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Machine learning typically relies on the assumption that training and testing distributions are identical and that data is centrally stored for training and testing. However, in real-world scenarios, distributions may differ significantly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Ying Li , Xingwei Wang , Rongfei Zeng , Praveen Kumar Donta , Ilir Murturi , Min Huang , Schahram Dustdar

Dimensionality Reduction is a commonly used element in a machine learning pipeline that helps to extract important features from high-dimensional data. In this work, we explore an alternative federated learning system that enables…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-16 Anna Bogdanova , Akie Nakai , Yukihiko Okada , Akira Imakura , Tetsuya Sakurai

Learning a privacy-preserving model from sensitive data which are distributed across multiple devices is an increasingly important problem. The problem is often formulated in the federated learning context, with the aim of learning a single…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-20 Mikko A. Heikkilä , Matthew Ashman , Siddharth Swaroop , Richard E. Turner , Antti Honkela

Federated learning is a distributed, privacy-aware learning scenario which trains a single model on data belonging to several clients. Each client trains a local model on its data and the local models are then aggregated by a central party.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-01 Hesham Mostafa

The rapid emergence of massive datasets in various fields poses a serious challenge to traditional statistical methods. Meanwhile, it provides opportunities for researchers to develop novel algorithms. Inspired by the idea of…

Computation · Statistics 2023-04-14 Yuan Gao , Weidong Liu , Hansheng Wang , Xiaozhou Wang , Yibo Yan , Riquan Zhang

Distributed, online data mining systems have emerged as a result of applications requiring analysis of large amounts of correlated and high-dimensional data produced by multiple distributed data sources. We propose a distributed online data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-07-03 Cem Tekin , Mihaela van der Schaar

Federated learning, where algorithms are trained across multiple decentralized devices without sharing local data, is increasingly popular in distributed machine learning practice. Typically, a graph structure $G$ exists behind local…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-09-20 Huiyuan Wang , Xuyang Zhao , Wei Lin

We consider the critical problem of distributed learning over data while keeping it private from the computational servers. The state-of-the-art approaches to this problem rely on quantizing the data into a finite field, so that the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-20 Mahdi Soleymani , Hessam Mahdavifar , A. Salman Avestimehr

This paper formulates and studies a novel algorithm for federated learning from large collections of local datasets. This algorithm capitalizes on an intrinsic network structure that relates the local datasets via an undirected "empirical"…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-28 Y. Sarcheshmehpour , M. Leinonen , A. Jung

Decentralized learning offers privacy and communication efficiency when data are naturally distributed among agents communicating over an underlying graph. Motivated by overparameterized learning settings, in which models are trained to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Hossein Taheri , Christos Thrampoulidis

Distributed learning facilitates the scaling-up of data processing by distributing the computational burden over several nodes. Despite the vast interest in distributed learning, generalization performance of such approaches is not well…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-05-05 Martin Hellkvist , Ayça Özçelikkale , Anders Ahlén

In federated distributed learning, the goal is to optimize a global training objective defined over distributed devices, where the data shard at each device is sampled from a possibly different distribution (a.k.a., heterogeneous or non…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-10 Farzin Haddadpour , Mehrdad Mahdavi

Federated learning has recently gained popularity as a framework for distributed clients to collaboratively train a machine learning model using local data. While traditional federated learning relies on a central server for model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-03 I-Cheng Lin , Osman Yagan , Carlee Joe-Wong

In recent years, data are typically distributed in multiple organizations while the data security is becoming increasingly important. Federated Learning (FL), which enables multiple parties to collaboratively train a model without…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-03-13 Ji Liu , Xuehai Zhou , Lei Mo , Shilei Ji , Yuan Liao , Zheng Li , Qin Gu , Dejing Dou

In distributed optimization for large-scale learning, a major performance limitation comes from the communications between the different entities. When computations are performed by workers on local data while a coordinator machine…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-06-26 Dmitry Grishchenko , Franck Iutzeler , Jérôme Malick , Massih-Reza Amini

Federated learning (FL) is a machine learning paradigm in which distributed local nodes collaboratively train a central model without sharing individually held private data. Existing FL methods either iteratively share local model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-25 Xuan Gong , Shanglin Li , Yuxiang Bao , Barry Yao , Yawen Huang , Ziyan Wu , Baochang Zhang , Yefeng Zheng , David Doermann

Distributed machine learning generally aims at training a global model based on distributed data without collecting all the data to a centralized location, where two different approaches have been proposed: collecting and aggregating local…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-08 Hanlin Lu , Changchang Liu , Ting He , Shiqiang Wang , Kevin S. Chan

Distributed learning paradigms, such as federated and decentralized learning, allow for the coordination of models across a collection of agents, and without the need to exchange raw data. Instead, agents compute model updates locally based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-04 Stefan Vlaski , Christian Schroth , Michael Muma , Abdelhak M. Zoubir

In current deep learning paradigms, local training or the Standalone framework tends to result in overfitting and thus poor generalizability. This problem can be addressed by Distributed or Federated Learning (FL) that leverages a parameter…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-31 Lingjuan Lyu , Xinyi Xu , Qian Wang

Patterns of microcircuitry suggest that the brain has an array of repeated canonical computational units. Yet neural representations are distributed, so the relevant computations may only be related indirectly to single-neuron…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2023-10-17 Rajkumar Vasudeva Raju , Zhe Li , Scott Linderman , Xaq Pitkow