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Prompt injection attacks are an emerging threat to large language models (LLMs), enabling malicious users to manipulate outputs through carefully designed inputs. Existing detection approaches often require centralizing prompt data,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Hasini Jayathilaka

Recent advancements in large language models (LLMs) have transformed natural language understanding and generation, leading to extensive benchmarking across diverse tasks. However, cryptanalysis - a critical area for data security and its…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Utsav Maskey , Chencheng Zhu , Usman Naseem

Federated learning (FL) has become a popular tool for solving traditional Reinforcement Learning (RL) tasks. The multi-agent structure addresses the major concern of data-hungry in traditional RL, while the federated mechanism protects the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-08 Evelyn Ma , Praneet Rathi , S. Rasoul Etesami

In this paper, we present a study of a Federated Learning (FL) system, based on the use of decentralized architectures to ensure trust and increase reliability. The system is based on the idea that the FL collaborators upload the (ciphered)…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-07-10 Lorenzo Cassano , Jacopo D'Abramo , Siraj Munir , Stefano Ferretti

As high quality public data becomes scarce, Federated Learning (FL) provides a vital pathway to leverage valuable private user data while preserving privacy. However, real-world client data often contains toxic or unsafe information. This…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Shunan Zhu , Jiawei Chen , Yonghao Yu , Hideya Ochiai

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated strong performance across diverse tasks, but fine-tuning them typically relies on cloud-based, centralized infrastructures. This requires data owners to upload potentially sensitive data to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Asmita Mohanty , Gezheng Kang , Lei Gao , Murali Annavaram

Large Language Models (LLM) and foundation models are popular as they offer new opportunities for individuals and businesses to improve natural language processing, interact with data, and retrieve information faster. However, training or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-03 Herbert Woisetschläger , Alexander Isenko , Shiqiang Wang , Ruben Mayer , Hans-Arno Jacobsen

Federated learning (FL) has sparked extensive interest in exploiting the private data on clients' local devices. However, the parameter server setting of FL not only has high bandwidth requirements, but also poses data privacy issues and a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-07-07 Qian Chen , Zilong Wang , Yilin Zhou , Jiawei Chen , Dan Xiao , Xiaodong Lin

Federated learning is a distributed mechanism that trained large-scale neural network models with the participation of multiple clients and data remains on their devices, only sharing the local model updates. With this feature, federated…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-08-10 Attia Qammar , Abdenacer Naouri , Jianguo Ding , Huansheng Ning

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) represents a novel paradigm to machine learning, addressing critical issues related to data privacy and security, yet suffering from data insufficiency and imbalance. The emergence of foundation models (FMs) provides…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-11-02 Xi Li , Songhe Wang , Chen Wu , Hao Zhou , Jiaqi Wang

Federated Learning (FL) has recently arisen as a revolutionary approach to collaborative training Machine Learning models. According to this novel framework, multiple participants train a global model collaboratively, coordinating with a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Sameera K. M. , Serena Nicolazzo , Marco Arazzi , Antonino Nocera , Rafidha Rehiman K. A. , Vinod P , Mauro Conti

Federated Learning (FL) enables collaborative learning without directly sharing individual's raw data. FL can be implemented in either a centralized (server-based) or decentralized (peer-to-peer) manner. In this survey, we present a novel…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Qiongxiu Li , Wenrui Yu , Yufei Xia , Jun Pang

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

In recent years, artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) are reshaping society's production methods and productivity, and also changing the paradigm of scientific research. Among them, the AI language model represented by…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Haoxiang Luo , Jian Luo , Athanasios V. Vasilakos

The primary goal of traditional federated learning is to protect data privacy by enabling distributed edge devices to collaboratively train a shared global model while keeping raw data decentralized at local clients. The rise of large…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Zhibo Xu , Jianhao Zhu , Jingwen Xu , Changze Lv , Zisu Huang , Xiaohua Wang , Muling Wu , Qi Qian , Xiaoqing Zheng , Xuanjing Huang

Federated Learning (FL) enables training of a global model from distributed data, while preserving data privacy. However, the singular-model based operation of FL is open with uploading poisoned models compatible with the global model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-13 Somayeh Kianpisheh , Chafika Benzaid , Tarik Taleb

Federated Learning (FL) enables model training across decentralized devices by communicating solely local model updates to an aggregation server. Although such limited data sharing makes FL more secure than centralized approached, FL…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-06-14 Vasileios Tsouvalas , Samaneh Mohammadi , Ali Balador , Tanir Ozcelebi , Francesco Flammini , Nirvana Meratnia

Conventional federated learning primarily aims to secure the privacy of data distributed across multiple edge devices, with the global model dispatched to edge devices for parameter updates during the learning process. However, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-18 JianHao Zhu , Changze Lv , Xiaohua Wang , Muling Wu , Wenhao Liu , Tianlong Li , Zixuan Ling , Cenyuan Zhang , Xiaoqing Zheng , Xuanjing Huang

Typical machine learning approaches require centralized data for model training, which may not be possible where restrictions on data sharing are in place due to, for instance, privacy and gradient protection. The recently proposed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-14 Hanchi Ren , Jingjing Deng , Xianghua Xie , Xiaoke Ma , Yichuan Wang