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Recent works have brought attention to the vulnerability of Federated Learning (FL) systems to gradient leakage attacks. Such attacks exploit clients' uploaded gradients to reconstruct their sensitive data, thereby compromising the privacy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Mingyuan Fan , Cen Chen , Chengyu Wang , Xiaodan Li , Wenmeng Zhou

Federated Learning enables one to jointly train a machine learning model across distributed clients holding sensitive datasets. In real-world settings, this approach is hindered by expensive communication and privacy concerns. Both of these…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-10-19 Constance Beguier , Mathieu Andreux , Eric W. Tramel

Language models trained via federated learning (FL) demonstrate impressive capabilities in handling complex tasks while protecting user privacy. Recent studies indicate that leveraging gradient information and prior knowledge can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Jianwei Li , Sheng Liu , Qi Lei

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

Recent works show that sensitive user data can be reconstructed from gradient updates, breaking the key privacy promise of federated learning. While success was demonstrated primarily on image data, these methods do not directly transfer to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Lele Zheng , Yang Cao , Renhe Jiang , Kenjiro Taura , Yulong Shen , Sheng Li , Masatoshi Yoshikawa

Gradient Inversion Attacks invert the transmitted gradients in Federated Learning (FL) systems to reconstruct the sensitive data of local clients and have raised considerable privacy concerns. A majority of gradient inversion methods rely…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Wenbo Yu , Hao Fang , Bin Chen , Xiaohang Sui , Chuan Chen , Hao Wu , Shu-Tao Xia , Ke Xu

Federated learning (FL) enables collaborative model training among multiple clients without the need to expose raw data. Its ability to safeguard privacy, at the heart of FL, has recently been a hot-button debate topic. To elaborate,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Mingyuan Fan , Fuyi Wang , Cen Chen , Jianying Zhou

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

The growing concern over data privacy, the benefits of utilizing data from diverse sources for model training, and the proliferation of networked devices with enhanced computational capabilities have all contributed to the rise of federated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Rui Zhang , Ka-Ho Chow , Ping Li

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

Spatiotemporal federated learning has recently raised intensive studies due to its ability to train valuable models with only shared gradients in various location-based services. On the other hand, recent studies have shown that shared…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Lele Zheng , Yang Cao , Renhe Jiang , Kenjiro Taura , Yulong Shen , Sheng Li , Masatoshi Yoshikawa

Although federated learning improves privacy of training data by exchanging local gradients or parameters rather than raw data, the adversary still can leverage local gradients and parameters to obtain local training data by launching…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Xue Yang , Yan Feng , Weijun Fang , Jun Shao , Xiaohu Tang , Shu-Tao Xia , Rongxing Lu

Collaborative machine learning settings like federated learning can be susceptible to adversarial interference and attacks. One class of such attacks is termed model inversion attacks, characterised by the adversary reverse-engineering the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-02 Dmitrii Usynin , Daniel Rueckert , Georgios Kaissis

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 model training without centralizing client data, making it attractive for privacy-sensitive domains. While existing approaches employ cryptographic techniques such as homomorphic encryption,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Sahar Ghoflsaz Ghinani , Elaheh Sadredini

Federated Learning (FL) has emerged as a compelling paradigm for privacy-preserving distributed machine learning, allowing multiple clients to collaboratively train a global model by transmitting locally computed gradients to a central…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Hao Fang , Wenbo Yu , Bin Chen , Xuan Wang , Shu-Tao Xia , Qing Liao , Ke Xu

Federated Learning (FL) facilitates collaborative model training while preserving data locality; however, the exchange of gradients renders the system vulnerable to Gradient Inversion Attacks (GIAs), allowing adversaries to reconstruct…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Jianhua Wang , Yinlin Su

Given the growing reliance on private data in training Large Language Models (LLMs), Federated Learning (FL) combined with Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning (PEFT) has garnered significant attention for enhancing privacy and efficiency.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Syed Irfan Ali Meerza , Feiyi Wang , Jian Liu

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

As a crucial building block in vertical Federated Learning (vFL), Split Learning (SL) has demonstrated its practice in the two-party model training collaboration, where one party holds the features of data samples and another party holds…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-04-10 Shangyu Xie , Xin Yang , Yuanshun Yao , Tianyi Liu , Taiqing Wang , Jiankai Sun