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Federated learning systems facilitate training of global models in settings where potentially heterogeneous data is distributed across a large number of clients. Such systems operate in settings with intermittent client availability and/or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-22 Monica Ribero , Haris Vikalo , Gustavo De Veciana

Federated Learning (FL) facilitates collaborative training of a shared global model without exposing clients' private data. In practical FL systems, clients (e.g., edge servers, smartphones, and wearables) typically have disparate system…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Leming Shen , Qiang Yang , Kaiyan Cui , Yuanqing Zheng , Xiao-Yong Wei , Jianwei Liu , Jinsong Han

Federated learning offers a promising approach under the constraints of networking and data privacy constraints in aerial and space networks (ASNs), utilizing large-scale private edge data from drones, balloons, and satellites. Existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-18 Fan Dong , Ali Abbasi , Henry Leung , Xin Wang , Jiayu Zhou , Steve Drew

Federated learning enables a population of clients to collaboratively train machine learning models without exchanging their raw data, but standard algorithms such as FedAvg suffer from slow convergence and high communication and memory…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Yutong He , Zhengyang Huang , Jiahe Geng

Federated learning is proposed as an alternative to centralized machine learning since its client-server structure provides better privacy protection and scalability in real-world applications. In many applications, such as smart homes with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-21 Yuchen Zhao , Payam Barnaghi , Hamed Haddadi

In this paper, we propose the FedFeat+ framework, which distinctively separates feature extraction from classification. We develop a two-tiered model training process: following local training, clients transmit their weights and some…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Mrityunjoy Gain , Kitae Kim , Avi Deb Raha , Apurba Adhikary , Eui-Nam Huh , Zhu Han , Choong Seon Hong

Federated learning is a distributed machine learning paradigm where multiple data owners (clients) collaboratively train one machine learning model while keeping data on their own devices. The heterogeneity of client datasets is one of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-18 Ye Xue , Diego Klabjan , Yuan Luo

Federated Learning (FL) holds great potential for diverse applications owing to its privacy-preserving nature. However, its convergence is often challenged by non-IID data distributions, limiting its effectiveness in real-world deployments.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Kun Zhai , Yifeng Gao , Difan Zou , Guangnan Ye , Siheng Chen , Xingjun Ma , Yu-Gang Jiang

Data heterogeneity across clients is a key challenge in federated learning. Prior works address this by either aligning client and server models or using control variates to correct client model drift. Although these methods achieve fast…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-12 Bo Li , Mikkel N. Schmidt , Tommy S. Alstrøm , Sebastian U. Stich

Learning over massive data stored in different locations is essential in many real-world applications. However, sharing data is full of challenges due to the increasing demands of privacy and security with the growing use of smart mobile…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Jinjin Xu , Wenli Du , Ran Cheng , Wangli He , Yaochu Jin

Federated Learning using the Federated Averaging algorithm has shown great advantages for large-scale applications that rely on collaborative learning, especially when the training data is either unbalanced or inaccessible due to privacy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-21 Jonatan Reyes , Lisa Di Jorio , Cecile Low-Kam , Marta Kersten-Oertel

Federated Learning (FL) enables participant devices to collaboratively train deep learning models without sharing their data with the server or other devices, effectively addressing data privacy and computational concerns. However, FL faces…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Asadullah Tariq , Tariq Qayyum , Mohamed Adel Serhani , Farag Sallabi , Ikbal Taleb , Ezedin S. Barka

The federated learning paradigm has motivated the development of methods for aggregating multiple client updates into a global server model, without sharing client data. Many federated learning algorithms, including the canonical Federated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Nikita Dhawan , Nicole Mitchell , Zachary Charles , Zachary Garrett , Gintare Karolina Dziugaite

Federated Learning (FL) allows distributed model training without sharing raw data, but suffers when client participation is partial. In practice, the distribution of available users (\emph{availability distribution} $q$) rarely aligns with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Herlock , Rahimi , Dionysis Kalogerias

Federated Learning (FL) has emerged as a transformative approach for distributed machine learning, particularly in edge computing environments where data privacy, low latency, and bandwidth efficiency are critical. This paper presents a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Sales Aribe , Gil Nicholas Cagande

Federated Learning (FL) has emerged as a prominent distributed machine learning framework that enables geographically discrete clients to train a global model collaboratively while preserving their privacy-sensitive data. However, due to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-04-15 Shensheng Zheng , Wenhao Yuan , Xuehe Wang , Lingjie Duan

Federated learning (FL) is an emerging paradigm to train model with distributed data from numerous Internet of Things (IoT) devices. It inherently assumes a uniform capacity among participants. However, due to different conditions such as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Hao Zhang , Tingting Wu , Siyao Cheng , Jie Liu

Federated Learning (FL) is a collaborative machine learning framework that allows multiple users to train models utilizing their local data in a distributed manner. However, considerable statistical heterogeneity in local data across…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Qi Le , Enmao Diao , Xinran Wang , Vahid Tarokh , Jie Ding , Ali Anwar

Federated Learning (FL) is a collaborative method for training models while preserving data privacy in decentralized settings. However, FL encounters challenges related to data heterogeneity, which can result in performance degradation. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-23 Seongyoon Kim , Gihun Lee , Jaehoon Oh , Se-Young Yun

Classic Machine Learning techniques require training on data available in a single data lake. However, aggregating data from different owners is not always convenient for different reasons, including security, privacy and secrecy. Data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-03 Bruno Casella , Roberto Esposito , Carlo Cavazzoni , Marco Aldinucci