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We propose LESS-VFL, a communication-efficient feature selection method for distributed systems with vertically partitioned data. We consider a system of a server and several parties with local datasets that share a sample ID space but have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-04 Timothy Castiglia , Yi Zhou , Shiqiang Wang , Swanand Kadhe , Nathalie Baracaldo , Stacy Patterson

Federated Learning (FL) since proposed has been applied in many fields, such as credit assessment, medical, etc. Because of the difference in the network or computing resource, the clients may not update their gradients at the same time…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-19 Zhicheng Zhou , Hailong Chen , Kunhua Li , Fei Hu , Bingjie Yan , Jieren Cheng , Xuyan Wei , Bernie Liu , Xiulai Li , Fuwen Chen , Yongji Sui

Federated learning (FL) is the most popular distributed machine learning technique. FL allows machine-learning models to be trained without acquiring raw data to a single point for processing. Instead, local models are trained with local…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-06 Qun Li , Chandra Thapa , Lawrence Ong , Yifeng Zheng , Hua Ma , Seyit A. Camtepe , Anmin Fu , Yansong Gao

In recent years, data are typically distributed in multiple organizations while the data security is becoming increasingly important. Federated Learning (FL), which enables multiple parties to collaboratively train a model without…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-03-13 Ji Liu , Xuehai Zhou , Lei Mo , Shilei Ji , Yuan Liao , Zheng Li , Qin Gu , Dejing Dou

In recent years, the exponential increase in the demand of wireless data transmission rises the urgency for accurate spectrum sensing approaches to improve spectrum efficiency. The unreliability of conventional spectrum sensing methods by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-09 Zezhong Zhang , Guangxu Zhu , Shuguang Cui

Cross-device Federated Learning (FL) faces significant challenges where low-end clients that could potentially make unique contributions are excluded from training large models due to their resource bottlenecks. Recent research efforts have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-30 Hanhan Zhou , Tian Lan , Guru Venkataramani , Wenbo Ding

Federated Learning (FL) has emerged to allow multiple clients to collaboratively train machine learning models on their private data at the network edge. However, training and deploying large-scale models on resource-constrained devices is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-05 Yang Xu , Yunming Liao , Hongli Xu , Zhipeng Sun , Liusheng Huang , Chunming Qiao

Federated learning (FL) enables collaborative model training across decentralized clients without sharing local data, but is challenged by heterogeneity in data, computation, and communication. Pretrained vision-language models (VLMs), with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Yuguang Zhang , Kuangpu Guo , Zhihe Lu , Yunbo Wang , Jian Liang

Vertical Federated Learning (VFL) facilitates collaborative machine learning without the need for participants to share raw private data. However, recent studies have revealed privacy risks where adversaries might reconstruct sensitive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-16 Jirui Yang , Peng Chen , Zhihui Lu , Qiang Duan , Yubing Bao

Federated Learning allows the training of machine learning models by using the computation and private data resources of many distributed clients. Most existing results on Federated Learning (FL) assume the clients have ground-truth labels.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-12 Enmao Diao , Jie Ding , Vahid Tarokh

Federated learning (FL) is a commonly distributed algorithm for mobile users (MUs) training artificial intelligence (AI) models, however, several challenges arise when applying FL to real-world scenarios, such as label scarcity, non-IID…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Yubo Peng , Feibo Jiang , Li Dong , Kezhi Wang , Kun Yang

Vertical federated learning (VFL) is an emerging paradigm that allows different parties (e.g., organizations or enterprises) to collaboratively build machine learning models with privacy protection. In the training phase, VFL only exchanges…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-01 Fangcheng Fu , Xupeng Miao , Jiawei Jiang , Huanran Xue , Bin Cui

Vertical Federated Learning (vFL) allows multiple parties that own different attributes (e.g. features and labels) of the same data entity (e.g. a person) to jointly train a model. To prepare the training data, vFL needs to identify the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-11 Jiankai Sun , Xin Yang , Yuanshun Yao , Aonan Zhang , Weihao Gao , Junyuan Xie , Chong Wang

Vertical Federated Learning (VFL) is a trending collaborative machine learning model training solution. Existing industrial frameworks employ secure multi-party computation techniques such as homomorphic encryption to ensure data security…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Pengyu Qiu , Xuhong Zhang , Shouling Ji , Chong Fu , Xing Yang , Ting Wang

Achieving fairness across diverse clients in Federated Learning (FL) remains a significant challenge due to the heterogeneity of the data and the inaccessibility of sensitive attributes from clients' private datasets. This study addresses…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-26 Disha Makhija , Xing Han , Joydeep Ghosh , Yejin Kim

Quantum federated learning (QFL) has recently emerged as a promising paradigm for privacy-preserving collaborative learning, yet most existing studies focus on horizontal federated learning and ignore the vertical federated learning (VFL),…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-24 Hao Luo , Zhiyuan Zhai , Qianli Zhou , Jun Qi , Yong Deng , Xin Wang

When algorithmic decisions depend on data distributed across institutions, how can we ensure that an individual's outcome does not change arbitrarily based on a protected attribute? We study this question in vertical federated learning…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Dawood Wasif , Chandan K. Reddy , Terrence J. Moore , Jin-Hee Cho

Federated Learning (FL) enables collaborative model training across multiple clients while preserving data privacy. Traditional FL methods often use a global model to fit all clients, assuming that clients' data are independent and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Dario Fenoglio , Mohan Li , Pietro Barbiero , Nicholas D. Lane , Marc Langheinrich , Martin Gjoreski

In current deep learning paradigms, local training or the Standalone framework tends to result in overfitting and thus poor generalizability. This problem can be addressed by Distributed or Federated Learning (FL) that leverages a parameter…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-31 Lingjuan Lyu , Xinyi Xu , Qian Wang

Federated Learning (FL) is a collaborative machine learning paradigm for enhancing data privacy preservation. Its privacy-preserving nature complicates the explanation of the decision-making processes and the evaluation of the reliability…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-10 Yanci Zhang , Han Yu