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Distributed training across several quantum computers could significantly improve the training time and if we could share the learned model, not the data, it could potentially improve the data privacy as the training would happen where the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-23 Samuel Yen-Chi Chen , Shinjae Yoo

AI-driven medical diagnostics increasingly requires collaborative model training across institutions, yet centralizing patient data conflicts with privacy regulations. Federated Learning enables distributed training without raw data…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-13 Suzukaze Kamei , Hideaki Kawaguchi , Takahiko Satoh

Motivated by high resource costs of centralized machine learning schemes as well as data privacy concerns, federated learning (FL) emerged as an efficient alternative that relies on aggregating locally trained models rather than collecting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-22 Yiyue Chen , Haris Vikalo , Chianing Wang

Federated learning (FL) has drawn increasing attention owing to its potential use in large-scale industrial applications. Existing federated learning works mainly focus on model homogeneous settings. However, practical federated learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-11 Mang Ye , Xiuwen Fang , Bo Du , Pong C. Yuen , Dacheng Tao

Organizations and enterprises across domains such as healthcare, finance, and scientific research are increasingly required to extract collective intelligence from distributed, siloed datasets while adhering to strict privacy, regulatory,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Samar Abdelghani , Soumaya Cherkaoui

Federated Learning (FL) is a method of training machine learning models on private data distributed over a large number of possibly heterogeneous clients such as mobile phones and IoT devices. In this work, we propose a new federated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-15 Enmao Diao , Jie Ding , Vahid Tarokh

In the field of heterogeneous federated learning (FL), the key challenge is to efficiently and collaboratively train models across multiple clients with different data distributions, model structures, task objectives, computational…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Chuan Chen , Tianchi Liao , Xiaojun Deng , Zihou Wu , Sheng Huang , Zibin Zheng

Quantum federated learning (QFL) is emerging as a key enabler for intelligent, secure, and privacy-preserving model training in next-generation 6G networks. By leveraging the computational advantages of quantum devices, QFL offers…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Dinh C. Nguyen , Md Bokhtiar Al Zami , Ratun Rahman , Shaba Shaon , Tuy Tan Nguyen , Fatemeh Afghah

Quantum Federated Learning (QFL) enables collaborative training of a Quantum Machine Learning (QML) model among multiple clients possessing quantum computing capabilities, without the need to share their respective local data. However, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-20 Yanqi Song , Yusen Wu , Shengyao Wu , Dandan Li , Qiaoyan Wen , Sujuan Qin , Fei Gao

Quantum federated learning (QFL) has been recently introduced to enable a distributed privacy-preserving quantum machine learning (QML) model training across quantum processors (clients). Despite recent research efforts, existing QFL…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Atit Pokharel , Ratun Rahman , Thomas Morris , Dinh C. Nguyen

Almost all existing hierarchical federated learning (FL) models are limited to two aggregation layers, restricting scalability and flexibility in complex, large-scale networks. In this work, we propose a Multi-Layer Hierarchical Federated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Seyed Mohammad Azimi-Abarghouyi , Carlo Fischione

As privacy concerns continue to grow, federated learning (FL) has gained significant attention as a promising privacy-preserving technology, leading to considerable advancements in recent years. Unlike traditional machine learning, which…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Boyu Fan , Siyang Jiang , Xiang Su , Sasu Tarkoma , Pan Hui

Quantum federated learning (QFL) is a quantum extension of the classical federated learning model across multiple local quantum devices. An efficient optimization algorithm is always expected to minimize the communication overhead among…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-15 Jun Qi , Xiao-Lei Zhang , Javier Tejedor

As the demand grows for scalable and privacy-aware AI systems, Federated Learning (FL) has emerged as a promising solution, allowing decentralized model training without moving raw data. At the same time, the combination of high-performance…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Sangam Ghimire , Paribartan Timalsina , Nirjal Bhurtel , Bishal Neupane , Bigyan Byanju Shrestha , Subarna Bhattarai , Prajwal Gaire , Jessica Thapa , Sudan Jha

Quantum Federated Learning (QFL) merges privacy-preserving federation with quantum computing gains, yet its resilience to adversarial noise is unknown. We first show that QFL is as fragile as centralized quantum learning. We propose Robust…

Federated learning (FL) has been proposed to protect data privacy and virtually assemble the isolated data silos by cooperatively training models among organizations without breaching privacy and security. However, FL faces heterogeneity…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Dashan Gao , Xin Yao , Qiang Yang

Quantum federated learning (QFL) is an emerging field that has the potential to revolutionize computation by taking advantage of quantum physics concepts in a distributed machine learning (ML) environment. However, the majority of available…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-14 Ratun Rahman , Atit Pokharel , Md Raihan Uddin , Dinh C. Nguyen

Quantum machine learning (QML) holds the promise to solve classically intractable problems, but, as critical data can be fragmented across private clients, there is a need for distributed QML in a quantum federated learning (QFL) format.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-09 Jason Han , Nicholas S. DiBrita , Daniel Leeds , Jianqiang Li , Jason Ludmir , Tirthak Patel

Quantum Federated Learning (QFL) enables distributed training of Quantum Machine Learning (QML) models by sharing model gradients instead of raw data. However, these gradients can still expose sensitive user information. To enhance privacy,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Lukas Böhm , Arjhun Swaminathan , Anika Hannemann , Erik Buchmann

Federated learning (FL) is a kind of distributed machine learning framework, where the global model is generated on the centralized aggregation server based on the parameters of local models, addressing concerns about privacy leakage caused…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Chenhao Xu , Youyang Qu , Yong Xiang , Longxiang Gao