arXiv Machine Learning By Murtaza Rangwala, Richard O. Sinnott, Rajkumar Buyya

Topology-Aware Differential Privacy in Federated Learning

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arXiv:2506. 19260v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Federated learning transmits only model updates to protect client data, and differentially private SGD (DP-SGD) bounds content-level leakage through those updates.

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