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Federated learning (FL) is an emerging machine learning paradigm, in which clients jointly learn a model with the help of a cloud server. A fundamental challenge of FL is that the clients are often heterogeneous, e.g., they have different…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-12-14 Minghong Fang , Jia Liu , Neil Zhenqiang Gong , Elizabeth S. Bentley

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

Federated learning (FL) is a popular distributed learning paradigm in machine learning, which enables multiple clients to collaboratively train models under the guidance of a server without exposing private client data. However, FL's…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Zehui Tang , Yuchen Liu , Feihu Huang

Federated learning (FL) enables multiple participants to train a global machine learning model without sharing their private training data. Peer-to-peer (P2P) FL advances existing centralized FL paradigms by eliminating the server that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-12 Zhangchen Xu , Fengqing Jiang , Luyao Niu , Jinyuan Jia , Radha Poovendran

Ensuring resilience to Byzantine clients while maintaining the privacy of the clients' data is a fundamental challenge in federated learning (FL). When the clients' data is homogeneous, suitable countermeasures were studied from an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Maximilian Egger , Rawad Bitar

Recently emerged federated learning (FL) is an attractive distributed learning framework in which numerous wireless end-user devices can train a global model with the data remained autochthonous. Compared with the traditional machine…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-10-10 Junyu Shi , Wei Wan , Shengshan Hu , Jianrong Lu , Leo Yu Zhang

Organizations are increasingly recognizing the value of data collaboration for data analytics purposes. Yet, stringent data protection laws prohibit the direct exchange of raw data. To facilitate data collaboration, federated Learning (FL)…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Yizheng Zhu , Yuncheng Wu , Zhaojing Luo , Beng Chin Ooi , Xiaokui Xiao

Federated learning (FL) enables multiple clients to collaboratively train machine learning models without revealing their private training data. In conventional FL, the system follows the server-assisted architecture (server-assisted FL),…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Minghong Fang , Zifan Zhang , Hairi , Prashant Khanduri , Jia Liu , Songtao Lu , Yuchen Liu , Neil Gong

Federated learning (FL) is a privacy-friendly type of machine learning where devices locally train a model on their private data and typically communicate model updates with a server. In decentralized FL (DFL), peers communicate model…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Joost Verbraeken , Martijn de Vos , Johan Pouwelse

The safety-critical scenarios of artificial intelligence (AI), such as autonomous driving, Internet of Things, smart healthcare, etc., have raised critical requirements of trustworthy AI to guarantee the privacy and security with reliable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Zhanpeng Yang , Yuanming Shi , Yong Zhou , Zixin Wang , Kai Yang

Privacy and Byzantine resilience are two indispensable requirements for a federated learning (FL) system. Although there have been extensive studies on privacy and Byzantine security in their own track, solutions that consider both remain…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-03 Zihang Xiang , Tianhao Wang , Wanyu Lin , Di Wang

Federated learning (FL) is a machine learning paradigm, which enables multiple and decentralized clients to collaboratively train a model under the orchestration of a central aggregator. FL can be a scalable machine learning solution in big…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Zhipeng Wang , Nanqing Dong , Jiahao Sun , William Knottenbelt , Yike Guo

Privacy-preserving federated learning allows multiple users to jointly train a model with coordination of a central server. The server only learns the final aggregation result, thus the users' (private) training data is not leaked from the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Zahra Ghodsi , Mojan Javaheripi , Nojan Sheybani , Xinqiao Zhang , Ke Huang , Farinaz Koushanfar

Recent attacks on critical infrastructure, including the 2021 Oldsmar water treatment breach and 2023 Danish energy sector compromises, highlight urgent security gaps in Industrial IoT (IIoT) deployments. While Federated Learning (FL)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Samaresh Kumar Singh , Joyjit Roy , Martin So

Given sufficient data from multiple edge devices, federated learning (FL) enables training a shared model without transmitting private data to the central server. However, FL is generally vulnerable to Byzantine attacks from compromised…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Youngjoon Lee , Jinu Gong , Joonhyuk Kang

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

We present ByzFL, an open-source Python library for developing and benchmarking robust federated learning (FL) algorithms. ByzFL provides a unified and extensible framework that includes implementations of state-of-the-art robust…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Marc González , Rachid Guerraoui , Rafael Pinot , Geovani Rizk , John Stephan , François Taïani

Federated Learning (FL) enables multiple distributed clients (e.g., mobile devices) to collaboratively train a centralized model while keeping the training data locally on the client. Compared to traditional centralized machine learning, FL…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-29 Zhuohang Li , Luyang Liu , Jiaxin Zhang , Jian Liu

Federated Learning (FL) algorithms using Knowledge Distillation (KD) have received increasing attention due to their favorable properties with respect to privacy, non-i.i.d. data and communication cost. These methods depart from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Christophe Roux , Max Zimmer , Sebastian Pokutta

Federated Learning (FL) enables collaborative model training without sharing raw data. However, shared local model updates remain vulnerable to inference and poisoning attacks. Secure aggregation schemes have been proposed to mitigate these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Arnab Nath , Harsh Kasyap