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Federated learning (FL) is an emerging learning paradigm to tackle massively distributed data. In Federated Learning, a set of clients jointly perform a machine learning task under the coordination of a server. The FedAvg algorithm is one…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-14 Junyi Li , Feihu Huang , Heng Huang

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 variant of distributed learning where edge devices collaborate to learn a model without sharing their data with the central server or each other. We refer to the process of training multiple independent models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-22 Neelkamal Bhuyan , Sharayu Moharir , Gauri Joshi

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 has emerged in the last decade as a distributed optimization paradigm due to the rapidly increasing number of portable devices able to support the heavy computational needs related to the training of machine learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Emanuel Buttaci , Giuseppe Carlo Calafiore

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 (FL) enables on-device training over distributed networks consisting of a massive amount of modern smart devices, such as smartphones and IoT (Internet of Things) devices. However, the leading optimization algorithm in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Xin Yao , Tianchi Huang , Chenglei Wu , Rui-Xiao Zhang , Lifeng Sun

Recent attacks have shown that user data can be recovered from FedSGD updates, thus breaking privacy. However, these attacks are of limited practical relevance as federated learning typically uses the FedAvg algorithm. Compared to FedSGD,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-02 Dimitar I. Dimitrov , Mislav Balunović , Nikola Konstantinov , Martin Vechev

Distributed stochastic optimization has drawn great attention recently due to its effectiveness in solving large-scale machine learning problems. Though numerous algorithms have been proposed and successfully applied to general practical…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-12-15 Kun Huang , Xiao Li , Shi Pu

Federated learning involves a mixture of centralized and decentralized processing tasks, where a server regularly selects a sample of the agents and these in turn sample their local data to compute stochastic gradients for their learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Elsa Rizk , Stefan Vlaski , Ali H. Sayed

Federated learning enables a large amount of edge computing devices to jointly learn a model without data sharing. As a leading algorithm in this setting, Federated Averaging (\texttt{FedAvg}) runs Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD) in…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-06-26 Xiang Li , Kaixuan Huang , Wenhao Yang , Shusen Wang , Zhihua Zhang

Federated Averaging (FedAvg, also known as Local-SGD) (McMahan et al., 2017) is a classical federated learning algorithm in which clients run multiple local SGD steps before communicating their update to an orchestrating server. We propose…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-11 Haoyu Zhao , Zhize Li , Peter Richtárik

Federated learning (FL) enables decentralized model training without centralizing raw data. However, practical FL deployments often face a key realistic challenge: Clients participate intermittently in server aggregation and with unknown,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Herlock , Rahimi , Dionysis Kalogerias

Federated learning is typically approached as an optimization problem, where the goal is to minimize a global loss function by distributing computation across client devices that possess local data and specify different parts of the global…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-02 Maruan Al-Shedivat , Jennifer Gillenwater , Eric Xing , Afshin Rostamizadeh

Federated learning allows distributed devices to collectively train a model without sharing or disclosing the local dataset with a central server. The global model is optimized by training and averaging the model parameters of all local…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-23 George Pu , Yanlin Zhou , Dapeng Wu , Xiaolin Li

In distributed learning settings such as federated learning, the training algorithm can be potentially biased towards different clients. Mohri et al. (2019) proposed a domain-agnostic learning algorithm, where the model is optimized for any…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-17 Jae Ro , Mingqing Chen , Rajiv Mathews , Mehryar Mohri , Ananda Theertha Suresh

Recently, federated learning has raised increasing interest in the medical image analysis field due to its ability to aggregate multi-center data with privacy-preserving properties. A large amount of federated training schemes have been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Matthis Manthe , Stefan Duffner , Carole Lartizien

Federated Learning (FL) is a distributed machine learning paradigm enabling collaborative model training across decentralized clients while preserving data privacy. In this paper, we revisit the stability of the vanilla FedAvg algorithm…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Youngjoon Lee , Jinu Gong , Sun Choi , Joonhyuk Kang

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

Recent demands on data privacy have called for federated learning (FL) as a new distributed learning paradigm in massive and heterogeneous networks. Although many FL algorithms have been proposed, few of them have considered the matrix…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-02 Shuai Wang , Tsung-Hui Chang