Zero-Knowledge Federated Learning: A New Trustworthy and Privacy-Preserving Distributed Learning Paradigm

arXiv:2503.15550 · cs.CR, cs.AI · Submitted 2025-03-18 · Read on arXiv

cs.CR, cs.AI

Submitted: 2025-03-18

Updated: 2026-01-20

Comments: Accepted by IEEE Communications Magazine. Copyright IEEE

Journal ref: IEEE Communications Magazine, vol. 64, no. 5, pp. 172-178, 2026

DOI: 10.1109/MCOM.001.2500141

Project page: https://zokrates.github.io

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Federated Learning — 2× in this paper · explained in 17 episodes
• Accuracy — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Federated Learning (FL) — 1× in this paper · explained in 9 episodes
• Verification — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Zero-Knowledge Proofs (ZKPs) — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes

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