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We consider a federated learning (FL) system consisting of multiple clients and a server, where the clients aim to collaboratively learn a common decision model from their distributed data. Unlike the conventional FL framework that assumes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-10 Kun Jin , Tongxin Yin , Zhongzhu Chen , Zeyu Sun , Xueru Zhang , Yang Liu , Mingyan Liu

Federated Learning offers a solution for decentralised model training, addressing the difficulties associated with distributed data and privacy in machine learning. However, the fact of data heterogeneity in federated learning frequently…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Ozgu Goksu , Nicolas Pugeault

Federated learning is a privacy-preserving machine learning technique that learns a shared model across decentralized clients. It can alleviate privacy concerns of personal re-identification, an important computer vision task. In this work,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-12 Weiming Zhuang , Yonggang Wen , Xuesen Zhang , Xin Gan , Daiying Yin , Dongzhan Zhou , Shuai Zhang , Shuai Yi

Training of large scale models on distributed clusters is a critical component of the machine learning pipeline. However, this training can easily be made to fail if some workers behave in an adversarial (Byzantine) fashion whereby they…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-05 Konstantinos Konstantinidis , Aditya Ramamoorthy

In the field of heterogeneous federated learning (FL), the key challenge is to efficiently and collaboratively train models across multiple clients with different data distributions, model structures, task objectives, computational…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Chuan Chen , Tianchi Liao , Xiaojun Deng , Zihou Wu , Sheng Huang , Zibin Zheng

Given sufficient data from multiple edge devices, federated learning (FL) enables training a shared model without transmitting private data to the central server. However, FL is generally vulnerable to Byzantine attacks from compromised…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Youngjoon Lee , Jinu Gong , Joonhyuk Kang

Distributed Learning often suffers from Byzantine failures, and there have been a number of works studying the problem of distributed stochastic optimization under Byzantine failures, where only a portion of workers, instead of all the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Kaiyun Li , Xiaojun Chen , Ye Dong , Peng Zhang , Dakui Wang , Shuai Zen

Federated learning (FL) enables collaborative model training without direct data sharing, but its performance can degrade significantly in the presence of data distribution perturbations. Distributionally robust optimization (DRO) provides…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Zifan Wang , Xinlei Yi , Xenia Konti , Michael M. Zavlanos , Karl H. Johansson

Federated learning (FL) is a recently proposed distributed machine learning paradigm dealing with distributed and private data sets. Based on the data partition pattern, FL is often categorized into horizontal, vertical, and hybrid…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-19 Xinwei Zhang , Wotao Yin , Mingyi Hong , Tianyi Chen

Federated learning (FL) is a distributed machine learning paradigm where multiple clients conduct local training based on their private data, then the updated models are sent to a central server for global aggregation. The practical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Harsh Vardhan , Xiaofan Yu , Tajana Rosing , Arya Mazumdar

Federated learning is a communication-efficient training process that alternates between local training at the edge devices and averaging the updated local model at the central server. Nevertheless, it is impractical to achieve a perfect…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-04 Fan Ang , Li Chen , Nan Zhao , Yunfei Chen , Weidong Wang , F. Richard Yu

As a promising paradigm federated Learning (FL) is widely used in privacy-preserving machine learning, which allows distributed devices to collaboratively train a model while avoiding data transmission among clients. Despite its immense…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Jinglong Shen , Xiucheng Wang , Nan Cheng , Longfei Ma , Conghao Zhou , Yuan Zhang

The future of machine learning lies in moving data collection along with training to the edge. Federated Learning, for short FL, has been recently proposed to achieve this goal. The principle of this approach is to aggregate models learned…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-13 Adnan Ben Mansour , Gaia Carenini , Alexandre Duplessis

Byzantine-robust distributed optimization relies on robust aggregation rules to mitigate the influence of malicious Byzantine workers. Despite the proliferation of such rules, a unified convergence analysis framework that accommodates…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-14 Boyuan Ruan , Xiaoyu Wang , Ya-Feng Liu

Federated Learning (FL) is a method of training machine learning models on private data distributed over a large number of possibly heterogeneous clients such as mobile phones and IoT devices. In this work, we propose a new federated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-15 Enmao Diao , Jie Ding , Vahid Tarokh

Decentralized Learning (DL) is a peer--to--peer learning approach that allows a group of users to jointly train a machine learning model. To ensure correctness, DL should be robust, i.e., Byzantine users must not be able to tamper with the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-08 Mathilde Raynal , Dario Pasquini , Carmela Troncoso

In the context of the growing proliferation of user devices and the concurrent surge in data volumes, the complexities arising from the substantial increase in data have posed formidable challenges to conventional machine learning model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Eyad Gad , Zubair Md Fadlullah , Mostafa M. Fouda

Federated learning (FL) facilitates distributed training across different IoT and edge devices, safeguarding the privacy of their data. The inherent distributed structure of FL introduces vulnerabilities, especially from adversarial devices…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-11-13 Shenghui Li , Edith Ngai , Fanghua Ye , Li Ju , Tianru Zhang , Thiemo Voigt

Byzantine robustness is an essential feature of algorithms for certain distributed optimization problems, typically encountered in collaborative/federated learning. These problems are usually huge-scale, implying that communication…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-12 Ahmad Rammal , Kaja Gruntkowska , Nikita Fedin , Eduard Gorbunov , Peter Richtárik

We introduce a new and increasingly relevant setting for distributed optimization in machine learning, where the data defining the optimization are unevenly distributed over an extremely large number of nodes. The goal is to train a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-10-11 Jakub Konečný , H. Brendan McMahan , Daniel Ramage , Peter Richtárik