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Federated Learning (FL) facilitates collaborative training of a global model whose performance is boosted by private data owned by distributed clients, without compromising data privacy. Yet the wide applicability of FL is hindered by…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Xinyuan Zhao , Hanlin Gu , Lixin Fan , Yuxing Han , Qiang Yang

Distributed learning, which does not require gathering training data in a central location, has become increasingly important in the big-data era. In particular, random-walk-based decentralized algorithms are flexible in that they do not…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Hansi Yang , James T. Kwok

We deal with a general distributed constrained online learning problem with privacy over time-varying networks, where a class of nondecomposable objectives are considered. Under this setting, each node only controls a part of the global…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-05-28 Huqiang Cheng , Xiaofeng Liao , Huaqing Li

In federated distributed learning, the goal is to optimize a global training objective defined over distributed devices, where the data shard at each device is sampled from a possibly different distribution (a.k.a., heterogeneous or non…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-10 Farzin Haddadpour , Mehrdad Mahdavi

Privacy in federated learning is crucial, encompassing two key aspects: safeguarding the privacy of clients' data and maintaining the privacy of the federator's objective from the clients. While the first aspect has been extensively…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Maximilian Egger , Rüdiger Urbanke , Rawad Bitar

Federated learning is distributed model training across several clients without disclosing raw data. Despite advancements in data privacy, risks still remain. Differential Privacy (DP) is a technique to protect sensitive data by adding…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Tejash Varsani

Federated learning becomes a prominent approach when different entities want to learn collaboratively a common model without sharing their training data. However, Federated learning has two main drawbacks. First, it is quite bandwidth…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Raouf Kerkouche , Gergely Ács , Claude Castelluccia , Pierre Genevès

Privacy and communication efficiency are important challenges in federated training of neural networks, and combining them is still an open problem. In this work, we develop a method that unifies highly compressed communication and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-09 Aleksei Triastcyn , Matthias Reisser , Christos Louizos

Federated learning enables collaborative model training without sharing raw data, but data heterogeneity consistently challenges the performance of the global model. Traditional optimization methods often rely on collaborative global model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Weiqi Yue , Wenbiao Li , Yuzhou Jiang , Anisa Halimi , Roger French , Erman Ayday

The emerging concern about data privacy and security has motivated the proposal of federated learning, which allows nodes to only synchronize the locally-trained models instead their own original data. Conventional federated learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-22 Chenghao Hu , Jingyan Jiang , Zhi Wang

In the expanding field of machine learning, federated learning has emerged as a pivotal methodology for distributed data environments, ensuring privacy while leveraging decentralized data sources. However, the heterogeneity of client data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Alice Smith , Bob Johnson , Michael Geller

There has been a growing effort in studying the distributed optimization problem over a network. The objective is to optimize a global function formed by a sum of local functions, using only local computation and communication. Literature…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-05-02 Guannan Qu , Na Li

To defend the inference attacks and mitigate the sensitive information leakages in Federated Learning (FL), client-level Differentially Private FL (DPFL) is the de-facto standard for privacy protection by clipping local updates and adding…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-03 Yifan Shi , Kang Wei , Li Shen , Yingqi Liu , Xueqian Wang , Bo Yuan , Dacheng Tao

Federated learning (FL) is an emerging distributed machine learning paradigm that avoids data sharing among training nodes so as to protect data privacy. Under coordination of the FL server, each client conducts model training using its own…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Binbin Guo , Yuan Mei , Danyang Xiao , Weigang Wu , Ye Yin , Hongli Chang

We study a class of distributed convex constrained optimization problems where a group of agents aim to minimize the sum of individual objective functions while each desires that any information about its objective function is kept private.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-09-30 Erfan Nozari , Pavankumar Tallapragada , Jorge Cortés

This paper proposes a data privacy protection framework based on federated learning, which aims to realize effective cross-domain data collaboration under the premise of ensuring data privacy through distributed learning. Federated learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Yiwei Zhang , Jie Liu , Jiawei Wang , Lu Dai , Fan Guo , Guohui Cai

Differentially private federated learning (DP-FL) often suffers from slow convergence under tight privacy budgets because the noise required for privacy preservation degrades gradient quality. Although second-order optimization can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Sidhant Nair , Tanmay Sen , Mrinmay Sen , Sayantan Banerjee

We study how inherent randomness in the training process -- where each sample (or client in federated learning) contributes only to a randomly selected portion of training -- can be leveraged for privacy amplification. This includes (1)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Andy Dong , Wei-Ning Chen , Ayfer Ozgur

The increasing interest in user privacy is leading to new privacy preserving machine learning paradigms. In the Federated Learning paradigm, a master machine learning model is distributed to user clients, the clients use their locally…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-01-30 Muhammad Ammad-ud-din , Elena Ivannikova , Suleiman A. Khan , Were Oyomno , Qiang Fu , Kuan Eeik Tan , Adrian Flanagan

Decentralized optimization is gaining increased traction due to its widespread applications in large-scale machine learning and multi-agent systems. The same mechanism that enables its success, i.e., information sharing among participating…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-02-07 Yongqiang Wang , Angelia Nedic