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Fairness has emerged as a critical problem in federated learning (FL). In this work, we identify a cause of unfairness in FL -- conflicting gradients with large differences in the magnitudes. To address this issue, we propose the federated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-17 Zheng Wang , Xiaoliang Fan , Jianzhong Qi , Chenglu Wen , Cheng Wang , Rongshan Yu

In this paper, the performance optimization of federated learning (FL), when deployed over a realistic wireless multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communication system with digital modulation and over-the-air computation (AirComp) is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-26 Sihua Wang , Mingzhe Chen , Cong Shen , Changchuan Yin , Christopher G. Brinton

Federated learning is a powerful paradigm for large-scale machine learning, but it faces significant challenges due to unreliable network connections, slow communication, and substantial data heterogeneity across clients. FedAvg and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-06 Ziheng Cheng , Xinmeng Huang , Pengfei Wu , Kun Yuan

Mobile crowdsensing has gained significant attention in recent years and has become a critical paradigm for emerging Internet of Things applications. The sensing devices continuously generate a significant quantity of data, which provide…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-07 Zhouyuan Huo , Qian Yang , Bin Gu , Lawrence Carin. Heng Huang

Partial model personalization, which encompasses both shared and personal variables in its formulation, is a critical optimization problem in federated learning. It balances individual client needs with collective knowledge utilization, and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-10-02 Yiming Chen , Liyuan Cao , Kun Yuan , Zaiwen Wen

Federated Learning is a collaborative machine learning framework to train a deep learning model without accessing clients' private data. Previous works assume one central parameter server either at the cloud or at the edge. The cloud server…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-11-01 Lumin Liu , Jun Zhang , S. H. Song , Khaled B. Letaief

Federated learning (FL) enables collaborative model training across distributed clients without centralizing data. However, existing approaches such as Federated Averaging (FedAvg) often perform poorly with heterogeneous data distributions,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Gyuejeong Lee , Daeyoung Choi

Federated learning has shown its advances recently but is still facing many challenges, such as how algorithms save communication resources and reduce computational costs, and whether they converge. To address these critical issues, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-22 Shenglong Zhou , Geoffrey Ye Li

Federated learning is an emerging paradigm for decentralized training of machine learning models on distributed clients, without revealing the data to the central server. Most existing works have focused on horizontal or vertical data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Jaeyeon Jang , Diego Klabjan , Veena Mendiratta , Fanfei Meng

Federated learning often suffers from slow and unstable convergence due to the heterogeneous characteristics of participating client datasets. Such a tendency is aggravated when the client participation ratio is low since the information…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Geeho Kim , Jinkyu Kim , Bohyung Han

Most existing federated learning algorithms are based on the vanilla FedAvg scheme. However, with the increase of data complexity and the number of model parameters, the amount of communication traffic and the number of iteration rounds for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Xiaolin Zheng , Senci Ying , Fei Zheng , Jianwei Yin , Longfei Zheng , Chaochao Chen , Fengqin Dong

In the context of Federated Learning with heterogeneous data environments, local models tend to converge to their own local model optima during local training steps, deviating from the overall data distributions. Aggregation of these local…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Mortesa Hussaini , Jan Theiß , Anthony Stein

In the federated learning setting, multiple clients jointly train a model under the coordination of the central server, while the training data is kept on the client to ensure privacy. Normally, inconsistent distribution of data across…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-21 Wei Huang , Tianrui Li , Dexian Wang , Shengdong Du , Junbo Zhang

Federated learning is a decentralized machine learning framework that enables collaborative model training without revealing raw data. Due to the diverse hardware and software limitations, a client may not always be available for the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-21 Lili Su , Ming Xiang , Jiaming Xu , Pengkun Yang

Distributed learning algorithms aim to leverage distributed and diverse data stored at users' devices to learn a global phenomena by performing training amongst participating devices and periodically aggregating their local models'…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-04 Naram Mhaisen , Alaa Awad , Amr Mohamed , Aiman Erbad , Mohsen Guizani

A widely recognized difficulty in federated learning arises from the statistical heterogeneity among clients: local datasets often originate from distinct yet not entirely unrelated probability distributions, and personalization is,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-03-12 Shuxiao Chen , Qinqing Zheng , Qi Long , Weijie J. Su

Machine learning is typically framed from a perspective of i.i.d., and more importantly, isolated data. In parts, federated learning lifts this assumption, as it sets out to solve the real-world challenge of collaboratively learning a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Subarnaduti Paul , Lars-Joel Frey , Roshni Kamath , Kristian Kersting , Martin Mundt

Federated Learning is a distributed machine learning approach which enables model training without data sharing. In this paper, we propose a new federated learning algorithm, Federated Averaging with Client-level Momentum (FedCM), to tackle…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Jing Xu , Sen Wang , Liwei Wang , Andrew Chi-Chih Yao

Federated learning is a promising distributed training paradigm that effectively safeguards data privacy. However, it may involve significant communication costs, which hinders training efficiency. In this paper, we aim to enhance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Shiwei Li , Yingyi Cheng , Haozhao Wang , Xing Tang , Shijie Xu , Weihong Luo , Yuhua Li , Dugang Liu , Xiuqiang He , Ruixuan Li

By letting local clients perform multiple local updates before communicating with a parameter server, modern federated learning algorithms such as FedAvg tackle the communication bottleneck problem in distributed learning and have found…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Jie Liu , Yongqiang Wang