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Federated learning describes the distributed training of models across multiple clients while keeping the data private on-device. In this work, we view the server-orchestrated federated learning process as a hierarchical latent variable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-22 Christos Louizos , Matthias Reisser , Joseph Soriaga , Max Welling

To improve business efficiency and minimize costs, Artificial Intelligence (AI) practitioners have adopted a shift from formulating models from scratch towards sharing pretrained models. The pretrained models are then aggregated into a…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-05-12 Anthony Kiggundu , Dennis Krummacker , Hans D. Schotten

Federated Learning (FL) offers a collaborative training framework, allowing multiple clients to contribute to a shared model without compromising data privacy. Due to the heterogeneous nature of local datasets, updated client models may…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Chia-Hsiang Kao , Yu-Chiang Frank Wang

The federated learning (FL) framework trains a machine learning model using decentralized data stored at edge client devices by periodically aggregating locally trained models. Popular optimization algorithms of FL use vanilla (stochastic)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-07 Jianyu Wang , Zheng Xu , Zachary Garrett , Zachary Charles , Luyang Liu , Gauri Joshi

There are situations where data relevant to a machine learning problem are distributed among multiple locations that cannot share the data due to regulatory, competitiveness, or privacy reasons. For example, data present in users'…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-27 Dimitris Stripelis , Jose Luis Ambite

Federated Learning is a machine learning paradigm where we aim to train machine learning models in a distributed fashion. Many clients/edge devices collaborate with each other to train a single model on the central. Clients do not share…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Mann Patel

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

Current data compression methods, such as sparsification in Federated Averaging (FedAvg), effectively enhance the communication efficiency of Federated Learning (FL). However, these methods encounter challenges such as the straggler problem…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-08-28 Zichen Tang , Junlin Huang , Rudan Yan , Yuxin Wang , Zhenheng Tang , Shaohuai Shi , Amelie Chi Zhou , Xiaowen Chu

Federated learning (FL) is a promising distributed learning framework where distributed clients collaboratively train a machine learning model coordinated by a server. To tackle the stragglers issue in asynchronous FL, we consider that each…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Jiarong Yang , Yuan Liu , Fangjiong Chen , Wen Chen , Changle Li

Recently, federated learning has emerged as a promising approach for training a global model using data from multiple organizations without leaking their raw data. Nevertheless, directly applying federated learning to real-world tasks faces…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-19 Bingzhe Wu , Zhipeng Liang , Yuxuan Han , Yatao Bian , Peilin Zhao , Junzhou Huang

Federated Learning (FL) enables a group of clients to jointly train a machine learning model with the help of a centralized server. Clients do not need to submit their local data to the server during training, and hence the local training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-10 Liling Zhang , Xinyu Lei , Yichun Shi , Hongyu Huang , Chao Chen

Federated learning is a popular distributed and privacy-preserving learning paradigm in machine learning. Recently, some federated learning algorithms have been proposed to solve the distributed minimax problems. However, these federated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-01 Feihu Huang , Xinrui Wang , Junyi Li , Songcan Chen

Federated learning (FL) allows edge devices to collaboratively train models without sharing local data. As FL gains popularity, clients may need to train multiple unrelated FL models, but communication constraints limit their ability to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-23 Haoran Zhang , Zejun Gong , Zekai Li , Marie Siew , Carlee Joe-Wong , Rachid El-Azouzi

Federated learning is a popular paradigm for machine learning. Ideally, federated learning works best when all clients share a similar data distribution. However, it is not always the case in the real world. Therefore, the topic of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Yuchuan Huang , Chen Hu

In Federated Learning, a common approach for aggregating local models across clients is periodic averaging of the full model parameters. It is, however, known that different layers of neural networks can have a different degree of model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-04 Sunwoo Lee , Tuo Zhang , Chaoyang He , Salman Avestimehr

We study a hierarchical federated learning (FL) problem, where clients cooperatively seek to select among multiple optimal solutions of a primary distributed learning problem, a solution that minimizes a secondary loss function. This…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-26 Mohammadjavad Ebrahimi , Yuyang Qiu , Shisheng Cui , Farzad Yousefian

Federated Learning (FL) enables decentralised model training across distributed clients without requiring data centralisation. However, the generalisation performance of the global model is usually degraded by data heterogeneity across…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Ozgu Goksu , Nicolas Pugeault

Federated Learning is a novel paradigm that involves learning from data samples distributed across a large network of clients while the data remains local. It is, however, known that federated learning is prone to multiple system challenges…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Amirhossein Reisizadeh , Isidoros Tziotis , Hamed Hassani , Aryan Mokhtari , Ramtin Pedarsani

Federated Learning (FL) is a novel distributed machine learning which allows thousands of edge devices to train model locally without uploading data concentrically to the server. But since real federated settings are resource-constrained,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Li Li , Moming Duan , Duo Liu , Yu Zhang , Ao Ren , Xianzhang Chen , Yujuan Tan , Chengliang Wang

Federated bilevel optimization has received increasing attention in various emerging machine learning and communication applications. Recently, several Hessian-vector-based algorithms have been proposed to solve the federated bilevel…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-13 Minhui Huang , Dewei Zhang , Kaiyi Ji