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10 papers

cs.NI2026

UnlinkableDFL: A Framework for Network-Layer Unlinkability in Decentralized Federated Learning

Chao Feng, Thomas Grubl, Jan von der Assen +4

Decentralized Federated Learning (DFL) removes the central aggregator of conventional Federated Learning, but peer-to-peer model exchange still exposes network traces: who communic…

cs.CR2026

A Crowdsensing Intrusion Detection Dataset For Decentralized Federated Learning Models

Chao Feng, Alberto Huertas Celdran, Jing Han +6

This paper introduces a dataset and an experimental study on Decentralized Federated Learning (DFL) for Internet of Things (IoT) crowdsensing malware detection. The dataset compris…

cs.LG2025

ColNet: Collaborative Optimization in Decentralized Federated Multi-task Learning Systems

Chao Feng, Nicolas Fazli Kohler, Zhi Wang +4

The integration of Federated Learning (FL) and Multi-Task Learning (MTL) has been explored to address client heterogeneity, with Federated Multi-Task Learning (FMTL) treating each…

cs.CY2025

GreenDFL: a Framework for Assessing the Sustainability of Decentralized Federated Learning Systems

Chao Feng, Alberto Huertas Celdrán, Xi Cheng +2

Decentralized Federated Learning (DFL) is an emerging paradigm that enables collaborative model training without centralized data and model aggregation, enhancing privacy and resil…

cs.CY2025

Assessing the Sustainability and Trustworthiness of Federated Learning Models

Chao Feng, Alberto Huertas Celdran, Pedro Miguel Sanchez Sanchez +3

Artificial intelligence (AI) increasingly influences critical decision-making across sectors. Federated Learning (FL), as a privacy-preserving collaborative AI paradigm, not only e…

cs.LG2025

From Models to Network Topologies: A Topology Inference Attack in Decentralized Federated Learning

Chao Feng, Yuanzhe Gao, Alberto Huertas Celdran +2

Federated Learning (FL) is widely recognized as a privacy-preserving Machine Learning paradigm due to its model-sharing mechanism that avoids direct data exchange. Nevertheless, mo…