The paper investigates how federated learning (FL) updates in vehicular edge networks can reveal client identities through gradient-based attacks on inertial sensor data, using the UCI Human Activity Recognition benchmark as a proxy. Experiments show that an honest-but-curious server can identify clients with near-perfect accuracy from unprotected updates. The authors evaluate lightweight defenses—clipping followed by Gaussian noise and ensemble FL—to mitigate this privacy risk while preserving model utility, reporting differential‑privacy budgets and empirical results across multiple attack classifiers and data partitions.
By Ali Akarma (Islamic University of Madinah, Madinah, Saudi Arabia, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Toqeer Ali Syed (Islamic University of Madinah, Madinah, Saudi Arabia), Muhammad Khan (University of the West of England, Bristol, U.K), Qurat-ul-ain Mastoi (University of the West of England, Bristol, U.K), Adeel Ahmad (Islamic University of Madinah, Madinah, Saudi Arabia)
arXiv:2606. 06786v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper presents a forward-looking vision for integrating the emerging multi-modal multi-task federated foundation models (M3T FedFMs) into vehicular networks, with the goal of unifying the expressive power of multi-modal multi-task foundation models (M3T FMs) with the privacy-preserving and distributed learning capabilities of federated learning (FL).
By Kasra Borazjani, Fardis Nadimi, Payam Abdisarabshali, Owen Palinski, Allan Salihovic, Dinh Nguyen, Minghui Liwang, Seyyedali Hosseinalipour
FedCKA introduces a Centered Kernel Alignment (CKA)-based method for federated 3D perception that dynamically balances personalization and globalization. By computing layer-wise feature similarities between local client models and a global consensus model, FedCKA generates client‑specific aggregation masks to selectively share representation‑consistent layers. Experiments on a unified multi‑domain nuScenes benchmark demonstrate that FedCKA surpasses established federated baselines, improving average NDS by 7 percentage points.
By Jolle Verhoog, Ali Burak \"Unal, Holger Caesar
FedPGT introduces a progressive gradient transmission scheme for vehicular federated learning over time‑varying channels, where vehicles send high‑magnitude gradient entries according to instantaneous channel conditions. The authors derive a convergence bound showing diminishing returns governed by a power‑law decay, and formulate a stochastic optimization problem that is solved via a Lyapunov drift‑plus‑penalty approach with per‑slot surrogate variables. A low‑complexity resource allocation algorithm is proposed, and experiments on CIFAR‑10 and Argoverse demonstrate a 3.65% accuracy gain and a 12.66% reduction in displacement error compared to state‑of‑the‑art baselines.
By Jintao Yan, Tan Chen, Yuxuan Sun, Sheng Zhou, Zhisheng Niu
arXiv:2503.12232v3 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Aiming to match pedestrian images captured under varying lighting conditions, visible-infrared person re-identification (VI-ReID) has drawn intensi...
By Yan Jiang, Hao Yu, Xu Cheng, Haoyu Chen, Zhaodong Sun, Guoying Zhao
The paper introduces GrayTrack, a vehicle‑tracking system that fuses weak, indirect observations from third‑party sensors with sparse direct sensor data using a road‑constrained particle filter. Experiments on a CARLA‑Mininet‑WiFi pipeline show that the system achieves an F1 score of 0.989 for anonymous vehicle passages and reduces trajectory RMSE by 60.1% while cutting catastrophic track loss from 35.8% to 0.3%. These results demonstrate that incorporating indirect third‑party observations can substantially extend tracking capabilities when direct sensor access is limited.
By Gaofeng Dong, Vamsi Eyunni, Pragya Sharma, Kang Yang, Mani Srivastava
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.
By Andrea P. Hernandez, Michael Ibrahim, Nagi Gebraeel
The paper introduces GASHE, a gradient‑aware selective homomorphic encryption scheme that encrypts only those gradient components exceeding a differential‑privacy‑calibrated sensitivity threshold, rather than encrypting all parameters. Building on GASHE, SecureDrive‑FL combines DP‑SGD with this selective encryption to form a closed‑loop DP+HE privacy pipeline for federated driver monitoring. Experiments on a ten‑class distracted driver classification task show that SecureDrive‑FL retains the poisoning resistance of DP‑SGD while also defending against Man‑in‑the‑Middle interception, with only an 8–10% runtime overhead.
By Baran Can G\"ul, Hanuma Siddhartha Tunuguntla, Anjana Arvind Naik, Abhishek Vijay Potekar, Nasser Jazdi, Michael Weyrich
arXiv:2512. 24625v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Accurate traffic prediction is essential for Intelligent Transportation Systems, including ride-hailing, urban road planning, and vehicle fleet management.
By Zijian Zhao, Yitong Shang, Sen Li
arXiv:2607. 23822v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Driving style captures stable, driver-specific patterns in how a vehicle is driven.
By Yuhang Wang, Lingyao Li, Hao Zhou
The paper introduces CELM, a data‑free framework for federated learning that estimates class‑wise contribution by maximizing logits. It constructs a cross‑client evidence matrix to quantify each client’s competence and coverage for each class, then uses this matrix to compute weighted aggregation that upweights clients offering strong evidence for underrepresented classes. The method maintains stability through simplex constraints and momentum smoothing, and it is compatible with standard FL pipelines, showing improved robustness to class imbalance and heterogeneity on vision benchmarks.
By Asim Ukaye, Nurbek Tastan, Mubarak Abdu-Aguye, Karthik Nandakumar
arXiv:2610.06855v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Scalable driver identification requires embedding models that maintain discriminative performance as fleet size grows, yet existing triplet-loss formul...
By Kyle Musgrove, Dylan B. Lewis, Sarah Powers, Emma J. Reid, Hector Santos-Villalobos