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Motivated by the growing proliferation of federated learning (FL) in edge environments, we present the first systematic characterization of transport-layer breaking points in FL systems operating under conditions of highly constrained…

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Federated learning has emerged as an effective paradigm to achieve privacy-preserving collaborative learning among different parties. Compared to traditional centralized learning that requires collecting data from each party, in federated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-05 Bingyan Liu , Nuoyan Lv , Yuanchun Guo , Yawen Li

While federated learning (FL) eliminates the transmission of raw data over a network, it is still vulnerable to privacy breaches from the communicated model parameters. In this work, we propose Multi-Tier Federated Learning with Multi-Tier…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-11 Evan Chen , Frank Po-Chen Lin , Dong-Jun Han , Christopher G. Brinton

Federated learning is a recent advance in privacy protection. In this context, a trusted curator aggregates parameters optimized in decentralized fashion by multiple clients. The resulting model is then distributed back to all clients,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-03-02 Robin C. Geyer , Tassilo Klein , Moin Nabi

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

Adversarial Training (AT) is crucial for obtaining deep neural networks that are robust to adversarial attacks, yet recent works found that it could also make models more vulnerable to privacy attacks. In this work, we further reveal this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-23 Jingyang Zhang , Yiran Chen , Hai Li

Federated learning (FL) has been widely deployed to enable machine learning training on sensitive data across distributed devices. However, the decentralized learning paradigm and heterogeneity of FL further extend the attack surface for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Haomin Zhuang , Mingxian Yu , Hao Wang , Yang Hua , Jian Li , Xu Yuan

Tree-based models are among the most efficient machine learning techniques for data mining nowadays due to their accuracy, interpretability, and simplicity. The recent orthogonal needs for more data and privacy protection call for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-06-21 Sylvain Chatel , Apostolos Pyrgelis , Juan Ramon Troncoso-Pastoriza , Jean-Pierre Hubaux

In this work, we carry out the first, in-depth, privacy analysis of Decentralized Learning -- a collaborative machine learning framework aimed at addressing the main limitations of federated learning. We introduce a suite of novel attacks…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-11-13 Dario Pasquini , Mathilde Raynal , Carmela Troncoso

Federated Learning (FL) enables collaborative model training across distributed devices while safeguarding data and user privacy. However, FL remains susceptible to privacy threats that can compromise data via direct means. That said,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Md Nahid Hasan Shuvo , Moinul Hossain , Anik Mallik , Jeffrey Twigg , Fikadu Dagefu

Federated Learning (FL) facilitates collaborative model training while keeping raw data decentralized, making it a conduit for leveraging the power of IoT devices while maintaining privacy of the locally collected data. However, existing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Amr Akmal Abouelmagd , Amr Hilal

We consider the problem of federated learning (FL) with graph-structured data distributed across multiple clients. In particular, we address the prevalent scenario of interconnected subgraphs, where interconnections between clients…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Javad Aliakbari , Johan Östman , Ashkan Panahi , Alexandre Graell i Amat

The memorization of training data by neural networks raises pressing concerns for privacy and security. Recent work has shown that, under certain conditions, portions of the training set can be reconstructed directly from model parameters.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Yehonatan Refael , Guy Smorodinsky , Ofir Lindenbaum , Itay Safran

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

Federated Learning (FL) has emerged as a leading paradigm for privacy-preserving distributed machine learning, yet the distributed nature of FL introduces unique security challenges, notably the threat of backdoor attacks. Existing backdoor…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Chengcheng Zhu , Ye Li , Bosen Rao , Jiale Zhang , Yunlong Mao , Sheng Zhong

Federated learning (FL) is inherently susceptible to privacy breaches and poisoning attacks. To tackle these challenges, researchers have separately devised secure aggregation mechanisms to protect data privacy and robust aggregation…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Runhua Xu , Shiqi Gao , Chao Li , James Joshi , Jianxin Li

In contemporary edge computing systems, decentralized edge nodes aggregate unprocessed data and facilitate data analytics to uphold low transmission latency and real-time data processing capabilities. Recently, these edge nodes have evolved…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-29 Kongyang Chen , Yi Lin , Hui Luo , Bing Mi , Yatie Xiao , Chao Ma , Jorge Sá Silva

Federated learning enables data sharing in healthcare contexts where it might otherwise be difficult due to data-use-ordinances or security and communication constraints. Distributed and shared data models allow models to become…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-08-04 Navya Annapareddy , Yingzheng Liu , Judy Fox

Federated learning (FL) enables participating parties to collaboratively build a global model with boosted utility without disclosing private data information. Appropriate protection mechanisms have to be adopted to fulfill the opposing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-24 Xiaojin Zhang , Yan Kang , Kai Chen , Lixin Fan , Qiang Yang