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Federated learning (FL) is a privacy-preserving machine learning paradigm in which the server periodically aggregates local model parameters from clients without assembling their private data. Constrained communication and personalization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-10 Zhiyuan Wu , Sheng Sun , Yuwei Wang , Min Liu , Quyang Pan , Junbo Zhang , Zeju Li , Qingxiang Liu

Federated learning enables the creation of a powerful centralized model without compromising data privacy of multiple participants. While successful, it does not incorporate the case where each participant independently designs its own…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-10 Daliang Li , Junpu Wang

Federated Learning (FL) is a decentralized machine-learning paradigm, in which a global server iteratively averages the model parameters of local users without accessing their data. User heterogeneity has imposed significant challenges to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-11 Zhuangdi Zhu , Junyuan Hong , Jiayu Zhou

Model-Heterogeneous Federated Learning (Hetero-FL) has attracted growing attention for its ability to aggregate knowledge from heterogeneous models while keeping private data locally. To better aggregate knowledge from clients, ensemble…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Yichen Li , Xiuying Wang , Wenchao Xu , Haozhao Wang , Yining Qi , Jiahua Dong , Ruixuan Li

In federated learning, all networked clients contribute to the model training cooperatively. However, with model sizes increasing, even sharing the trained partial models often leads to severe communication bottlenecks in underlying…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-22 Rui Song , Dai Liu , Dave Zhenyu Chen , Andreas Festag , Carsten Trinitis , Martin Schulz , Alois Knoll

Is it possible to design an universal API for federated learning using which an ad-hoc group of data-holders (agents) collaborate with each other and perform federated learning? Such an API would necessarily need to be model-agnostic i.e.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-12 Andrei Afonin , Sai Praneeth Karimireddy

Recently Data-Free Knowledge Distillation (DFKD) has garnered attention and can transfer knowledge from a teacher neural network to a student neural network without requiring any access to training data. Although diffusion models are adept…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Xiaohua Qi , Renda Li , Long Peng , Qiang Ling , Jun Yu , Ziyi Chen , Peng Chang , Mei Han , Jing Xiao

Federated Learning (FL) is an innovative distributed machine learning paradigm that enables neural network training across devices without centralizing data. While this addresses issues of information sharing and data privacy, challenges…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-09 Jiayu Liu , Yong Wang , Nianbin Wang , Jing Yang , Xiaohui Tao

Data-Free Knowledge Distillation (DFKD) enables the knowledge transfer from the given pre-trained teacher network to the target student model without access to the real training data. Existing DFKD methods focus primarily on improving image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Zherui Zhang , Changwei Wang , Rongtao Xu , Wenhao Xu , Shibiao Xu , Yu Zhang , Li Guo

Federated learning (FL) enables privacy-preserving collaborative model training without direct data sharing. Model-heterogeneous FL (MHFL) extends this paradigm by allowing clients to train personalized models with heterogeneous…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Ziqiao Weng , Weidong Cai , Bo Zhou

Federated Learning (FL) is a privacy-constrained decentralized machine learning paradigm in which clients enable collaborative training without compromising private data. However, how to learn a robust global model in the data-heterogeneous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Kangyang Luo , Shuai Wang , Yexuan Fu , Xiang Li , Yunshi Lan , Ming Gao

Federated Learning (FL) is an emerging machine learning paradigm that enables the collaborative training of a shared global model across distributed clients while keeping the data decentralized. Recent works on designing systems for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Mohak Chadha , Pulkit Khera , Jianfeng Gu , Osama Abboud , Michael Gerndt

Federated Learning (FL) is a distributed machine learning paradigm which coordinates multiple clients to collaboratively train a global model via a central server. Sequential Federated Learning (SFL) is a newly-emerging FL training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Haotian Xu , Jinrui Zhou , Xichong Zhang , Mingjun Xiao , He Sun , Yin Xu

Decentralized learning with private data is a central problem in machine learning. We propose a novel distillation-based decentralized learning technique that allows multiple agents with private non-iid data to learn from each other,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-30 Andrey Zhmoginov , Mark Sandler , Nolan Miller , Gus Kristiansen , Max Vladymyrov

Most current federated learning frameworks are modeled as static processes, ignoring the dynamic characteristics of the learning system. Under the limited communication budget of the central server, the flexible model architecture of a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Yiting Zheng , Bohan Lin , Jinqian Chen , Jihua Zhu

In recent years, federated learning (FL) has emerged as a promising technique for training machine learning models in a decentralized manner while also preserving data privacy. The non-independent and identically distributed (non-i.i.d.)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-15 Yousef Alsenani , Rahul Mishra , Khaled R. Ahmed , Atta Ur Rahman

Federated learning is a distributed machine learning paradigm designed to protect data privacy. However, data heterogeneity across various clients results in catastrophic forgetting, where the model rapidly forgets previous knowledge while…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-07 Pengju Wang , Bochao Liu , Weijia Guo , Yong Li , Shiming Ge

Federated Reinforcement Learning (FedRL) improves sample efficiency while preserving privacy; however, most existing studies assume homogeneous agents, limiting its applicability in real-world scenarios. This paper investigates FedRL in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Wenzheng Jiang , Ji Wang , Xiongtao Zhang , Weidong Bao , Cheston Tan , Flint Xiaofeng Fan

Federated Averaging, and many federated learning algorithm variants which build upon it, have a limitation: all clients must share the same model architecture. This results in unused modeling capacity on many clients, which limits model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-05 Jared Lichtarge , Ehsan Amid , Shankar Kumar , Tien-Ju Yang , Rohan Anil , Rajiv Mathews

Recently, innovative model aggregation methods based on knowledge distillation (KD) have been proposed for federated learning (FL). These methods not only improved the robustness of model aggregation over heterogeneous learning environment,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Ho Man Kwan , Shenghui Song