arXiv AI

LLM-Based Schema-Aware Split Learning for Privacy-Preserving Mental Distress Prediction Across Heterogeneous Surveys

arXiv AI
Sep 4

Privacy-Preserving Heterogeneous Multi-LLM Federated Inference for Cognitive Diagnosis

The paper introduces a federated inference framework that enables multiple commercial large language model (LLM) APIs—such as LLaMA‑3.3‑70B, GPT‑4o‑mini, and Claude‑3‑Haiku—to collaborate on cognitive diagnosis tasks without accessing raw student data or proprietary model internals. Each entity’s predictions are perturbed with Laplace noise to provide epsilon‑local differential privacy, and a residual‑based aggregation scheme mitigates model heterogeneity. Experiments on three educational benchmarks demonstrate strong privacy guarantees with minimal accuracy loss, confirming the framework’s practical usability and cross‑domain generalizability.

By Yagna Manasa Boyapati, Chong Yu, Tianyu Jiang, Justin Zhan
arXiv AI
Sep 2

Breaking the Structural Identity: Personalized Federated LoRA Fine-tuning under Rank Heterogeneity

The paper introduces FedRoRA, a federated learning framework that combines Low‑Rank Adaptation (LoRA) with rank‑heterogeneous personalization. It separates model adaptation into shared global directions and client‑specific rank‑wise magnitudes, using SVD on the server to extract a global subspace and a personalized projection with top‑k selection for each client. Experiments on natural language understanding and generation tasks show that FedRoRA outperforms existing state‑of‑the‑art methods.

By Lei Wang, Jieming Bian, Letian Zhang, Jie Xu
arXiv AI
Jun 16

SDFLoRA: Selective Decoupled Federated LoRA for Privacy-preserving Fine-tuning with Heterogeneous Clients

arXiv:2601. 11219v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: 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 widely adopted to reduce communication and memory costs.

By Zhikang Shen, Jianrong Lu, Haiyuan Wan, Jianhai Chen
arXiv AI
Jun 30

Towards Harnessing the Collaborative Power of Large and Small Models for Domain Tasks

arXiv:2504. 17421v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large language models (LMs) offer broad generalization capabilities but require vast amounts of data and computational resources for domain-specific tasks; small models (SMs), in contrast, are more efficient and tailored to specific domains yet lack general-purpose coverage.

By Yang Liu, Kejia Zhang, Bingjie Yan, Tianyuan Zou, Jianqing Zhang, Zixuan Gu, Xiangsen Chen, Jianbing Ding, Xidong Wang, Jingyi Li, Xiaozhou Ye, Ye Ouyang, Qiang Yang, Ya-Qin Zhang
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jun 3

Federated Learning for Multi-Center Sepsis Early Prediction with Privacy-Preserving

Privacy-sensitive and distributed characteristics of multi-center medical data bring severe obstacles to centralized modeling for accurate early prediction of sepsis. Federated learning (FL) has attracted growing attention as a promising framework for collaborative model development, as it allows multiple institutions to jointly train predictive models without directly sharing or centralizing raw data.

arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 20

Coordination on a Budget: Federated Active Learning with Few Labels

The paper introduces a federated active learning (FAL) approach that tackles data privacy and label scarcity by coordinating query selection across clients. In low-budget scenarios, it finds that homogeneous (IID) data actually requires stronger coordination to avoid redundant queries, while heterogeneous data naturally yields diversity—a reversal of the usual federated learning narrative. The authors propose a new framework that aligns client data in a shared embedding space via federated representation learning, enabling globally coordinated active selection while keeping annotations local, and demonstrate that this method outperforms existing FAL methods even with larger annotation budgets.

By Liam Mohr, Daphna Weinshall
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 30

Efficient Unlearning with Privacy Guarantees

arXiv:2507. 04771v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Privacy protection laws, such as the GDPR, grant individuals the right to request the forgetting of their personal data not only from databases but also from machine learning (ML) models trained on them.

By Josep Domingo-Ferrer, Najeeb Jebreel, David S\'anchez