Add ICML2025 FL Paper

[6lyc]

Hello,
Our paper titled "Clients Collaborate: Flexible Differentially Private Federated Learning with Guaranteed Improvement of Utility-Privacy Trade-off" has been accepted by ICML 2025. We would like to add the arxiv link and corresponding code to your repository.

Thank you.

[KarhouTam]

Thank you for contributing to FL-bench.There would be better if you can show some experimental results (and the command to run them).
Of course it is optional. Anyway. Thanks for your upcoming contribution.

[6lyc]

Certainly, I would be more than happy to provide more detailed information. May I ask where I should add the experimental results and the command lines to run them?

[KarhouTam]

Just add them in this PR conversation is fine.

[6lyc]

Here are partial experiments from our paper along with the running commands. We hope this PR can contribute and be merged into your repository.

1. Utility Experiments

We compare FedCEO with baseline methods under different privacy settings (controlled by σ_g). FedCEO consistently achieves the highest test accuracy.

Table: Test Accuracy (%) on EMNIST and CIFAR-10

Dataset	Model	σ_g	UDP-FedAvg	PPSGD	CENTAUR	FedCEO (ϑ=1)	FedCEO (ϑ>1)
		1.0	76.59%	77.01%	77.26%	77.14%	78.05%
EMNIST	MLP-2-Layers	1.5	69.91%	70.78%	71.86%	71.56%	72.44%
		2.0	60.32%	61.51%	62.12%	63.38%	64.20%
		1.0	43.87%	49.24%	50.14%	50.09%	54.16%
CIFAR-10	LeNet-5	1.5	34.34%	47.56%	46.90%	48.89%	50.00%
		2.0	26.88%	34.61%	36.70%	37.39%	45.35%

Command to Run Utility Experiment:

# CIFAR-10
nohup python -u FedCEO.py --privacy True --noise_multiplier 2.0 --flag True --dataset "cifar10" --model "cnn" --lamb 0.6 --r 1.04 --interval 10 > ./logs/log_fedceo_noise=2.0_cifar10_LeNet.log 2>&1 &

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2. Privacy Experiments

We use the DLG attack (Zhu et al., 2019) to evaluate privacy leakage. Lower PSNR indicates better privacy protection.

Figure: Privacy Attack Results on CIFAR-10 (PSNR in dB, lower is better)

Command to Run Privacy Experiment:

# privacy exps
nohup python -u attack_FedCEO.py --privacy True --noise_multiplier 2.0 --flag True --dataset "cifar10" --model "cnn" --index 100 --gpu "" > ./logs/log_attack_fedceo_noise=1.0_cifar10_LeNet.log 2>&1 &

[KarhouTam]

LGTM so far.
Looking forward to the code contribution.

[ASUKaiwenFang]

Hello, I noticed that this paper focuses on DP-Federated Learning. I’m curious if there are any plans to extend this repo to include support for DP-Federated Learning algorithms.

[6lyc]

@ASUKaiwenFang

Of course, we are planning to expand this library by including basic DPFL algorithms (such as DP-FedAvg) and some cutting-edge conference algorithms (like our FedCEO) to further enhance the privacy performance of FL-bench.

If you are also interested, feel free to join us for discussion and collaboration～

[ASUKaiwenFang]

I’m also developing some DP-FL algorithms and would be interested in contributing to this repo. Could you let me know how I can get involved?

[KarhouTam]

Thank you for your interest in FL-bench @6lyc @ASUKaiwenFang. I opened an RFC-style issue (#192) to discuss DP-related features. Feel free to share your comments, suggestions, or reach out to me for assistance.

[KarhouTam]

Hi, @6lyc. Is this PR still in progress? Feel free to ask for help if you met any issues that about this repo. 😄