{ "id": "2302.01326", "version": "v1", "published": "2023-02-02T18:56:24.000Z", "updated": "2023-02-02T18:56:24.000Z", "title": "Federated Analytics: A survey", "authors": [ "Ahmed Roushdy Elkordy", "Yahya H. Ezzeldin", "Shanshan Han", "Shantanu Sharma", "Chaoyang He", "Sharad Mehrotra", "Salman Avestimehr" ], "comment": "To appear in APSIPA Transactions on Signal and Information Processing, Volume 12, Issue 1", "journal": "APSIPA Transactions on Signal and Information Processing, Volume 12, Issue 1, 2023", "categories": [ "cs.LG", "cs.CR" ], "abstract": "Federated analytics (FA) is a privacy-preserving framework for computing data analytics over multiple remote parties (e.g., mobile devices) or silo-ed institutional entities (e.g., hospitals, banks) without sharing the data among parties. Motivated by the practical use cases of federated analytics, we follow a systematic discussion on federated analytics in this article. In particular, we discuss the unique characteristics of federated analytics and how it differs from federated learning. We also explore a wide range of FA queries and discuss various existing solutions and potential use case applications for different FA queries.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2023-02-02T18:56:24.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "keywords": [ "federated analytics", "fa queries", "multiple remote parties", "case applications", "computing data analytics" ], "tags": [ "journal article" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 0, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable" } } }