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Federated learning is a distributed machine learning paradigm in which a large number of clients coordinate with a central server to learn a model without sharing their own training data. Standard federated optimization methods such as…

Federated learning (FL) offers a solution to train a global machine learning model while still maintaining data privacy, without needing access to data stored locally at the clients. However, FL suffers performance degradation when client…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-13 Zihan Chen , Kai Fong Ernest Chong , Tony Q. S. Quek

Federated learning (FL) enables collaborative model training while preserving each participant's privacy, which is particularly beneficial to the medical field. FedAvg is a standard algorithm that uses fixed weights, often originating from…

Federated Learning (FL) is a collaborative method for training models while preserving data privacy in decentralized settings. However, FL encounters challenges related to data heterogeneity, which can result in performance degradation. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-23 Seongyoon Kim , Gihun Lee , Jaehoon Oh , Se-Young Yun

In this paper, we propose the FedFeat+ framework, which distinctively separates feature extraction from classification. We develop a two-tiered model training process: following local training, clients transmit their weights and some…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Mrityunjoy Gain , Kitae Kim , Avi Deb Raha , Apurba Adhikary , Eui-Nam Huh , Zhu Han , Choong Seon Hong

Federated learning (FL) enables resource-constrained edge nodes to collaboratively learn a global model under the orchestration of a central server while keeping privacy-sensitive data locally. The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-07 Hongda Wu , Ping Wang

We present a framework combining hierarchical and multi-agent deep reinforcement learning approaches to solve coordination problems among a multitude of agents using a semi-decentralized model. The framework extends the multi-agent learning…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-12-25 Saurabh Kumar , Pararth Shah , Dilek Hakkani-Tur , Larry Heck

Federated reinforcement learning (FRL) has emerged as a promising paradigm for reducing the sample complexity of reinforcement learning tasks by exploiting information from different agents. However, when each agent interacts with a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Chenyu Zhang , Han Wang , Aritra Mitra , James Anderson

In this study, we delve into Federated Reinforcement Learning (FedRL) in the context of value-based agents operating across diverse Markov Decision Processes (MDPs). Existing FedRL methods typically aggregate agents' learning by averaging…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-18 Hei Yi Mak , Flint Xiaofeng Fan , Luca A. Lanzendörfer , Cheston Tan , Wei Tsang Ooi , Roger Wattenhofer

Federated learning (FL) has emerged to enable global model training over distributed clients' data while preserving its privacy. However, the global trained model is vulnerable to the evasion attacks especially, the adversarial examples…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Ahmed Aldahdooh , Wassim Hamidouche , Olivier Déforges

Federated learning (FL) provides a promising paradigm for facilitating collaboration between multiple clients that jointly learn a global model without directly sharing their local data. However, existing research suffers from two caveats:…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Jinlong Pang , Jiaheng Wei , Yifan Hua , Chen Qian , Yang Liu

As social robots become increasingly integrated into daily life, ensuring their behaviours align with social norms is crucial. For their widespread open-world application, it is important to explore Federated Learning (FL) settings where…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-13 Saksham Checker , Nikhil Churamani , Hatice Gunes

Traditional federated learning (FL) methods often rely on fixed weighting for parameter aggregation, neglecting the mutual influence by others. Hence, their effectiveness in heterogeneous data contexts is limited. To address this problem,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Yue Tan , Guodong Long , Jing Jiang , Chengqi Zhang

Federated learning has been predominantly concerned with collaborative training of deep networks from scratch, and especially the many challenges that arise, such as communication cost, robustness to heterogeneous data, and support for…

Federated learning (FL) is a prevailing distributed learning paradigm, where a large number of workers jointly learn a model without sharing their training data. However, high communication costs could arise in FL due to large-scale (deep)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Haibo Yang , Jia Liu , Elizabeth S. Bentley

Federated Learning is a privacy-preserving decentralized approach for Machine Learning tasks. In industry deployments characterized by a limited number of entities possessing abundant data, the significance of a participant's role in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Arno Geimer , Beltran Fiz Pontiveros , Radu State

Federated Learning (FL) has emerged as a prominent distributed machine learning framework that enables geographically discrete clients to train a global model collaboratively while preserving their privacy-sensitive data. However, due to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-04-15 Shensheng Zheng , Wenhao Yuan , Xuehe Wang , Lingjie Duan

Federated Learning (FL) has emerged as a promising framework for distributed machine learning, enabling collaborative model training without sharing local data, thereby preserving privacy and enhancing security. However, data heterogeneity…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Changlong Shi , He Zhao , Bingjie Zhang , Mingyuan Zhou , Dandan Guo , Yi Chang

Many potential applications of reinforcement learning in the real world involve interacting with other agents whose numbers vary over time. We propose new neural policy architectures for these multi-agent problems. In contrast to other…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-03 Matthew A. Wright , Roberto Horowitz

Federated Learning has been recently proposed for distributed model training at the edge. The principle of this approach is to aggregate models learned on distributed clients to obtain a new more general "average" model (FedAvg). The…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-07-20 Adnan Ben Mansour , Gaia Carenini , Alexandre Duplessis , David Naccache