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Federated Learning (FL) enables collaborative model training without direct data sharing, yet it remains vulnerable to privacy attacks such as model inversion and membership inference. Existing differential privacy (DP) solutions for FL…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Yunbo Li , Jiaping Gui , Fanchao Meng , Yue Wu

While federated learning (FL) eliminates the transmission of raw data over a network, it is still vulnerable to privacy breaches from the communicated model parameters. In this work, we propose Multi-Tier Federated Learning with Multi-Tier…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-11 Evan Chen , Frank Po-Chen Lin , Dong-Jun Han , Christopher G. Brinton

Federated learning has emerged as an attractive approach to protect data privacy by eliminating the need for sharing clients' data while reducing communication costs compared with centralized machine learning algorithms. However, recent…

User-level differential privacy (DP) provides certifiable privacy guarantees to the information that is specific to any user's data in federated learning. Existing methods that ensure user-level DP come at the cost of severe accuracy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Anda Cheng , Peisong Wang , Xi Sheryl Zhang , Jian Cheng

Federated learning (FL) that enables edge devices to collaboratively learn a shared model while keeping their training data locally has received great attention recently and can protect privacy in comparison with the traditional centralized…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-17 Rui Hu , Yanmin Gong , Yuanxiong Guo

With growing concerns about user data collection, individualized privacy has emerged as a promising solution to balance protection and utility by accounting for diverse user privacy preferences. Instead of enforcing a uniform level of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Lucas Lange , Ole Borchardt , Erhard Rahm

Federated learning (FL) is a type of collaborative machine learning where participating peers/clients process their data locally, sharing only updates to the collaborative model. This enables to build privacy-aware distributed machine…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Filippo Galli , Sayan Biswas , Kangsoo Jung , Tommaso Cucinotta , Catuscia Palamidessi

This paper considers subject level privacy in the FL setting, where a subject is an individual whose private information is embodied by several data items either confined within a single federation user or distributed across multiple…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Virendra J. Marathe , Pallika Kanani , Daniel W. Peterson , Guy Steele

In federated learning collaborative learning takes place by a set of clients who each want to remain in control of how their local training data is used, in particular, how can each client's local training data remain private? Differential…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Marten van Dijk , Phuong Ha Nguyen

While federated learning (FL) eliminates the transmission of raw data over a network, it is still vulnerable to privacy breaches from the communicated model parameters. Differential privacy (DP) is often employed to address such issues.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Evan Chen , Frank Po-Chen Lin , Dong-Jun Han , Christopher G. Brinton

Differentially private (DP) decentralized Federated Learning (FL) allows local users to collaborate without sharing their data with a central server. However, accurately quantifying the privacy budget of private FL algorithms is challenging…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Xiang Li , Buxin Su , Chendi Wang , Qi Long , Weijie J. Su

Federated learning (FL), a novel branch of distributed machine learning (ML), develops global models through a private procedure without direct access to local datasets. However, it is still possible to access the model updates (gradient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-27 Mahtab Talaei , Iman Izadi

Federated learning (FL) combined with local differential privacy (LDP) enables privacy-preserving model training across decentralized data sources. However, the decentralized data-management paradigm leaves LDPFL vulnerable to participants…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Zijian Wang , Wei Tong , Tingxuan Han , Haoyu Chen , Tianling Zhang , Yunlong Mao , Sheng Zhong

In times of epidemics, swift reaction is necessary to mitigate epidemic spreading. For this reaction, localized approaches have several advantages, limiting necessary resources and reducing the impact of interventions on a larger scale.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Raouf Kerkouche , Henrik Zunker , Mario Fritz , Martin J. Kühn

Fine-tuning large language models (LLMs) with local data is a widely adopted approach for organizations seeking to adapt LLMs to their specific domains. Given the shared characteristics in data across different organizations, the idea of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Wenkai Guo , Xuefeng Liu , Haolin Wang , Jianwei Niu , Shaojie Tang , Jing Yuan

Federated learning is a recent advance in privacy protection. In this context, a trusted curator aggregates parameters optimized in decentralized fashion by multiple clients. The resulting model is then distributed back to all clients,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-03-02 Robin C. Geyer , Tassilo Klein , Moin Nabi

Federated learning (FL) is a distributed machine learning strategy that enables participants to collaborate and train a shared model without sharing their individual datasets. Privacy and fairness are crucial considerations in FL. While FL…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-24 Ayush K. Varshney , Sonakshi Garg , Arka Ghosh , Sargam Gupta

Federated learning (FL) allows clients to collaboratively train a global model without sharing their local data with a server. However, clients' contributions to the server can still leak sensitive information. Differential privacy (DP)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Jie Xu , Karthikeyan Saravanan , Rogier van Dalen , Haaris Mehmood , David Tuckey , Mete Ozay

Federated learning (FL) enables edge devices to collaboratively train machine learning models, with model communication replacing direct data uploading. While over-the-air model aggregation improves communication efficiency, uploading…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Hang Liu , Jia Yan , Ying-Jun Angela Zhang

The federated learning (FL) framework enables multiple clients to collaboratively train machine learning models without sharing their raw data, but it remains vulnerable to privacy attacks. One promising approach is to incorporate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Shokichi Takakura , Seng Pei Liew , Satoshi Hasegawa