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This paper aims to design a Privacy-aware Client Sampling framework in Federated learning, named FedPCS, to tackle the heterogeneous client sampling issues and improve model performance. First, we obtain a pioneering upper bound for the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Wenhao Yuan , Xuehe Wang

Federated learning (FL), as a type of collaborative machine learning framework, is capable of preserving private data from mobile terminals (MTs) while training the data into useful models. Nevertheless, from a viewpoint of information…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-01 Kang Wei , Jun Li , Ming Ding , Chuan Ma , Hang Su , Bo Zhang , H. Vincent Poor

Federated Learning (FL) enables collaborative model training without sharing raw data but suffers from limited scalability, high communication costs, and privacy risks due to its centralized architecture. This paper proposes FedSelect-ME, a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Hanie Vatani , Reza Ebrahimi Atani

Recently, researchers have successfully employed Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) to build enhanced recommender systems due to their capability to learn patterns from the interaction between involved entities. In addition, previous studies have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Marco Arazzi , Mauro Conti , Antonino Nocera , Stjepan Picek

Privacy-preserving adaptation of Large Language Models (LLMs) in sensitive domains (e.g., mental health) requires balancing strict confidentiality with model utility and safety. We propose FedMentor, a federated fine-tuning framework that…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Nobin Sarwar , Shubhashis Roy Dipta

Data duplication within large-scale corpora often impedes large language models' (LLMs) performance and privacy. In privacy-concerned federated learning scenarios, conventional deduplication methods typically rely on trusted third parties…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Pukang Ye , Junwei Luo , Xiaolei Dong , Yunbo Yang

In Machine Learning scenarios, privacy is a crucial concern when models have to be trained with private data coming from users of a service, such as a recommender system, a location-based mobile service, a mobile phone text messaging…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-20 Vito Walter Anelli , Yashar Deldjoo , Tommaso Di Noia , Antonio Ferrara

Federated learning (FL) can be essential in knowledge representation, reasoning, and data mining applications over multi-source knowledge graphs (KGs). A recent study FedE first proposes an FL framework that shares entity embeddings of KGs…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Kai Zhang , Yu Wang , Hongyi Wang , Lifu Huang , Carl Yang , Xun Chen , Lichao Sun

Personalized federated learning has received an upsurge of attention due to the mediocre performance of conventional federated learning (FL) over heterogeneous data. Unlike conventional FL which trains a single global consensus model,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-08 Jun Luo , Matias Mendieta , Chen Chen , Shandong Wu

Federated learning (FL) for large language models (LLMs) has attracted increasing attention as a privacy-preserving approach for adapting models over distributed data, where parameter-efficient methods such as Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Zhikang Shen , Jianrong Lu , Haiyuan Wan , Jianhai Chen

Federated learning is the distributed machine learning framework that enables collaborative training across multiple parties while ensuring data privacy. Practical adaptation of XGBoost, the state-of-the-art tree boosting framework, to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-13 Nhan Khanh Le , Yang Liu , Quang Minh Nguyen , Qingchen Liu , Fangzhou Liu , Quanwei Cai , Sandra Hirche

This paper introduces \texttt{FedMPDD} (\textbf{Fed}erated Learning via \textbf{M}ulti-\textbf{P}rojected \textbf{D}irectional \textbf{D}erivatives), a novel algorithm that simultaneously optimizes bandwidth utilization and enhances privacy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-25 Mohammadreza Rostami , Solmaz S. Kia

Federated domain generalization (FedDG) addresses distribution shifts among clients in a federated learning framework. FedDG methods aggregate the parameters of locally trained client models to form a global model that generalizes to unseen…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Ragja Palakkadavath , Hung Le , Thanh Nguyen-Tang , Svetha Venkatesh , Sunil Gupta

Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO) has been shown to be an effective algorithm when an accurate reward model is available. However, such a highly reliable reward model is not available in many real-world tasks. In this paper, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Yuki Ichihara , Yuu Jinnai , Tetsuro Morimura , Mitsuki Sakamoto , Ryota Mitsuhashi , Eiji Uchibe

Federated Learning (FL) faces significant challenges related to communication efficiency and performance reduction when scaling to many clients. To address these issues, we explore the potential of using low-rank updates and provide the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Haemin Park , Diego Klabjan

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

Federated learning (FL) has emerged as a promising paradigm for enabling the collaborative training of models without centralized access to the raw data on local devices. In the typical FL paradigm (e.g., FedAvg), model weights are sent to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-25 Guangyu Sun , Umar Khalid , Matias Mendieta , Pu Wang , Chen Chen

In this paper, we propose a method for privacy-preserving federated learning that uses randomly selected model parameters to update global models. High-quality deep neural networks (DNN) models require a huge amount of training data in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Hiroto Sawada , Shoko Imaizumi , Hitoshi Kiya

In this paper, we propose FedGP, a framework for privacy-preserving data release in the federated learning setting. We use generative adversarial networks, generator components of which are trained by FedAvg algorithm, to draw…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-10-21 Aleksei Triastcyn , Boi Faltings

Federated learning (FL) aims to protect data privacy by enabling clients to build machine learning models collaboratively without sharing their private data. Recent works demonstrate that information exchanged during FL is subject to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Yuezhou Wu , Yan Kang , Jiahuan Luo , Yuanqin He , Qiang Yang