo

Deploying federated learning (FL) in real-world scenarios, particularly in healthcare, poses challenges in communication and security. In particular, with respect to the federated aggregation procedure, researchers have been focusing on the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Riccardo Taiello , Sergen Cansiz , Marc Vesin , Francesco Cremonesi , Lucia Innocenti , Melek Önen , Marco Lorenzi

Federated Learning (FL) is a decentralized machine learning approach where client devices train models locally and send them to a server that performs aggregation to generate a global model. FL is vulnerable to model inversion attacks,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-05-03 Niousha Nazemi , Omid Tavallaie , Shuaijun Chen , Albert Y. Zomaya , Ralph Holz

Federated learning enables multiple data owners to jointly train a machine learning model without revealing their private datasets. However, a malicious aggregation server might use the model parameters to derive sensitive information about…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-02-16 Yash More , Prashanthi Ramachandran , Priyam Panda , Arup Mondal , Harpreet Virk , Debayan Gupta

In decentralized federated learning (FL), multiple clients collaboratively learn a shared machine learning (ML) model by leveraging their privately held datasets distributed across the network, through interactive exchange of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Xiang Zhang , Zhou Li , Shuangyang Li , Kai Wan , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Giuseppe Caire