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Poster: FedBlockParadox -- A Framework for Simulating and Securing Decentralized Federated Learning
Gabriele Digregorio, Francesco Bleggi, Federico Caroli, Michele Carminati, Stefano Zanero, Stefano Longari
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02679

Poster: FedBlockParadox -- A Framework for Simulating and Securing Decentralized Federated Learning
A significant body of research in decentralized federated learning focuses on combining the privacy-preserving properties of federated learning with the resilience and transparency offered by blockchain-based systems. While these approaches are promising, they often lack flexible tools to evaluate system robustness under adversarial conditions. To fill this gap, we present FedBlockParadox, a modular framework for modeling and evaluating decentralized federated learning systems built on blockcha…

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FedSDAF: Leveraging Source Domain Awareness for Enhanced Federated Domain Generalization
Traditional domain generalization approaches predominantly focus on leveraging target domain-aware features while overlooking the critical role of source domain-specific characteristics, particularly in federated settings with inherent data isolation. To address this gap, we propose the Federated Source Domain Awareness Framework (FedSDAF), the first method to systematically exploit source domain-aware features for enhanced federated domain generalization (FedDG). The FedSDAF framework consists…

Kremlin's meat grinder: record losses of the Russian Federation and lives under fire in Sumy region: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/04/kremlins-meat-grinder-record-losses.html

VeFIA: An Efficient Inference Auditing Framework for Vertical Federated Collaborative Software
Chung-ju Huang, Ziqi Zhang, Yinggui Wang, Binghui Wang, Tao Wei, Leye Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02376

VeFIA: An Efficient Inference Auditing Framework for Vertical Federated Collaborative Software
Vertical Federated Learning (VFL) is a distributed AI software deployment mechanism for cross-silo collaboration without accessing participants' data. However, existing VFL work lacks a mechanism to audit the execution correctness of the inference software of the data party. To address this problem, we design a Vertical Federated Inference Auditing (VeFIA) framework. VeFIA helps the task party to audit whether the data party's inference software is executed as expected during large-scale infere…

Android: #Obtanium (instead of #FDroid app) is really awesome for managing app updates.
However, this method has an issue when the naming schema of the #apk files change on the server side, and you're using a…

Enhancing Convergence, Privacy and Fairness for Wireless Personalized Federated Learning: Quantization-Assisted Min-Max Fair Scheduling
Xiyu Zhao, Qimei Cui, Ziqiang Du, Weicai Li, Xi Yu, Wei Ni, Ji Zhang, Xiaofeng Tao, Ping Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02422

Enhancing Convergence, Privacy and Fairness for Wireless Personalized Federated Learning: Quantization-Assisted Min-Max Fair Scheduling
Personalized federated learning (PFL) offers a solution to balancing personalization and generalization by conducting federated learning (FL) to guide personalized learning (PL). Little attention has been given to wireless PFL (WPFL), where privacy concerns arise. Performance fairness of PL models is another challenge resulting from communication bottlenecks in WPFL. This paper exploits quantization errors to enhance the privacy of WPFL and proposes a novel quantization-assisted Gaussian differ…

Fluid Democracy in Federated Data Aggregation
Aditya Vema Reddy Kesari, Krishna Reddy Kesari
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02710 https://

Fluid Democracy in Federated Data Aggregation
Federated learning (FL) mechanisms typically require each client to transfer their weights to a central server, irrespective of how useful they are. In order to avoid wasteful data transfer costs from clients to the central server, we propose the use of consensus based protocols to identify a subset of clients with most useful model weights at each data transfer step. First, we explore the application of existing fluid democracy protocols to FL from a performance standpoint, comparing them with…

EcoLoRA: Communication-Efficient Federated Fine-Tuning of Large Language Models
Han Liu, Ruoyao Wen, Srijith Nair, Jia Liu, Wenjing Lou, Chongjie Zhang, William Yeoh, Yevgeniy Vorobeychik, Ning Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02001

EcoLoRA: Communication-Efficient Federated Fine-Tuning of Large Language Models
To address data locality and privacy restrictions, Federated Learning (FL) has recently been adopted to fine-tune large language models (LLMs), enabling improved performance on various downstream tasks without requiring aggregated data. However, the repeated exchange of model updates in FL can result in prohibitively high communication costs, hindering the distributed learning process. To address this challenge, we propose EcoLoRA, a novel communication-efficient federated fine-tuning framework…

Embedding-Based Federated Data Sharing via Differentially Private Conditional VAEs
Francesco Di Salvo, Hanh Huyen My Nguyen, Christian Ledig
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02671

Embedding-Based Federated Data Sharing via Differentially Private Conditional VAEs
Deep Learning (DL) has revolutionized medical imaging, yet its adoption is constrained by data scarcity and privacy regulations, limiting access to diverse datasets. Federated Learning (FL) enables decentralized training but suffers from high communication costs and is often restricted to a single downstream task, reducing flexibility. We propose a data-sharing method via Differentially Private (DP) generative models. By adopting foundation models, we extract compact, informative embeddings, re…

Flotilla: A scalable, modular and resilient federated learning framework for heterogeneous resources
Roopkatha Banerjee, Prince Modi, Jinal Vyas, Chunduru Sri Abhijit, Tejus Chandrashekar, Harsha Varun Marisetty, Manik Gupta, Yogesh Simmhan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02295

Flotilla: A scalable, modular and resilient federated learning framework for heterogeneous resources
With the recent improvements in mobile and edge computing and rising concerns of data privacy, Federated Learning(FL) has rapidly gained popularity as a privacy-preserving, distributed machine learning methodology. Several FL frameworks have been built for testing novel FL strategies. However, most focus on validating the learning aspects of FL through pseudo-distributed simulation but not for deploying on real edge hardware in a distributed manner to meaningfully evaluate the federated aspects…