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Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have led to state-of-the-art performance on a variety of machine learning tasks such as recommendation, node classification and link prediction. Graph neural network models generate node embeddings by merging…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-04 Yunpeng Weng , Xu Chen , Liang Chen , Wei Liu

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have shown significant success in learning graph representations. However, recent studies reveal that GNNs often fail to outperform simple MLPs on heterophilous graph tasks, where connected nodes may differ in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-10 Songwei Zhao , Yuan Jiang , Zijing Zhang , Yang Yu , Hechang Chen

Recently, Graph Neural Networks (GNNs), including Homogeneous Graph Neural Networks (HomoGNNs) and Heterogeneous Graph Neural Networks (HeteGNNs), have made remarkable progress in many physical scenarios, especially in communication…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Renyang Liu , Wei Zhou , Jinhong Zhang , Xiaoyuan Liu , Peiyuan Si , Haoran Li

Federated learning has quickly gained popularity with its promises of increased user privacy and efficiency. Previous works have shown that federated gradient updates contain information that can be used to approximately recover user data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-21 Liam Fowl , Jonas Geiping , Wojtek Czaja , Micah Goldblum , Tom Goldstein

Federated learning (FL) allows multiple data-owners to collaboratively train machine learning models by exchanging local gradients, while keeping their private data on-device. To simultaneously enhance privacy and training efficiency,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-06 Hasin Us Sami , Swapneel Sen , Amit K. Roy-Chowdhury , Srikanth V. Krishnamurthy , Basak Guler

Federated training methods have gained popularity for graph learning with applications including friendship graphs of social media sites and customer-merchant interaction graphs of huge online marketplaces. However, privacy regulations…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-23 Siddharth Ambekar , Yuhang Yao , Ryan Li , Carlee Joe-Wong

Gradient Inversion Attacks invert the transmitted gradients in Federated Learning (FL) systems to reconstruct the sensitive data of local clients and have raised considerable privacy concerns. A majority of gradient inversion methods rely…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Wenbo Yu , Hao Fang , Bin Chen , Xiaohang Sui , Chuan Chen , Hao Wu , Shu-Tao Xia , Ke Xu

Federated learning is a framework for collaborative machine learning where clients only share gradient updates and not their private data with a server. However, it was recently shown that gradient inversion attacks can reconstruct this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Dimitar I. Dimitrov , Maximilian Baader , Mark Niklas Müller , Martin Vechev

In this paper, we measure the privacy leakage via studying whether graph representations can be inverted to recover the graph used to generate them via graph reconstruction attack (GRA). We propose a GRA that recovers a graph's adjacency…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-10 Huixin Zhan , Kun Zhang , Keyi Lu , Victor S. Sheng

Federated Learning (FL) has emerged as a compelling paradigm for privacy-preserving distributed machine learning, allowing multiple clients to collaboratively train a global model by transmitting locally computed gradients to a central…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Hao Fang , Wenbo Yu , Bin Chen , Xuan Wang , Shu-Tao Xia , Qing Liao , Ke Xu

Graph neural networks (GNNs) are widely used for learning from graph-structured data in domains such as social networks, recommender systems, and financial platforms. To comply with privacy regulations like the GDPR, CCPA, and PIPEDA,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Jiahao Zhang , Yilong Wang , Suhang Wang

Federated learning (FL) is a privacy-preserving machine learning framework that enables multiple nodes to train models on their local data and periodically average weight updates to benefit from other nodes' training. Each node's goal is to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Ethan Wilson , Kai Yue , Chau-Wai Wong , Huaiyu Dai

Graph deep learning models, such as graph convolutional networks (GCN) achieve remarkable performance for tasks on graph data. Similar to other types of deep models, graph deep learning models often suffer from adversarial attacks. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-23 Huijun Wu , Chen Wang , Yuriy Tyshetskiy , Andrew Docherty , Kai Lu , Liming Zhu

Graphs are widely used to model the complex relationships among entities. As a powerful tool for graph analytics, graph neural networks (GNNs) have recently gained wide attention due to its end-to-end processing capabilities. With the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-02-01 Songlei Wang , Yifeng Zheng , Xiaohua Jia

With the development of artificial intelligence technology, Federated Learning (FL) model has been widely used in many industries for its high efficiency and confidentiality. Some researchers have explored its confidentiality and designed…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-01-09 Yaqiong Mu

Federated reinforcement learning (FRL) enables distributed learning of optimal policies while preserving local data privacy through gradient sharing.However, FRL faces the risk of data privacy leaks, where attackers exploit shared gradients…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Shenghong He

Federated learning reduces the risk of information leakage, but remains vulnerable to attacks. We investigate how several neural network design decisions can defend against gradients inversion attacks. We show that overlapping gradients…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-28 Shaltiel Eloul , Fran Silavong , Sanket Kamthe , Antonios Georgiadis , Sean J. Moran

Although powerful graph neural networks (GNNs) have boosted numerous real-world applications, the potential privacy risk is still underexplored. To close this gap, we perform the first comprehensive study of graph reconstruction attack that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Zhanke Zhou , Chenyu Zhou , Xuan Li , Jiangchao Yao , Quanming Yao , Bo Han

Federated learning is a private-by-design distributed learning paradigm where clients train local models on their own data before a central server aggregates their local updates to compute a global model. Depending on the aggregation method…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-15 Jin Xu , Chi Hong , Jiyue Huang , Lydia Y. Chen , Jérémie Decouchant

Data selection methods, such as active learning and core-set selection, are useful tools for improving the data efficiency of deep learning models on large-scale datasets. However, recent deep learning models have moved forward from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-03 Wentao Zhang , Zhi Yang , Yexin Wang , Yu Shen , Yang Li , Liang Wang , Bin Cui