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Federated Learning (FL) is a distributed learning framework, in which the local data never leaves clients devices to preserve privacy, and the server trains models on the data via accessing only the gradients of those local data. Without…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-29 Jinwoo Jeon , Jaechang Kim , Kangwook Lee , Sewoong Oh , Jungseul Ok

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have exhibited superior performance in various classification tasks on graph-structured data. However, they encounter the potential vulnerability from the link stealing attacks, which can infer the presence of a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Jiadong Lou , Xu Yuan , Rui Zhang , Xingliang Yuan , Neil Gong , Nian-Feng Tzeng

The gradient inversion attack has been demonstrated as a significant privacy threat to federated learning (FL), particularly in continuous domains such as vision models. In contrast, it is often considered less effective or highly dependent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Xinguo Feng , Zhongkui Ma , Zihan Wang , Eu Joe Chegne , Mengyao Ma , Alsharif Abuadbba , Guangdong Bai

Graph unlearning methods aim to efficiently remove the impact of sensitive data from trained GNNs without full retraining, assuming that deleted information cannot be recovered. In this work, we challenge this assumption by introducing the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Jiahao Zhang , Yilong Wang , Zhiwei Zhang , Xiaorui Liu , Suhang Wang

Collaborative machine learning settings like federated learning can be susceptible to adversarial interference and attacks. One class of such attacks is termed model inversion attacks, characterised by the adversary reverse-engineering the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-02 Dmitrii Usynin , Daniel Rueckert , Georgios Kaissis

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) have emerged as prominent candidates for embedded and edge AI. Their inherent low power consumption makes them far more efficient than conventional ANNs in scenarios where energy budgets are tightly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Dogukan Aksu , Jesus Martinez del Rincon , Ihsen Alouani

Federated Learning (FL) enables collaborative training of Machine Learning (ML) models across multiple clients while preserving their privacy. Rather than sharing raw data, federated clients transmit locally computed updates to train the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Vincenzo Carletti , Pasquale Foggia , Carlo Mazzocca , Giuseppe Parrella , Mario Vento

Graph-based retrieval-augmented generation (Graph RAG) is increasingly deployed to support LLM applications by augmenting user queries with structured knowledge retrieved from a knowledge graph. While Graph RAG improves relational…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Minkyoo Song , Jaehan Kim , Myungchul Kang , Hanna Kim , Seungwon Shin , Sooel Son

Federated Learning (FL) has emerged as a popular paradigm for collaborative learning among multiple parties. It is considered privacy-friendly because local data remains on personal devices, and only intermediate parameters -- such as…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Qiongxiu Li , Lixia Luo , Agnese Gini , Changlong Ji , Zhanhao Hu , Xiao Li , Chengfang Fang , Jie Shi , Xiaolin Hu

Graph unlearning has emerged as a promising solution to comply with "the right to be forgotten" regulations by enabling the removal of sensitive information upon request. However, this solution is not foolproof. The involvement of multiple…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Ying Song , Balaji Palanisamy

Graph Convolutional Networks (GCNs) have recently attracted vast interest and achieved state-of-the-art performance on graphs, but its success could typically hinge on careful training with amounts of expensive and time-consuming labeled…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-28 Hongrui Liu , Binbin Hu , Xiao Wang , Chuan Shi , Zhiqiang Zhang , Jun Zhou

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have attracted considerable attention due to their diverse applications. However, the scarcity and quality limitations of graph data present challenges to their training process in practical settings. To…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-07 Hanyang Yuan , Jiarong Xu , Renhong Huang , Mingli Song , Chunping Wang , Yang Yang

Federated Learning (FL) has emerged as a promising privacy-preserving collaborative model training paradigm without sharing raw data. However, recent studies have revealed that private information can still be leaked through shared gradient…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Pengxin Guo , Runxi Wang , Shuang Zeng , Jinjing Zhu , Haoning Jiang , Yanran Wang , Yuyin Zhou , Feifei Wang , Hui Xiong , Liangqiong Qu

Spatiotemporal federated learning has recently raised intensive studies due to its ability to train valuable models with only shared gradients in various location-based services. On the other hand, recent studies have shown that shared…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Lele Zheng , Yang Cao , Renhe Jiang , Kenjiro Taura , Yulong Shen , Sheng Li , Masatoshi Yoshikawa

Recent works show that sensitive user data can be reconstructed from gradient updates, breaking the key privacy promise of federated learning. While success was demonstrated primarily on image data, these methods do not directly transfer to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Lele Zheng , Yang Cao , Renhe Jiang , Kenjiro Taura , Yulong Shen , Sheng Li , Masatoshi Yoshikawa

Graph learning has a wide range of applications in many scenarios, which require more need for data privacy. Federated learning is an emerging distributed machine learning approach that leverages data from individual devices or data centers…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-20 Peilin Liu , Yanni Tang , Mingyue Zhang , Wu Chen

Federated Learning is a machine learning setting that reduces direct data exposure, improving the privacy guarantees of machine learning models. Yet, the exchange of model updates between the participants and the aggregator can still leak…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Pablo Montaña-Fernández , Ines Ortega-Fernandez

Cyberterrorism poses a formidable threat to digital infrastructures, with increasing reliance on encrypted, decentralized platforms that obscure threat actor activity. To address the challenge of analyzing such adversarial networks while…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Anas Ali , Mubashar Husain , Peter Hans

Federated learning collaboratively trains a neural network on a global server, where each local client receives the current global model weights and sends back parameter updates (gradients) based on its local private data. The process of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Kaiyuan Zhang , Siyuan Cheng , Guangyu Shen , Bruno Ribeiro , Shengwei An , Pin-Yu Chen , Xiangyu Zhang , Ninghui Li

Federated Learning (FL) enables collaborative model training by sharing model updates instead of raw data, aiming to protect user privacy. However, recent studies reveal that these shared updates can inadvertently leak sensitive training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Zirui Gong , Leo Yu Zhang , Yanjun Zhang , Viet Vo , Tianqing Zhu , Shirui Pan , Cong Wang