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Gradient inversion attacks threaten client privacy in federated learning by reconstructing training samples from clients' shared gradients. Gradients aggregate contributions from multiple records and existing attacks may fail to disentangle…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Francesco Diana , Chuan Xu , André Nusser , Giovanni Neglia

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

As a privacy-preserving method for implementing Vertical Federated Learning, Split Learning has been extensively researched. However, numerous studies have indicated that the privacy-preserving capability of Split Learning is insufficient.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Haoze Qiu , Fei Zheng , Chaochao Chen , Xiaolin Zheng

Reconstruction attacks against federated learning (FL) aim to reconstruct users' samples through users' uploaded gradients. Local differential privacy (LDP) is regarded as an effective defense against various attacks, including sample…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-13 Zhichao You , Xuewen Dong , Shujun Li , Ximeng Liu , Siqi Ma , Yulong Shen

Recent work has shown that gradient updates in federated learning (FL) can unintentionally reveal sensitive information about a client's local data. This risk becomes significantly greater when a malicious server manipulates the global…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-26 Fei Wang , Baochun Li

Foundation models that bridge vision and language have made significant progress. While they have inspired many life-enriching applications, their potential for abuse in creating new threats remains largely unexplored. In this paper, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Junjie Shan , Ziqi Zhao , Jialin Lu , Rui Zhang , Siu Ming Yiu , Ka-Ho Chow

Federated learning (FL) is an emerging distributed machine learning framework for collaborative model training with a network of clients (edge devices). FL offers default client privacy by allowing clients to keep their sensitive data on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-24 Wenqi Wei , Ling Liu , Margaret Loper , Ka-Ho Chow , Mehmet Emre Gursoy , Stacey Truex , Yanzhao Wu

Federated learning (FL) has rapidly become a compelling paradigm that enables multiple clients to jointly train a model by sharing only gradient updates for aggregation, without revealing their local private data. In order to protect the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Shuangqing Xu , Yifeng Zheng , Zhongyun Hua

Federated learning seeks to address the issue of isolated data islands by making clients disclose only their local training models. However, it was demonstrated that private information could still be inferred by analyzing local model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-30 Jie Fu , Zhili Chen , Xiao Han

This paper investigates the privacy-preserving distributed optimization problem, aiming to protect agents' private information from potential attackers during the optimization process. Gradient tracking, an advanced technique for improving…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Furan Xie , Bing Liu , Li Chai

Federated learning allows distributed users to collaboratively train a model while keeping each user's data private. Recently, a growing body of work has demonstrated that an eavesdropping attacker can effectively recover image data from…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-19 Samyak Gupta , Yangsibo Huang , Zexuan Zhong , Tianyu Gao , Kai Li , Danqi Chen

Recent research shows that large language models are susceptible to privacy attacks that infer aspects of the training data. However, it is unclear if simpler generative models, like topic models, share similar vulnerabilities. In this…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Nico Manzonelli , Wanrong Zhang , Salil Vadhan

The widespread deployment of deep learning models in privacy-sensitive domains has amplified concerns regarding privacy risks, particularly those stemming from gradient leakage during training. Current privacy assessments primarily rely on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-13 Jiayang Meng , Tao Huang , Hong Chen , Xin Shi , Qingyu Huang , Chen Hou

Federated learning (FL) is a technique that trains machine learning models from decentralized data sources. We study FL under local notions of privacy constraints, which provides strong protection against sensitive data disclosures via…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-23 Yan Feng , Tao Xiong , Ruofan Wu , LingJuan Lv , Leilei Shi

To protect sensitive data in training a Generative Adversarial Network (GAN), the standard approach is to use differentially private (DP) stochastic gradient descent method in which controlled noise is added to the gradients. The quality of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-28 Dongjie Chen , Sen-ching Samson Cheung , Chen-Nee Chuah , Sally Ozonoff

Most existing methods to detect backdoored machine learning (ML) models take one of the two approaches: trigger inversion (aka. reverse engineer) and weight analysis (aka. model diagnosis). In particular, the gradient-based trigger…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Rui Zhu , Di Tang , Siyuan Tang , Guanhong Tao , Shiqing Ma , Xiaofeng Wang , Haixu Tang

The tension between data privacy and model utility has become the defining bottleneck for the practical deployment of large language models (LLMs) trained on sensitive corpora including healthcare. Differentially private stochastic gradient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Afshin Khadangi , Amir Sartipi , Igor Tchappi , Ramin Bahmani , Gilbert Fridgen

Federated Learning (FL) enables collaborative model training across distributed clients without sharing raw data, making it a promising approach for privacy-preserving machine learning in domains like Connected and Autonomous Vehicles…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Muhammad Ali Najjar , Ren-Yi Huang , Dumindu Samaraweera , Prashant Shekhar

Vertical Federated Learning (VFL) has emerged as a promising paradigm for collaborative model training across distributed feature spaces, which enables privacy-preserving learning without sharing raw data. However, recent studies have…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Zeyu Yan , Yanfei Yao , Xuanbing Wen , Shixiong Zhang , Juli Zhang , Kai Fan

Federated learning synchronizes models through gradient transmission and aggregation. However, these gradients pose significant privacy risks, as sensitive training data is embedded within them. Existing gradient inversion attacks suffer…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Jiayang Meng , Tao Huang , Hong Chen , Chen Hou , Guolong Zheng
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