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With the emerging application of Federated Learning (FL) in finance, hiring and healthcare, FL models are regulated to be fair, preventing disparities with respect to legally protected attributes such as race or gender. Two concepts of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Yuying Duan , Gelei Xu , Yiyu Shi , Michael Lemmon

Federated learning provides an effective paradigm to jointly optimize a model benefited from rich distributed data while protecting data privacy. Nonetheless, the heterogeneity nature of distributed data makes it challenging to define and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-07 Bhaskar Ray Chaudhury , Linyi Li , Mintong Kang , Bo Li , Ruta Mehta

Federated Learning (FL) is a privacy-enhancing technology for distributed ML. By training models locally and aggregating updates - a federation learns together, while bypassing centralised data collection. FL is increasingly popular in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-16 Oscar Dilley , Juan Marcelo Parra-Ullauri , Rasheed Hussain , Dimitra Simeonidou

In the growing world of artificial intelligence, federated learning is a distributed learning framework enhanced to preserve the privacy of individuals' data. Federated learning lays the groundwork for collaborative research in areas where…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Elaheh Jafarigol , Theodore Trafalis , Talayeh Razzaghi , Mona Zamankhani

Federated learning (FL) has garnered considerable attention due to its privacy-preserving feature. Nonetheless, the lack of freedom in managing user data can lead to group fairness issues, where models are biased towards sensitive factors…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-18 Gerry Windiarto Mohamad Dunda , Shenghui Song

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

Recently, lots of algorithms have been proposed for learning a fair classifier from decentralized data. However, many theoretical and algorithmic questions remain open. First, is federated learning necessary, i.e., can we simply train…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-08 Yuchen Zeng , Hongxu Chen , Kangwook Lee

Representation learning is increasingly employed to generate representations that are predictive across multiple downstream tasks. The development of representation learning algorithms that provide strong fairness guarantees is thus…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-25 Yuhong Luo , Austin Hoag , Philip S. Thomas

Ensuring fairness in machine learning is a critical and challenging task, as biased data representations often lead to unfair predictions. To address this, we propose Deep Fair Learning, a framework that integrates nonlinear sufficient…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-04-10 Enze Shi , Linglong Kong , Bei Jiang

Today's AI still faces two major challenges. One is that in most industries, data exists in the form of isolated islands. The other is the strengthening of data privacy and security. We propose a possible solution to these challenges:…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-02-14 Qiang Yang , Yang Liu , Tianjian Chen , Yongxin Tong

Fairness in machine learning has received considerable attention. However, most studies on fair learning focus on either supervised learning or unsupervised learning. Very few consider semi-supervised settings. Yet, in reality, most machine…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Tao Zhang , Tianqing Zhu , Mengde Han , Jing Li , Wanlei Zhou , Philip S. Yu

Federated Learning often relies on sharing full or partial model weights, which can burden network bandwidth and raise privacy risks. We present a loss-based alternative using distributed mutual learning. Instead of transmitting weights,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Yash Gupta

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 has attracted significant attention as a privacy-preserving framework for training personalised models on multi-source heterogeneous data. However, most existing approaches are unable to handle scenarios where subgroup…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-10-14 Changxin Yang , Zhongyi Zhu , Heng Lian

Federated learning (FL) demonstrates its advantages in integrating distributed infrastructure, communication, computing and learning in a privacy-preserving manner. However, the robustness and capabilities of existing FL methods are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-27 Longbing Cao , Hui Chen , Xuhui Fan , Joao Gama , Yew-Soon Ong , Vipin Kumar

Recent advances in Federated Learning (FL) have brought large-scale collaborative machine learning opportunities for massively distributed clients with performance and data privacy guarantees. However, most current works focus on the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-12 Yuxin Shi , Han Yu , Cyril Leung

When the federated learning is adopted among competitive agents with siloed datasets, agents are self-interested and participate only if they are fairly rewarded. To encourage the application of federated learning, this paper employs a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-04 Jingfeng Zhang , Cheng Li , Antonio Robles-Kelly , Mohan Kankanhalli

Federated learning has emerged as an effective paradigm to achieve privacy-preserving collaborative learning among different parties. Compared to traditional centralized learning that requires collecting data from each party, in federated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-05 Bingyan Liu , Nuoyan Lv , Yuanchun Guo , Yawen Li

With the increasingly broad deployment of federated learning (FL) systems in the real world, it is critical but challenging to ensure fairness in FL, i.e. reasonably satisfactory performances for each of the numerous diverse clients. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-10 Guojun Zhang , Saber Malekmohammadi , Xi Chen , Yaoliang Yu

The growing literature of Federated Learning (FL) has recently inspired Federated Reinforcement Learning (FRL) to encourage multiple agents to federatively build a better decision-making policy without sharing raw trajectories. Despite its…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-04 Flint Xiaofeng Fan , Yining Ma , Zhongxiang Dai , Wei Jing , Cheston Tan , Bryan Kian Hsiang Low