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Quantum federated learning (QFL) has been recently introduced to enable a distributed privacy-preserving quantum machine learning (QML) model training across quantum processors (clients). Despite recent research efforts, existing QFL…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Atit Pokharel , Ratun Rahman , Thomas Morris , Dinh C. Nguyen

Quantum Machine Learning (QML) integrates quantum computational principles into learning algorithms, offering improved representational capacity and computational efficiency. However, the security and robustness of QML systems remain…

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Federated learning (FL) is an appealing paradigm that allows a group of machines (a.k.a. clients) to learn collectively while keeping their data local. However, due to the heterogeneity between the clients' data distributions, the model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Youssef Allouah , Abdellah El Mrini , Rachid Guerraoui , Nirupam Gupta , Rafael Pinot

Federated Learning (FL) enables collaborative model training across distributed clients while preserving data privacy, yet faces challenges in non-independent and identically distributed (non-IID) settings due to client drift, which impairs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Mohammad Partohaghighi , Roummel Marcia , Bruce J. West , YangQuan Chen

Federated learning (FL) has gained significant attention for enabling decentralized training on edge networks without exposing raw data. However, FL models remain susceptible to adversarial attacks and performance degradation in non-IID…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-10 Yu Qiao , Apurba Adhikary , Huy Q. Le , Eui-Nam Huh , Zhu Han , Choong Seon Hong

Quantum Federated Learning (QFL) promises to revolutionize distributed machine learning by combining the computational power of quantum devices with collaborative model training. Yet, privacy of both data and models remains a critical…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Dev Gurung , Shiva Raj Pokhrel

Quantum federated learning has brought about the improvement of privacy image classification, while the lack of personality of the client model may contribute to the suboptimal of quantum federated learning. A personalized quantum federated…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-04 Jinjing Shi , Tian Chen , Shichao Zhang , Xuelong Li

In Federated Learning (FL), models are as fragile as centrally trained models against adversarial examples. However, the adversarial robustness of federated learning remains largely unexplored. This paper casts light on the challenge of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Jie Zhang , Bo Li , Chen Chen , Lingjuan Lyu , Shuang Wu , Shouhong Ding , Chao Wu

In recent years, federated learning (FL) has made significant advance in privacy-sensitive applications. However, it can be hard to ensure that FL participants provide well-annotated data for training. The corresponding annotations from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Xuefeng Jiang , Tian Wen , Zhiqin Yang , Lvhua Wu , Yufeng Chen , Sheng Sun , Yuwei Wang , Min Liu

This paper proposes a general decentralized framework for quantum kernel learning (QKL). It has robustness against quantum noise and can also be designed to defend adversarial information attacks forming a robust approach named RDQKL. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-21 Wenxuan Ma , Kuan-Cheng Chen , Shang Yu , Mengxiang Liu , Ruilong Deng

In this paper, we propose a groundbreaking quantum-secure federated learning (QFL) framework designed to safeguard distributed learning systems against the emerging threat of quantum-enabled adversaries. As classical cryptographic methods…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Dev Gurung , Shiva Raj Pokhrel

Quantum federated learning (QFL) is emerging as a key enabler for intelligent, secure, and privacy-preserving model training in next-generation 6G networks. By leveraging the computational advantages of quantum devices, QFL offers…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Dinh C. Nguyen , Md Bokhtiar Al Zami , Ratun Rahman , Shaba Shaon , Tuy Tan Nguyen , Fatemeh Afghah

Federated learning enables collaborative model training without sharing raw data, but data heterogeneity consistently challenges the performance of the global model. Traditional optimization methods often rely on collaborative global model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Weiqi Yue , Wenbiao Li , Yuzhou Jiang , Anisa Halimi , Roger French , Erman Ayday

This paper provides an integrated perspective on addressing key challenges in developing reliable and secure Quantum Neural Networks (QNNs) in the Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum (NISQ) era. In this paper, we present an integrated…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-22 Nouhaila Innan , Muhammad Kashif , Alberto Marchisio , Mohamed Bennai , Muhammad Shafique

Over the past several years, various federated learning (FL) methodologies have been developed to improve model accuracy, a primary performance metric in machine learning. However, to utilize FL in practical decision-making scenarios,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-24 Yun-Wei Chu , Dong-Jun Han , Seyyedali Hosseinalipour , Christopher Brinton

Quantum Federated Learning (QFL) enables collaborative training of a Quantum Machine Learning (QML) model among multiple clients possessing quantum computing capabilities, without the need to share their respective local data. However, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-20 Yanqi Song , Yusen Wu , Shengyao Wu , Dandan Li , Qiaoyan Wen , Sujuan Qin , Fei Gao

Federated learning (FL) is a widely used method for training machine learning (ML) models in a scalable way while preserving privacy (i.e., without centralizing raw data). Prior research shows that the risk of exposing sensitive data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Andras Ferenczi , Sutapa Samanta , Dagen Wang , Todd Hodges

Federated Learning (FL) has gained prominence in machine learning applications across critical domains by enabling collaborative model training without centralized data aggregation. However, FL frameworks that protect privacy often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Dawood Wasif , Terrence J. Moore , Jin-Hee Cho

AI-native 6G networks are envisioned to tightly embed artificial intelligence (AI) into the wireless ecosystem, enabling real-time, personalized, and privacy-preserving intelligence at the edge. A foundational pillar of this vision is…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Shaba Shaon , Md Raihan Uddin , Dinh C. Nguyen , Seyyedali Hosseinalipour , Dusit Niyato , Octavia A. Dobre

Quantum federated learning (QFL) is a novel framework that integrates the advantages of classical federated learning (FL) with the computational power of quantum technologies. This includes quantum computing and quantum machine learning…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Mahdi Chehimi , Samuel Yen-Chi Chen , Walid Saad , Don Towsley , Mérouane Debbah