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Federated learning(FL) is a rapidly growing field and many centralized and decentralized FL frameworks have been proposed. However, it is of great challenge for current FL frameworks to improve communication performance and maintain the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-14 Yifan Hu , Yuhang Zhou , Jun Xiao , Chao Wu

Decentralized federated learning (DFL) captures FL settings where both (i) model updates and (ii) model aggregations are exclusively carried out by the clients without a central server. Existing DFL works have mostly focused on settings…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Shahryar Zehtabi , Dong-Jun Han , Rohit Parasnis , Seyyedali Hosseinalipour , Christopher G. Brinton

Recently, federated learning (FL) has received intensive research because of its ability in preserving data privacy for scattered clients to collaboratively train machine learning models. Commonly, a parameter server (PS) is deployed for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Dongyuan Su , Yipeng Zhou , Laizhong Cui

Federated Learning (FL) is widely recognized as a privacy-preserving Machine Learning paradigm due to its model-sharing mechanism that avoids direct data exchange. Nevertheless, model training leaves exploitable traces that can be used to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Chao Feng , Yuanzhe Gao , Alberto Huertas Celdran , Gerome Bovet , Burkhard Stiller

Federated learning (FL) enables collaborative training without pooling raw data, but standard FL relies on a central coordinator, which introduces a single point of failure and concentrates trust in the orchestration infrastructure.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Edoardo Gabrielli , Anthony Di Pietro , Dario Fenoglio , Giovanni Pica , Gabriele Tolomei

Federated learning (FL) is a promising way to allow multiple data owners (clients) to collaboratively train machine learning models without compromising data privacy. Yet, existing FL solutions usually rely on a centralized aggregator for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-11-09 Nanqing Dong , Jiahao Sun , Zhipeng Wang , Shuoying Zhang , Shuhao Zheng

Federated learning (FL) is a distributed learning process that uses a trusted aggregation server to allow multiple parties (or clients) to collaboratively train a machine learning model without having them share their private data. Recent…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-10-04 Jorge Castillo , Phillip Rieger , Hossein Fereidooni , Qian Chen , Ahmad Sadeghi

Industry 4.0 has brought numerous advantages, such as increasing productivity through automation. However, it also presents major cybersecurity issues such as cyberattacks affecting industrial processes. Federated Learning (FL) combined…

In recent years, Federated Learning (FL) has gained relevance in training collaborative models without sharing sensitive data. Since its birth, Centralized FL (CFL) has been the most common approach in the literature, where a central entity…

Federated learning (FL), as a powerful learning paradigm, trains a shared model by aggregating model updates from distributed clients. However, the decoupling of model learning from local data makes FL highly vulnerable to backdoor attacks,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Xiyue Zhang , Xiaoyong Xue , Xiaoning Du , Xiaofei Xie , Yang Liu , Meng Sun

Federated learning is a paradigm that enables local devices to jointly train a server model while keeping the data decentralized and private. In federated learning, since local data are collected by clients, it is hardly guaranteed that the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Seunghan Yang , Hyoungseob Park , Junyoung Byun , Changick Kim

Decentralized learning and optimization is a central problem in control that encompasses several existing and emerging applications, such as federated learning. While there exists a vast literature on this topic and most methods centered…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Vishnu Pandi Chellapandi , Antesh Upadhyay , Abolfazl Hashemi , Stanislaw H /. Zak

Motivated by the explosive computing capabilities at end user equipments, as well as the growing privacy concerns over sharing sensitive raw data, a new machine learning paradigm, named federated learning (FL) has emerged. By training…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-06-07 Chuan Ma , Jun Li , Ming Ding , Long Shi , Taotao Wang , Zhu Han , H. Vincent Poor

Federated Learning (FL) is a promising distributed learning paradigm, which allows a number of data owners (also called clients) to collaboratively learn a shared model without disclosing each client's data. However, FL may fail to proceed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-24 Hong Lin , Lidan Shou , Ke Chen , Gang Chen , Sai Wu

Federated learning (FL) enables collaborative model training while preserving data privacy. However, it remains vulnerable to malicious clients who compromise model integrity through Byzantine attacks, data poisoning, or adaptive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Abolfazl Younesi , Leon Kiss , Zahra Najafabadi Samani , Juan Aznar Poveda , Thomas Fahringer

Federated Learning (FL) is a promising approach enabling multiple clients to train Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) collaboratively without sharing their local training data. However, FL is susceptible to backdoor (or targeted poisoning)…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-08-23 Phillip Rieger , Torsten Krauß , Markus Miettinen , Alexandra Dmitrienko , Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi

The server-less nature of Decentralized Federated Learning (DFL) requires allocating the aggregation role to specific participants in each federated round. Current DFL architectures ensure the trustworthiness of the aggregator node upon…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Ehsan Hallaji , Roozbeh Razavi-Far , Mehrdad Saif

We introduce Ring-topology Decentralized Federated Learning (RDFL) for distributed model training, aiming to avoid the inherent risks of centralized failure in server-based FL. However, RDFL faces the challenge of low information-sharing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Shunxin Guo , Jiaqi Lv , Xin Geng

Decentralized Federated Learning (DFL), a paradigm for managing big data in a privacy-preserved manner, is still vulnerable to poisoning attacks where malicious clients tamper with data or models. Current defense methods often assume…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-11-13 Chao Feng , Alberto Huertas Celdrán , Zien Zeng , Zi Ye , Jan von der Assen , Gerome Bovet , Burkhard Stiller

This work tackles the challenges of data heterogeneity and communication limitations in decentralized federated learning. We focus on creating a collaboration graph that guides each client in selecting suitable collaborators for training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Salma Kharrat , Marco Canini , Samuel Horvath