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Federated Learning (FL) enables a group of clients to jointly train a machine learning model with the help of a centralized server. Clients do not need to submit their local data to the server during training, and hence the local training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-10 Liling Zhang , Xinyu Lei , Yichun Shi , Hongyu Huang , Chao Chen

Heterogeneity across clients in federated learning (FL) usually hinders the optimization convergence and generalization performance when the aggregation of clients' knowledge occurs in the gradient space. For example, clients may differ in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Yue Tan , Guodong Long , Lu Liu , Tianyi Zhou , Qinghua Lu , Jing Jiang , Chengqi Zhang

While federated learning has shown strong results in optimizing a machine learning model without direct access to the original data, its performance may be hindered by intermittent client availability which slows down the convergence and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-08 Zheng Wang , Xiaoliang Fan , Jianzhong Qi , Haibing Jin , Peizhen Yang , Siqi Shen , Cheng Wang

Federated learning (FL) is a kind of distributed machine learning framework, where the global model is generated on the centralized aggregation server based on the parameters of local models, addressing concerns about privacy leakage caused…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Chenhao Xu , Youyang Qu , Yong Xiang , Longxiang Gao

Data heterogeneity is a significant challenge in modern federated learning (FL) as it creates variance in local model updates, causing the aggregated global model to shift away from the true global optimum. Partial client participation in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-24 Mrinmay Sen , Subhrajit Nag

Federated learning (FL) is a machine learning methodology that involves the collaborative training of a global model across multiple decentralized clients in a privacy-preserving way. Several FL methods are introduced to tackle…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Jordan Slessor , Dezheng Kong , Xiaofen Tang , Zheng En Than , Linglong Kong

Federated Learning (FL) is a distributed learning scheme to train a shared model across clients. One common and fundamental challenge in FL is that the sets of data across clients could be non-identically distributed and have different…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Junyi Zhu , Xingchen Ma , Matthew B. Blaschko

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 offers a solution for decentralised model training, addressing the difficulties associated with distributed data and privacy in machine learning. However, the fact of data heterogeneity in federated learning frequently…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Ozgu Goksu , Nicolas Pugeault

Today data is often scattered among billions of resource-constrained edge devices with security and privacy constraints. Federated Learning (FL) has emerged as a viable solution to learn a global model while keeping data private, but the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-08 Sijie Cheng , Jingwen Wu , Yanghua Xiao , Yang Liu , Yang Liu

Federated Learning allows for population level models to be trained without centralizing client data by transmitting the global model to clients, calculating gradients locally, then averaging the gradients. Downloading models and uploading…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-30 Jack Goetz , Kshitiz Malik , Duc Bui , Seungwhan Moon , Honglei Liu , Anuj Kumar

Federated averaging (FedAvg) is the most fundamental algorithm in Federated learning (FL). Previous theoretical results assert that FedAvg convergence and generalization degenerate under heterogeneous clients. However, recent empirical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-16 Dun Zeng , Zenglin Xu , Shiyu Liu , Yu Pan , Qifan Wang , Xiaoying Tang

Federated Learning (FL) enables decentralized model training across clients without sharing raw data, but its performance degrades under real-world data heterogeneity. Existing methods often fail to address distribution shift across clients…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Mohan Li , Dario Fenoglio , Martin Gjoreski , Marc Langheinrich

Federated Learning (FL) has emerged as a means of distributed learning using local data stored at clients with a coordinating server. Recent studies showed that FL can suffer from poor performance and slower convergence when training data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-17 Van Sy Mai , Richard J. La , Tao Zhang

As a promising paradigm federated Learning (FL) is widely used in privacy-preserving machine learning, which allows distributed devices to collaboratively train a model while avoiding data transmission among clients. Despite its immense…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Jinglong Shen , Xiucheng Wang , Nan Cheng , Longfei Ma , Conghao Zhou , Yuan Zhang

Recently, a new distributed learning scheme called Federated Learning (FL) has been introduced. FL is designed so that server never collects user-owned data meaning it is great at preserving privacy. FL's process starts with the server…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Amin Eslami Abyane , Steve Drew , Hadi Hemmati

Federated Learning (FL) enables collaborative learning across distributed clients while preserving data privacy. However, FL faces significant challenges when dealing with heterogeneous data distributions, which can lead to suboptimal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Duy Phuong Nguyen , J. Pablo Munoz , Tanya Roosta , Ali Jannesari

Federated Averaging (FedAvg) and its variants are the most popular optimization algorithms in federated learning (FL). Previous convergence analyses of FedAvg either assume full client participation or partial client participation where the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-08 Yae Jee Cho , Pranay Sharma , Gauri Joshi , Zheng Xu , Satyen Kale , Tong Zhang

Federated learning (FL) is a framework for machine learning across heterogeneous client devices in a privacy-preserving fashion. To date, most FL algorithms learn a "global" server model across multiple rounds. At each round, the same…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-22 Zachary Charles , Kallista Bonawitz , Stanislav Chiknavaryan , Brendan McMahan , Blaise Agüera y Arcas

Federated learning (FL) enables collaborative training without raw data sharing, but still risks training data memorization. Existing FL memorization detection techniques focus on one sample at a time, underestimating more subtle risks of…