FEAST: A Communication-efficient Federated Feature Selection Framework for Relational Data

Summary: FEAST uses conditional mutual information for federated vertical feature selection on relational data, cutting redundancy. A compact, efficient protocol minimizes exchanged statistics to protect raw data, delivering strong accuracy at low cost. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 6672
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2023
Pagerank: 5.2634238e-05
Overall Rank: 9,473 | 35.01%
DOI: 10.1145/3588961

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Authors

1. Rui Fu (Beijing Institute of Technology)
2. Yuncheng Wu (National University of Singapore)
3. Quanqing Xu (Ant Financial)
4. Meihui Zhang (Beijing Institute of Technology)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{fu_sigmod23,
        title = {{FEAST: A Communication-efficient Federated Feature Selection Framework for Relational Data}},
        author = {Fu, Rui and Wu, Yuncheng and Xu, Quanqing and Zhang, Meihui},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '23},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/3588961},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3588961},
        year = {2023}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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6,421	Falcon: A Privacy-Preserving and Interpretable Vertical Federated Learning System	2023	VLDB	5.8819368e-05
8,456	Secure and Verifiable Data Collaboration with Low-Cost Zero-Knowledge Proofs	2024	VLDB	5.4217837e-05
10,934	PS-MI: Accurate, Efficient, and Private Data Valuation in Vertical Federated Learning	2025	VLDB	5.093636e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
1,249	Privacy Preserving Vertical Federated Learning for Tree-based Models	2020	VLDB	0.00011495357
1,959	VF2Boost: Very Fast Vertical Federated Gradient Boosting for Cross-Enterprise Learning	2021	SIGMOD	9.4090198e-05
2,918	OceanBase: A 707 Million tpmC Distributed Relational Database System	2022	VLDB	7.9649716e-05
3,237	BlindFL: Vertical Federated Machine Learning without Peeking into Your Data	2022	SIGMOD	7.6089416e-05
3,905	Automated Feature Engineering for Algorithmic Fairness	2021	VLDB	7.029145e-05
4,118	Rafiki: Machine Learning as an Analytics Service System	2019	VLDB	6.8908973e-05
4,390	ARM-Net: Adaptive Relation Modeling Network for Structured Data	2021	SIGMOD	6.7290926e-05
4,446	Projected Federated Averaging with Heterogeneous Differential Privacy	2022	VLDB	6.6990707e-05
4,609	F-IVM: Learning over Fast-Evolving Relational Data	2020	SIGMOD	6.6081313e-05
4,913	Privacy Preserving Schema and Data Matching	2007	SIGMOD	6.4479393e-05
5,131	Enabling SQL-based Training Data Debugging for Federated Learning	2022	VLDB	6.3537809e-05
5,588	Federated Matrix Factorization with Privacy Guarantee	2022	VLDB	6.1564686e-05
6,115	Fine-grained Concept Linking using Neural Networks in Healthcare	2018	SIGMOD	5.9709282e-05
6,637	Causal Feature Selection for Algorithmic Fairness	2022	SIGMOD	5.8170154e-05
7,687	ExDRa: Exploratory Data Science on Federated Raw Data	2021	SIGMOD	5.5671645e-05
7,833	An Introduction to Federated Computation	2022	SIGMOD	5.535766e-05
13,421	DyHealth: Making Neural Networks Dynamic for Effective Healthcare Analytics	2022	VLDB	-

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