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.
By Fardin Jalil Piran, Zhiling Chen, Yang Zhang, Qianyu Zhou, Jiong Tang, Farhad Imani
arXiv:2512. 12086v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Data obfuscation is a promising technique for mitigating attribute inference attacks by semi-trusted parties with access to time-series data emitted by sensors.
By Xin Yang, Omid Ardakanian
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.
By Yunsheng Yuan, Xue Xiao, Lina Wang, Feng Li
FedSumUp introduces a learnable lossy compressor that generates compact, visually interpretable representations on client devices, reducing privacy leakage and computational overhead. The compressor is trained on the server using a data‑free closed‑loop optimization that minimizes the difference between original and twice‑compressed representations after upsampling. Experiments on BloodMNIST, CIFAR‑10, and ChestMNIST show low reconstruction PSNR, significant client runtime reductions, and competitive classification accuracy while remaining robust to non‑IID data.
By Jingwei Zhao, Tiantong Sun, Yuanyuan Song, Jinhuan Guo, Wei Zishuo, Shengyu Huang, Ziyuan Ren, Wei Chen, Xiaojin Zhang
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.
By Farhin Farhad Riya, Olivera Kotevska, Jinyuan Stella Sun
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.