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Federated Learning (FL) faces significant challenges in evolving environments, particularly regarding data heterogeneity and the rigidity of fixed network topologies. To address these issues, this paper proposes \textbf{SOFA-FL}…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Yi Ni , Xinkun Wang , Han Zhang

Federated learning aims to collaboratively train models without accessing their client's local private data. The data may be Non-IID for different clients and thus resulting in poor performance. Recently, personalized federated learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-16 Dui Wang , Li Shen , Yong Luo , Han Hu , Kehua Su , Yonggang Wen , Dacheng Tao

The issue of group fairness in machine learning models, where certain sub-populations or groups are favored over others, has been recognized for some time. While many mitigation strategies have been proposed in centralized learning, many of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Ganghua Wang , Ali Payani , Myungjin Lee , Ramana Kompella

Federated learning involves training statistical models over remote devices such as mobile phones while keeping data localized. Training in heterogeneous and potentially massive networks introduces opportunities for privacy-preserving data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-21 Afra Mashhadi , Alex Kyllo , Reza M. Parizi

Federated learning provides a promising paradigm for collecting machine learning models from distributed data sources without compromising users' data privacy. The success of a credible federated learning system builds on the assumption…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-22 Yang Liu , Jiaheng Wei

Federated learning (FL) is an appealing concept to perform distributed training of Neural Networks (NN) while keeping data private. With the industrialization of the FL framework, we identify several problems hampering its successful…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-13 Lixuan Yang , Cedric Beliard , Dario Rossi

Federated Learning (FL) has emerged as a promising distributed learning paradigm with an added advantage of data privacy. With the growing interest in having collaboration among data owners, FL has gained significant attention of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Afsana Khan , Marijn ten Thij , Anna Wilbik

The success of federated learning (FL) ultimately depends on how strategic participants behave under partial observability, yet most formulations still treat FL as a static optimization problem. We instead view FL deployments as governed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Dongseok Kim , Hyoungsun Choi , Mohamed Jismy Aashik Rasool , Gisung Oh

Federated Learning (FL) has emerged as a result of data ownership and privacy concerns to prevent data from being shared between multiple parties included in a training procedure. Although issues, such as privacy, have gained significant…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-26 Ninareh Mehrabi , Cyprien de Lichy , John McKay , Cynthia He , William Campbell

Federated Learning (FL) is a distributed machine learning approach to learn models on decentralized heterogeneous data, without the need for clients to share their data. Many existing FL approaches assume that all clients have equal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Aditya Narayan Ravi , Ilan Shomorony

Federated learning (FL) is fundamentally a distributed optimization problem executed by communicating agents with local data, local computation, and partial system visibility. Once FL is viewed through that lens, hierarchy is not merely a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Seyed Mohammad Azimi-Abarghouyi , Mehdi Bennis , Leandros Tassiulas

Developing AI tools that preserve fairness is of critical importance, specifically in high-stakes applications such as those in healthcare. However, health AI models' overall prediction performance is often prioritized over the possible…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-22 Raphael Poulain , Mirza Farhan Bin Tarek , Rahmatollah Beheshti

Fairness in federated learning has emerged as a critical concern, aiming to develop an unbiased model among groups (e.g., male or female) of diverse sensitive features. However, there is a trade-off between model performance and fairness,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Rongguang Ye , Wei-Bin Kou , Ming Tang

Federated learning is a promising machine learning technique that enables multiple clients to collaboratively build a model without revealing the raw data to each other. Among various types of federated learning methods, horizontal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Junki Mori , Isamu Teranishi , Ryo Furukawa

Federated learning enables data sharing in healthcare contexts where it might otherwise be difficult due to data-use-ordinances or security and communication constraints. Distributed and shared data models allow models to become…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-08-04 Navya Annapareddy , Yingzheng Liu , Judy Fox

Federated learning is a form of distributed learning with the key challenge being the non-identically distributed nature of the data in the participating clients. In this paper, we extend federated learning to the setting where multiple…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Neelkamal Bhuyan , Sharayu Moharir

Federated learning protects users' data privacy through sharing users' local model parameters (instead of raw data) with a server. However, when massive users train a large machine learning model through federated learning, the dynamically…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-10-02 Ningning Ding , Lin Gao , Jianwei Huang

Federated learning (FL) is a distributed machine learning technique in which multiple clients cooperate to train a shared model without exchanging their raw data. However, heterogeneity of data distribution among clients usually leads to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-23 Yu Qiao , Seong-Bae Park , Sun Moo Kang , Choong Seon Hong

Federated learning offers a decentralized approach to machine learning, where multiple agents collaboratively train a model while preserving data privacy. In this paper, we investigate the decision-making and equilibrium behavior in…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Lihui Yi , Xiaochun Niu , Ermin Wei

Heterogeneous federated learning (HFL) aims to ensure effective and privacy-preserving collaboration among different entities. As newly joined clients require significant adjustments and additional training to align with the existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Kaile Wang , Jiannong Cao , Yu Yang , Xiaoyin Li , Mingjin Zhang