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Secure aggregation is concerned with the task of securely uploading the inputs of multiple users to an aggregation server without letting the server know the inputs beyond their summation. It finds broad applications in distributed machine…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Xiang Zhang , Kai Wan , Hua Sun , Shiqiang Wang , Mingyue Ji , Giuseppe Caire

In hierarchical secure aggregation (HSA), a server communicates with clustered users through an intermediate layer of relays to compute the sum of users' inputs under two security requirements -- server security and relay security. Server…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Zhou Li , Xiang Zhang , Jiawen Lv , Jihao Fan , Haiqiang Chen , Giuseppe Caire

We study the fundamental communication limits of information-theoretic secure aggregation in a hierarchical network consisting of a server, multiple relays, and multiple users per relay. Communication proceeds over two rounds and two hops,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Zhou Li , Yizhou Zhao , Xiang Zhang , Giuseppe Caire

Secure aggregation (SA) is fundamental to privacy preservation in federated learning (FL), enabling model aggregation while preventing disclosure of individual user updates. This paper addresses hierarchical secure aggregation (HSA) against…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Min Xu , Xuejiao Han , Kai Wan , Gennian Ge

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 is motivated by federated learning (FL) where a cloud server aims to compute an {aggregated} model (i.e., weights of deep neural networks) of the locally-trained models of numerous clients {through an iterative…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Xiang Zhang , Zhou Li , Kai Wan , Hua Sun , Mingyue Ji , Giuseppe Caire

In this paper, we study the fundamental limits of hierarchical secure aggregation under unreliable communication. We consider a hierarchical network where each client connects to multiple relays, and both client-to-relay and relay-to-server…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Shudi Weng , Xiang Zhang , Yizhou Zhao , Giuseppe Caire , Ming Xiao , Mikael Skoglund

In the robust secure aggregation problem, a server wishes to learn and only learn the sum of the inputs of a number of users while some users may drop out (i.e., may not respond). The identity of the dropped users is not known a priori and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-20 Yizhou Zhao , Hua Sun

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

Gradient coding is a distributed computing technique for computing gradient vectors over large datasets by outsourcing partial computations to multiple workers, typically connected directly to the server. In this work, we investigate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Ali Gholami , Tayyebeh Jahani-Nezhad , Kai Wan , Giuseppe Caire

Secure Aggregation protocols allow a collection of mutually distrust parties, each holding a private value, to collaboratively compute the sum of those values without revealing the values themselves. We consider training a deep neural…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-11-16 Keith Bonawitz , Vladimir Ivanov , Ben Kreuter , Antonio Marcedone , H. Brendan McMahan , Sarvar Patel , Daniel Ramage , Aaron Segal , Karn Seth

In this paper, we investigate the transmission latency of the secure aggregation problem in a \emph{wireless} federated learning system with multiple curious servers. We propose a privacy-preserving coded aggregation scheme where the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Zhenhao Huang , Kai Liang , Yuanming Shi , Songze Li , Youlong Wu

Secure model aggregation across many users is a key component of federated learning systems. The state-of-the-art protocols for secure model aggregation, which are based on additive masking, require all users to quantize their model updates…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-17 Ahmed Roushdy Elkordy , A. Salman Avestimehr

Due to resource restricted sensor nodes, it is important to minimize the amount of data transmission among sensor networks. To reduce the amount of sending data, an aggregation approach can be applied along the path from sensors to the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-08-23 Jacques M. Bahi , Christophe Guyeux , Abdallah Makhoul

In many distributed learning setups such as federated learning (FL), client nodes at the edge use individually collected data to compute local gradients and send them to a central master server. The master server then aggregates the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Kai Liang , Songze Li , Ming Ding , Youlong Wu

When implementing hierarchical federated learning over wireless networks, scalability assurance and the ability to handle both interference and device data heterogeneity are crucial. This work introduces a learning method designed to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-04 Seyed Mohammad Azimi-Abarghouyi , Viktoria Fodor

Secure aggregation is a fundamental primitive in privacy-preserving distributed learning systems, where an aggregator aims to compute the sum of users' inputs without revealing individual data. In this paper, we study a multi-server secure…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Zhou Li , Xiang Zhang , Kai Wan , Hua Sun , Mingyue Ji , Giuseppe Caire

We consider several estimation and learning problems that networked agents face when making decisions given their uncertainty about an unknown variable. Our methods are designed to efficiently deal with heterogeneity in both size and…

Applications · Statistics 2016-11-11 M. Amin Rahimian , Ali Jadbabaie

We study the hierarchical secure aggregation problem with groupwise keys. The problem consists of an aggregation server, $U$ relays, and $UV$ users, where each relay serves $V$ disjoint users, and each subset of $G$ users shares an…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Minyang Lu , Zhou Li , Haiqiang Chen , Min Xie

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
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