{"about":{"site":"https://codewithpapers.app","non_affiliation":"Code with Papers and Syntology are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Papers with Code, Meta, or the pwc-archive mirror.","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","attribution":"https://codewithpapers.app/attribution","modified":"archive material modified by Syntology; see the attribution page"},"url":"/paper/efficient-secure-aggregation-for-privacy","title":"Efficient Secure Aggregation for Privacy-Preserving Federated Machine Learning","arxiv_id":"2304.03841","date":"2023-04-07","proceeding":null,"authors":["Rouzbeh Behnia","Arman Riasi","Reza Ebrahimi","Sherman S. M. Chow","Balaji Padmanabhan","Thang Hoang"],"abstract":"Secure aggregation protocols ensure the privacy of users' data in federated learning by preventing the disclosure of local gradients. Many existing protocols impose significant communication and computational burdens on participants and may not efficiently handle the large update vectors typical of machine learning models. Correspondingly, we present e-SeaFL, an efficient verifiable secure aggregation protocol taking only one communication round during the aggregation phase. e-SeaFL allows the aggregation server to generate proof of honest aggregation to participants via authenticated homomorphic vector commitments. Our core idea is the use of assisting nodes to help the aggregation server, under similar trust assumptions existing works place upon the participating users. Our experiments show that the user enjoys an order of magnitude efficiency improvement over the state-of-the-art (IEEE S\\&P 2023) for large gradient vectors with thousands of parameters. Our open-source implementation is available at https://github.com/vt-asaplab/e-SeaFL.","url_abs":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.03841v6","url_pdf":"https://arxiv.org/pdf/2304.03841v6.pdf","source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","row_kind":"links_only","authors_date_abstract":"arXiv metadata, CC0 1.0 (https://info.arxiv.org/help/license), from the Kaggle arXiv metadata snapshot of 2026-09-12"},"code_links":[{"paper_slug":"efficient-secure-aggregation-for-privacy","repo_url":"https://github.com/vt-asaplab/e-seafl","is_official":1,"mentioned_in_paper":1,"mentioned_in_github":1,"framework":"none","reach":null}],"tasks":[],"methods":[],"datasets_introduced":[],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[],"syntology":{"atlas_url":"https://app.syntology.ai/?focus=2304.03841","mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}