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The development of federated learning (FL) methods, which aim to learn from distributed databases (i.e., clients) without accessing data on clients, has recently attracted great attention. Most of these methods assume that the clients are…
Federated learning (FL) is a privacy-preserving machine learning technique that facilitates collaboration among participants across demographics. FL enables model sharing, while restricting the movement of data. Since FL provides…
Federated learning (FL) enables the collaborative training of deep neural networks across decentralized data archives (i.e., clients) without sharing the local data of the clients. Most of the existing FL methods assume that the data…
With the emergence of privacy leaks in federated learning, secure aggregation protocols that mainly adopt either homomorphic encryption or threshold secret sharing have been widely developed for federated learning to protect the privacy of…
Federated Learning (FL) enables multiple parties to distributively train a ML model without revealing their private datasets. However, it assumes trust in the centralized aggregator which stores and aggregates model updates. This makes it…
Model merging aggregates Large Language Models (LLMs) finetuned on different tasks into a stronger one. However, parameter conflicts between models leads to performance degradation in averaging. While model routing addresses this issue by…
Speech data is expensive to collect, and incredibly sensitive to its sources. It is often the case that organizations independently collect small datasets for their own use, but often these are not performant for the demands of machine…
Federated learning (FL) provides a privacy-preserving solution for fine-tuning pre-trained large language models (LLMs) using distributed private datasets, enabling task-specific adaptation while preserving data privacy. However,…
Federated learning (FL) is rapidly gaining popularity and enables multiple data owners ({\em a.k.a.} FL participants) to collaboratively train machine learning models in a privacy-preserving way. A key unaddressed scenario is that these FL…
Hierarchical federated learning (HFL) designs introduce intermediate aggregator nodes between clients and the global federated learning server in order to reduce communication costs and distribute server load. One side effect is that…
Federated Learning (FL) is a promising technique for the collaborative training of deep neural networks across multiple devices while preserving data privacy. Despite its potential benefits, FL is hindered by excessive communication costs…
Data Heterogeneity is a major challenge of Federated Learning performance. Recently, momentum based optimization techniques have beed proved to be effective in mitigating the heterogeneity issue. Along with the model updates, the momentum…
The development of deep learning techniques is a leading field applied to cases in which medical data is used, particularly in cases of image diagnosis. This type of data has privacy and legal restrictions that in many cases prevent it from…
Recent advances in reinforcement learning (RL) for large language model (LLM) fine-tuning show promise in addressing multi-objective tasks but still face significant challenges, including competing objective balancing, low training…
Federated learning (FL) was proposed to achieve collaborative machine learning among various clients without uploading private data. However, due to model aggregation strategies, existing frameworks require strict model homogeneity,…
Many machine learning (ML) techniques suffer from the drawback that their output (e.g., a classification decision) is not clearly and intuitively connected to their input (e.g., an image). To cope with this issue, several explainable ML…
Federated learning (FL) enables collaborative training of deep learning models without requiring data to leave local clients, thereby preserving client privacy. The aggregation process on the server plays a critical role in the performance…
Federated learning is a technique that enables the use of distributed datasets for machine learning purposes without requiring data to be pooled, thereby better preserving privacy and ownership of the data. While supervised FL research has…
Federated learning (FL) is a promising technique that enables a large amount of edge computing devices to collaboratively train a global learning model. Due to privacy concerns, the raw data on devices could not be available for centralized…