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Recently, Niu, et. al. introduced a new variant of Federated Learning (FL), called Federated Submodel Learning (FSL). Different from traditional FL, each client locally trains the submodel (e.g., retrieved from the servers) based on its…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-03 Jamie Cui , Cen Chen , Tiandi Ye , Li Wang

Federated Learning (FL) is a decentralized machine learning approach where client devices train models locally and send them to a server that performs aggregation to generate a global model. FL is vulnerable to model inversion attacks,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-05-03 Niousha Nazemi , Omid Tavallaie , Shuaijun Chen , Albert Y. Zomaya , Ralph Holz

Federated Learning (FL) is a distributed machine learning approach that promises privacy by keeping the data on the device. However, gradient reconstruction and membership-inference attacks show that model updates still leak information.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Pedro Correia , Ivan Silva , Ivone Amorim , Eva Maia , Isabel Praça

Federated Learning (FL) is a Machine Learning (ML) technique that aims to reduce the threats to user data privacy. Training is done using the raw data on the users' device, called clients, and only the training results, called gradients,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-07-18 Sneha Kanchan , Jae Won Jang , Jun Yong Yoon , Bong Jun Choi

Secure aggregation is motivated by federated learning (FL) where a cloud server aims to compute an {aggregated} model (i.e., weights of deep neural networks) of the locally-trained models of numerous clients {through an iterative…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Xiang Zhang , Zhou Li , Kai Wan , Hua Sun , Mingyue Ji , Giuseppe Caire

The rise of heterogeneous Internet of Things (IoT) devices has raised security concerns due to their vulnerability to cyberattacks. Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) are crucial in addressing these threats. Federated Learning (FL) offers a…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Saadat Izadi , Mahmood Ahmadi

Federated Learning is a machine learning setting that reduces direct data exposure, improving the privacy guarantees of machine learning models. Yet, the exchange of model updates between the participants and the aggregator can still leak…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Pablo Montaña-Fernández , Ines Ortega-Fernandez

Deploying federated learning (FL) in real-world scenarios, particularly in healthcare, poses challenges in communication and security. In particular, with respect to the federated aggregation procedure, researchers have been focusing on the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Riccardo Taiello , Sergen Cansiz , Marc Vesin , Francesco Cremonesi , Lucia Innocenti , Melek Önen , Marco Lorenzi

Collaborative machine learning across healthcare institutions promises improved diagnostic accuracy by leveraging diverse datasets, yet privacy regulations such as HIPAA prohibit direct patient data sharing. While federated learning (FL)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Al Amin , Kamrul Hasan , Liang Hong , Sharif Ullah

Federated Learning has rapidly expanded from its original inception to now have a large body of research, several frameworks, and sold in a variety of commercial offerings. Thus, its security and robustness is of significant importance.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Simone Bottoni , Giulio Zizzo , Stefano Braghin , Alberto Trombetta

Federated Learning (FL) has become very popular since it enables clients to train a joint model collaboratively without sharing their private data. However, FL has been shown to be susceptible to backdoor and inference attacks. While in the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-08-02 Huimin Li , Phillip Rieger , Shaza Zeitouni , Stjepan Picek , Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi

Federated recommender system (FRS), which enables many local devices to train a shared model jointly without transmitting local raw data, has become a prevalent recommendation paradigm with privacy-preserving advantages. However, previous…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-12-27 Honglei Zhang , Fangyuan Luo , Jun Wu , Xiangnan He , Yidong Li

Federated learning (FL) is gaining increasing attention as an emerging collaborative machine learning approach, particularly in the context of large-scale computing and data systems. However, the fundamental algorithm of FL, Federated…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Jianyi Zhang , Ziyin Zhou , Yilong Li , Qichao Jin

In decentralized federated learning (FL), multiple clients collaboratively learn a shared machine learning (ML) model by leveraging their privately held datasets distributed across the network, through interactive exchange of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Xiang Zhang , Zhou Li , Shuangyang Li , Kai Wan , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Giuseppe Caire

The proliferation of Internet of Things (IoT) has increased interest in federated learning (FL) for privacy-preserving distributed data utilization. However, traditional two-tier FL architectures inadequately adapt to multi-tier IoT…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Jiechao Gao , Yuangang Li , Yue Zhao , Brad Campbell

Federated Learning (FL) presents significant potential for collaborative optimization without data sharing. Since synthetic data is sent to the server, leveraging the popular concept of dataset distillation, this FL framework protects real…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Haozhi Shi , Weiying Xie , Hangyu Ye , Daixun Li , Jitao Ma , Yunsong Li , Leyuan Fang

Financial fraud increasingly exploits institutional boundaries: laundering networks distribute transactions across multiple banks because no single institution can observe the full pattern. Federated Learning (FL) enables collaborative…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Prajwal Panth , Nishant Nigam

Training neural networks on large datasets can be accelerated by distributing the workload over a network of machines. As datasets grow ever larger, networks of hundreds or thousands of machines become economically viable. The time cost of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-02-26 Jeremy Bernstein , Jiawei Zhao , Kamyar Azizzadenesheli , Anima Anandkumar

Federated Learning (FL) facilitates collaborative model training while keeping raw data decentralized, making it a conduit for leveraging the power of IoT devices while maintaining privacy of the locally collected data. However, existing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Amr Akmal Abouelmagd , Amr Hilal

Federated Learning (FL) enables collaborative model building among a large number of participants without the need for explicit data sharing. But this approach shows vulnerabilities when privacy inference attacks are applied to it. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-26 Pretom Roy Ovi , Emon Dey , Nirmalya Roy , Aryya Gangopadhyay