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Federated learning effectively addresses issues such as data privacy by collaborating across participating devices to train global models. However, factors such as network topology and device computing power can affect its training or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Yizhuo Cai , Bo Lei , Qianying Zhao , Jing Peng , Min Wei , Yushun Zhang , Xing Zhang

Federated Learning (FL) has evolved as a promising technique to handle distributed machine learning across edge devices. A single neural network (NN) that optimises a global objective is generally learned in most work in FL, which could be…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-10 Sawan Singh Mahara , Shruti M. , B. N. Bharath , Akash Murthy

Federated learning (FL) has emerged as a promising distributed learning paradigm for training deep neural networks (DNNs) at the wireless edge, but its performance can be severely hindered by unreliable wireless transmission and inherent…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Yanmeng Wang , Wenkai Ji , Jian Zhou , Fu Xiao , Tsung-Hui Chang

Federated Learning (FL) is a distributed machine learning approach where multiple clients work together to solve a machine learning task. One of the key challenges in FL is the issue of partial participation, which occurs when a large…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-01 Grigory Malinovsky , Samuel Horváth , Konstantin Burlachenko , Peter Richtárik

Robustness of deep neural networks to input noise remains a critical challenge, as naive noise injection often degrades accuracy on clean (uncorrupted) data. We propose a novel training framework that addresses this trade-off through two…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-01-06 Hai-Vy Nguyen , Fabrice Gamboa , Sixin Zhang , Reda Chhaibi , Serge Gratton , Thierry Giaccone

Federated learning has recently emerged as a paradigm promising the benefits of harnessing rich data from diverse sources to train high quality models, with the salient features that training datasets never leave local devices. Only model…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-02-07 Yifeng Zheng , Shangqi Lai , Yi Liu , Xingliang Yuan , Xun Yi , Cong Wang

Federated learning (FL) enables collaborative model training without sharing raw data; however, the presence of noisy labels across distributed clients can severely degrade the learning performance. In this paper, we propose FedSIR, a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Sina Gholami , Abdulmoneam Ali , Tania Haghighi , Ahmed Arafa , Minhaj Nur Alam

Robustness is becoming another important challenge of federated learning in that the data collection process in each client is naturally accompanied by noisy labels. However, it is far more complex and challenging owing to varying levels of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-20 SangMook Kim , Wonyoung Shin , Soohyuk Jang , Hwanjun Song , Se-Young Yun

Communication overhead is a known bottleneck in federated learning (FL). To address this, lossy compression is commonly used on the information communicated between the server and clients during training. In horizontal FL, where each client…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Pedro Valdeira , João Xavier , Cláudia Soares , Yuejie Chi

Federated noisy label learning (FNLL) is emerging as a promising tool for privacy-preserving multi-source decentralized learning. Existing research, relying on the assumption of class-balanced global data, might be incapable to model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-02 Nannan Wu , Li Yu , Xuefeng Jiang , Kwang-Ting Cheng , Zengqiang Yan

As a promising distributed machine learning paradigm, Federated Learning (FL) enables all the involved devices to train a global model collaboratively without exposing their local data privacy. However, for non-IID scenarios, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-28 Ming Hu , Tian Liu , Zhiwei Ling , Zhihao Yue , Mingsong Chen

Under the federated learning paradigm, a set of nodes can cooperatively train a machine learning model with the help of a centralized server. Such a server is also tasked with assigning a weight to the information received from each node,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-02-04 Francesco Malandrino , Carla Fabiana Chiasserini

Federated Learning (FL) has emerged as a means of distributed learning using local data stored at clients with a coordinating server. Recent studies showed that FL can suffer from poor performance and slower convergence when training data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-17 Van Sy Mai , Richard J. La , Tao Zhang

Federated Learning (FL) enables multiple resource-constrained edge devices with varying levels of heterogeneity to collaboratively train a global model. However, devices with limited capacity can create bottlenecks and slow down model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Afsaneh Mahanipour , Hana Khamfroush

With more regulations tackling users' privacy-sensitive data protection in recent years, access to such data has become increasingly restricted and controversial. To exploit the wealth of data generated and located at distributed entities…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Nader Bouacida , Jiahui Hou , Hui Zang , Xin Liu

In federated learning (FL), models must \emph{converge quickly} under tight communication budgets while \emph{generalizing} across non-IID client distributions. These twin requirements have naturally led to two widely used techniques:…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Tianle Li , Yongzhi Huang , Linshan Jiang , Chang Liu , Qipeng Xie , Wenfeng Du , Lu Wang , Kaishun Wu

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

Federated Learning (FL) is used to learn machine learning models with data that is partitioned across multiple clients, including resource-constrained edge devices. It is therefore important to devise solutions that are efficient in terms…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Durga Sivasubramanian , Lokesh Nagalapatti , Rishabh Iyer , Ganesh Ramakrishnan

Federated Learning (FL) is a machine learning paradigm that allows decentralized clients to learn collaboratively without sharing their private data. However, excessive computation and communication demands pose challenges to current FL…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-09-22 Yue Tan , Guodong Long , Jie Ma , Lu Liu , Tianyi Zhou , Jing Jiang

Federated learning has allowed the training of statistical models over remote devices without the transfer of raw client data. In practice, training in heterogeneous and large networks introduce novel challenges in various aspects like…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Dipankar Sarkar , Sumit Rai , Ankur Narang