English
Related papers

Related papers: Enterprise Profit Prediction Using Multiple Data S…

200 papers

Vertical federated learning (VFL) is a promising category of federated learning for the scenario where data is vertically partitioned and distributed among parties. VFL enriches the description of samples using features from different…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-05 Liu Yang , Di Chai , Junxue Zhang , Yilun Jin , Leye Wang , Hao Liu , Han Tian , Qian Xu , Kai Chen

Federated learning is a decentralized and privacy-preserving technique that enables multiple clients to collaborate with a server to learn a global model without exposing their private data. However, the presence of statistical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Shiyu Liu , Shaogao Lv , Dun Zeng , Zenglin Xu , Hui Wang , Yue Yu

Federated learning (FL) offers privacy-preserving decentralized machine learning, optimizing models at edge clients without sharing private data. Simultaneously, foundation models (FMs) have gained traction in the artificial intelligence…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-06 Sixing Yu , J. Pablo Muñoz , Ali Jannesari

The wide spread of new energy resources, smart devices, and demand side management strategies has motivated several analytics operations, from infrastructure load modeling to user behavior profiling. Energy Demand Forecasting (EDF) of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Andreas Tritsarolis , Gil Sampaio , Nikos Pelekis , Yannis Theodoridis

Federated learning is an emerging technology for training machine learning models across decentralized data sources without sharing data. Vertical federated learning, also known as feature-based federated learning, applies to scenarios…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Zhenan Fan , Huang Fang , Xinglu Wang , Zirui Zhou , Jian Pei , Michael P. Friedlander , Yong Zhang

This work is motivated by the needs of predictive analytics on healthcare data as represented by Electronic Medical Records. Such data is invariably problematic: noisy, with missing entries, with imbalance in classes of interests, leading…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-09-28 Talayeh Razzaghi , Oleg Roderick , Ilya Safro , Nicholas Marko

Vertical Federated Learning (VFL)-based Traffic State Estimation (TSE) offers a promising approach for integrating vertically distributed traffic data from municipal authorities (MA) and mobility providers (MP) while safeguarding privacy.…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Zijun Zhan , Yaxian Dong , Daniel Mawunyo Doe , Yuqing Hu , Shuai Li , Shaohua Cao , Zhu Han

Vertical federated learning has garnered significant attention as it allows clients to train machine learning models collaboratively without sharing local data, which protects the client's local private data. However, existing VFL methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Shuo Wang , Keke Gai , Jing Yu , Liehuang Zhu , Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo , Bin Xiao

Despite the great success achieved, existing video moment retrieval (VMR) methods are developed under the assumption that data are centralizedly stored. However, in real-world applications, due to the inherent nature of data generation and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-31 Yan Wang , Xin Luo , Zhen-Duo Chen , Peng-Fei Zhang , Meng Liu , Xin-Shun Xu

Consider two data providers, each maintaining private records of different feature sets about common entities. They aim to learn a linear model jointly in a federated setting, namely, data is local and a shared model is trained from locally…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-11-30 Stephen Hardy , Wilko Henecka , Hamish Ivey-Law , Richard Nock , Giorgio Patrini , Guillaume Smith , Brian Thorne

Vertical Federated Learning (VFL) is a privacy-preserving distributed learning paradigm where different parties collaboratively learn models using partitioned features of shared samples, without leaking private data. Recent research has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Mang Ye , Wei Shen , Bo Du , Eduard Snezhko , Vassili Kovalev , Pong C. Yuen

Vertical Federated Learning (VFL) is a federated learning setting where multiple parties with different features about the same set of users jointly train machine learning models without exposing their raw data or model parameters.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Yang Liu , Yan Kang , Tianyuan Zou , Yanhong Pu , Yuanqin He , Xiaozhou Ye , Ye Ouyang , Ya-Qin Zhang , Qiang Yang

We study the problem of federated clustering when the total number of clusters $K$ across clients is unknown, and the clients have heterogeneous but potentially overlapping cluster sets in their local data. To that end, we develop FedGEM: a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Michael Ibrahim , Nagi Gebraeel , Weijun Xie

Due to the rising concerns on privacy protection, how to build machine learning (ML) models over different data sources with security guarantees is gaining more popularity. Vertical federated learning (VFL) describes such a case where ML…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-17 Fangcheng Fu , Huanran Xue , Yong Cheng , Yangyu Tao , Bin Cui

We introduce a binary regression accounting-based model for bankruptcy prediction of small and medium enterprises (SMEs). The main advantage of the model lies in its predictive performance in identifying defaulted SMEs. Another advantage,…

Methodology · Statistics 2013-12-11 Raffaella Calabrese , Giampiero Marra , Silvia Angela Osmetti

Federated learning (FL) is an emerging paradigm for decentralized training of machine learning models on distributed clients, without revealing the data to the central server. The learning scheme may be horizontal, vertical or hybrid (both…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-11 Fanfei Meng , Lele Zhang , Yu Chen , Yuxin Wang

Vertical Federated Learning (VFL) has emerged as a critical paradigm for collaborative model training in privacy-sensitive domains such as finance and healthcare. However, most existing VFL frameworks rely on the idealized assumption of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Jon Irureta , Gorka Azkune , Jon Imaz , Aizea Lojo , Javier Fernandez-Marques

Federated learning (FL) has obtained tremendous progress in providing collaborative training solutions for distributed data silos with privacy guarantees. However, few existing works explore a more realistic scenario where the clients hold…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Liwei Che , Jiaqi Wang , Xinyue Liu , Fenglong Ma

Learning from distributed data without accessing them is undoubtedly a challenging and non-trivial task. Nevertheless, the necessity for distributed training of a statistical model has been increasing, due to the privacy concerns of local…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-08-02 Seok-Ju Hahn

In response to the growing demand for accurate demand forecasts, this research proposes a generalized automated sales forecasting pipeline tailored for small- to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Unlike large corporations with dedicated data…

Econometrics · Economics 2024-12-31 Thomas Gaertner , Christoph Lippert , Stefan Konigorski