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This paper introduces the zk-IoT framework, a novel approach to enhancing the security of Internet of Things (IoT) ecosystems through the use of Zero-Knowledge Proofs (ZKPs) on blockchain platforms. Our framework ensures the integrity of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Gholamreza Ramezan , Ehsan Meamari

Deep learning continues to rapidly evolve and is now demonstrating remarkable potential for numerous medical prediction tasks. However, realizing deep learning models that generalize across healthcare organizations is challenging. This is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-23 Zhuohang Li , Chao Yan , Xinmeng Zhang , Gharib Gharibi , Zhijun Yin , Xiaoqian Jiang , Bradley A. Malin

Deploying deep neural networks (DNNs) on IoT and mobile devices is a challenging task due to their limited computational resources. Thus, demanding tasks are often entirely offloaded to edge servers which can accelerate inference, however,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-20 Arian Bakhtiarnia , Nemanja Milošević , Qi Zhang , Dragana Bajović , Alexandros Iosifidis

This work is the first attempt to evaluate and compare felderated learning (FL) and split neural networks (SplitNN) in real-world IoT settings in terms of learning performance and device implementation overhead. We consider a variety of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-08-04 Yansong Gao , Minki Kim , Sharif Abuadbba , Yeonjae Kim , Chandra Thapa , Kyuyeon Kim , Seyit A. Camtepe , Hyoungshick Kim , Surya Nepal

Federated Learning (FL) is a widespread approach that allows training machine learning (ML) models with data distributed across multiple devices. In cross-silo FL, which often appears in domains like healthcare or finance, the number of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Aleksei Korneev , Jan Ramon

Detecting energy theft is vital for effectively managing power grids, as it ensures precise billing and prevents financial losses. Split-learning emerges as a promising decentralized machine learning technique for identifying energy theft…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-11-28 Yang Yang , Xun Yuan , Arwa Alromih , Aryan Mohammadi Pasikhani , Prosanta Gope , Biplab Sikdar

Shortage of labeled data has been holding the surge of deep learning in healthcare back, as sample sizes are often small, patient information cannot be shared openly, and multi-center collaborative studies are a burden to set up.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-30 Maarten G. Poirot , Praneeth Vepakomma , Ken Chang , Jayashree Kalpathy-Cramer , Rajiv Gupta , Ramesh Raskar

The popularity of Deep Learning (DL) makes the privacy of sensitive data more imperative than ever. As a result, various privacy-preserving techniques have been implemented to preserve user data privacy in DL. Among various…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-08-31 Khoa Nguyen , Tanveer Khan , Antonis Michalas

Split Federated Learning (SplitFed) combines federated and split learning to preserve privacy while reducing client-side computation. However, in medical image segmentation, heterogeneous label quality across clients can significantly…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-13 Zahra Hafezi Kafshgari , Hadi Hadizadeh , Parvaneh Saeedi

Federated learning is an emerging privacy-preserving AI technique where clients (i.e., organisations or devices) train models locally and formulate a global model based on the local model updates without transferring local data externally.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-01 Sin Kit Lo , Yue Liu , Qinghua Lu , Chen Wang , Xiwei Xu , Hye-Young Paik , Liming Zhu

As artificial intelligence (AI) continues to permeate various domains, concerns surrounding trust and transparency in AI-driven inference and training processes have emerged, particularly with respect to potential biases and traceability…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Sanghyeon Park , Junmo Lee , Soo-Mook Moon

The paper presents an innovative approach to address the challenges of scalability and reliability in Distributed Federated Learning by leveraging the integration of blockchain technology. The paper focuses on enhancing the trustworthiness…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Ajay Kumar Shrestha , Faijan Ahamad Khan , Mohammed Afaan Shaikh , Amir Jaberzadeh , Jason Geng

Federated learning (FL) enables collaborative model training while preserving data privacy, yet both centralized and decentralized approaches face challenges in scalability, security, and update validation. We propose ZK-HybridFL, a secure…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Amirhossein Taherpour , Xiaodong Wang

As image generation models grow increasingly powerful and accessible, concerns around authenticity, ownership, and misuse of synthetic media have become critical. The ability to generate lifelike images indistinguishable from real ones…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Aadarsh Anantha Ramakrishnan , Shubham Agarwal , Selvanayagam S , Kunwar Singh

Machine learning models are increasingly used in societal applications, yet legal and privacy concerns demand that they very often be kept confidential. Consequently, there is a growing distrust about the fairness properties of these models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Chhavi Yadav , Amrita Roy Chowdhury , Dan Boneh , Kamalika Chaudhuri

Split learning (SL) is a collaborative learning framework, which can train an artificial intelligence (AI) model between a device and an edge server by splitting the AI model into a device-side model and a server-side model at a cut layer.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-01-03 Wen Wu , Mushu Li , Kaige Qu , Conghao Zhou , Xuemin , Shen , Weihua Zhuang , Xu Li , Weisen Shi

Currently the only techniques for sharing governance of a deep learning model are homomorphic encryption and secure multiparty computation. Unfortunately, neither of these techniques is applicable to the training of large neural networks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-17 Miljan Martic , Jan Leike , Andrew Trask , Matteo Hessel , Shane Legg , Pushmeet Kohli

Getting access to labelled datasets in certain sensitive application domains can be challenging. Hence, one often resorts to transfer learning to transfer knowledge learned from a source domain with sufficient labelled data to a target…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-05-20 Zhuoran Ma , Jianfeng Ma , Yinbin Miao , Ximeng Liu , Wei Zheng , Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo , Robert H. Deng

Federated Learning presents a nascent approach to machine learning, enabling collaborative model training across decentralized devices while safeguarding data privacy. However, its distributed nature renders it susceptible to adversarial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Mario García-Márquez , Nuria Rodríguez-Barroso , M. Victoria Luzón , Francisco Herrera

Recent advances in the cryptographic field of "Zero-Knowledge Proofs" have sparked a new wave of research, giving birth to many exciting theoretical approaches in the last few years. Such research has often overlapped with the need for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Mario Alessandro Barbara