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Federated Learning (FL) typically aggregates client model parameters using a weighting approach determined by sample proportions. However, this naive weighting method may lead to unfairness and degradation in model performance due to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-13 Mingwei Xu , Xiaofeng Cao , Ivor W. Tsang , James T. Kwok

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

Meta federated learning (FL) is a personalized variant of FL, where multiple agents collaborate on training an initial shared model without exchanging raw data samples. The initial model should be trained in a way that current or new agents…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Mohammad Vahid Jamali , Hamid Saber , Jung Hyun Bae

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) aims to minimize the communication complexity of training a model over heterogeneous data distributed across many clients. A common approach is local methods, where clients take multiple optimization steps over local…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Charlie Hou , Kiran K. Thekumparampil , Giulia Fanti , Sewoong Oh

The enormous amount of data produced by mobile and IoT devices has motivated the development of federated learning (FL), a framework allowing such devices (or clients) to collaboratively train machine learning models without sharing their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-12 Angelo Rodio , Francescomaria Faticanti , Othmane Marfoq , Giovanni Neglia , Emilio Leonardi

Federated Learning (FL) has been becoming a popular interdisciplinary research area in both applied mathematics and information sciences. Mathematically, FL aims to collaboratively optimize aggregate objective functions over distributed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Shusen Yang , Fangyuan Zhao , Zihao Zhou , Liang Shi , Xuebin Ren , Zongben Xu

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 (FL) is a distributed machine learning paradigm that allows clients to train models on their data while preserving their privacy. FL algorithms, such as Federated Averaging (FedAvg) and its variants, have been shown to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Changxin Xu , Yuxin Qiao , Zhanxin Zhou , Fanghao Ni , Jize Xiong

In Federated Learning (FL), the clients learn a single global model (FedAvg) through a central aggregator. In this setting, the non-IID distribution of the data across clients restricts the global FL model from delivering good performance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-29 Siddharth Divi , Yi-Shan Lin , Habiba Farrukh , Z. Berkay Celik

Federated learning (FL) is a fast-developing technique that allows multiple workers to train a global model based on a distributed dataset. Conventional FL (FedAvg) employs gradient descent algorithm, which may not be efficient enough.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-27 Zhengjie Yang , Wei Bao , Dong Yuan , Nguyen H. Tran , Albert Y. Zomaya

Federated learning (FL) is a subfield of machine learning where multiple clients try to collaboratively learn a model over a network under communication constraints. We consider finite-sum federated optimization under a second-order…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-24 Ahmed Khaled , Chi Jin

There is an increasing interest in a fast-growing machine learning technique called Federated Learning, in which the model training is distributed over mobile user equipments (UEs), exploiting UEs' local computation and training data.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-23 Canh T. Dinh , Nguyen H. Tran , Minh N. H. Nguyen , Choong Seon Hong , Wei Bao , Albert Y. Zomaya , Vincent Gramoli

Federated Learning (FL) is a way for machines to learn from data that is kept locally, in order to protect the privacy of clients. This is typically done using local SGD, which helps to improve communication efficiency. However, such a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Yongxin Guo , Xiaoying Tang , Tao Lin

Federated Learning (FL) has become an active and promising distributed machine learning paradigm. As a result of statistical heterogeneity, recent studies clearly show that the performance of popular FL methods (e.g., FedAvg) deteriorates…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-24 Hua Huang , Fanhua Shang , Yuanyuan Liu , Hongying Liu

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

In this work, we propose FedSSO, a server-side second-order optimization method for federated learning (FL). In contrast to previous works in this direction, we employ a server-side approximation for the Quasi-Newton method without…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-24 Xin Ma , Renyi Bao , Jinpeng Jiang , Yang Liu , Arthur Jiang , Jun Yan , Xin Liu , Zhisong Pan

We revisit the classical Local SGD and Federated Averaging (FedAvg) methods for distributed optimization and federated learning. While prior work has primarily focused on iteration complexity, we analyze these methods through the lens of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-30 Adrien Fradin , Peter Richtárik , Alexander Tyurin

Federated Learning (FL) seeks to distribute model training across local clients without collecting data in a centralized data-center, hence removing data-privacy concerns. A major challenge for FL is data heterogeneity (where each client's…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-22 Junjiao Tian , James Seale Smith , Zsolt Kira

Federated learning (FL), as a distributed collaborative machine learning (ML) framework under privacy-preserving constraints, has garnered increasing research attention in cross-organizational data collaboration scenarios. This paper…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Wenyou Guo , Ting Qu , Chunrong Pan , George Q. Huang