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We study the fundamental limits of multi-server secure aggregation over a two-hop network where multiple servers, each connected to a disjoint subset of users, jointly compute the sum of all users' inputs. The goal is to ensure that no…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Zhou Li , Xiang Zhang , Jiguang He , Giuseppe Caire

Secure model aggregation is a key component of federated learning (FL) that aims at protecting the privacy of each user's individual model while allowing for their global aggregation. It can be applied to any aggregation-based FL approach…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-03 Jinhyun So , Chaoyang He , Chien-Sheng Yang , Songze Li , Qian Yu , Ramy E. Ali , Basak Guler , Salman Avestimehr

We study the hierarchical secure aggregation problem with groupwise keys. The problem consists of an aggregation server, $U$ relays, and $UV$ users, where each relay serves $V$ disjoint users, and each subset of $G$ users shares an…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Minyang Lu , Zhou Li , Haiqiang Chen , Min 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 (FL) has emerged as a transformative approach for enabling distributed machine learning while preserving user privacy, yet it faces challenges like communication inefficiencies and reliance on centralized infrastructures,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-07-29 Sai Puppala , Ismail Hossain , Md Jahangir Alam , Sajedul Talukder , Zahidur Talukder , Syed Bahauddin

Federated learning (FL) is well-suited to 5G networks, where many mobile devices generate sensitive edge data. Secure aggregation protocols enhance privacy in FL by ensuring that individual user updates reveal no information about the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Yiwei Zhang , Rouzbeh Behnia , Imtiaz Karim , Attila A. Yavuz , Elisa Bertino

We examine federated learning (FL) with over-the-air (OTA) aggregation, where mobile users (MUs) aim to reach a consensus on a global model with the help of a parameter server (PS) that aggregates the local gradients. In OTA FL, MUs train…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-20 Ozan Aygün , Mohammad Kazemi , Deniz Gündüz , Tolga M. Duman

Federated Learning (FL) enables mobile edge devices, functioning as clients, to collaboratively train a decentralized model while ensuring local data privacy. However, the efficiency of FL in wireless networks is limited not only by…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Yanbing Yang , Huiling Zhu , Wenchi Cheng , Jingqing Wang , Changrun Chen , Jiangzhou Wang

Federated learning (FL) facilitates collaborative training of machine learning models among a large number of clients while safeguarding the privacy of their local datasets. However, FL remains susceptible to vulnerabilities such as privacy…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Xincheng Li , Jianting Ning , Geong Sen Poh , Leo Yu Zhang , Xinchun Yin , Tianwei Zhang

Federated learning (FL) allows multiple devices to train a model collaboratively without sharing their data. Despite its benefits, FL is vulnerable to privacy leakage and poisoning attacks. To address the privacy concern, secure aggregation…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Peihua Mai , Ran Yan , Yan Pang

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

Federated learning (FL) is a machine learning paradigm that targets model training without gathering the local data dispersed over various data sources. Standard FL, which employs a single server, can only support a limited number of users,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-29 Bin Wang , Jun Fang , Hongbin Li , Yonina C. Eldar

Secure aggregation is a fundamental primitive in privacy-preserving distributed learning systems, where an aggregator aims to compute the sum of users' inputs without revealing individual data. In this paper, we study a multi-server secure…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Zhou Li , Xiang Zhang , Kai Wan , Hua Sun , Mingyue Ji , Giuseppe Caire

Federated Learning (FL) presents an innovative approach to privacy-preserving distributed machine learning and enables efficient crowd intelligence on a large scale. However, a significant challenge arises when coordinating FL with crowd…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Yuhao Zhou , Minjia Shi , Yuxin Tian , Yuanxi Li , Qing Ye , Jiancheng Lv

The large population of wireless users is a key driver of data-crowdsourced Machine Learning (ML). However, data privacy remains a significant concern. Federated Learning (FL) encourages data sharing in ML without requiring data to leave…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Tinghao Zhang , Kwok-Yan Lam , Jun Zhao

Federated learning (FL) was designed to enable mobile phones to collaboratively learn a global model without uploading their private data to a cloud server. However, exiting FL protocols has a critical communication bottleneck in a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-24 Jinliang Yuan , Mengwei Xu , Xiao Ma , Ao Zhou , Xuanzhe Liu , Shangguang Wang

Scaling Federated Learning (FL) to billion-parameter models forces a challenging trade-off between privacy, scalability, and model utility. Existing solutions often tackle these challenges in isolation, sacrificing accuracy, relying on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Dario Fenoglio , Pasquale Polverino , Jacopo Quizi , Martin Gjoreski , Akash Dhasade , Marc Langheinrich

In many distributed learning setups such as federated learning (FL), client nodes at the edge use individually collected data to compute local gradients and send them to a central master server. The master server then aggregates the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Kai Liang , Songze Li , Ming Ding , Youlong Wu

Secure Aggregation (SA) is a key component of privacy-friendly federated learning applications, where the server learns the sum of many user-supplied gradients, while individual gradients are kept private. State-of-the-art SA protocols…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-08-07 Elina van Kempen , Qifei Li , Giorgia Azzurra Marson , Claudio Soriente

In this paper, we address the dichotomy between heterogeneous models and simultaneous training in Federated Learning (FL) via a clustering framework. We define a new clustering model for FL based on the (optimal) local models of the users:…

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