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Federated learning is an increasingly popular paradigm that enables a large number of entities to collaboratively learn better models. In this work, we study minmax group fairness in paradigms where different participating entities may only…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-08 Afroditi Papadaki , Natalia Martinez , Martin Bertran , Guillermo Sapiro , Miguel Rodrigues

Training ML models which are fair across different demographic groups is of critical importance due to the increased integration of ML in crucial decision-making scenarios such as healthcare and recruitment. Federated learning has been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Yahya H. Ezzeldin , Shen Yan , Chaoyang He , Emilio Ferrara , Salman Avestimehr

Federated learning is a distributed and privacy-preserving approach to train a statistical model collaboratively from decentralized data of different parties. However, when datasets of participants are not independent and identically…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-24 Li Ju , Tianru Zhang , Salman Toor , Andreas Hellander

Federated learning (FL) is an emerging machine learning paradigm designed to address the challenge of data silos, attracting considerable attention. However, FL encounters persistent issues related to fairness and data privacy. To tackle…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Xinpeng Ling , Jie Fu , Kuncan Wang , Huifa Li , Tong Cheng , Zhili Chen

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 aims to collaboratively train models without accessing their client's local private data. The data may be Non-IID for different clients and thus resulting in poor performance. Recently, personalized federated learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-16 Dui Wang , Li Shen , Yong Luo , Han Hu , Kehua Su , Yonggang Wen , Dacheng Tao

Federated learning is a distributed machine learning approach in which a single server and multiple clients collaboratively build machine learning models without sharing datasets on clients. A challenging issue of federated learning is data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Koji Matsuda , Yuya Sasaki , Chuan Xiao , Makoto Onizuka

Federated Learning (FL) enables collaborative model training without data sharing, yet participants face a fundamental challenge, e.g., simultaneously ensuring fairness across demographic groups while protecting sensitive client data. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Kangkang Sun , Jun Wu , Minyi Guo , Jianhua Li , Jianwei Huang

Federated Learning is a machine learning paradigm where we aim to train machine learning models in a distributed fashion. Many clients/edge devices collaborate with each other to train a single model on the central. Clients do not share…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Mann Patel

Training fair machine learning models becomes more and more important. As many powerful models are trained by collaboration among multiple parties, each holding some sensitive data, it is natural to explore the feasibility of training fair…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Xin Che , Jingdi Hu , Zirui Zhou , Yong Zhang , Lingyang Chu

In current deep learning paradigms, local training or the Standalone framework tends to result in overfitting and thus poor generalizability. This problem can be addressed by Distributed or Federated Learning (FL) that leverages a parameter…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-31 Lingjuan Lyu , Xinyi Xu , Qian Wang

Federated Learning (FL) allows collaborative model training among distributed parties without pooling local datasets at a central server. However, the distributed nature of FL poses challenges in training fair federated learning models. The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Yi Zhou , Naman Goel

Federated learning is an increasingly popular paradigm that enables a large number of entities to collaboratively learn better models. In this work, we study minimax group fairness in federated learning scenarios where different…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-14 Afroditi Papadaki , Natalia Martinez , Martin Bertran , Guillermo Sapiro , Miguel Rodrigues

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

Federated Learning (FL) has emerged as a promising paradigm for collaborative model training across distributed edge devices while preserving data privacy especially with the huge increase amount of data due to the adoption of technologies…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Chaimaa Medjadji , Guilain Leduc , Sylvain Kubler , Yves Le Traon

Federated learning with differential privacy, or private federated learning, provides a strategy to train machine learning models while respecting users' privacy. However, differential privacy can disproportionately degrade the performance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-18 Borja Rodríguez-Gálvez , Filip Granqvist , Rogier van Dalen , Matt Seigel

Federated Learning (FL) is a collaborative method for training models while preserving data privacy in decentralized settings. However, FL encounters challenges related to data heterogeneity, which can result in performance degradation. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-23 Seongyoon Kim , Gihun Lee , Jaehoon Oh , Se-Young Yun

Federated Learning (FL) has gained significant attention as it facilitates collaborative machine learning among multiple clients without centralizing their data on a server. FL ensures the privacy of participating clients by locally storing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Huiqiang Chen , Tianqing Zhu , Wanlei Zhou , Wei Zhao

The issue of group fairness in machine learning models, where certain sub-populations or groups are favored over others, has been recognized for some time. While many mitigation strategies have been proposed in centralized learning, many of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Ganghua Wang , Ali Payani , Myungjin Lee , Ramana Kompella

Federated Learning is a distributed learning paradigm with two key challenges that differentiate it from traditional distributed optimization: (1) significant variability in terms of the systems characteristics on each device in the network…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-23 Tian Li , Anit Kumar Sahu , Manzil Zaheer , Maziar Sanjabi , Ameet Talwalkar , Virginia Smith
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