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Federated learning has emerged as an attractive approach to protect data privacy by eliminating the need for sharing clients' data while reducing communication costs compared with centralized machine learning algorithms. However, recent…

Federated learning enables multiple clients (institutions) to collaboratively train machine learning models without sharing their private data. To address the challenge of data heterogeneity across clients, personalized federated learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Meilu Zhu , Yuxing Li , Zhiwei Wang , Edmund Y. Lam

Federated Learning allows distributed entities to train a common model collaboratively without sharing their own data. Although it prevents data collection and aggregation by exchanging only parameter updates, it remains vulnerable to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-12 Raouf Kerkouche , Gergely Ács , Claude Castelluccia , Pierre Genevès

Differential privacy (DP) offers a robust framework for safeguarding individual data privacy. To utilize DP in training modern machine learning models, differentially private optimizers have been widely used in recent years. A popular…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Xinwei Zhang , Zhiqi Bu , Borja Balle , Mingyi Hong , Meisam Razaviyayn , Vahab Mirrokni

Federated learning (FL), a novel branch of distributed machine learning (ML), develops global models through a private procedure without direct access to local datasets. However, it is still possible to access the model updates (gradient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-27 Mahtab Talaei , Iman Izadi

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

Balancing convergence efficiency and robustness under Differential Privacy (DP) is a central challenge in Federated Learning (FL). While AdamW accelerates training and fine-tuning in large-scale models, we find that directly applying it to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Jin Liu , Yinbin Miao , Ning Xi , Junkang Liu

Federated learning (FL) enables the collaborative training of large-scale language models (LLMs) across edge devices while keeping user data on-device. However, FL still exposes sensitive information through client-provided gradients.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Haaris Mehmood , Jie Xu , Karthikeyan Saravanan , Rogier Van Dalen , Mete Ozay

Federated learning is distributed model training across several clients without disclosing raw data. Despite advancements in data privacy, risks still remain. Differential Privacy (DP) is a technique to protect sensitive data by adding…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Tejash Varsani

While federated learning (FL) and differential privacy (DP) have been extensively studied, their application to automatic speech recognition (ASR) remains largely unexplored due to the challenges in training large transformer models.…

The federated learning (FL) paradigm emerges to preserve data privacy during model training by only exposing clients' model parameters rather than original data. One of the biggest challenges in FL lies in the non-IID (not identical and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Jiahao Tan , Yipeng Zhou , Gang Liu , Jessie Hui Wang , Shui Yu

Differential privacy is one of the methods to solve the problem of privacy protection in federated learning. Setting the same privacy budget for each round will result in reduced accuracy in training. The existing methods of the adjustment…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Zhiqiang Wang , Xinyue Yu , Qianli Huang , Yongguang Gong

Although federated learning improves privacy of training data by exchanging local gradients or parameters rather than raw data, the adversary still can leverage local gradients and parameters to obtain local training data by launching…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Xue Yang , Yan Feng , Weijun Fang , Jun Shao , Xiaohu Tang , Shu-Tao Xia , Rongxing Lu

Federated Learning (FL) has become a key method for preserving data privacy in Internet of Things (IoT) environments, as it trains Machine Learning (ML) models locally while transmitting only model updates. Despite this design, FL remains…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Fardin Jalil Piran , Zhiling Chen , Mohsen Imani , Farhad Imani

Conventional gradient-sharing approaches for federated learning (FL), such as FedAvg, rely on aggregation of local models and often face performance degradation under differential privacy (DP) mechanisms or data heterogeneity, which can be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-25 Hui-Po Wang , Dingfan Chen , Raouf Kerkouche , Mario Fritz

In this paper, we propose the discrete Gaussian based differentially private federated learning (D2P-Fed), a unified scheme to achieve both differential privacy (DP) and communication efficiency in federated learning (FL). In particular,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-01-05 Lun Wang , Ruoxi Jia , Dawn Song

Federated learning (FL) is a distributed machine learning (ML) framework where multiple clients collaborate to train a model without exposing their private data. FL involves cycles of local computations and bi-directional communications…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Xiangjian Hou , Sarit Khirirat , Mohammad Yaqub , Samuel Horvath

This paper investigates the use of the cubic-regularized Newton method within a federated learning framework while addressing two major concerns that commonly arise in federated learning: privacy leakage and communication bottleneck. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Wei Huo , Changxin Liu , Kemi Ding , Karl Henrik Johansson , Ling Shi

Training generative models with differential privacy (DP) typically involves injecting noise into gradient updates or adapting the discriminator's training procedure. As a result, such approaches often struggle with hyper-parameter tuning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Kristjan Greenewald , Yuancheng Yu , Hao Wang , Kai Xu

Collecting and training over sensitive personal data raise severe privacy concerns in personalized recommendation systems, and federated learning can potentially alleviate the problem by training models over decentralized user data.However,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-12-15 Ruixuan Liu , Yanlin Wang , Yang Cao , Lingjuan Lyu , Weike Pan , Yun Chen , Hong Chen