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Decentralized Federated Learning (DFL) enables collaborative model training without a central server, but it remains vulnerable to privacy leakage because shared model updates can expose sensitive information through inversion,…

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Federated Learning (FL) enables collaborative training of machine learning models across distributed clients without sharing raw data, ostensibly preserving data privacy. Nevertheless, recent studies have revealed critical vulnerabilities…

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Federated Learning (FL) enables collaborative model training on decentralized data but remains vulnerable to gradient leakage attacks that can reconstruct sensitive user information. Existing defense mechanisms, such as differential privacy…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Borui Li , Li Yan , Jianmin Liu

Federated learning (FL) has become a key component in various language modeling applications such as machine translation, next-word prediction, and medical record analysis. These applications are trained on datasets from many FL…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Md Rafi Ur Rashid , Vishnu Asutosh Dasu , Kang Gu , Najrin Sultana , Shagufta Mehnaz

Unlike traditional central training, federated learning (FL) improves the performance of the global model by sharing and aggregating local models rather than local data to protect the users' privacy. Although this training approach appears…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-27 Jiahui Geng , Yongli Mou , Feifei Li , Qing Li , Oya Beyan , Stefan Decker , Chunming Rong

Federated Learning (FL) has emerged as a leading paradigm for decentralized, privacy preserving machine learning training. However, recent research on gradient inversion attacks (GIAs) have shown that gradient updates in FL can leak…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-05-20 Yichuan Shi , Olivera Kotevska , Viktor Reshniak , Abhishek Singh , Ramesh Raskar

As data privacy is gradually valued by people, federated learning(FL) has emerged because of its potential to protect data. FL uses homomorphic encryption and differential privacy encryption on the promise of ensuring data security to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-26 Song WenJie , Shen Xuan

The right to privacy, enshrined in various human rights declarations, faces new challenges in the age of artificial intelligence (AI). This paper explores the concept of the Right to be Forgotten (RTBF) within AI systems, contrasting it…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Rickard Brännvall , Laurynas Adomaitis , Olof Görnerup , Anass Sedrati

Parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT) has emerged as a practical solution for adapting large language models (LLMs) to custom datasets with significantly reduced computational cost. When carrying out PEFT under collaborative learning…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Jin Xie , Ruishi He , Songze Li , Xiaojun Jia , Shouling Ji

Recent studies have shown that Federated learning (FL) is vulnerable to Gradient Inversion Attacks (GIA), which can recover private training data from shared gradients. However, existing methods are designed for dense, continuous data such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-25 Tianzhe Xiao , Yichen Li , Yining Qi , Haozhao Wang , Ruixuan Li

Unlearning in large language models is becoming increasingly important due to regulatory compliance, copyright protection, and privacy concerns. However, a key challenge in LLM unlearning is unintended forgetting, where the removal of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Peizhi Niu , Evelyn Ma , Huiting Zhou , Duo Zhou , Huan Zhang , S. Rasoul Etesami , Olgica Milenkovic

Federated learning enables isolated clients to train a shared model collaboratively by aggregating the locally-computed gradient updates. However, privacy information could be leaked from uploaded gradients and be exposed to malicious…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Dun Zeng , Shiyu Liu , Siqi Liang , Zonghang Li , Hui Wang , Irwin King , Zenglin Xu

Federated Learning (FL) enables collaborative training of models across distributed clients without sharing local data, addressing privacy concerns in decentralized systems. However, the gradient-sharing process exposes private data to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Mingcong Xu , Xiaojin Zhang , Wei Chen , Hai Jin

Federated learning enables multiple, distributed participants (potentially on different clouds) to collaborate and train machine/deep learning models by sharing parameters/gradients. However, sharing gradients, instead of centralizing data,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-12-02 K. R. Jayaram , Archit Verma , Ashish Verma , Gegi Thomas , Colin Sutcher-Shepard

Federated learning (FL) offers a promising paradigm for collaborative model training while preserving data privacy. However, its susceptibility to gradient inversion attacks poses a significant challenge, necessitating robust privacy…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Xiaojin Zhang , Mingcong Xu , Yiming Li , Wei Chen , Qiang Yang

Federated Learning (FL) has emerged as a promising approach for collaborative model training without sharing private data. However, privacy concerns regarding information exchanged during FL have received significant research attention.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-14 Bowen Li , Hanlin Gu , Ruoxin Chen , Jie Li , Chentao Wu , Na Ruan , Xueming Si , Lixin Fan

In response to legislation mandating companies to honor the \textit{right to be forgotten} by erasing user data, it has become imperative to enable data removal in Vertical Federated Learning (VFL) where multiple parties provide private…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-23 Jian Zhang , Bowen Li Jie Li , Chentao Wu

Federated Learning (FL) has emerged as an effective learning paradigm for distributed computation owing to its strong potential in capturing underlying data statistics while preserving data privacy. However, in cases of practical data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-22 Achintha Wijesinghe , Songyang Zhang , Zhi Ding

Federated learning (FL) is a popular privacy-preserving edge-to-cloud technique used for training and deploying artificial intelligence (AI) models on edge devices. FL aims to secure local client data while also collaboratively training a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Evan Gronberg , Liv d'Aliberti , Magnus Saebo , Aurora Hook

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