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When algorithmic decisions depend on data distributed across institutions, how can we ensure that an individual's outcome does not change arbitrarily based on a protected attribute? We study this question in vertical federated learning…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Dawood Wasif , Chandan K. Reddy , Terrence J. Moore , Jin-Hee Cho

Federated learning (FL) lets distributed nodes train a shared model without exchanging their raw data, but in privacy-sensitive deployments medical sensors, IoT devices, wearables the protection offered by keeping data local is incomplete:…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Zahir Alsulaimawi , Huaping Liu

Federated learning (FL) faces two primary challenges: the risk of privacy leakage due to parameter sharing and communication inefficiencies. To address these challenges, we propose DPSFL, a federated learning method that utilizes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-11 Meifan Zhang , Zhanhong Xie , Lihua Yin

Federated Learning (FL) provides both model performance and data privacy for machine learning tasks where samples or features are distributed among different parties. In the training process of FL, no party has a global view of data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Xinle Liang , Yang Liu , Jiahuan Luo , Yuanqin He , Tianjian Chen , Qiang Yang

Although Deep Learning (DL) methods becoming increasingly popular in vulnerability detection, their performance is seriously limited by insufficient training data. This is mainly because few existing software organizations can maintain a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Peiheng Zhou , Ming Hu , Xingrun Quan , Yawen Peng , Xiaofei Xie , Yanxin Yang , Chengwei Liu , Yueming Wu , Mingsong Chen

Differentially private federated learning (DP-FL) enables clients to collaboratively train machine learning models while preserving the privacy of their local data. However, most existing DP-FL approaches assume that all clients share a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Ruichen Xu , Ying-Jun Angela Zhang , Jianwei Huang

Federated learning aims to learn a global model that performs well on client devices with limited cross-client communication. Personalized federated learning (PFL) further extends this setup to handle data heterogeneity between clients by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-27 Idan Achituve , Aviv Shamsian , Aviv Navon , Gal Chechik , Ethan Fetaya

Conversion rate (CVR) estimation aims to predict the probability of conversion event after a user has clicked an ad. Typically, online publisher has user browsing interests and click feedbacks, while demand-side advertising platform…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Penghui Wei , Hongjian Dou , Shaoguo Liu , Rongjun Tang , Li Liu , Liang Wang , Bo Zheng

In the current artificial intelligence (AI) era, the scale and quality of the dataset play a crucial role in training a high-quality AI model. However, often original data cannot be shared due to privacy concerns and regulations. A…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-06 Xun Yuan , Zilong Zhao , Prosanta Gope , Biplab Sikdar

Federated learning (FL) is a promising framework that models distributed machine learning while protecting the privacy of clients. However, FL suffers performance degradation from heterogeneous and limited data. To alleviate the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-09 Xu Zhang , Wenpeng Li , Yunfeng Shao , Yinchuan Li

Vertical Federated Learning (VFL) is a machine learning paradigm for learning from vertically partitioned data (i.e. features for each input are distributed across multiple "guest" clients and an aggregating "host" server owns labels)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-27 Avi Amalanshu , Viswesh Nagaswamy , G. V. S. S. Prudhvi , Yash Sirvi , Debashish Chakravarty

Train machine learning models on sensitive user data has raised increasing privacy concerns in many areas. Federated learning is a popular approach for privacy protection that collects the local gradient information instead of real data.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-05-24 Lichao Sun , Jianwei Qian , Xun Chen

Federated Learning (FL) enables collaborative decentralized training across multiple parties (nodes) while keeping raw data private. There are two main paradigms in FL: Horizontal FL (HFL), where all participant nodes share the same feature…

Vertical Federated Learning (VFL) enables collaborative model training across organizations that share common user samples but hold disjoint feature spaces. Despite its potential, VFL is susceptible to feature inference attacks, in which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Sindhuja Madabushi , Ahmad Faraz Khan , Haider Ali , Ananthram Swami , Rui Ning , Hongyi Wu , Jin-Hee Cho

Differentially private federated learning (DP-FL) is a promising technique for collaborative model training while ensuring provable privacy for clients. However, optimizing the tradeoff between privacy and accuracy remains a critical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-25 Shuya Feng , Meisam Mohammady , Hanbin Hong , Shenao Yan , Ashish Kundu , Binghui Wang , Yuan Hong

In the era of big data, leveraging information from multiple clients while preserving data privacy has emerged as a critical challenge in modern statistical modeling and forecasting. This paper introduces a privacy-preserving federated…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-04-09 Kejun Chen , Qianqian Zhu

As an emerging secure learning paradigm in lever-aging cross-agency private data, vertical federatedlearning (VFL) is expected to improve advertising models by enabling the joint learning of complementary user attributes privately owned by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Wenjie Li , Qiaolin Xia , Junfeng Deng , Hao Cheng , Jiangming Liu , Kouying Xue , Yong Cheng , Shu-Tao Xia

We present the Differentially Private Blockchain-Based Vertical Federal Learning (DP-BBVFL) algorithm that provides verifiability and privacy guarantees for decentralized applications. DP-BBVFL uses a smart contract to aggregate the feature…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-10 Linh Tran , Sanjay Chari , Md. Saikat Islam Khan , Aaron Zachariah , Stacy Patterson , Oshani Seneviratne

This paper presents a personalized graph federated learning (PGFL) framework in which distributedly connected servers and their respective edge devices collaboratively learn device or cluster-specific models while maintaining the privacy of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Francois Gauthier , Vinay Chakravarthi Gogineni , Stefan Werner , Yih-Fang Huang , Anthony Kuh

Vertical federated learning (VFL) enables a paradigm for vertically partitioned data across clients to collaboratively train machine learning models. Feature selection (FS) plays a crucial role in Vertical Federated Learning (VFL) due to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Ruochen Jin , Boning Tong , Shu Yang , Bojian Hou , Li Shen