FedHypeVAE: Federated Learning with Hypernetwork Generated Conditional VAEs for Differentially Private Embedding Sharing

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2601.00785v1
• Date: Fri, 02 Jan 2026 18:40:41 GMT
• Title: FedHypeVAE: Federated Learning with Hypernetwork Generated Conditional VAEs for Differentially Private Embedding Sharing
• Authors: Sunny Gupta, Amit Sethi,
• Abstract summary: FedHypeVAE is a differentially private, hypernetwork-driven framework for embedding-level data across decentralized clients.<n>Shared hypernetwork is optimized under differential privacy, ensuring only noise-perturbed, clipped gradients are aggregated across clients.
• Score: 8.063829694260594
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Federated data sharing promises utility without centralizing raw data, yet existing embedding-level generators struggle under non-IID client heterogeneity and provide limited formal protection against gradient leakage. We propose FedHypeVAE, a differentially private, hypernetwork-driven framework for synthesizing embedding-level data across decentralized clients. Building on a conditional VAE backbone, we replace the single global decoder and fixed latent prior with client-aware decoders and class-conditional priors generated by a shared hypernetwork from private, trainable client codes. This bi-level design personalizes the generative layerrather than the downstream modelwhile decoupling local data from communicated parameters. The shared hypernetwork is optimized under differential privacy, ensuring that only noise-perturbed, clipped gradients are aggregated across clients. A local MMD alignment between real and synthetic embeddings and a Lipschitz regularizer on hypernetwork outputs further enhance stability and distributional coherence under non-IID conditions. After training, a neutral meta-code enables domain agnostic synthesis, while mixtures of meta-codes provide controllable multi-domain coverage. FedHypeVAE unifies personalization, privacy, and distribution alignment at the generator level, establishing a principled foundation for privacy-preserving data synthesis in federated settings. Code: github.com/sunnyinAI/FedHypeVAE

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