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most citedHow to Privately Tune Hyperparameters in Federated Learning? Insights from a Benchmark Study

2 citations · 4 across the 9 of their papers we have counts for

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13 papers

cs.CR2026

HE-OFT: Privacy-Preserving One-Shot Federated Fine-Tuning under Homomorphic Encryption

Halil İbrahim Kanpak, Sinem Sav, Alptekin Küpçü

Many organizations adapt large pretrained models to their own tasks by fine-tuning on private data. Several of these parties often hold data for the same task and wish to fine-tune…

cs.LG2026

Privacy Leakage in Federated Learning in Radiology Reports: A Comparative Evaluation of Tokenizer-Driven Privacy Risks

Santhosh Parampottupadam, Andres Martinez, Dimitrios Bounias +3

Federated learning (FL) enables multi-institutional training on clinical text without sharing raw data, but gradient inversion can reconstruct sensitive information from shared mod…

cs.CR2026

HADES: Privacy-Preserving Federated Learning via Selective Feature Encryption and Hybrid Model Fusion

Ergün Batuhan Kaynak, Kerem Bayramoglu, Sinem Sav

In this paper, we address the challenge of privacy-preserving training in federated learning (FL) by introducing a novel framework that selectively encrypts only the most privacy-s…

cs.CR2025

Bridging Local and Federated Data Normalization in Federated Learning: A Privacy-Preserving Approach

Melih Coşğun, Mert Gençtürk, Sinem Sav

Data normalization is a crucial preprocessing step for enhancing model performance and training stability. In federated learning (FL), where data remains distributed across multipl…

cs.CR2025

A Taxonomy of Attacks and Defenses in Split Learning

Aqsa Shabbir, Halil İbrahim Kanpak, Alptekin Küpçü +1

Split Learning (SL) has emerged as a promising paradigm for distributed deep learning, allowing resource-constrained clients to offload portions of their model computation to serve…

cs.LG2025

Inclusive Federated Learning Through Compliance-Weighted Noise Allocation in Healthcare AI

Santhosh Parampottupadam, Melih Coşğun, Sarthak Pati +7

Background: Federated learning (FL) enables collaborative training of clinical AI models without centralizing patient data, but adoption is limited by privacy concerns, heterogeneo…

cs.CR2024★ 1 cited

Generated Data with Fake Privacy: Hidden Dangers of Fine-tuning Large Language Models on Generated Data

Atilla Akkus, Masoud Poorghaffar Aghdam, Mingjie Li +4

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated significant success in various domain-specific tasks, with their performance often improving substantially after fine-tuning. However…

cs.CR2024★ 1 cited

CURE: Privacy-Preserving Split Learning Done Right

Halil Ibrahim Kanpak, Aqsa Shabbir, Esra Genç +2

Training deep neural networks often needs large datasets stored and processed in the cloud, and in sensitive fields like healthcare, these workflows must follow strict privacy rule…

cs.CR2024★ 2 cited

How to Privately Tune Hyperparameters in Federated Learning? Insights from a Benchmark Study

Natalija Mitic, Apostolos Pyrgelis, Sinem Sav

In this paper, we address the problem of privacy-preserving hyperparameter (HP) tuning for cross-silo federated learning (FL). We first perform a comprehensive measurement study th…

cs.CR2023

slytHErin: An Agile Framework for Encrypted Deep Neural Network Inference

Francesco Intoci, Sinem Sav, Apostolos Pyrgelis +3

Homomorphic encryption (HE), which allows computations on encrypted data, is an enabling technology for confidential cloud computing. One notable example is privacy-preserving Pred…

cs.CR2022

Privacy-Preserving Federated Recurrent Neural Networks

Sinem Sav, Abdulrahman Diaa, Apostolos Pyrgelis +2

We present RHODE, a novel system that enables privacy-preserving training of and prediction on Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) in a cross-silo federated learning setting by relyin…

cs.CR2020

POSEIDON: Privacy-Preserving Federated Neural Network Learning

Sinem Sav, Apostolos Pyrgelis, Juan R. Troncoso-Pastoriza +4

In this paper, we address the problem of privacy-preserving training and evaluation of neural networks in an -party, federated learning setting. We propose a novel system, POSEI…

cs.CR2020

Scalable Privacy-Preserving Distributed Learning

David Froelicher, Juan R. Troncoso-Pastoriza, Apostolos Pyrgelis +4

In this paper, we address the problem of privacy-preserving distributed learning and the evaluation of machine-learning models by analyzing it in the widespread MapReduce abstracti…