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Federated learning (FL) enables leveraging distributed private data for model training in a privacy-preserving way. However, data heterogeneity significantly limits the performance of current FL methods. In this paper, we propose a novel FL…

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There are two categories of methods in Federated Learning (FL) for joint training across multiple clients: i) parallel FL (PFL), where clients train models in a parallel manner; and ii) sequential FL (SFL), where clients train models in a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-09 Yipeng Li , Xinchen Lyu

Since federated learning (FL) has been introduced as a decentralized learning technique with privacy preservation, statistical heterogeneity of distributed data stays the main obstacle to achieve robust performance and stable convergence in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-08 Yanhang Shi , Siguang Chen , Haijun Zhang

Federated Learning (FL) is a distributed machine learning technique that preserves data privacy by sharing only the trained parameters instead of the client data. This makes FL ideal for highly dynamic, heterogeneous, and time-critical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Kasun Eranda Wijethilake , Adnan Mahmood , Quan Z. Sheng

Federated Semi-Supervised Learning (FSSL) aims to collaboratively train a global model across clients by leveraging partially-annotated local data in a privacy-preserving manner. In FSSL, data heterogeneity is a challenging issue, which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Duowen Chen , Yan Wang

Federated learning (FL) enables distributed training with private client data, but its convergence is hindered by system heterogeneity under realistic communication scenarios. Most FL schemes addressing system heterogeneity utilize global…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Keumseo Ryum , Jinu Gong , Joonhyuk Kang

The performance of Federated Learning (FL) hinges on the effectiveness of utilizing knowledge from distributed datasets. Traditional FL methods adopt an aggregate-then-adapt framework, where clients update local models based on a global…

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The diversity in disease profiles and therapeutic approaches between hospitals and health professionals underscores the need for patient-centric personalized strategies in healthcare. Alongside this, similarities in disease progression…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Navid Seidi , Satyaki Roy , Sajal K. Das , Ardhendu Tripathy

Federated Learning (FL) seeks to distribute model training across local clients without collecting data in a centralized data-center, hence removing data-privacy concerns. A major challenge for FL is data heterogeneity (where each client's…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-22 Junjiao Tian , James Seale Smith , Zsolt Kira

As a decentralized training approach, federated learning enables multiple organizations to jointly train a model without exposing their private data. This work investigates vertical federated learning (VFL) to address scenarios where…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Yun Tian , He Wang , Laixin Xie , Xiaojuan Ma , Quan Li

Federated Learning (FL) allows training machine learning models in privacy-constrained scenarios by enabling the cooperation of edge devices without requiring local data sharing. This approach raises several challenges due to the different…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-02 Riccardo Zaccone , Andrea Rizzardi , Debora Caldarola , Marco Ciccone , Barbara Caputo

Federated learning involves training machine learning models over devices or data silos, such as edge processors or data warehouses, while keeping the data local. Training in heterogeneous and potentially massive networks introduces bias…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-18 Zichen Ma , Yu Lu , Zihan Lu , Wenye Li , Jinfeng Yi , Shuguang Cui

Federated learning (FL) has emerged as a powerful approach to safeguard data privacy by training models across distributed edge devices without centralizing local data. Despite advancements in homogeneous data scenarios, maintaining…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Yuting Ma , Shengeng Tang , Xiaohua Xu , Lechao Cheng

In federated learning, the heterogeneity of client data has a great impact on the performance of model training. Many heterogeneity issues in this process are raised by non-independently and identically distributed (non-IID) data. To…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Xiufang Shi , Wei Zhang , Yuheng Li , Mincheng Wu , Zhenyu Wen , Shibo He , Tejal Shah , Rajiv Ranjan

Federated learning (FL) addresses data privacy concerns by enabling collaborative training of AI models across distributed data owners. Wide adoption of FL faces the fundamental challenges of data heterogeneity and the large scale of data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-23 Yulan Gao , Zhaoxiang Hou , Chengyi Yang , Zengxiang Li , Han Yu

Federated Learning (FL) is a promising approach for privacy-preserving network traffic analysis, but its practical deployment is challenged by the non-IID nature of real-world data. While prior work has addressed statistical heterogeneity,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-09-15 Richard Jozsa , Karel Hynek , Adrian Pekar

Federated Learning(FL) is a privacy-preserving machine learning paradigm where a global model is trained in-situ across a large number of distributed edge devices. These systems are often comprised of millions of user devices and only a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Yuanli Wang , Lei Huang

Federated Learning (FL) enables multiple clients to collaboratively learn a machine learning model without exchanging their own local data. In this way, the server can exploit the computational power of all clients and train the model on a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Song Wang , Xingbo Fu , Kaize Ding , Chen Chen , Huiyuan Chen , Jundong Li

Machine learning (ML) models trained on datasets owned by different organizations and physically located in remote databases offer benefits in many real-world use cases. State regulations or business requirements often prevent data transfer…

Vertical federated learning (VFL) is a privacy-preserving machine learning paradigm that can learn models from features distributed on different platforms in a privacy-preserving way. Since in real-world applications the data may contain…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Tao Qi , Fangzhao Wu , Chuhan Wu , Lingjuan Lyu , Tong Xu , Zhongliang Yang , Yongfeng Huang , Xing Xie