arXiv AI
Jul 9
An Adaptive Differentially Private Federated Learning Framework
arXiv:2602. 06838v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Federated learning enables collaborative model training across distributed clients while preserving data privacy.
Private and Distributionally Robust Federated Multiclass Classification
arXiv:2610. 13631v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Fault diagnosis in asset-intensive industries requires multiclass models trained on noisy, sensitive data collected across geographically distributed client sites.
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arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 4
DPDL: Towards Differential Privacy Preservation in Decentralized Stochastic Learning on Non-IID Data
arXiv:2606. 04399v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In the paradigm of decentralized learning, a group of agents collaborate to train a global model using distributed datasets without a central server.
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 4
Differentially private federated learning with Byzantine-robust aggregation: A cross-domain framework for secure model training in banking and healthcare systems
The paper introduces DP‑BR‑FedAvg, a federated learning framework that combines Gaussian‑mechanism differential privacy with a coordinate‑wise trimmed‑mean Byzantine‑robust aggregation rule. It is evaluated on a simulated cross‑institutional classification task involving fraud and clinical‑risk scoring, where it improves the F1‑score for a minority class from 0.030 (plain FedAvg) to 0.119 while bounding privacy loss. The study demonstrates that privacy and robustness mechanisms interact, and that system design for regulated, adversarial, cross‑institutional settings must account for this interaction.
arXiv AI
Aug 18
Privacy-Preserving Decentralized Federated Learning via Explainable Adaptive Differential Privacy
arXiv:2509. 10691v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Decentralized federated learning enables collaborative model training without a central server, but shared model updates can still leak sensitive information through inversion, reconstruction, and membership inference attacks.
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Sep 2
Differentially private federated learning with Byzantine-robust aggregation: A cross-domain framework for secure model training in banking and healthcare systems
The paper introduces DP‑BR‑FedAvg, a federated learning framework that combines Gaussian‑mechanism differential privacy with a coordinate‑wise trimmed‑mean Byzantine‑robust aggregation rule. It is evaluated on a simulated cross‑institutional classification task for fraud and clinical‑risk scoring, showing that plain FedAvg fails when a quarter of twenty clients are Byzantine, while DP‑BR‑FedAvg recovers more signal and bounds privacy loss. The study demonstrates that privacy and robustness interact, and system design for regulated, adversarial, cross‑institutional settings must account for this interaction.
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 27
Theoretically Principled Federated Learning for Balancing Privacy and Utility
The paper introduces a general learning framework that protects privacy in federated learning by distorting model parameters, enabling a trade‑off between privacy and utility. The algorithm supports arbitrary privacy measurements and delivers personalized utility‑privacy balances for each parameter, client, and communication round. The authors prove that the gap between their algorithm’s utility loss and the optimal loss is sub‑linear in iterations, provide a convergence rate, and demonstrate empirically that their method outperforms baselines under the same privacy budget.
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jun 1
IntraShuffler: A Privacy Preserving Framework for Heterogeneous DP Federated Learning
Heterogeneous Differential Privacy (HDP) in Federated Learning (FL) allows clients to select individual privacy budgets ($\varepsilon_i$) according to institutional policies and data sensitivity. In practice, many HDP-FL systems employ $\varepsilon$-aware server aggregation to improve model utility by re-weighting client updates according to their declared privacy budgets.
arXiv Machine Learning
Oct 2
Certification-Based Differentially Private Learning
The paper extends the abstract gradient training (AGT) framework to provide tighter differential privacy guarantees for both private prediction and private learning. It introduces Abstract Gradient Sampling (AGS) to analyze privacy in continuous, unbounded regression and offers theoretical and empirical evidence that these methods yield tighter bounds than global-sensitivity baselines, even in previously unbounded settings. The authors also demonstrate that their private learning algorithm can outperform standard private learners under comparable conditions.
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 18
An Adaptive Gradient Clipping and Noise Injection Mechanism for Differentially Private Federated Learning
arXiv:2608. 15153v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Differentially private federated learning must balance privacy protection against model accuracy and training efficiency.
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 2
IntraShuffler: A Privacy Preserving Framework for Heterogeneous DP Federated Learning
arXiv:2606. 02563v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Heterogeneous Differential Privacy (HDP) in Federated Learning (FL) allows clients to select individual privacy budgets ($\varepsilon_i$) according to institutional policies and data sensitivity.
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 25
Federated Learning of AnDE Classifiers
arXiv:2609. 28695v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This work presents a federated framework for training Averaged $n$-Dependence Estimators (AnDE) in distributed environments.
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 30
Byzantine-Robust Federated Representation Learning
arXiv:2609.36660v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We study federated learning (FL) with adversarial clients, where the goal is to minimize the average loss of the honest (non-adversarial) clients witho...