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Heterogeneous federated learning (HFL) aims to ensure effective and privacy-preserving collaboration among different entities. As newly joined clients require significant adjustments and additional training to align with the existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Kaile Wang , Jiannong Cao , Yu Yang , Xiaoyin Li , Mingjin Zhang

Training a model that effectively handles both common and rare data-i.e., achieving performance fairness-is crucial in federated learning (FL). While existing fair FL methods have shown effectiveness, they remain vulnerable to mislabeled…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Nannan Wu , Zengqiang Yan , Nong Sang , Li Yu , Chang Wen Chen

Personalized Federated Learning (PFL) aims to train customized models for clients with highly heterogeneous data distributions while preserving data privacy. Existing approaches often rely on heuristics like clustering or model…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Ping Guo , Tiantian Zhang , Xi Lin , Xiang Li , Zhi-Ri Tang , Qingfu Zhang

Group fairness ensures that the outcome of machine learning (ML) based decision making systems are not biased towards a certain group of people defined by a sensitive attribute such as gender or ethnicity. Achieving group fairness in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-30 Sikha Pentyala , Nicola Neophytou , Anderson Nascimento , Martine De Cock , Golnoosh Farnadi

Mechanism design in resource allocation studies dividing limited resources among self-interested agents whose satisfaction with the allocation depends on privately held utilities. We consider the problem in a payment-free setting, with the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Sihan Zeng , Sujay Bhatt , Alec Koppel , Sumitra Ganesh

Federated learning (FL) is an effective mechanism for data privacy in recommender systems by running machine learning model training on-device. While prior FL optimizations tackled the data and system heterogeneity challenges faced by FL,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Kiwan Maeng , Haiyu Lu , Luca Melis , John Nguyen , Mike Rabbat , Carole-Jean Wu

Federated learning (FL) has emerged as a transformative distributed learning paradigm, enabling multiple clients to collaboratively train a global model under the coordination of a central server without sharing their raw training data.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Tianrun Yu , Kaixiang Zhao , Cheng Zhang , Anjun Gao , Yueyang Quan , Zhuqing Liu , Minghong Fang

This work presents an information-theoretic perspective to group fairness trade-offs in federated learning (FL) with respect to sensitive attributes, such as gender, race, etc. Existing works often focus on either $\textit{global fairness}$…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-06 Faisal Hamman , Sanghamitra Dutta

Federated Learning (FL) has seen increasing interest in cases where entities want to collaboratively train models while maintaining privacy and governance over their data. In FL, clients with private and potentially heterogeneous data and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-17 Vasilis Siomos , Jonathan Passerat-Palmbach

Federated learning (FL) has emerged as an important machine learning paradigm where a global model is trained based on the private data from distributed clients. However, most of existing FL algorithms cannot guarantee the performance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-17 Fengda Zhang , Kun Kuang , Yuxuan Liu , Long Chen , Chao Wu , Fei Wu , Jiaxun Lu , Yunfeng Shao , Jun Xiao

Federated Learning (FL) is a distributed machine learning paradigm that achieves a globally robust model through decentralized computation and periodic model synthesis, primarily focusing on the global model's accuracy over aggregated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-27 Han Liang , Ziwei Zhan , Weijie Liu , Xiaoxi Zhang , Chee Wei Tan , Xu Chen

Federated Learning (FL) is a distributed machine learning approach to learn models on decentralized heterogeneous data, without the need for clients to share their data. Many existing FL approaches assume that all clients have equal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Aditya Narayan Ravi , Ilan Shomorony

Federated Learning (FL) is a distributed machine learning approach that enables model training in communication efficient and privacy-preserving manner. The standard optimization method in FL is Federated Averaging (FedAvg), which performs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-21 Zeyi Tao , Jindi Wu , Qun Li

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

While clients may join federated learning to improve performance on data they rarely observe locally, they often remain self-interested, expecting the global model to perform well on their own data. This motivates an objective that ensures…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Brahim Erraji , Michaël Perrot , Aurélien Bellet

Federated Learning (FL) enables large-scale distributed training of machine learning models, while still allowing individual nodes to maintain data locally. However, executing FL at scale comes with inherent practical challenges: 1)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Hossein Zakerinia , Shayan Talaei , Giorgi Nadiradze , Dan Alistarh

The future of machine learning lies in moving data collection along with training to the edge. Federated Learning, for short FL, has been recently proposed to achieve this goal. The principle of this approach is to aggregate models learned…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-13 Adnan Ben Mansour , Gaia Carenini , Alexandre Duplessis

Federated Learning (FL) is a learning mechanism that falls under the distributed training umbrella, which collaboratively trains a shared global model without disclosing the raw data from different clients. This paper presents an extensive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Mrinmay Sen , Shruti Aparna , Rohit Agarwal , Chalavadi Krishna Mohan

Federated Learning (FL) has evolved as a promising technique to handle distributed machine learning across edge devices. A single neural network (NN) that optimises a global objective is generally learned in most work in FL, which could be…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-10 Sawan Singh Mahara , Shruti M. , B. N. Bharath , Akash Murthy

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