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Horizontal Federated learning (FL) handles multi-client data that share the same set of features, and vertical FL trains a better predictor that combine all the features from different clients. This paper targets solving vertical FL in an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-02 Tianyi Chen , Xiao Jin , Yuejiao Sun , Wotao Yin

Federated learning (FL) is a privacy-preserving machine learning paradigm that enables collaborative model training across multiple distributed clients without disclosing their raw data. Personalized federated learning (pFL) has gained…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Tiandi Ye , Wenyan Liu , Kai Yao , Lichun Li , Shangchao Su , Cen Chen , Xiang Li , Shan Yin , Ming Gao

Learning from vertical partitioned data silos is challenging due to the segmented nature of data, sample misalignment, and strict privacy concerns. Federated learning has been proposed as a solution. However, sample misalignment across…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-17 Achmad Ginanjar , Xue Li , Wen Hua , Jiaming Pei

Vertical federated learning (VFL) has recently emerged as an appealing distributed paradigm empowering multi-party collaboration for training high-quality models over vertically partitioned datasets. Gradient boosting has been popularly…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Yifeng Zheng , Shuangqing Xu , Songlei Wang , Yansong Gao , Zhongyun Hua

Vertical Federated Learning (VFL) facilitates collaborative machine learning without the need for participants to share raw private data. However, recent studies have revealed privacy risks where adversaries might reconstruct sensitive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-16 Jirui Yang , Peng Chen , Zhihui Lu , Qiang Duan , Yubing Bao

Federated Learning (FL), introduced in 2016, was designed to enhance data privacy in collaborative model training environments. Among the FL paradigm, horizontal FL, where clients share the same set of features but different data samples,…

Vertical Federated Learning (VFL) has emerged as a collaborative training paradigm that allows participants with different features of the same group of users to accomplish cooperative training without exposing their raw data or model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-17 Tianyuan Zou , Zixuan Gu , Yu He , Hideaki Takahashi , Yang Liu , Ya-Qin Zhang

Federated learning with differential privacy, or private federated learning, provides a strategy to train machine learning models while respecting users' privacy. However, differential privacy can disproportionately degrade the performance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-18 Borja Rodríguez-Gálvez , Filip Granqvist , Rogier van Dalen , Matt Seigel

Conversion rate (CVR) estimation aims to predict the probability of conversion event after a user has clicked an ad. Typically, online publisher has user browsing interests and click feedbacks, while demand-side advertising platform…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Penghui Wei , Hongjian Dou , Shaoguo Liu , Rongjun Tang , Li Liu , Liang Wang , Bo Zheng

Federated learning (FL) is a distributed machine learning strategy that enables participants to collaborate and train a shared model without sharing their individual datasets. Privacy and fairness are crucial considerations in FL. While FL…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-24 Ayush K. Varshney , Sonakshi Garg , Arka Ghosh , Sargam Gupta

Vertical Federated Learning (VFL) is a trending collaborative machine learning model training solution. Existing industrial frameworks employ secure multi-party computation techniques such as homomorphic encryption to ensure data security…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Pengyu Qiu , Xuhong Zhang , Shouling Ji , Chong Fu , Xing Yang , Ting Wang

Personalization aims to characterize individual preferences and is widely applied across many fields. However, conventional personalized methods operate in a centralized manner, potentially exposing raw data when pooling individual…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Hao Di , Yi Yang , Haishan Ye , Xiangyu Chang

In many applications, multiple parties have private data regarding the same set of users but on disjoint sets of attributes, and a server wants to leverage the data to train a model. To enable model learning while protecting the privacy of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-04-03 Zitao Li , Tianhao Wang , Ninghui Li

Vertical federated learning (VFL) enables a paradigm for vertically partitioned data across clients to collaboratively train machine learning models. Feature selection (FS) plays a crucial role in Vertical Federated Learning (VFL) due to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Ruochen Jin , Boning Tong , Shu Yang , Bojian Hou , Li Shen

Decentralized learning is an efficient emerging paradigm for boosting the computing capability of multiple bounded computing agents. In the big data era, performing inference within the distributed and federated learning (DL and FL)…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2022-05-11 Mohamed Ridha Znaidi , Gaurav Gupta , Paul Bogdan

Federated learning (FL) systems are susceptible to attacks from malicious actors who might attempt to corrupt the training model through various poisoning attacks. FL also poses new challenges in addressing group bias, such as ensuring fair…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-08 Viktor Valadi , Xinchi Qiu , Pedro Porto Buarque de Gusmão , Nicholas D. Lane , Mina Alibeigi

Privacy and algorithmic fairness have become two central issues in modern machine learning. Although each has separately emerged as a rapidly growing research area, their joint effect remains comparatively under-explored. In this paper, we…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-03-26 Gengyu Xue , Yi Yu

Its crux lies in the optimization of a tradeoff between accuracy and fairness of resultant models on the selected feature subset. The technical challenge of our setting is twofold: 1) streaming feature inputs, such that an informative…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-26 Leizhen Zhang , Lusi Li , Di Wu , Sheng Chen , Yi He

We present Poisson Binomial Mechanism Vertical Federated Learning (PBM-VFL), a communication-efficient Vertical Federated Learning algorithm with Differential Privacy guarantees. PBM-VFL combines Secure Multi-Party Computation with the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Linh Tran , Timothy Castiglia , Stacy Patterson , Ana Milanova

We propose LESS-VFL, a communication-efficient feature selection method for distributed systems with vertically partitioned data. We consider a system of a server and several parties with local datasets that share a sample ID space but have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-04 Timothy Castiglia , Yi Zhou , Shiqiang Wang , Swanand Kadhe , Nathalie Baracaldo , Stacy Patterson