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Federated learning (FL) is an emerging technique that trains massive and geographically distributed edge data while maintaining privacy. However, FL has inherent challenges in terms of fairness and computational efficiency due to the rising…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-28 Yingchun Wang , Jingcai Guo , Jie Zhang , Song Guo , Weizhan Zhang , Qinghua Zheng

Federated learning is a distributed machine learning paradigm where multiple data owners (clients) collaboratively train one machine learning model while keeping data on their own devices. The heterogeneity of client datasets is one of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-18 Ye Xue , Diego Klabjan , Yuan Luo

Federated learning (FL) enables collaboratively training deep learning models on decentralized data. However, there are three types of heterogeneities in FL setting bringing about distinctive challenges to the canonical federated learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-18 Tao Shen , Jie Zhang , Xinkang Jia , Fengda Zhang , Gang Huang , Pan Zhou , Kun Kuang , Fei Wu , Chao Wu

Federated learning is an emerging privacy-preserving AI technique where clients (i.e., organisations or devices) train models locally and formulate a global model based on the local model updates without transferring local data externally.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-01 Sin Kit Lo , Yue Liu , Qinghua Lu , Chen Wang , Xiwei Xu , Hye-Young Paik , Liming Zhu

As people pay more and more attention to privacy protection, Federated Learning (FL), as a promising distributed machine learning paradigm, is receiving more and more attention. However, due to the biased distribution of data on devices in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-27 Yuquan Zhang , Yongquan Zhang

Federated Learning enables visual models to be trained on-device, bringing advantages for user privacy (data need never leave the device), but challenges in terms of data diversity and quality. Whilst typical models in the datacenter are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-20 Tzu-Ming Harry Hsu , Hang Qi , Matthew Brown

Federated learning enables a collaborative training and optimization of global models among a group of devices without sharing local data samples. However, the heterogeneity of data in federated learning can lead to unfair representation of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-03 Weikang Chen , Junping Du , Yingxia Shao , Jia Wang , Yangxi Zhou

Federated Learning (FL) enables collaborative learning without directly sharing individual's raw data. FL can be implemented in either a centralized (server-based) or decentralized (peer-to-peer) manner. In this survey, we present a novel…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Qiongxiu Li , Wenrui Yu , Yufei Xia , Jun Pang

Federated learning enables machine learning models to learn from private decentralized data without compromising privacy. The standard formulation of federated learning produces one shared model for all clients. Statistical heterogeneity…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-20 Viraj Kulkarni , Milind Kulkarni , Aniruddha Pant

Fairness in Federated Learning (FL) is emerging as a critical factor driven by heterogeneous clients' constraints and balanced model performance across various scenarios. In this survey, we delineate a comprehensive classification of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Noorain Mukhtiar , Adnan Mahmood , Yipeng Zhou , Jian Yang , Jing Teng , Quan Z. Sheng

While fairness-aware machine learning algorithms have been receiving increasing attention, the focus has been on centralized machine learning, leaving decentralized methods underexplored. Federated Learning is a decentralized form of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Teresa Salazar , Miguel Fernandes , Helder Araujo , Pedro Henriques Abreu

Federated learning is a distributed paradigm that allows multiple parties to collaboratively train deep models without exchanging the raw data. However, the data distribution among clients is naturally non-i.i.d., which leads to severe…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Tianfei Zhou , Ender Konukoglu

Federated learning (FL) is a privacy-preserving learning technique that enables distributed computing devices to train shared learning models across data silos collaboratively. Existing FL works mostly focus on designing advanced FL…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-20 Yash Travadi , Le Peng , Xuan Bi , Ju Sun , Mochen Yang

Federated learning is a paradigm of increasing relevance in real world applications, aimed at building a global model across a network of heterogeneous users without requiring the sharing of private data. We focus on model learning over…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Aritz Pérez , Carlos Echegoyen , Guzmán Santafé

Federated Learning(FL) is popular as a privacy-preserving machine learning paradigm for generating a single model on decentralized data. However, statistical heterogeneity poses a significant challenge for FL. As a subfield of FL,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Keting Yin , Jiayi Mao

Federated Learning (FL) enables collaborative model training across distributed devices while preserving data privacy. Nonetheless, the heterogeneity of edge devices often leads to inconsistent performance of the globally trained models,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Lin Wang , Zhichao Wang , Ye Shi , Sai Praneeth Karimireddy , Xiaoying Tang

With the emerging application of Federated Learning (FL) in decision-making scenarios, it is imperative to regulate model fairness to prevent disparities across sensitive groups (e.g., female, male). Current research predominantly focuses…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Li Zhang , Zhongxuan Han , Xiaohua Feng , Jiaming Zhang , Yuyuan Li , Chaochao Chen

Vertical federated learning (VFL) has attracted greater and greater interest since it enables multiple parties possessing non-overlapping features to strengthen their machine learning models without disclosing their private data and model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Changxin Liu , Zhenan Fan , Zirui Zhou , Yang Shi , Jian Pei , Lingyang Chu , Yong Zhang

This paper proposes a federated learning framework designed to achieve \textit{relative fairness} for clients. Traditional federated learning frameworks typically ensure absolute fairness by guaranteeing minimum performance across all…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-11-05 Shogo Nakakita , Tatsuya Kaneko , Shinya Takamaeda-Yamazaki , Masaaki Imaizumi

Federated learning (FL) allows multiple clients to collectively train a high-performance global model without sharing their private data. However, the key challenge in federated learning is that the clients have significant statistical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-23 Liang Gao , Huazhu Fu , Li Li , Yingwen Chen , Ming Xu , Cheng-Zhong Xu