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Federated learning (FL) is an emerging learning paradigm to tackle massively distributed data. In Federated Learning, a set of clients jointly perform a machine learning task under the coordination of a server. The FedAvg algorithm is one…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-14 Junyi Li , Feihu Huang , Heng Huang

Federated Learning (FL) is a distributed learning paradigm that enables a large number of resource-limited nodes to collaboratively train a model without data sharing. The non-independent-and-identically-distributed (non-i.i.d.) data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-04 Hongda Wu , Ping Wang

Federated learning (FL) enables collaboratively training deep learning models on decentralized data. However, there are three types of heterogeneities in FL setting bringing about distinctive challenges to the canonical federated learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-18 Tao Shen , Jie Zhang , Xinkang Jia , Fengda Zhang , Gang Huang , Pan Zhou , Kun Kuang , Fei Wu , Chao Wu

Federated learning (FL) is a decentralized learning technique that enables participating devices to collaboratively build a shared Machine Leaning (ML) or Deep Learning (DL) model without revealing their raw data to a third party. Due to…

Federated learning has become a promising solution for collaboration among medical institutions. However, data owned by each institution would be highly heterogeneous and the distribution is always non-independent and identical distribution…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-25 Guochen Yan , Luyuan Xie , Xinyi Gao , Wentao Zhang , Qingni Shen , Yuejian Fang , Zhonghai Wu

Federated Learning (FL) enables collaborative model training across multiple clients without sharing their private data. However, data heterogeneity across clients leads to client drift, which degrades the overall generalization performance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Alina Devkota , Jacob Thrasher , Donald Adjeroh , Binod Bhattarai , Prashnna K. Gyawali

Federated learning (FL) encounters substantial challenges due to heterogeneity, leading to gradient noise, client drift, and partial client participation errors, the last of which is the most pervasive but remains insufficiently addressed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 S M Ruhul Kabir Howlader , Xiao Chen , Yifei Xie , Lu Liu

Federated learning (FL) offers a solution to train a global machine learning model while still maintaining data privacy, without needing access to data stored locally at the clients. However, FL suffers performance degradation when client…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-13 Zihan Chen , Kai Fong Ernest Chong , Tony Q. S. Quek

Federated learning (FL) enables resource-constrained edge nodes to collaboratively learn a global model under the orchestration of a central server while keeping privacy-sensitive data locally. The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-07 Hongda Wu , Ping Wang

Federated Learning (FL) is a distributed learning paradigm to train a global model across multiple devices without collecting local data. In FL, a server typically selects a subset of clients for each training round to optimize resource…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Dun Zeng , Zenglin Xu , Yu Pan , Xu Luo , Qifan Wang , Xiaoying Tang

Federated learning (FL) is a promising framework for privacy-preserving collaborative learning, where model training tasks are distributed to clients and only the model updates need to be collected at a server. However, when being deployed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Yuchang Sun , Yuyi Mao , Jun Zhang

Distributed learning algorithms aim to leverage distributed and diverse data stored at users' devices to learn a global phenomena by performing training amongst participating devices and periodically aggregating their local models'…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-04 Naram Mhaisen , Alaa Awad , Amr Mohamed , Aiman Erbad , Mohsen Guizani

Existing theory predicts that data heterogeneity will degrade the performance of the Federated Averaging (FedAvg) algorithm in federated learning. However, in practice, the simple FedAvg algorithm converges very well. This paper explains…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-13 Jianyu Wang , Rudrajit Das , Gauri Joshi , Satyen Kale , Zheng Xu , Tong Zhang

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

Federated learning (FL) has emerged as a communication-efficient algorithmic framework for distributed learning across multiple agents. While standard FL formulations capture unconstrained or globally constrained problems, many practical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Mohammadjavad Ebrahimi , Daniel Burbano , Farzad Yousefian

Federated Learning (FL) is a promising distributed machine learning approach that enables collaborative training of a global model using multiple edge devices. The data distributed among the edge devices is highly heterogeneous. Thus, FL…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Ji Liu , Beichen Ma , Qiaolin Yu , Ruoming Jin , Jingbo Zhou , Yang Zhou , Huaiyu Dai , Haixun Wang , Dejing Dou , Patrick Valduriez

Federated learning is a distributed collaborative machine learning paradigm that has gained strong momentum in recent years. In federated learning, a central server periodically coordinates models with clients and aggregates the models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-28 Mengdi Wang , Anna Bodonhelyi , Efe Bozkir , Enkelejda Kasneci

Traditional Federated Learning (FL) faces significant challenges in terms of efficiency and accuracy, particularly in heterogeneous environments where clients employ diverse model architectures and have varying computational resources. Such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Jiacheng Wang , Hongtao Lv , Lei Liu

In the context of Federated Learning with heterogeneous data environments, local models tend to converge to their own local model optima during local training steps, deviating from the overall data distributions. Aggregation of these local…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Mortesa Hussaini , Jan Theiß , Anthony Stein

Meta federated learning (FL) is a personalized variant of FL, where multiple agents collaborate on training an initial shared model without exchanging raw data samples. The initial model should be trained in a way that current or new agents…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Mohammad Vahid Jamali , Hamid Saber , Jung Hyun Bae