Federated Learning(FL)enables joint training over distributed devices without data exchange but is highly vulnerable to attacks by adversaries in the form of model poisoning and malicious update injection.This work pr...Federated Learning(FL)enables joint training over distributed devices without data exchange but is highly vulnerable to attacks by adversaries in the form of model poisoning and malicious update injection.This work proposes Secured-FL,a blockchain-based defensive framework that combines smart contract-based authentication,clustering-driven outlier elimination,and dynamic threshold adjustment to defend against adversarial attacks.The framework was implemented on a private Ethereum network with a Proof-of-Authority consensus algorithm to ensure tamper-resistant and auditable model updates.Large-scale simulation on the Cyber Data dataset,under up to 50%malicious client settings,demonstrates Secured-FL achieves 6%-12%higher accuracy,9%-15%lower latency,and approximately 14%less computational expense compared to the PPSS benchmark framework.Additional tests,including confusion matrices,ROC and Precision-Recall curves,and ablation tests,confirm the interpretability and robustness of the defense.Tests for scalability also show consistent performance up to 500 clients,affirming appropriateness to reasonably large deployments.These results make Secured-FL a feasible,adversarially resilient FL paradigm with promising potential for application in smart cities,medicine,and other mission-critical IoT deployments.展开更多
ABSTRACT:Federated Learning(FL)enables collaborative medical model training without sharing sensitive patient data.However,existing FL systems face increasing security risks from post quantum adversaries and often inc...ABSTRACT:Federated Learning(FL)enables collaborative medical model training without sharing sensitive patient data.However,existing FL systems face increasing security risks from post quantum adversaries and often incur nonnegligible computational and communication overhead when encryption is applied.At the same time,training high performance AI models requires large volumes of high quality data,while medical data such as patient information,clinical records,and diagnostic reports are highly sensitive and subject to strict privacy regulations,including HIPAA and GDPR.Traditional centralized machine learning approaches therefore pose significant challenges for cross institutional collaboration in healthcare.To address these limitations,Federated Learning was introduced to allow multiple institutions to jointly train a global model while keeping local data private.Nevertheless,conventional cryptographicmechanisms,such as RSA,are increasingly inadequate for privacy sensitive FL deployments,particularly in the presence of emerging quantum computing threats.Homomorphic encryption,which enables computations to be performed directly on encrypted data,provides an effective solution for preserving data privacy in federated learning systems.This capability allows healthcare institutions to securely perform collaborative model training while remaining compliant with regulatory requirements.Among homomorphic encryption techniques,NTRU,a lattice based cryptographic scheme defined over polynomial rings,offers strong resistance against quantum attacks by relying on the hardness of the Shortest Vector Problem(SVP).Moreover,NTRU supports limited homomorphic operations that are sufficient for secure aggregation in federated learning.In this work,we propose an NTRU enhanced federated learning framework specifically designed for medical and healthcare applications.Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed approach achieves classification performance comparable to standard federated learning,with final accuracy consistently exceeding 0.93.The framework introduces predictable encryption latency on the order of hundreds of milliseconds per training round and a fixed ciphertext communication overhead per client under practical deployment settings.In addition,the proposed systemeffectivelymitigatesmultiple security threats,including quantum computing attacks,by ensuring robust encryption throughout the training process.By integrating the security and homomorphic properties of NTRU,this study establishes a privacy preserving and quantumresistant federated learning framework that supports the secure,legal,and efficient deployment of AI technologies in healthcare,thereby laying a solid foundation for future intelligent healthcare systems.展开更多
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle(UAV)assisted federated learning enables on-edge model training,but its effectiveness depends on sustainable client participation through well-designed incentive mechanisms.Existing approaches b...Unmanned Aerial Vehicle(UAV)assisted federated learning enables on-edge model training,but its effectiveness depends on sustainable client participation through well-designed incentive mechanisms.Existing approaches based on economic models provide theoretical guarantees under restrictive assumptions,while Reinforcement Learning(RL)methods adapt to dynamics but lack provable incentive compatibility.We propose an adaptive privacy-aware incentive mechanism that integrates contract theory with Multi-Agent RL(MARL).The contract design provides a truthful initialization under privacy heterogeneity,while MARL adaptively refines incentives in dynamic environments.An Incentive Compatibility(IC)regularized optimization further ensures policy convergence and robustness.Experiments in UAV-assisted FL show that our method improves social welfare by up to 35%and participant engagement by 45%over state-of-the-art baselines,while maintaining strong privacy guarantees.展开更多
Federated Learning(FL)has become a leading decentralized solution that enables multiple clients to train a model in a collaborative environment without directly sharing raw data,making it suitable for privacy-sensitiv...Federated Learning(FL)has become a leading decentralized solution that enables multiple clients to train a model in a collaborative environment without directly sharing raw data,making it suitable for privacy-sensitive applications such as healthcare,finance,and smart systems.As the field continues to evolve,the research field has become more complex and scattered,covering different system designs,training methods,and privacy techniques.This survey is organized around the three core challenges:how the data is distributed,how models are synchronized,and how to defend against attacks.It provides a structured and up-to-date review of FL research from 2023 to 2025,offering a unified taxonomy that categorizes works by data distribution(Horizontal FL,Vertical FL,Federated Transfer Learning,and Personalized FL),training synchronization(synchronous and asynchronous FL),optimization strategies,and threat models(data leakage and poisoning attacks).In particular,we summarize the latest contributions in Vertical FL frameworks for secure multi-party learning,communication-efficient Horizontal FL,and domain-adaptive Federated Transfer Learning.Furthermore,we examine synchronization techniques addressing system heterogeneity,including straggler mitigation in synchronous FL and staleness management in asynchronous FL.The survey covers security threats in FL,such as gradient inversion,membership inference,and poisoning attacks,as well as their defense strategies that include privacy-preserving aggregation and anomaly detection.The paper concludes by outlining unresolved issues and highlighting challenges in handling personalized models,scalability,and real-world adoption.展开更多
Adaptive robust secure framework plays a vital role in implementing intelligent automation and decentralized decision making of Industry 5.0.Latency,privacy risks and the complexity of industrial networks have been pr...Adaptive robust secure framework plays a vital role in implementing intelligent automation and decentralized decision making of Industry 5.0.Latency,privacy risks and the complexity of industrial networks have been preventing attempts at traditional cloud-based learning systems.We demonstrate that,to overcome these challenges,for instance,the EdgeGuard-IoT framework,a 6G edge intelligence framework enhancing cybersecurity and operational resilience of the smart grid,is needed on the edge to integrate Secure Federated Learning(SFL)and Adaptive Anomaly Detection(AAD).With ultra-reliable low latency communication(URLLC)of 6G,artificial intelligence-based network orchestration,and massive machine type communication(mMTC),EdgeGuard-IoT brings real-time,distributed intelligence on the edge,and mitigates risks in data transmission and enhances privacy.EdgeGuard-IoT,with a hierarchical federated learning framework,helps edge devices to collaboratively train models without revealing the sensitive grid data,which is crucial in the smart grid where real-time power anomaly detection and the decentralization of the energy management are a big deal.The hybrid AI models driven adaptive anomaly detection mechanism immediately raises the thumb if the grid stability and strength are negatively affected due to cyber threats,faults,and energy distribution,thereby keeping the grid stable with resilience.The proposed framework also adopts various security means within the blockchain and zero-trust authentication techniques to reduce the adversarial attack risks and model poisoning during federated learning.EdgeGuard-IoT shows superior detection accuracy,response time,and scalability performance at a much reduced communication overhead via extensive simulations and deployment in real-world case studies in smart grids.This research pioneers a 6G-driven federated intelligence model designed for secure,self-optimizing,and resilient Industry 5.0 ecosystems,paving the way for next-generation autonomous smart grids and industrial cyber-physical systems.展开更多
In federated learning(FL),the distribution of data across different clients leads to the degradation of global model performance in training.Personalized Federated Learning(pFL)can address this problem through global ...In federated learning(FL),the distribution of data across different clients leads to the degradation of global model performance in training.Personalized Federated Learning(pFL)can address this problem through global model personalization.Researches over the past few years have calibrated differences in weights across the entire model or optimized only individual layers of the model without considering that different layers of the whole neural network have different utilities,resulting in lagged model convergence and inadequate personalization in non-IID data.In this paper,we propose model layered optimization for feature extractor and classifier(pFedEC),a novel pFL training framework personalized for different layers of the model.Our study divides the model layers into the feature extractor and classifier.We initialize the model's classifiers during model training,while making the local model's feature extractors learn the representation of the global model's feature extractors to correct each client's local training,integrating the utilities of the different layers in the entire model.Our extensive experiments show that pFedEC achieves 92.95%accuracy on CIFAR-10,outperforming existing pFL methods by approximately 1.8%.On CIFAR-100 and Tiny-ImageNet,pFedEC improves the accuracy by at least 4.2%,reaching 73.02%and 28.39%,respectively.展开更多
This review interrogates empirical and theoretical research on agentic engagement in foreign language(FL)learning.Through synthesizing peer-reviewed studies from Web of Science and CNKI databases,it maps the theoretic...This review interrogates empirical and theoretical research on agentic engagement in foreign language(FL)learning.Through synthesizing peer-reviewed studies from Web of Science and CNKI databases,it maps the theoretical evolution,methodological innovations,key influencing factors and proposed suggestion for further research on student agency.Future research should prioritize,longitudinal studies,culturally comparative designs,validity constructs and ethical evaluations of artificial intelligence’s impact on learner autonomy.This review calls for a holistic approach to FL education,where agentic engagement bridges individual initiative,pedagogical innovation,and sociocultural responsiveness to empower learners in multilingual global contexts.展开更多
Human Activity Recognition(HAR)represents a rapidly advancing research domain,propelled by continuous developments in sensor technologies and the Internet of Things(IoT).Deep learning has become the dominant paradigm ...Human Activity Recognition(HAR)represents a rapidly advancing research domain,propelled by continuous developments in sensor technologies and the Internet of Things(IoT).Deep learning has become the dominant paradigm in sensor-based HAR systems,offering significant advantages over traditional machine learning methods by eliminating manual feature extraction,enhancing recognition accuracy for complex activities,and enabling the exploitation of unlabeled data through generative models.This paper provides a comprehensive review of recent advancements and emerging trends in deep learning models developed for sensor-based human activity recognition(HAR)systems.We begin with an overview of fundamental HAR concepts in sensor-driven contexts,followed by a systematic categorization and summary of existing research.Our survey encompasses a wide range of deep learning approaches,including Multi-Layer Perceptrons(MLP),Convolutional Neural Networks(CNN),Recurrent Neural Networks(RNN),Long Short-Term Memory networks(LSTM),Gated Recurrent Units(GRU),Transformers,Deep Belief Networks(DBN),and hybrid architectures.A comparative evaluation of these models is provided,highlighting their performance,architectural complexity,and contributions to the field.Beyond Centralized deep learning models,we examine the role of Federated Learning(FL)in HAR,highlighting current applications and research directions.Finally,we discuss the growing importance of Explainable Artificial Intelligence(XAI)in sensor-based HAR,reviewing recent studies that integrate interpretability methods to enhance transparency and trustworthiness in deep learning-based HAR systems.展开更多
The rapid convergence of Information and Communication Technologies(ICT),driven by advancements in 5G/6G networks,cloud computing,Artificial Intelligence(AI),and the Internet of Things(IoT),is reshaping modern digital...The rapid convergence of Information and Communication Technologies(ICT),driven by advancements in 5G/6G networks,cloud computing,Artificial Intelligence(AI),and the Internet of Things(IoT),is reshaping modern digital ecosystems.As massive,distributed data streams are generated across edge devices and network layers,there is a growing need for intelligent,privacy-preserving AI solutions that can operate efficiently at the network edge.Federated Learning(FL)enables decentralized model training without transferring sensitive data,addressing key challenges around privacy,bandwidth,and latency.Despite its benefits in enhancing efficiency,real-time analytics,and regulatory compliance,FL adoption faces challenges,including communication overhead,heterogeneity,security vulnerabilities,and limited edge resources.While recent studies have addressed these issues individually,the literature lacks a unified,cross-domain perspective that reflects the architectural complexity and application diversity of Convergence ICT.This systematic review offers a comprehensive,cross-domain examination of FL within converged ICT infrastructures.The central research question guiding this review is:How can FL be effectively integrated into Convergence ICT environments,and what are the main challenges in implementing FL in such environments,along with possible solutions?We begin with a foundational overview of FL concepts and classifications,followed by a detailed taxonomy of FL architectures,learning strategies,and privacy-preserving mechanisms.Through in-depth case studies,we analyse FL’s application across diverse verticals,including smart cities,healthcare,industrial automation,and autonomous systems.We further identify critical challenges—such as system and data heterogeneity,limited edge resources,and security vulnerabilities—and review state-of-the-art mitigation strategies,including edge-aware optimization,secure aggregation,and adaptive model updates.In addition,we explore emerging directions in FL research,such as energy-efficient learning,federated reinforcement learning,and integration with blockchain,quantum computing,and self-adaptive networks.This review not only synthesizes current literature but also proposes a forward-looking road map to support scalable,secure,and sustainable FL deployment in future ICT ecosystems.展开更多
As a representative emerging machine learning technique, federated learning(FL) has gained considerable popularity for its special feature of “making data available but not visible”. However, potential problems rema...As a representative emerging machine learning technique, federated learning(FL) has gained considerable popularity for its special feature of “making data available but not visible”. However, potential problems remain, including privacy breaches, imbalances in payment, and inequitable distribution.These shortcomings let devices reluctantly contribute relevant data to, or even refuse to participate in FL. Therefore, in the application of FL, an important but also challenging issue is to motivate as many participants as possible to provide high-quality data to FL. In this paper, we propose an incentive mechanism for FL based on the continuous zero-determinant(CZD) strategies from the perspective of game theory. We first model the interaction between the server and the devices during the FL process as a continuous iterative game. We then apply the CZD strategies for two players and then multiple players to optimize the social welfare of FL, for which we prove that the server can keep social welfare at a high and stable level. Subsequently, we design an incentive mechanism based on the CZD strategies to attract devices to contribute all of their high-accuracy data to FL.Finally, we perform simulations to demonstrate that our proposed CZD-based incentive mechanism can indeed generate high and stable social welfare in FL.展开更多
Industry 4.0 has become a reality by fusing the Industrial Internet of Things(IIoT)and Artificial Intelligence(AI),providing huge opportunities in the way manufacturing companies operate.However,the adoption of this p...Industry 4.0 has become a reality by fusing the Industrial Internet of Things(IIoT)and Artificial Intelligence(AI),providing huge opportunities in the way manufacturing companies operate.However,the adoption of this paradigm shift,particularly in the field of smart factories and production,is still in its infancy,suffering from various issues,such as the lack of high-quality data,data with high-class imbalance,or poor diversity leading to inaccurate AI models.However,data is severely fragmented across different silos owned by several parties for a range of reasons,such as compliance and legal concerns,preventing discovery and insight-driven IIoT innovation.Notably,valuable and even vital information often remains unutilized as the rise and adoption of AI and IoT in parallel with the concerns and challenges associated with privacy and security.This adversely influences interand intra-organization collaborative use of IIoT data.To tackle these challenges,this article leverages emerging multi-party technologies,privacy-enhancing techniques(e.g.,Federated Learning),and AI approaches to present a holistic,decentralized architecture to form a foundation and cradle for a cross-company collaboration platform and a federated data space to tackle the creeping fragmented data landscape.Moreover,to evaluate the efficiency of the proposed reference model,a collaborative predictive diagnostics and maintenance case study is mapped to an edge-enabled IIoT architecture.Experimental results show the potential advantages of using the proposed approach for multi-party applications accelerating sovereign data sharing through Findable,Accessible,Interoperable,and Reusable(FAIR)principles.展开更多
As a distributed machine learning architecture,Federated Learning(FL)can train a global model by exchanging users’model parameters without their local data.However,with the evolution of eavesdropping techniques,attac...As a distributed machine learning architecture,Federated Learning(FL)can train a global model by exchanging users’model parameters without their local data.However,with the evolution of eavesdropping techniques,attackers can infer information related to users’local data with the intercepted model parameters,resulting in privacy leakage and hindering the application of FL in smart factories.To meet the privacy protection needs of the intelligent inspection task in pumped storage power stations,in this paper we propose a novel privacy-preserving FL algorithm based on multi-key Fully Homomorphic Encryption(FHE),called MFHE-PPFL.Specifically,to reduce communication costs caused by deploying the FHE algorithm,we propose a self-adaptive threshold-based model parameter compression(SATMPC)method.It can reduce the amount of encrypted data with an adaptive thresholds-enabled user selection mechanism that only enables eligible devices to communicate with the FL server.Moreover,to protect model parameter privacy during transmission,we develop a secret sharing-based multi-key RNS-CKKS(SSMR)method that encrypts the device’s uploaded parameter increments and supports decryption in device dropout scenarios.Security analyses and simulation results show that our algorithm can prevent four typical threat models and outperforms the state-of-the-art in communication costs with guaranteed accuracy.展开更多
The introduction of blockchain to federated learning(FL)is a promising solution to enable anonymous clients to collaboratively learn a shared prediction model using local data while avoiding the risk caused by the cen...The introduction of blockchain to federated learning(FL)is a promising solution to enable anonymous clients to collaboratively learn a shared prediction model using local data while avoiding the risk caused by the central server.However,the current researches only apply a shallow convergence between the two technologies.The aroused problems,such as the unsuitable consensus,the lack of incentive mechanism,and the incompetence of handling vertically partitioned data,make the blockchain-based FL exist in name only.This paper puts forward a novel blockchain-based framework for vertical FL with a specified consensus and incentive.Moreover,a real-world example is demonstrated to prove the practicability of our work.展开更多
In practical applications,different power companies are unwilling to share personal transformer data with each other due to data privacy.Faced with such a data isolation scenario,the centralized learning method is dif...In practical applications,different power companies are unwilling to share personal transformer data with each other due to data privacy.Faced with such a data isolation scenario,the centralized learning method is difficult to be used to solve the problem of transformer fault diagnosis.In recent years,the emergence of federated learning(FL)has provided a secure and distributed learning framework.However,the unbalanced data from multiple participants may reduce the overall per-formance of FL,while an untrusted central server will threaten the data privacy and security of cli-ents.Thus,a fault diagnosis of intelligent distribution system method based on privacy-enhanced FL is proposed.Firstly,a globally shared dataset is established to effectively alleviate the impact of un-balanced data on the performance of the FedAvg algorithm.Then,Gaussian random noise is intro-duced during the parameter uploading process to further reduce the risk of data privacy leakage.Fi-nally,the effectiveness and superiority of the proposed method are verified through extensive experi-ments.展开更多
The aim of the paper is to present various aspects of the phenomenon of stereotyping in the context of FL （foreign language） learning and teaching and to discuss practical solutions to be used in a FL classroom to t...The aim of the paper is to present various aspects of the phenomenon of stereotyping in the context of FL （foreign language） learning and teaching and to discuss practical solutions to be used in a FL classroom to teach the worm about the worm by questioning the stereotypes learners have of other nations and languages. This paper is an attempt to present some ideas of FL teachers＇ role in developing students＇ socio-cultural competence with the aim of raising their cross-cultural awareness and questioning the stereotypes students bring into a FL classroom. The methodology used was an analysis of fragment of tape scripts from listening comprehension activities from a course book preparing Polish secondary students for the school leaving exam. The topics discussed concern opinions about attitudes towards and judgments of various cultural aspects, be it drinking tea or discussing the weather, impressions people have about other nations, or languages people speak.展开更多
Over-the-air computation(AirComp)based federated learning(FL)has been a promising technique for distilling artificial intelligence(AI)at the network edge.However,the performance of AirComp-based FL is decided by the d...Over-the-air computation(AirComp)based federated learning(FL)has been a promising technique for distilling artificial intelligence(AI)at the network edge.However,the performance of AirComp-based FL is decided by the device with the lowest channel gain due to the signal alignment property.More importantly,most existing work focuses on a single-cell scenario,where inter-cell interference is ignored.To overcome these shortages,a reconfigurable intelligent surface(RIS)-assisted AirComp-based FL system is proposed for multi-cell networks,where a RIS is used for enhancing the poor user signal caused by channel fading,especially for the device at the cell edge,and reducing inter-cell interference.The convergence of FL in the proposed system is first analyzed and the optimality gap for FL is derived.To minimize the optimality gap,we formulate a joint uplink and downlink optimization problem.The formulated problem is then divided into two separable nonconvex subproblems.Following the successive convex approximation(SCA)method,we first approximate the nonconvex term to a linear form,and then alternately optimize the beamforming vector and phase-shift matrix for each cell.Simulation results demonstrate the advantages of deploying a RIS in multi-cell networks and our proposed system significantly improves the performance of FL.展开更多
Although federated learning(FL)has become very popular recently,it is vulnerable to gradient leakage attacks.Recent studies have shown that attackers can reconstruct clients’private data from shared models or gradien...Although federated learning(FL)has become very popular recently,it is vulnerable to gradient leakage attacks.Recent studies have shown that attackers can reconstruct clients’private data from shared models or gradients.Many existing works focus on adding privacy protection mechanisms to prevent user privacy leakages,such as differential privacy(DP)and homomorphic encryption.These defenses may cause an increase in computation and communication costs or degrade the performance of FL.Besides,they do not consider the impact of wireless network resources on the FL training process.Herein,we propose weight compression,a defense method to prevent gradient leakage attacks for FL over wireless networks.The gradient compression matrix is determined by the user’s location and channel conditions.We also add Gaussian noise to the compressed gradients to strengthen the defense.This joint learning of wireless resource allocation and weight compression matrix is formulated as an optimization problem with the objective of minimizing the FL loss function.To find the solution,we first analyze the convergence rate of FL and quantify the effect of the weight matrix on FL convergence.Then,we seek the optimal resource block(RB)allocation by exhaustive search or ant colony optimization(ACO)and then use the CVX toolbox to obtain the optimal weight matrix to minimize the optimization function.The simulation results show that the optimized RB can accelerate the convergence of FL.展开更多
Federated Learning(FL)is a novel distributed machine learning methodology that addresses large-scale parallel computing challenges while safeguarding data security.However,the traditional FL model in communication sce...Federated Learning(FL)is a novel distributed machine learning methodology that addresses large-scale parallel computing challenges while safeguarding data security.However,the traditional FL model in communication scenarios,whether for uplink or downlink communications,may give rise to several network problems,such as bandwidth occupation,additional network latency,and bandwidth fragmentation.In this paper,we propose an adaptive chained training approach(Fed ACT)for FL in computing power networks.First,a Computation-driven Clustering Strategy(CCS)is designed.The server clusters clients by task processing delays to minimize waiting delays at the central server.Second,we propose a Genetic-Algorithm-based Sorting(GAS)method to optimize the order of clients participating in training.Finally,based on the table lookup and forwarding rules of the Segment Routing over IPv6(SRv6)protocol,the sorting results of GAS are written into the SRv6 packet header,to control the order in which clients participate in model training.We conduct extensive experiments on two datasets of CIFAR-10 and MNIST,and the results demonstrate that the proposed algorithm offers improved accuracy,diminished communication costs,and reduced network delays.展开更多
Federated Learning (FL) enables clients to securely share gradients computed on their local data with the server, thereby eliminating the necessity to directly expose their sensitive local datasets. In traditional FL,...Federated Learning (FL) enables clients to securely share gradients computed on their local data with the server, thereby eliminating the necessity to directly expose their sensitive local datasets. In traditional FL, the server might take advantage of its dominant position during the model aggregation process to infer sensitive information from the shared gradients of the clients. At the same time, malicious clients may submit forged and malicious gradients during model training. Such behavior not only compromises the integrity of the global model, but also diminishes the usability and reliability of trained models. To effectively address such privacy and security attack issues, this work proposes a Blockchain-based Privacy-preserving and Secure Federated Learning (BPS-FL) scheme, which employs the threshold homomorphic encryption to protect the local gradients of clients. To resist malicious gradient attacks, we design a Byzantine-robust aggregation protocol for BPS-FL to realize the cipher-text level secure model aggregation. Moreover, we use a blockchain as the underlying distributed architecture to record all learning processes, which ensures the immutability and traceability of the data. Our extensive security analysis and numerical evaluation demonstrate that BPS-FL satisfies the privacy requirements and can effectively defend against poisoning attacks.展开更多
文摘Federated Learning(FL)enables joint training over distributed devices without data exchange but is highly vulnerable to attacks by adversaries in the form of model poisoning and malicious update injection.This work proposes Secured-FL,a blockchain-based defensive framework that combines smart contract-based authentication,clustering-driven outlier elimination,and dynamic threshold adjustment to defend against adversarial attacks.The framework was implemented on a private Ethereum network with a Proof-of-Authority consensus algorithm to ensure tamper-resistant and auditable model updates.Large-scale simulation on the Cyber Data dataset,under up to 50%malicious client settings,demonstrates Secured-FL achieves 6%-12%higher accuracy,9%-15%lower latency,and approximately 14%less computational expense compared to the PPSS benchmark framework.Additional tests,including confusion matrices,ROC and Precision-Recall curves,and ablation tests,confirm the interpretability and robustness of the defense.Tests for scalability also show consistent performance up to 500 clients,affirming appropriateness to reasonably large deployments.These results make Secured-FL a feasible,adversarially resilient FL paradigm with promising potential for application in smart cities,medicine,and other mission-critical IoT deployments.
文摘ABSTRACT:Federated Learning(FL)enables collaborative medical model training without sharing sensitive patient data.However,existing FL systems face increasing security risks from post quantum adversaries and often incur nonnegligible computational and communication overhead when encryption is applied.At the same time,training high performance AI models requires large volumes of high quality data,while medical data such as patient information,clinical records,and diagnostic reports are highly sensitive and subject to strict privacy regulations,including HIPAA and GDPR.Traditional centralized machine learning approaches therefore pose significant challenges for cross institutional collaboration in healthcare.To address these limitations,Federated Learning was introduced to allow multiple institutions to jointly train a global model while keeping local data private.Nevertheless,conventional cryptographicmechanisms,such as RSA,are increasingly inadequate for privacy sensitive FL deployments,particularly in the presence of emerging quantum computing threats.Homomorphic encryption,which enables computations to be performed directly on encrypted data,provides an effective solution for preserving data privacy in federated learning systems.This capability allows healthcare institutions to securely perform collaborative model training while remaining compliant with regulatory requirements.Among homomorphic encryption techniques,NTRU,a lattice based cryptographic scheme defined over polynomial rings,offers strong resistance against quantum attacks by relying on the hardness of the Shortest Vector Problem(SVP).Moreover,NTRU supports limited homomorphic operations that are sufficient for secure aggregation in federated learning.In this work,we propose an NTRU enhanced federated learning framework specifically designed for medical and healthcare applications.Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed approach achieves classification performance comparable to standard federated learning,with final accuracy consistently exceeding 0.93.The framework introduces predictable encryption latency on the order of hundreds of milliseconds per training round and a fixed ciphertext communication overhead per client under practical deployment settings.In addition,the proposed systemeffectivelymitigatesmultiple security threats,including quantum computing attacks,by ensuring robust encryption throughout the training process.By integrating the security and homomorphic properties of NTRU,this study establishes a privacy preserving and quantumresistant federated learning framework that supports the secure,legal,and efficient deployment of AI technologies in healthcare,thereby laying a solid foundation for future intelligent healthcare systems.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.62361003)the Guangxi Science and Technology Base and Talent Special Project(Nos.AD25069071 and AD24010061).
文摘Unmanned Aerial Vehicle(UAV)assisted federated learning enables on-edge model training,but its effectiveness depends on sustainable client participation through well-designed incentive mechanisms.Existing approaches based on economic models provide theoretical guarantees under restrictive assumptions,while Reinforcement Learning(RL)methods adapt to dynamics but lack provable incentive compatibility.We propose an adaptive privacy-aware incentive mechanism that integrates contract theory with Multi-Agent RL(MARL).The contract design provides a truthful initialization under privacy heterogeneity,while MARL adaptively refines incentives in dynamic environments.An Incentive Compatibility(IC)regularized optimization further ensures policy convergence and robustness.Experiments in UAV-assisted FL show that our method improves social welfare by up to 35%and participant engagement by 45%over state-of-the-art baselines,while maintaining strong privacy guarantees.
文摘Federated Learning(FL)has become a leading decentralized solution that enables multiple clients to train a model in a collaborative environment without directly sharing raw data,making it suitable for privacy-sensitive applications such as healthcare,finance,and smart systems.As the field continues to evolve,the research field has become more complex and scattered,covering different system designs,training methods,and privacy techniques.This survey is organized around the three core challenges:how the data is distributed,how models are synchronized,and how to defend against attacks.It provides a structured and up-to-date review of FL research from 2023 to 2025,offering a unified taxonomy that categorizes works by data distribution(Horizontal FL,Vertical FL,Federated Transfer Learning,and Personalized FL),training synchronization(synchronous and asynchronous FL),optimization strategies,and threat models(data leakage and poisoning attacks).In particular,we summarize the latest contributions in Vertical FL frameworks for secure multi-party learning,communication-efficient Horizontal FL,and domain-adaptive Federated Transfer Learning.Furthermore,we examine synchronization techniques addressing system heterogeneity,including straggler mitigation in synchronous FL and staleness management in asynchronous FL.The survey covers security threats in FL,such as gradient inversion,membership inference,and poisoning attacks,as well as their defense strategies that include privacy-preserving aggregation and anomaly detection.The paper concludes by outlining unresolved issues and highlighting challenges in handling personalized models,scalability,and real-world adoption.
基金supported by Department of Information Technology,University of Tabuk,Tabuk,71491,Saudi Arabia.
文摘Adaptive robust secure framework plays a vital role in implementing intelligent automation and decentralized decision making of Industry 5.0.Latency,privacy risks and the complexity of industrial networks have been preventing attempts at traditional cloud-based learning systems.We demonstrate that,to overcome these challenges,for instance,the EdgeGuard-IoT framework,a 6G edge intelligence framework enhancing cybersecurity and operational resilience of the smart grid,is needed on the edge to integrate Secure Federated Learning(SFL)and Adaptive Anomaly Detection(AAD).With ultra-reliable low latency communication(URLLC)of 6G,artificial intelligence-based network orchestration,and massive machine type communication(mMTC),EdgeGuard-IoT brings real-time,distributed intelligence on the edge,and mitigates risks in data transmission and enhances privacy.EdgeGuard-IoT,with a hierarchical federated learning framework,helps edge devices to collaboratively train models without revealing the sensitive grid data,which is crucial in the smart grid where real-time power anomaly detection and the decentralization of the energy management are a big deal.The hybrid AI models driven adaptive anomaly detection mechanism immediately raises the thumb if the grid stability and strength are negatively affected due to cyber threats,faults,and energy distribution,thereby keeping the grid stable with resilience.The proposed framework also adopts various security means within the blockchain and zero-trust authentication techniques to reduce the adversarial attack risks and model poisoning during federated learning.EdgeGuard-IoT shows superior detection accuracy,response time,and scalability performance at a much reduced communication overhead via extensive simulations and deployment in real-world case studies in smart grids.This research pioneers a 6G-driven federated intelligence model designed for secure,self-optimizing,and resilient Industry 5.0 ecosystems,paving the way for next-generation autonomous smart grids and industrial cyber-physical systems.
基金supported in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(62472032)the Young Elite Scientists Sponsorship Program by CAST(2023QNRC001)the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities and Research Innovation Project of China University of Political Science and Law(21ZFY52001)。
文摘In federated learning(FL),the distribution of data across different clients leads to the degradation of global model performance in training.Personalized Federated Learning(pFL)can address this problem through global model personalization.Researches over the past few years have calibrated differences in weights across the entire model or optimized only individual layers of the model without considering that different layers of the whole neural network have different utilities,resulting in lagged model convergence and inadequate personalization in non-IID data.In this paper,we propose model layered optimization for feature extractor and classifier(pFedEC),a novel pFL training framework personalized for different layers of the model.Our study divides the model layers into the feature extractor and classifier.We initialize the model's classifiers during model training,while making the local model's feature extractors learn the representation of the global model's feature extractors to correct each client's local training,integrating the utilities of the different layers in the entire model.Our extensive experiments show that pFedEC achieves 92.95%accuracy on CIFAR-10,outperforming existing pFL methods by approximately 1.8%.On CIFAR-100 and Tiny-ImageNet,pFedEC improves the accuracy by at least 4.2%,reaching 73.02%and 28.39%,respectively.
文摘This review interrogates empirical and theoretical research on agentic engagement in foreign language(FL)learning.Through synthesizing peer-reviewed studies from Web of Science and CNKI databases,it maps the theoretical evolution,methodological innovations,key influencing factors and proposed suggestion for further research on student agency.Future research should prioritize,longitudinal studies,culturally comparative designs,validity constructs and ethical evaluations of artificial intelligence’s impact on learner autonomy.This review calls for a holistic approach to FL education,where agentic engagement bridges individual initiative,pedagogical innovation,and sociocultural responsiveness to empower learners in multilingual global contexts.
文摘Human Activity Recognition(HAR)represents a rapidly advancing research domain,propelled by continuous developments in sensor technologies and the Internet of Things(IoT).Deep learning has become the dominant paradigm in sensor-based HAR systems,offering significant advantages over traditional machine learning methods by eliminating manual feature extraction,enhancing recognition accuracy for complex activities,and enabling the exploitation of unlabeled data through generative models.This paper provides a comprehensive review of recent advancements and emerging trends in deep learning models developed for sensor-based human activity recognition(HAR)systems.We begin with an overview of fundamental HAR concepts in sensor-driven contexts,followed by a systematic categorization and summary of existing research.Our survey encompasses a wide range of deep learning approaches,including Multi-Layer Perceptrons(MLP),Convolutional Neural Networks(CNN),Recurrent Neural Networks(RNN),Long Short-Term Memory networks(LSTM),Gated Recurrent Units(GRU),Transformers,Deep Belief Networks(DBN),and hybrid architectures.A comparative evaluation of these models is provided,highlighting their performance,architectural complexity,and contributions to the field.Beyond Centralized deep learning models,we examine the role of Federated Learning(FL)in HAR,highlighting current applications and research directions.Finally,we discuss the growing importance of Explainable Artificial Intelligence(XAI)in sensor-based HAR,reviewing recent studies that integrate interpretability methods to enhance transparency and trustworthiness in deep learning-based HAR systems.
文摘The rapid convergence of Information and Communication Technologies(ICT),driven by advancements in 5G/6G networks,cloud computing,Artificial Intelligence(AI),and the Internet of Things(IoT),is reshaping modern digital ecosystems.As massive,distributed data streams are generated across edge devices and network layers,there is a growing need for intelligent,privacy-preserving AI solutions that can operate efficiently at the network edge.Federated Learning(FL)enables decentralized model training without transferring sensitive data,addressing key challenges around privacy,bandwidth,and latency.Despite its benefits in enhancing efficiency,real-time analytics,and regulatory compliance,FL adoption faces challenges,including communication overhead,heterogeneity,security vulnerabilities,and limited edge resources.While recent studies have addressed these issues individually,the literature lacks a unified,cross-domain perspective that reflects the architectural complexity and application diversity of Convergence ICT.This systematic review offers a comprehensive,cross-domain examination of FL within converged ICT infrastructures.The central research question guiding this review is:How can FL be effectively integrated into Convergence ICT environments,and what are the main challenges in implementing FL in such environments,along with possible solutions?We begin with a foundational overview of FL concepts and classifications,followed by a detailed taxonomy of FL architectures,learning strategies,and privacy-preserving mechanisms.Through in-depth case studies,we analyse FL’s application across diverse verticals,including smart cities,healthcare,industrial automation,and autonomous systems.We further identify critical challenges—such as system and data heterogeneity,limited edge resources,and security vulnerabilities—and review state-of-the-art mitigation strategies,including edge-aware optimization,secure aggregation,and adaptive model updates.In addition,we explore emerging directions in FL research,such as energy-efficient learning,federated reinforcement learning,and integration with blockchain,quantum computing,and self-adaptive networks.This review not only synthesizes current literature but also proposes a forward-looking road map to support scalable,secure,and sustainable FL deployment in future ICT ecosystems.
基金partially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (62173308)the Natural Science Foundation of Zhejiang Province of China (LR20F030001)the Jinhua Science and Technology Project (2022-1-042)。
文摘As a representative emerging machine learning technique, federated learning(FL) has gained considerable popularity for its special feature of “making data available but not visible”. However, potential problems remain, including privacy breaches, imbalances in payment, and inequitable distribution.These shortcomings let devices reluctantly contribute relevant data to, or even refuse to participate in FL. Therefore, in the application of FL, an important but also challenging issue is to motivate as many participants as possible to provide high-quality data to FL. In this paper, we propose an incentive mechanism for FL based on the continuous zero-determinant(CZD) strategies from the perspective of game theory. We first model the interaction between the server and the devices during the FL process as a continuous iterative game. We then apply the CZD strategies for two players and then multiple players to optimize the social welfare of FL, for which we prove that the server can keep social welfare at a high and stable level. Subsequently, we design an incentive mechanism based on the CZD strategies to attract devices to contribute all of their high-accuracy data to FL.Finally, we perform simulations to demonstrate that our proposed CZD-based incentive mechanism can indeed generate high and stable social welfare in FL.
文摘Industry 4.0 has become a reality by fusing the Industrial Internet of Things(IIoT)and Artificial Intelligence(AI),providing huge opportunities in the way manufacturing companies operate.However,the adoption of this paradigm shift,particularly in the field of smart factories and production,is still in its infancy,suffering from various issues,such as the lack of high-quality data,data with high-class imbalance,or poor diversity leading to inaccurate AI models.However,data is severely fragmented across different silos owned by several parties for a range of reasons,such as compliance and legal concerns,preventing discovery and insight-driven IIoT innovation.Notably,valuable and even vital information often remains unutilized as the rise and adoption of AI and IoT in parallel with the concerns and challenges associated with privacy and security.This adversely influences interand intra-organization collaborative use of IIoT data.To tackle these challenges,this article leverages emerging multi-party technologies,privacy-enhancing techniques(e.g.,Federated Learning),and AI approaches to present a holistic,decentralized architecture to form a foundation and cradle for a cross-company collaboration platform and a federated data space to tackle the creeping fragmented data landscape.Moreover,to evaluate the efficiency of the proposed reference model,a collaborative predictive diagnostics and maintenance case study is mapped to an edge-enabled IIoT architecture.Experimental results show the potential advantages of using the proposed approach for multi-party applications accelerating sovereign data sharing through Findable,Accessible,Interoperable,and Reusable(FAIR)principles.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant 62171113。
文摘As a distributed machine learning architecture,Federated Learning(FL)can train a global model by exchanging users’model parameters without their local data.However,with the evolution of eavesdropping techniques,attackers can infer information related to users’local data with the intercepted model parameters,resulting in privacy leakage and hindering the application of FL in smart factories.To meet the privacy protection needs of the intelligent inspection task in pumped storage power stations,in this paper we propose a novel privacy-preserving FL algorithm based on multi-key Fully Homomorphic Encryption(FHE),called MFHE-PPFL.Specifically,to reduce communication costs caused by deploying the FHE algorithm,we propose a self-adaptive threshold-based model parameter compression(SATMPC)method.It can reduce the amount of encrypted data with an adaptive thresholds-enabled user selection mechanism that only enables eligible devices to communicate with the FL server.Moreover,to protect model parameter privacy during transmission,we develop a secret sharing-based multi-key RNS-CKKS(SSMR)method that encrypts the device’s uploaded parameter increments and supports decryption in device dropout scenarios.Security analyses and simulation results show that our algorithm can prevent four typical threat models and outperforms the state-of-the-art in communication costs with guaranteed accuracy.
基金Key Program of the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.2019YFE0190500)Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities of Ministry of Education of China(No.2232021D-22)。
文摘The introduction of blockchain to federated learning(FL)is a promising solution to enable anonymous clients to collaboratively learn a shared prediction model using local data while avoiding the risk caused by the central server.However,the current researches only apply a shallow convergence between the two technologies.The aroused problems,such as the unsuitable consensus,the lack of incentive mechanism,and the incompetence of handling vertically partitioned data,make the blockchain-based FL exist in name only.This paper puts forward a novel blockchain-based framework for vertical FL with a specified consensus and incentive.Moreover,a real-world example is demonstrated to prove the practicability of our work.
基金Supported by the Science and Technology Project of State Grid Zhejiang Electric Power Co.,Ltd(No.5211HZ230002).
文摘In practical applications,different power companies are unwilling to share personal transformer data with each other due to data privacy.Faced with such a data isolation scenario,the centralized learning method is difficult to be used to solve the problem of transformer fault diagnosis.In recent years,the emergence of federated learning(FL)has provided a secure and distributed learning framework.However,the unbalanced data from multiple participants may reduce the overall per-formance of FL,while an untrusted central server will threaten the data privacy and security of cli-ents.Thus,a fault diagnosis of intelligent distribution system method based on privacy-enhanced FL is proposed.Firstly,a globally shared dataset is established to effectively alleviate the impact of un-balanced data on the performance of the FedAvg algorithm.Then,Gaussian random noise is intro-duced during the parameter uploading process to further reduce the risk of data privacy leakage.Fi-nally,the effectiveness and superiority of the proposed method are verified through extensive experi-ments.
文摘The aim of the paper is to present various aspects of the phenomenon of stereotyping in the context of FL （foreign language） learning and teaching and to discuss practical solutions to be used in a FL classroom to teach the worm about the worm by questioning the stereotypes learners have of other nations and languages. This paper is an attempt to present some ideas of FL teachers＇ role in developing students＇ socio-cultural competence with the aim of raising their cross-cultural awareness and questioning the stereotypes students bring into a FL classroom. The methodology used was an analysis of fragment of tape scripts from listening comprehension activities from a course book preparing Polish secondary students for the school leaving exam. The topics discussed concern opinions about attitudes towards and judgments of various cultural aspects, be it drinking tea or discussing the weather, impressions people have about other nations, or languages people speak.
文摘Over-the-air computation(AirComp)based federated learning(FL)has been a promising technique for distilling artificial intelligence(AI)at the network edge.However,the performance of AirComp-based FL is decided by the device with the lowest channel gain due to the signal alignment property.More importantly,most existing work focuses on a single-cell scenario,where inter-cell interference is ignored.To overcome these shortages,a reconfigurable intelligent surface(RIS)-assisted AirComp-based FL system is proposed for multi-cell networks,where a RIS is used for enhancing the poor user signal caused by channel fading,especially for the device at the cell edge,and reducing inter-cell interference.The convergence of FL in the proposed system is first analyzed and the optimality gap for FL is derived.To minimize the optimality gap,we formulate a joint uplink and downlink optimization problem.The formulated problem is then divided into two separable nonconvex subproblems.Following the successive convex approximation(SCA)method,we first approximate the nonconvex term to a linear form,and then alternately optimize the beamforming vector and phase-shift matrix for each cell.Simulation results demonstrate the advantages of deploying a RIS in multi-cell networks and our proposed system significantly improves the performance of FL.
文摘Although federated learning(FL)has become very popular recently,it is vulnerable to gradient leakage attacks.Recent studies have shown that attackers can reconstruct clients’private data from shared models or gradients.Many existing works focus on adding privacy protection mechanisms to prevent user privacy leakages,such as differential privacy(DP)and homomorphic encryption.These defenses may cause an increase in computation and communication costs or degrade the performance of FL.Besides,they do not consider the impact of wireless network resources on the FL training process.Herein,we propose weight compression,a defense method to prevent gradient leakage attacks for FL over wireless networks.The gradient compression matrix is determined by the user’s location and channel conditions.We also add Gaussian noise to the compressed gradients to strengthen the defense.This joint learning of wireless resource allocation and weight compression matrix is formulated as an optimization problem with the objective of minimizing the FL loss function.To find the solution,we first analyze the convergence rate of FL and quantify the effect of the weight matrix on FL convergence.Then,we seek the optimal resource block(RB)allocation by exhaustive search or ant colony optimization(ACO)and then use the CVX toolbox to obtain the optimal weight matrix to minimize the optimization function.The simulation results show that the optimized RB can accelerate the convergence of FL.
基金supported by the National Key R&D Program of China(No.2021YFB2900200)。
文摘Federated Learning(FL)is a novel distributed machine learning methodology that addresses large-scale parallel computing challenges while safeguarding data security.However,the traditional FL model in communication scenarios,whether for uplink or downlink communications,may give rise to several network problems,such as bandwidth occupation,additional network latency,and bandwidth fragmentation.In this paper,we propose an adaptive chained training approach(Fed ACT)for FL in computing power networks.First,a Computation-driven Clustering Strategy(CCS)is designed.The server clusters clients by task processing delays to minimize waiting delays at the central server.Second,we propose a Genetic-Algorithm-based Sorting(GAS)method to optimize the order of clients participating in training.Finally,based on the table lookup and forwarding rules of the Segment Routing over IPv6(SRv6)protocol,the sorting results of GAS are written into the SRv6 packet header,to control the order in which clients participate in model training.We conduct extensive experiments on two datasets of CIFAR-10 and MNIST,and the results demonstrate that the proposed algorithm offers improved accuracy,diminished communication costs,and reduced network delays.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.62472170)the Hunan Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.2021JJ30455,2022JJ30398,and 2022JJ40277)+1 种基金the Hunan Provincial Degree and Postgraduate Teaching Reform Research Project of China(No.2023JGSZ060)the Scientific Research Fund of Hunan Provincial Education Department of China(No.22A0056).
文摘Federated Learning (FL) enables clients to securely share gradients computed on their local data with the server, thereby eliminating the necessity to directly expose their sensitive local datasets. In traditional FL, the server might take advantage of its dominant position during the model aggregation process to infer sensitive information from the shared gradients of the clients. At the same time, malicious clients may submit forged and malicious gradients during model training. Such behavior not only compromises the integrity of the global model, but also diminishes the usability and reliability of trained models. To effectively address such privacy and security attack issues, this work proposes a Blockchain-based Privacy-preserving and Secure Federated Learning (BPS-FL) scheme, which employs the threshold homomorphic encryption to protect the local gradients of clients. To resist malicious gradient attacks, we design a Byzantine-robust aggregation protocol for BPS-FL to realize the cipher-text level secure model aggregation. Moreover, we use a blockchain as the underlying distributed architecture to record all learning processes, which ensures the immutability and traceability of the data. Our extensive security analysis and numerical evaluation demonstrate that BPS-FL satisfies the privacy requirements and can effectively defend against poisoning attacks.
