Runner-Up Distinguished Paper Award for SaTML'24 Paper

2024/04/15

The paper (“ScionFL: Secure quantized aggregation for federated learning”) by Yaniv Ben-Itzhak, Helen Möllering , Benny Pinkas, Thomas Schneider , Ajith Suresh , Oleksandr Tkachenko , Shay Vargaftik, Christian Weinert , Hossein Yalame , and Avishay Yanai won the Runner-Up Distinguished Paper Award at the 2. IEEE Conference on Secure and Trustworthy Machine Learning (SaTML’24).

The paper describes how to use quantization to reduce client-server communication in secure federated learning. It emerged from an industry collaboration with VMWare Research, Aptos Labs, Technology Innovation Institute, and DFINITY Foundation within the Private AI Collaborative Research Institute.

Ajith Suresh presented the paper and was handed over the award certificate.
Ajith Suresh presented the paper and was handed over the award certificate.