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We address distributed learning problems over undirected networks. Specifically, we focus on designing a novel ADMM-based algorithm that is jointly computation- and communication-efficient. Our design guarantees computational efficiency by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Xiaoxing Ren , Nicola Bastianello , Karl H. Johansson , Thomas Parisini

Federated learning improves data privacy and efficiency in machine learning performed over networks of distributed devices, such as mobile phones, IoT and wearable devices, etc. Yet models trained with federated learning can still fail to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Xingchao Peng , Zijun Huang , Yizhe Zhu , Kate Saenko

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 is highly valued due to its high-performance computing in distributed environments while safeguarding data privacy. To address resource heterogeneity, researchers have proposed a semi-asynchronous federated learning…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Yunbo Li , Jiaping Gui , Yue Wu

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 (FL) allows remote clients to train a global model collaboratively while protecting client privacy. Despite its privacy-preserving benefits, FL has significant drawbacks, including slow convergence, high communication…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Mohammad Partohaghighi , Roummel Marcia , YangQuan Chen

Personalization methods in federated learning aim to balance the benefits of federated and local training for data availability, communication cost, and robustness to client heterogeneity. Approaches that require clients to communicate all…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-28 Karan Singhal , Hakim Sidahmed , Zachary Garrett , Shanshan Wu , Keith Rush , Sushant Prakash

We consider the problem of learning from distributed data in the agnostic setting, i.e., in the presence of arbitrary forms of noise. Our main contribution is a general distributed boosting-based procedure for learning an arbitrary concept…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-11-21 Shang-Tse Chen , Maria-Florina Balcan , Duen Horng Chau

Federated learning (FL) has emerged as a communication-efficient algorithmic framework for distributed learning across multiple agents. While standard FL formulations capture unconstrained or globally constrained problems, many practical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Mohammadjavad Ebrahimi , Daniel Burbano , Farzad Yousefian

Federated learning (FL) is a distributed deep learning method which enables multiple participants, such as mobile phones and IoT devices, to contribute a neural network model while their private training data remains in local devices. This…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-27 Moming Duan , Duo Liu , Xianzhang Chen , Yujuan Tan , Jinting Ren , Lei Qiao , Liang Liang

Federated learning is a distributed learning framework where clients collaboratively train a global model without sharing their raw data. FedAvg is a popular algorithm for federated learning, but it often suffers from slow convergence due…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Shokichi Takakura , Seng Pei Liew , Satoshi Hasegawa

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

Federated Learning is a leading framework for training ML and AI models collaboratively across numerous user devices or databases. We study the trade-offs among estimation accuracy, privacy constraints, and communication cost for…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-19 Arnab Auddy , Xiangni Peng , Subhadeep Paul

Federated learning (FL) learns a model jointly from a set of participating devices without sharing each other's privately held data. The characteristics of non-i.i.d. data across the network, low device participation, high communication…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-02 Zhaonan Qu , Kaixiang Lin , Zhaojian Li , Jiayu Zhou , Zhengyuan Zhou

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

Federated learning is one popular paradigm to train a joint model in a distributed, privacy-preserving environment. But partial annotations pose an obstacle meaning that categories of labels are heterogeneous over clients. We propose to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-11 Malte Tölle , Fernando Navarro , Sebastian Eble , Ivo Wolf , Bjoern Menze , Sandy Engelhardt

Existing theory predicts that data heterogeneity will degrade the performance of the Federated Averaging (FedAvg) algorithm in federated learning. However, in practice, the simple FedAvg algorithm converges very well. This paper explains…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-13 Jianyu Wang , Rudrajit Das , Gauri Joshi , Satyen Kale , Zheng Xu , Tong Zhang

Federated learning is a distributed optimization paradigm that allows training machine learning models across decentralized devices while keeping the data localized. The standard method, FedAvg, suffers from client drift which can hamper…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-15 Xiaowen Jiang , Anton Rodomanov , Sebastian U. Stich

The Federated Averaging (FedAvg) algorithm, which consists of alternating between a few local stochastic gradient updates at client nodes, followed by a model averaging update at the server, is perhaps the most commonly used method in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-30 Liam Collins , Hamed Hassani , Aryan Mokhtari , Sanjay Shakkottai

Personalized federated learning is aimed at allowing numerous clients to train personalized models while participating in collaborative training in a communication-efficient manner without exchanging private data. However, many personalized…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-28 Jaehee Jang , Heonseok Ha , Dahuin Jung , Sungroh Yoon