Vertical Federated Learning in Practice: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

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Hauptverfasser: Wu, Zhaomin, Qin, Zhen, Hou, Junyi, Zhao, Haodong, Li, Qinbin, He, Bingsheng, Fan, Lixin
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author Wu, Zhaomin
Qin, Zhen
Hou, Junyi
Zhao, Haodong
Li, Qinbin
He, Bingsheng
Fan, Lixin
author_facet Wu, Zhaomin
Qin, Zhen
Hou, Junyi
Zhao, Haodong
Li, Qinbin
He, Bingsheng
Fan, Lixin
contents Vertical Federated Learning (VFL) is a privacy-preserving collaborative learning paradigm that enables multiple parties with distinct feature sets to jointly train machine learning models without sharing their raw data. Despite its potential to facilitate cross-organizational collaborations, the deployment of VFL systems in real-world applications remains limited. To investigate the gap between existing VFL research and practical deployment, this survey analyzes the real-world data distributions in potential VFL applications and identifies four key findings that highlight this gap. We propose a novel data-oriented taxonomy of VFL algorithms based on real VFL data distributions. Our comprehensive review of existing VFL algorithms reveals that some common practical VFL scenarios have few or no viable solutions. Based on these observations, we outline key research directions aimed at bridging the gap between current VFL research and real-world applications.
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spellingShingle Vertical Federated Learning in Practice: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Wu, Zhaomin
Qin, Zhen
Hou, Junyi
Zhao, Haodong
Li, Qinbin
He, Bingsheng
Fan, Lixin
Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
Vertical Federated Learning (VFL) is a privacy-preserving collaborative learning paradigm that enables multiple parties with distinct feature sets to jointly train machine learning models without sharing their raw data. Despite its potential to facilitate cross-organizational collaborations, the deployment of VFL systems in real-world applications remains limited. To investigate the gap between existing VFL research and practical deployment, this survey analyzes the real-world data distributions in potential VFL applications and identifies four key findings that highlight this gap. We propose a novel data-oriented taxonomy of VFL algorithms based on real VFL data distributions. Our comprehensive review of existing VFL algorithms reveals that some common practical VFL scenarios have few or no viable solutions. Based on these observations, we outline key research directions aimed at bridging the gap between current VFL research and real-world applications.
title Vertical Federated Learning in Practice: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
topic Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.08160