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Federated learning based on homomorphic encryption has received widespread attention due to its high security and enhanced protection of user data privacy. However, the characteristics of encrypted computation lead to three challenging…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Yang Li , Chunhe Xia , Chang Li , Xiaojian Li , Tianbo Wang

In today's world, the rapid expansion of IoT networks and the proliferation of smart devices in our daily lives, have resulted in the generation of substantial amounts of heterogeneous data. These data forms a stream which requires special…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Sofia Zahri , Hajar Bennouri , Ahmed M. Abdelmoniem

Federated Learning has become an important learning paradigm due to its privacy and computational benefits. As the field advances, two key challenges that still remain to be addressed are: (1) system heterogeneity - variability in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-02 Disha Makhija , Nhat Ho , Joydeep Ghosh

Federated Learning (FL) enables collaborative model training across institutions without sharing raw data. However, gradient sharing still risks privacy leakage, such as gradient inversion attacks. Homomorphic Encryption (HE) can secure…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Jiaqi Xue , Mayank Kumar , Yuzhang Shang , Shangqian Gao , Rui Ning , Mengxin Zheng , Xiaoqian Jiang , Qian Lou

As AI evolves, collaboration among heterogeneous models helps overcome data scarcity by enabling knowledge transfer across institutions and devices. Traditional Federated Learning (FL) only supports homogeneous models, limiting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Jianqing Zhang , Xinghao Wu , Yanbing Zhou , Xiaoting Sun , Qiqi Cai , Yang Liu , Yang Hua , Zhenzhe Zheng , Jian Cao , Qiang Yang

Federated learning (FL) faces two structural tensions: gradient sharing enables data-reconstruction attacks, while non-IID client distributions degrade aggregation quality. We introduce PTOPOFL, a framework that addresses both challenges…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Kelly L Vomo-Donfack , Adryel Hoszu , Grégory Ginot , Ian Morilla

With the widespread application of edge computing and cloud systems in AI-driven applications, how to maintain efficient performance while ensuring data privacy has become an urgent security issue. This paper proposes a federated…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Huaiying Luo , Cheng Ji

Federated learning has emerged as a promising approach for collaborative and privacy-preserving learning. Participants in a federated learning process cooperatively train a model by exchanging model parameters instead of the actual training…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-12-13 Runhua Xu , Nathalie Baracaldo , Yi Zhou , Ali Anwar , Heiko Ludwig

Federated learning suffers from several privacy-related issues that expose the participants to various threats. A number of these issues are aggravated by the centralized architecture of federated learning. In this paper, we discuss…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-04-24 Aidmar Wainakh , Alejandro Sanchez Guinea , Tim Grube , Max Mühlhäuser

Motivated by the explosive computing capabilities at end user equipments, as well as the growing privacy concerns over sharing sensitive raw data, a new machine learning paradigm, named federated learning (FL) has emerged. By training…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-06-07 Chuan Ma , Jun Li , Ming Ding , Long Shi , Taotao Wang , Zhu Han , H. Vincent Poor

We consider a foundational unsupervised learning task of $k$-means data clustering, in a federated learning (FL) setting consisting of a central server and many distributed clients. We develop SecFC, which is a secure federated clustering…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-01 Songze Li , Sizai Hou , Baturalp Buyukates , Salman Avestimehr

Privacy-Preserving Federated Learning (PPFL) is a Decentralized machine learning paradigm that enables multiple participants to collaboratively train a global model without sharing their data with the integration of cryptographic and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Fabio Turazza , Marcello Pietri , Marco Picone , Marco Mamei

Federated learning is a method of training a global model from decentralized data distributed across client devices. Here, model parameters are computed locally by each client device and exchanged with a central server, which aggregates the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-23 Sagar Dhakal , Saurav Prakash , Yair Yona , Shilpa Talwar , Nageen Himayat

Federated learning enables a cluster of decentralized mobile devices at the edge to collaboratively train a shared machine learning model, while keeping all the raw training samples on device. This decentralized training approach is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-20 Young Geun Kim , Carole-Jean Wu

Federated Learning (FL) is a paradigm for large-scale distributed learning which faces two key challenges: (i) efficient training from highly heterogeneous user data, and (ii) protecting the privacy of participating users. In this work, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-06 Maxence Noble , Aurélien Bellet , Aymeric Dieuleveut

We present a novel coded federated learning (FL) scheme for linear regression that mitigates the effect of straggling devices while retaining the privacy level of conventional FL. The proposed scheme combines one-time padding to preserve…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-16 Siddhartha Kumar , Reent Schlegel , Eirik Rosnes , Alexandre Graell i Amat

Federated learning (FL) was designed to enable mobile phones to collaboratively learn a global model without uploading their private data to a cloud server. However, exiting FL protocols has a critical communication bottleneck in a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-24 Jinliang Yuan , Mengwei Xu , Xiao Ma , Ao Zhou , Xuanzhe Liu , Shangguang Wang

In federated learning (FL), a machine learning model is trained on multiple nodes in a decentralized manner, while keeping the data local and not shared with other nodes. However, FL requires the nodes to also send information on the model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-08 Mohammad Aghapour , Aidin Ferdowsi , Walid Saad

As data privacy is gradually valued by people, federated learning(FL) has emerged because of its potential to protect data. FL uses homomorphic encryption and differential privacy encryption on the promise of ensuring data security to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-26 Song WenJie , Shen Xuan

Federated learning (FL), where data remains at the federated clients, and where only gradient updates are shared with a central aggregator, was assumed to be private. Recent work demonstrates that adversaries with gradient-level access can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-13 Varun Chandrasekaran , Suman Banerjee , Diego Perino , Nicolas Kourtellis