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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

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 a distributed machine learning paradigm in which a large number of clients coordinate with a central server to learn a model without sharing their own training data. Standard federated optimization methods such as…

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 Averaging (FedAvg) has emerged as the algorithm of choice for federated learning due to its simplicity and low communication cost. However, in spite of recent research efforts, its performance is not fully understood. We obtain…

In Federated Learning (FL) client devices connected over the internet collaboratively train a machine learning model without sharing their private data with a central server or with other clients. The seminal Federated Averaging (FedAvg)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-17 Jed Mills , Jia Hu , Geyong Min

Federated averaging (FedAvg) is a popular federated learning (FL) technique that updates the global model by averaging local models and then transmits the updated global model to devices for their local model update. One main limitation of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-15 Luong Trung Nguyen , Junhan Kim , Byonghyo Shim

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

To improve business efficiency and minimize costs, Artificial Intelligence (AI) practitioners have adopted a shift from formulating models from scratch towards sharing pretrained models. The pretrained models are then aggregated into a…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-05-12 Anthony Kiggundu , Dennis Krummacker , Hans D. Schotten

In cross-device federated learning (FL) with millions of mobile clients, only a small subset of clients participate in training in every communication round, and Federated Averaging (FedAvg) is the most popular algorithm in practice.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-03 Zhenyu Sun , Ziyang Zhang , Zheng Xu , Gauri Joshi , Pranay Sharma , Ermin Wei

Federated learning enables a large amount of edge computing devices to learn a model without data sharing jointly. As a leading algorithm in this setting, Federated Average FedAvg, which runs Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD) in parallel on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-04 Xiaoxiao Li , Zhao Song , Runzhou Tao , Guangyi Zhang

Federated learning (FL) is an emerging distributed training paradigm that aims to learn a common global model without exchanging or transferring the data that are stored locally at different clients. The Federated Averaging (FedAvg)-based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Xiaolu Wang , Zijian Li , Shi Jin , Jun Zhang

Federated Learning (FL) has recently emerged as a promising method that employs a distributed learning model structure to overcome data privacy and transmission issues paused by central machine learning models. In FL, datasets collected…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-05 Ali Anaissi , Basem Suleiman

Federated learning (FL) is a widely employed distributed paradigm for collaboratively training machine learning models from multiple clients without sharing local data. In practice, FL encounters challenges in dealing with partial client…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Xin Liu , Wei li , Dazhi Zhan , Yu Pan , Xin Ma , Yu Ding , Zhisong Pan

Federated Learning (FL) is a distributed machine learning approach that enables model training in communication efficient and privacy-preserving manner. The standard optimization method in FL is Federated Averaging (FedAvg), which performs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-21 Zeyi Tao , Jindi Wu , Qun Li

Federated Averaging (FedAvg), also known as Local SGD, is one of the most popular algorithms in Federated Learning (FL). Despite its simplicity and popularity, the convergence rate of FedAvg has thus far been undetermined. Even under the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Margalit Glasgow , Honglin Yuan , Tengyu Ma

As a promising privacy-preserving machine learning method, Federated Learning (FL) enables global model training across clients without compromising their confidential local data. However, existing FL methods suffer from the problem of low…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Ming Hu , Zhihao Yue , Zhiwei Ling , Xian Wei , Mingsong Chen

Local Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD) with periodic model averaging (FedAvg) is a foundational algorithm in Federated Learning. The algorithm independently runs SGD on multiple workers and periodically averages the model across all the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-12 Sunwoo Lee , Anit Kumar Sahu , Chaoyang He , Salman Avestimehr

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

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