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Federated Learning (FL) has emerged as a crucial distributed training paradigm, enabling discrete devices to collaboratively train a shared model under the coordination of a central server, while leveraging their locally stored private…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-02 Wenhao Yuan , Xuehe Wang

Federated averaging (FedAvg) is the most fundamental algorithm in Federated learning (FL). Previous theoretical results assert that FedAvg convergence and generalization degenerate under heterogeneous clients. However, recent empirical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-16 Dun Zeng , Zenglin Xu , Shiyu Liu , Yu Pan , Qifan Wang , Xiaoying Tang

Federated learning enables a large amount of edge computing devices to jointly learn a model without data sharing. As a leading algorithm in this setting, Federated Averaging (\texttt{FedAvg}) runs Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD) in…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-06-26 Xiang Li , Kaixuan Huang , Wenhao Yang , Shusen Wang , Zhihua Zhang

Federated learning (FL) enables decentralized model training without centralizing raw data. However, practical FL deployments often face a key realistic challenge: Clients participate intermittently in server aggregation and with unknown,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Herlock , Rahimi , Dionysis Kalogerias

Federated learning is a distributed machine learning paradigm in which a large number of clients coordinate with a central server to learn a model without sharing their own training data. Standard federated optimization methods such as…

Federated learning (FL) allows remote clients to train a global model collaboratively while protecting client privacy. Despite its privacy-preserving benefits, FL has significant drawbacks, including slow convergence, high communication…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Mohammad Partohaghighi , Roummel Marcia , YangQuan Chen

Federated averaging (FedAvg) is a popular algorithm for horizontal federated learning (FL), where samples are gathered across different clients and are not shared with each other or a central server. Extensive convergence analysis of FedAvg…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-03 Tom Overman , Diego Klabjan

Federated learning on heterogeneous (non-IID) client data experiences slow convergence due to client drift. To address this challenge, we propose Kuramoto-FedAvg, a federated optimization algorithm that reframes the weight aggregation step…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Aggrey Muhebwa , Khotso Selialia , Fatima Anwar , Khalid K. Osman

Federated learning (FL) aims to train machine learning models in the decentralized system consisting of an enormous amount of smart edge devices. Federated averaging (FedAvg), the fundamental algorithm in FL settings, proposes on-device…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-17 Xin Yao , Tianchi Huang , Rui-Xiao Zhang , Ruiyu Li , Lifeng Sun

The performance of Federated Learning (FL) hinges on the effectiveness of utilizing knowledge from distributed datasets. Traditional FL methods adopt an aggregate-then-adapt framework, where clients update local models based on a global…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-01 Yuan Wang , Huazhu Fu , Renuga Kanagavelu , Qingsong Wei , Yong Liu , Rick Siow Mong Goh

We propose Federated Accelerated Stochastic Gradient Descent (FedAc), a principled acceleration of Federated Averaging (FedAvg, also known as Local SGD) for distributed optimization. FedAc is the first provable acceleration of FedAvg that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Honglin Yuan , Tengyu Ma

Federated Averaging (FedAVG) has become the most popular federated learning algorithm due to its simplicity and low communication overhead. We use simple examples to show that FedAVG has the tendency to sew together the optima across the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-22 Irene Tenison , Sreya Francis , Irina Rish

Federated Learning (FL), a distributed learning paradigm that scales on-device learning collaboratively, has emerged as a promising approach for decentralized AI applications. Local optimization methods such as Federated Averaging (FedAvg)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-25 Honglin Yuan

Federated learning has emerged as a new paradigm of collaborative machine learning; however, it has also faced several challenges such as non-independent and identically distributed(IID) data and high communication cost. To this end, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-10 Jin-woo Lee , Jaehoon Oh , Yooju Shin , Jae-Gil Lee , Se-Young Yoon

Federated learning (FL) is a prevailing distributed learning paradigm, where a large number of workers jointly learn a model without sharing their training data. However, high communication costs could arise in FL due to large-scale (deep)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Haibo Yang , Jia Liu , Elizabeth S. Bentley

We consider strongly convex-concave minimax problems in the federated setting, where the communication constraint is the main bottleneck. When clients are arbitrarily heterogeneous, a simple Minibatch Mirror-prox achieves the best…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-15 Charlie Hou , Kiran K. Thekumparampil , Giulia Fanti , Sewoong Oh

Federated learning is an emerging distributed machine learning method, enables a large number of clients to train a model without exchanging their local data. The time cost of communication is an essential bottleneck in federated learning,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Hao Sun , Li Shen , Shixiang Chen , Jingwei Sun , Jing Li , Guangzhong Sun , Dacheng Tao

Federated learning (FL) allows multiple clients to collectively train a high-performance global model without sharing their private data. However, the key challenge in federated learning is that the clients have significant statistical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-23 Liang Gao , Huazhu Fu , Li Li , Yingwen Chen , Ming Xu , Cheng-Zhong Xu

In cross-device federated learning (FL) with millions of mobile clients, only a small subset of clients participate in training in every communication round, and Federated Averaging (FedAvg) is the most popular algorithm in practice.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-03 Zhenyu Sun , Ziyang Zhang , Zheng Xu , Gauri Joshi , Pranay Sharma , Ermin Wei

Federated learning is highly valued due to its high-performance computing in distributed environments while safeguarding data privacy. To address resource heterogeneity, researchers have proposed a semi-asynchronous federated learning…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Yunbo Li , Jiaping Gui , Yue Wu