collaborators

7 papers

cs.CR2026

Giskard : Byzantine Robust and Confidential Aggregation for Large-Scale Decentralized Learning

Ousmane Touat, César Sabater, Mohamed Maouche +1

Dealing simultaneously with confidentiality and Byzantine behaviors in decentralized learning is a challenging problem. Indeed, in decentralized learning, clients train a machine l…

cs.LG2026

GRANITE : a Byzantine-Resilient Dynamic Gossip Learning Framework

Yacine Belal, Mohamed Maouche, Sonia Ben Mokhtar

Gossip Learning (GL) is a decentralized learning paradigm where users iteratively exchange and aggregate models with a small set of neighboring peers. Recent approaches rely on dyn…

cs.LG2026

DOME: Improving Signal-to-Noise in Stochastic Gradient Descent via Sharp-Direction Subspace Filtering

Julien Nicolas, Mohamed Maouche, Sonia Ben Mokhtar +1

Stochastic gradients for deep neural networks exhibit strong correlations along the optimization trajectory, and are often aligned with a small set of Hessian eigenvectors associat…

cs.LG2025

Exposing the Vulnerability of Decentralized Learning to Membership Inference Attacks Through the Lens of Graph Mixing

Ousmane Touat, Jezekael Brunon, Yacine Belal +4

The primary promise of decentralized learning is to allow users to engage in the training of machine learning models in a collaborative manner while keeping their data on their pre…

cs.LG2025

Differentially private and decentralized randomized power method

Julien Nicolas, César Sabater, Mohamed Maouche +2

The randomized power method has gained significant interest due to its simplicity and efficient handling of large-scale spectral analysis and recommendation tasks. However, its app…

cs.IR2025

Inferring Communities of Interest in Collaborative Learning-based Recommender Systems

Yacine Belal, Sonia Ben Mokhtar, Mohamed Maouche +1

Collaborative-learning-based recommender systems, such as those employing Federated Learning (FL) and Gossip Learning (GL), allow users to train models while keeping their history…