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6 papers

cs.LG2026

Client-Conditional Federated Learning via Local Training Data Statistics

Rickard Brännvall

Federated learning (FL) under data heterogeneity remains challenging: existing methods either ignore client differences (FedAvg), require costly cluster discovery (IFCA), or mainta…

cs.LG2026

Exponential-Family Membership Inference: From LiRA and RMIA to BaVarIA

Rickard Brännvall, Rickard Brännvall

Membership inference attacks (MIAs) are becoming standard tools for auditing the privacy of machine learning models. The leading attacks -- LiRA (Carlini et al., 2022) and RMIA (Za…

cs.CL2025

InhibiDistilbert: Knowledge Distillation for a ReLU and Addition-based Transformer

Tony Zhang, Rickard Brännvall

This work explores optimizing transformer-based language models by integrating model compression techniques with inhibitor attention, a novel alternative attention mechanism. Inhib…

cs.LG2025

Conditioning on Local Statistics for Scalable Heterogeneous Federated Learning

Rickard Brännvall

Federated learning is a distributed machine learning approach where multiple clients collaboratively train a model without sharing their local data, which contributes to preserving…

cs.CR2025

A sandbox study proposal for private and distributed health data analysis

Rickard Brännvall, Hanna Svensson, Kannaki Kaliyaperumal +2

This paper presents a sandbox study proposal focused on the distributed processing of personal health data within the Vinnova-funded SARDIN project. The project aims to develop the…

cs.LG2025

Technical Report for the Forgotten-by-Design Project: Targeted Obfuscation for Machine Learning

Rickard Brännvall, Laurynas Adomaitis, Olof Görnerup +1

The right to privacy, enshrined in various human rights declarations, faces new challenges in the age of artificial intelligence (AI). This paper explores the concept of the Right…