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Modern federated networks, such as those comprised of wearable devices, mobile phones, or autonomous vehicles, generate massive amounts of data each day. This wealth of data can help to learn models that can improve the user experience on…

Federated learning involves training statistical models in massive, heterogeneous networks. Naively minimizing an aggregate loss function in such a network may disproportionately advantage or disadvantage some of the devices. In this work,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-18 Tian Li , Maziar Sanjabi , Ahmad Beirami , Virginia Smith

Client-level fairness metrics for federated learning are used to ensure that all clients in a federation either: a) have similar final performance on their local data distributions (i.e., client parity), or b) obtain final performance on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-23 Alycia Carey , Xintao Wu

Representation learning is increasingly applied to generate representations that generalize well across multiple downstream tasks. Ensuring fairness guarantees in representation learning is crucial to prevent unfairness toward specific…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Yuhong Luo , Austin Hoag , Xintong Wang , Philip S. Thomas , Przemyslaw A. Grabowicz

Federated learning (FL) is emerging as a new paradigm to train machine learning models in distributed systems. Rather than sharing, and disclosing, the training dataset with the server, the model parameters (e.g. neural networks weights and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-27 Stefano Savazzi , Monica Nicoli , Vittorio Rampa

Achieving the generalization of an invariant classifier from training domains to shifted test domains while simultaneously considering model fairness is a substantial and complex challenge in machine learning. Existing methods address the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Dong Li , Chen Zhao , Minglai Shao , Wenjun Wang

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

In recent advancements in machine learning, federated learning allows a network of distributed clients to collaboratively develop a global model without needing to share their local data. This technique aims to safeguard privacy, countering…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Davide Domini , Gianluca Aguzzi , Nicolas Farabegoli , Mirko Viroli , Lukas Esterle

Federated learning is a distributed, privacy-aware learning scenario which trains a single model on data belonging to several clients. Each client trains a local model on its data and the local models are then aggregated by a central party.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-01 Hesham Mostafa

Protecting patient privacy remains a fundamental barrier to scaling machine learning across healthcare institutions, where centralizing sensitive data is often infeasible due to ethical, legal, and regulatory constraints. Federated learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Vagish Kumar , Syed Bahauddin Alam , Souvik Chakraborty

In traditional federated learning, a single global model cannot perform equally well for all clients. Therefore, the need to achieve the client-level fairness in federated system has been emphasized, which can be realized by modifying the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Seok-Ju Hahn , Gi-Soo Kim , Junghye Lee

Fairness-aware learning aims at satisfying various fairness constraints in addition to the usual performance criteria via data-driven machine learning techniques. Most of the research in fairness-aware learning employs the setting of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-23 Pratik Gajane , Akrati Saxena , Maryam Tavakol , George Fletcher , Mykola Pechenizkiy

Vertical federated learning (VFL) has attracted greater and greater interest since it enables multiple parties possessing non-overlapping features to strengthen their machine learning models without disclosing their private data and model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Changxin Liu , Zhenan Fan , Zirui Zhou , Yang Shi , Jian Pei , Lingyang Chu , Yong Zhang

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 (FL) is a method of training machine learning models on private data distributed over a large number of possibly heterogeneous clients such as mobile phones and IoT devices. In this work, we propose a new federated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-15 Enmao Diao , Jie Ding , Vahid Tarokh

Federated Learning is a training framework that enables multiple participants to collaboratively train a shared model while preserving data privacy and minimizing communication overhead. The heterogeneity of devices and networking resources…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-06-08 Rahul Mishra , Hari Prabhat Gupta , Garvit Banga

Federated Learning is emerging as a privacy-preserving model training approach in distributed edge applications. As such, most edge deployments are heterogeneous in nature i.e., their sensing capabilities and environments vary across…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-15 Khotso Selialia , Yasra Chandio , Fatima M. Anwar

Federated learning provides a communication-efficient and privacy-preserving training process by enabling learning statistical models with massive participants while keeping their data in local clients. However, standard federated learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-15 Shenghui Li , Edith Ngai , Fanghua Ye , Thiemo Voigt

Federated learning is gaining popularity as a distributed machine learning method that can be used to deploy AI-dependent IoT applications while protecting client data privacy and security. Due to the differences of clients, a single global…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-21 Xingjian Cao , Gang Sun , Hongfang Yu , Mohsen Guizani

In the evolving landscape of Federated Learning (FL), the challenge of ensuring data integrity against poisoning attacks is paramount, particularly for applications demanding stringent privacy preservation. Traditional anomaly detection…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-03-18 Zahir Alsulaimawi