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Federated learning is a private-by-design distributed learning paradigm where clients train local models on their own data before a central server aggregates their local updates to compute a global model. Depending on the aggregation method…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-15 Jin Xu , Chi Hong , Jiyue Huang , Lydia Y. Chen , Jérémie Decouchant

Federated learning (FL) facilitates collaborative model training among multiple clients without raw data exposure. However, recent studies have shown that clients' private training data can be reconstructed from shared gradients in FL, a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-06 Jiacheng Du , Jiahui Hu , Zhibo Wang , Peng Sun , Neil Zhenqiang Gong , Kui Ren , Chun Chen

Federated Learning (FL) has emerged as a promising approach for collaborative model training without sharing private data. However, privacy concerns regarding information exchanged during FL have received significant research attention.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-14 Bowen Li , Hanlin Gu , Ruoxin Chen , Jie Li , Chentao Wu , Na Ruan , Xueming Si , Lixin Fan

Gradient inversion attacks on federated learning systems reconstruct client training data from exchanged gradient information. To defend against such attacks, a variety of defense mechanisms were proposed. However, they usually lead to an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-24 Daniel Scheliga , Patrick Mäder , Marco Seeland

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

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

Federated learning (FL) is a popular distributed learning framework that can reduce privacy risks by not explicitly sharing private data. However, recent works demonstrated that sharing model updates makes FL vulnerable to inference…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-14 Jingwei Sun , Ang Li , Binghui Wang , Huanrui Yang , Hai Li , Yiran Chen

This work studies training generative adversarial networks under the federated learning setting. Generative adversarial networks (GANs) have achieved advancement in various real-world applications, such as image editing, style transfer,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Chenyou Fan , Ping Liu

Vision classifiers are often trained on proprietary datasets containing sensitive information, yet the models themselves are frequently shared openly under the privacy-preserving assumption. Although these models are assumed to protect…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Pirzada Suhail , Amit Sethi

Collaborative learning has gained great popularity due to its benefit of data privacy protection: participants can jointly train a Deep Learning model without sharing their training sets. However, recent works discovered that an adversary…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Wei Gao , Shangwei Guo , Tianwei Zhang , Han Qiu , Yonggang Wen , Yang Liu

Federated learning enables training high-utility models across several clients without directly sharing their private data. As a downside, the federated setting makes the model vulnerable to various adversarial attacks in the presence of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Xiaoyang Wang , Dimitrios Dimitriadis , Sanmi Koyejo , Shruti Tople

Recent studies have shown that Federated learning (FL) is vulnerable to Gradient Inversion Attacks (GIA), which can recover private training data from shared gradients. However, existing methods are designed for dense, continuous data such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-25 Tianzhe Xiao , Yichen Li , Yining Qi , Haozhao Wang , Ruixuan Li

Federated Learning (FL) framework brings privacy benefits to distributed learning systems by allowing multiple clients to participate in a learning task under the coordination of a central server without exchanging their private data.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Zhuohang Li , Jiaxin Zhang , Luyang Liu , Jian Liu

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) allows for the training of Machine Learning models in a collaborative manner without the need to share sensitive data. However, it remains vulnerable to Gradient Leakage Attacks (GLAs), which can reveal private…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Miguel Fernandez-de-Retana , Unai Zulaika , Rubén Sánchez-Corcuera , Aitor Almeida

Federated Learning (FL) has emerged as a popular paradigm for collaborative learning among multiple parties. It is considered privacy-friendly because local data remains on personal devices, and only intermediate parameters -- such as…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Qiongxiu Li , Lixia Luo , Agnese Gini , Changlong Ji , Zhanhao Hu , Xiao Li , Chengfang Fang , Jie Shi , Xiaolin Hu

Federated learning (FL) has rapidly risen in popularity due to its promise of privacy and efficiency. Previous works have exposed privacy vulnerabilities in the FL pipeline by recovering user data from gradient updates. However, existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Yuxin Wen , Jonas Geiping , Liam Fowl , Micah Goldblum , Tom Goldstein

Deep learning has attracted broad interest in healthcare and medical communities. However, there has been little research into the privacy issues created by deep networks trained for medical applications. Recently developed inference attack…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Maoqiang Wu , Xinyue Zhang , Jiahao Ding , Hien Nguyen , Rong Yu , Miao Pan , Stephen T. Wong

Federated Learning with Model Distillation (FedMD) is a nascent collaborative learning paradigm, where only output logits of public datasets are transmitted as distilled knowledge, instead of passing on private model parameters that are…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Hideaki Takahashi , Jingjing Liu , Yang Liu

Recent studies have shown that distributed machine learning is vulnerable to gradient inversion attacks, where private training data can be reconstructed by analyzing the gradients of the models shared in training. Previous attacks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Weijun Li , Qiongkai Xu , Mark Dras