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Federated learning (FL) aims to train models collaboratively across clients without sharing data for privacy-preserving. However, one major challenge is the data heterogeneity issue, which refers to the biased labeling preferences at…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Huan Wang , Haoran Li , Huaming Chen , Jun Yan , Jiahua Shi , Jun Shen

Federated learning (FL) has emerged with increasing popularity to collaborate distributed medical institutions for training deep networks. However, despite existing FL algorithms only allow the supervised training setting, most hospitals in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-17 Quande Liu , Hongzheng Yang , Qi Dou , Pheng-Ann Heng

Federated Learning (FL) facilitates collaborative training of a shared global model without exposing clients' private data. In practical FL systems, clients (e.g., edge servers, smartphones, and wearables) typically have disparate system…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Leming Shen , Qiang Yang , Kaiyan Cui , Yuanqing Zheng , Xiao-Yong Wei , Jianwei Liu , Jinsong Han

Federated Learning is a new machine learning paradigm dealing with distributed model learning on independent devices. One of the many advantages of federated learning is that training data stay on devices (such as smartphones), and only…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Sannara Ek , Romain Rombourg , François Portet , Philippe Lalanda

Intelligent fault diagnosis (IFD) plays a crucial role in ensuring the safe operation of industrial machinery and improving production efficiency. However, traditional supervised deep learning methods require a large amount of training data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Yajiao Dai , Jun Li , Zhen Mei , Yiyang Ni , Shi Jin , Zengxiang Li , Sheng Guo , Wei Xiang

With the advancement of edge computing, federated learning (FL) displays a bright promise as a privacy-preserving collaborative learning paradigm. However, one major challenge for FL is the data heterogeneity issue, which refers to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Huan Wang , Haoran Li , Huaming Chen , Jun Yan , Lijuan Wang , Jiahua Shi , Shiping Chen , Jun Shen

Recently, semi-supervised federated learning (semi-FL) has been proposed to handle the commonly seen real-world scenarios with labeled data on the server and unlabeled data on the clients. However, existing methods face several challenges…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-13 Mingzhao Yang , Shangchao Su , Bin Li , Xiangyang Xue

We study the problem of learning from positive and unlabeled (PU) data in the federated setting, where each client only labels a little part of their dataset due to the limitation of resources and time. Different from the settings in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-16 Xinyang Lin , Hanting Chen , Yixing Xu , Chao Xu , Xiaolin Gui , Yiping Deng , Yunhe Wang

To eliminate the requirement of fully-labeled data for supervised model training in traditional Federated Learning (FL), extensive attention has been paid to the application of Self-supervised Learning (SSL) approaches on FL to tackle the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Yi Liu , Song Guo , Jie Zhang , Qihua Zhou , Yingchun Wang , Xiaohan Zhao

Self-supervised learning (SSL) is capable of learning remarkable representations from centrally available data. Recent works further implement federated learning with SSL to learn from rapidly growing decentralized unlabeled images (e.g.,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-12 Weiming Zhuang , Yonggang Wen , Shuai Zhang

Federated learning aims to collaboratively learn a model by using the data from multiple users under privacy constraints. In this paper, we study the multi-label classification problem under the federated learning setting, where trivial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-25 Xuming An , Dui Wang , Li Shen , Yong Luo , Han Hu , Bo Du , Yonggang Wen , Dacheng Tao

Privacy concerns are considered one of the main challenges in smart cities as sharing sensitive data brings threatening problems to people's lives. Federated learning has emerged as an effective technique to avoid privacy infringement as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-06 Abdullatif Albaseer , Bekir Sait Ciftler , Mohamed Abdallah , Ala Al-Fuqaha

Supervised federated learning (FL) enables multiple clients to share the trained model without sharing their labeled data. However, potential clients might even be reluctant to label their own data, which could limit the applicability of FL…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-12 Nan Lu , Zhao Wang , Xiaoxiao Li , Gang Niu , Qi Dou , Masashi Sugiyama

Federated learning provides a privacy-preserving manner to collaboratively train models on data distributed over multiple local clients via the coordination of a global server. In this paper, we focus on label distribution skew in federated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-23 Jianghu Lu , Shikun Li , Kexin Bao , Pengju Wang , Zhenxing Qian , Shiming Ge

Medical image segmentation is challenging due to the diversity of medical images and the lack of labeled data, which motivates recent developments in federated semi-supervised learning (FSSL) to leverage a large amount of unlabeled data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Zhipeng Deng , Zhe Xu , Tsuyoshi Isshiki , Yefeng Zheng

Federated Semi-supervised Learning (FSSL) combines techniques from both fields of federated and semi-supervised learning to improve the accuracy and performance of models in a distributed environment by using a small fraction of labeled…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-27 Zehui Dong , Wenjing Liu , Siyuan Liu , Xingzhi Chen

Federated Learning (FL) has emerged as a potent framework for training models across distributed data sources while maintaining data privacy. Nevertheless, it faces challenges with limited high-quality labels and non-IID client data,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-04 Taehyeon Kim , Eric Lin , Junu Lee , Christian Lau , Vaikkunth Mugunthan

Federated Learning is a distributed machine learning paradigm dealing with decentralized and personal datasets. Since data reside on devices like smartphones and virtual assistants, labeling is entrusted to the clients, or labels are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-28 Vasileios Tsouvalas , Aaqib Saeed , Tanir Ozcelebi

Heterogeneity arising from label distribution skew and data scarcity can cause inaccuracy and unfairness in intelligent communication applications that heavily rely on distributed computing. To deal with it, this paper proposes a novel…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Chenghao Huang , Xiaolu Chen , Yanru Zhang , Hao Wang

Semi-supervised learning (SSL) has been a powerful strategy to incorporate few labels in learning better representations. In this paper, we focus on a practical scenario that one aims to apply SSL when unlabeled data may contain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-22 Jongjin Park , Sukmin Yun , Jongheon Jeong , Jinwoo Shin