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Federated learning (FL) enables collaborative model training across distributed devices without sharing raw data, but applying FL to multi-modal settings introduces significant challenges. Clients typically possess heterogeneous modalities…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Mohamed Badi , Chaouki Ben Issaid , Mehdi Bennis

Federated learning (FL) is a decentralized learning paradigm widely adopted in resource-constrained Internet of Things (IoT) environments. These devices, typically relying on TinyML models, collaboratively train global models by sharing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Pouria Arefijamal , Mahdi Ahmadlou , Bardia Safaei , Jörg Henkel

Federated learning (FL), which has gained increasing attention recently, enables distributed devices to train a common machine learning (ML) model for intelligent inference cooperatively without data sharing. However, problems in practical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Yujie Zhou , Zhidu Li , Tong Tang , Ruyan Wang

To address the communication burden and privacy concerns associated with the centralized server in Federated Learning (FL), Decentralized Federated Learning (DFL) has emerged, which discards the server with a peer-to-peer (P2P)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Qinglun Li , Miao Zhang , Nan Yin , Quanjun Yin , Li Shen

Federated learning has generated significant interest, with nearly all works focused on a "star" topology where nodes/devices are each connected to a central server. We migrate away from this architecture and extend it through the network…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Seyyedali Hosseinalipour , Sheikh Shams Azam , Christopher G. Brinton , Nicolo Michelusi , Vaneet Aggarwal , David J. Love , Huaiyu Dai

Federated Learning (FL) is a decentralized machine learning (ML) technique that allows a number of participants to train an ML model collaboratively without having to share their private local datasets with others. When participants are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Youssra Cheriguene , Wael Jaafar , Halim Yanikomeroglu , Chaker Abdelaziz Kerrache

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

Mobile Edge Computing (MEC), which incorporates the Cloud, edge nodes and end devices, has shown great potential in bringing data processing closer to the data sources. Meanwhile, Federated learning (FL) has emerged as a promising…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-04-26 Wentai Wu , Ligang He , Weiwei Lin , Rui Mao

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

Federated learning (FL) has emerged as a prominent method for collaboratively training machine learning models using local data from edge devices, all while keeping data decentralized. However, accounting for the quality of data contributed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-05 Haoyuan Li , Mathias Funk , Nezihe Merve Gürel , Aaqib Saeed

Recent Mixture-of-Experts (MoE)-based large language models (LLMs) such as Qwen-MoE and DeepSeek-MoE are transforming generative AI in natural language processing. However, these models require vast and diverse training data. Federated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Songyuan Li , Jia Hu , Ahmed M. Abdelmoniem , Geyong Min , Haojun Huang , Jiwei Huang

The future of machine learning lies in moving data collection along with training to the edge. Federated Learning, for short FL, has been recently proposed to achieve this goal. The principle of this approach is to aggregate models learned…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-13 Adnan Ben Mansour , Gaia Carenini , Alexandre Duplessis

Federated Learning (FL) is a pioneering approach in distributed machine learning, enabling collaborative model training across multiple clients while retaining data privacy. However, the inherent heterogeneity due to imbalanced resource…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-18 Suraj Racha , Shubh Gupta , Humaira Firdowse , Aastik Solanki , Ganesh Ramakrishnan , Kshitij S. Jadhav

Federated learning (FL) is a powerful distributed machine learning framework where a server aggregates models trained by different clients without accessing their private data. Hierarchical FL, with a client-edge-cloud aggregation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-10 Lumin Liu , Jun Zhang , Shenghui Song , Khaled B. Letaief

Robust machine learning (ML) models can be developed by leveraging large volumes of data and distributing the computational tasks across numerous devices or servers. Federated learning (FL) is a technique in the realm of ML that facilitates…

The rapid proliferation and growth of artificial intelligence (AI) has led to the development of federated learning (FL). FL allows wireless devices (WDs) to cooperatively learn by sharing only local model parameters, without needing to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-22 Zihao Hu , Jia Yan , Ying-Jun Angela Zhang , Jun Zhang , Khaled B. Letaief

Federated learning (FL) and federated distillation (FD) are distributed learning paradigms that train UE models with enhanced privacy, each offering different trade-offs between noise robustness and learning speed. To mitigate their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Yongjun Kim , Hyeongjun Park , Hwanjin Kim , Junil Choi

Federated Learning (FL) presents significant potential for collaborative optimization without data sharing. Since synthetic data is sent to the server, leveraging the popular concept of dataset distillation, this FL framework protects real…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Haozhi Shi , Weiying Xie , Hangyu Ye , Daixun Li , Jitao Ma , Yunsong Li , Leyuan Fang

Non-Independent and Identically Distributed (non-IID) data in Federated Learning (FL) causes client drift issues, leading to slower convergence and reduced model performance. While existing approaches mitigate this issue in Centralized FL…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Chao Feng , Hongjie Guan , Alberto Huertas Celdrán , Jan von der Assen , Gérôme Bovet , Burkhard Stiller

Federated learning (FL) is a decentralized machine learning paradigm in which multiple clients collaboratively train a shared model without sharing their local private data. However, real-world applications of FL frequently encounter…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Zhekai Zhou , Shudong Liu , Zhaokun Zhou , Yang Liu , Qiang Yang , Yuesheng Zhu , Guibo Luo