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Owing to the low communication costs and privacy-promoting capabilities, Federated Learning (FL) has become a promising tool for training effective machine learning models among distributed clients. However, with the distributed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-03 Chuan Ma , Jun Li , Ming Ding , Kang Wei , Wen Chen , H. Vincent Poor

Federated learning is the centralized training of statistical models from decentralized data on mobile devices while preserving the privacy of each device. We present a robust aggregation approach to make federated learning robust to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-08-04 Krishna Pillutla , Sham M. Kakade , Zaid Harchaoui

In federated learning, a federator coordinates the training of a model, e.g., a neural network, on privately owned data held by several participating clients. The gradient descent algorithm, a well-known and popular iterative optimization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Maximilian Egger , Christoph Hofmeister , Antonia Wachter-Zeh , Rawad Bitar

Hierarchical federated learning (HFL) is a promising distributed deep learning model training paradigm, but it has crucial security concerns arising from adversarial attacks. This research investigates and assesses the security of HFL using…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-21 D Alqattan , R Sun , H Liang , G Nicosia , V Snasel , R Ranjan , V Ojha

Federated sequential recommendation distributes model training across user devices so that behavioural data remains local, reducing privacy risks. Yet, this setting introduces two intertwined difficulties. On the one hand, individual…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Minh Hieu Nguyen

We propose and experimentally evaluate a novel secure aggregation algorithm targeted at cross-organizational federated learning applications with a fixed set of participating learners. Our solution organizes learners in a chain and encrypts…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-08-16 Thomas Sandholm , Sayandev Mukherjee , Bernardo A. Huberman

In this survey, we investigate the most recent techniques of resilient federated learning (ResFL) in CyberEdge networks, focusing on joint training with agglomerative deduction and feature-oriented security mechanisms. We explore adaptive…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Kai Li , Zhengyang Zhang , Azadeh Pourkabirian , Wei Ni , Falko Dressler , Ozgur B. Akan

Federated learning (FL) is a powerful distributed machine learning framework where a server aggregates models trained by different clients without accessing their private data. Hierarchical FL, with a client-edge-cloud aggregation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-10 Lumin Liu , Jun Zhang , Shenghui Song , Khaled B. Letaief

Federated learning is a prime candidate for distributed machine learning at the network edge due to the low communication complexity and privacy protection among other attractive properties. However, existing algorithms face issues with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-25 Hung T. Nguyen , H. Vincent Poor , Mung Chiang

The growing privacy concerns in distributed learning have led to the widespread adoption of secure aggregation techniques in distributed machine learning systems, such as federated learning. Motivated by a coded gradient aggregation problem…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-25 Qinyi Lu , Jiale Cheng , Wei Kang , Nan Liu

Federated learning (FL) is well-suited to 5G networks, where many mobile devices generate sensitive edge data. Secure aggregation protocols enhance privacy in FL by ensuring that individual user updates reveal no information about the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Yiwei Zhang , Rouzbeh Behnia , Imtiaz Karim , Attila A. Yavuz , Elisa Bertino

Federated learning (FL) is a promising paradigm that enables collaboratively learning a shared model across massive clients while keeping the training data locally. However, for many existing FL systems, clients need to frequently exchange…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Qiong Wu , Xu Chen , Tao Ouyang , Zhi Zhou , Xiaoxi Zhang , Shusen Yang , Junshan Zhang

Communication efficiency arises as a necessity in federated learning due to limited communication bandwidth. To this end, the present paper develops an algorithmic framework where an ensemble of pre-trained models is learned. At each…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Pouya M Ghari , Yanning Shen

Federated learning is a distributed framework for training machine learning models over the data residing at mobile devices, while protecting the privacy of individual users. A major bottleneck in scaling federated learning to a large…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Jinhyun So , Basak Guler , A. Salman Avestimehr

We study the fundamental limits of multi-server secure aggregation over a two-hop network where multiple servers, each connected to a disjoint subset of users, jointly compute the sum of all users' inputs. The goal is to ensure that no…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Zhou Li , Xiang Zhang , Jiguang He , Giuseppe Caire

Secure aggregation promises a heightened level of privacy in federated learning, maintaining that a server only has access to a decrypted aggregate update. Within this setting, linear layer leakage methods are the only data reconstruction…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Joshua C. Zhao , Ahmed Roushdy Elkordy , Atul Sharma , Yahya H. Ezzeldin , Salman Avestimehr , Saurabh Bagchi

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

Large-scale decentralized learning frameworks such as federated learning (FL), require both communication efficiency and strong data security, motivating the study of secure aggregation (SA). While information-theoretic SA is well…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Xiang Zhang , Zhou Li , Han Yu , Kai Wan , Hua Sun , Mingyue Ji , Giuseppe Caire

Federated learning is a distributed learning setting where the main aim is to train machine learning models without having to share raw data but only what is required for learning. To guarantee training data privacy and high-utility models,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Mikko A. Heikkilä

We consider a federated representation learning framework, where with the assistance of a central server, a group of $N$ distributed clients train collaboratively over their private data, for the representations (or embeddings) of a set of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-05 Jiaxiang Tang , Jinbao Zhu , Songze Li , Lichao Sun