Digital Communications and Networks (Feb 2023)

Review on application progress of federated learning model and security hazard protection

  • Aimin Yang,
  • Zezhong Ma,
  • Chunying Zhang,
  • Yang Han,
  • Zhibin Hu,
  • Wei Zhang,
  • Xiangdong Huang,
  • Yafeng Wu

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 146 – 158

Abstract

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Federated learning is a new type of distributed learning framework that allows multiple participants to share training results without revealing their data privacy. As data privacy becomes more important, it becomes difficult to collect data from multiple data owners to make machine learning predictions due to the lack of data security. Data is forced to be stored independently between companies, creating “data silos”. With the goal of safeguarding data privacy and security, the federated learning framework greatly expands the amount of training data, effectively improving the shortcomings of traditional machine learning and deep learning, and bringing AI algorithms closer to our reality. In the context of the current international data security issues, federated learning is developing rapidly and has gradually moved from the theoretical to the applied level. The paper first introduces the federated learning framework, analyzes its advantages, reviews the results of federated learning applications in industries such as communication and healthcare, then analyzes the pitfalls of federated learning and discusses the security issues that should be considered in applications, and finally looks into the future of federated learning and the application layer.

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