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We consider the problem of decentralized clustering and estimation over multi-task networks, where agents infer and track different models of interest. The agents do not know beforehand which model is generating their own data. They also do…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-05-24 Sahar Khawatmi , Ali H. Sayed , Abdelhak M. Zoubir

Personalized federated learning is proposed to handle the data heterogeneity problem amongst clients by learning dedicated tailored local models for each user. However, existing works are often built in a centralized way, leading to high…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-02 Rong Dai , Li Shen , Fengxiang He , Xinmei Tian , Dacheng Tao

Federated continual learning (FCL) has garnered increasing attention for its ability to support distributed computation in environments with evolving data distributions. However, the emergence of new tasks introduces both temporal and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Danni Yang , Zhikang Chen , Sen Cui , Mengyue Yang , Ding Li , Abudukelimu Wuerkaixi , Haoxuan Li , Jinke Ren , Mingming Gong

In recent advancements in machine learning, federated learning allows a network of distributed clients to collaboratively develop a global model without needing to share their local data. This technique aims to safeguard privacy, countering…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Davide Domini , Gianluca Aguzzi , Nicolas Farabegoli , Mirko Viroli , Lukas Esterle

The emerging concern about data privacy and security has motivated the proposal of federated learning, which allows nodes to only synchronize the locally-trained models instead their own original data. Conventional federated learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-22 Chenghao Hu , Jingyan Jiang , Zhi Wang

Personalization in federated learning (FL) functions as a coordinator for clients with high variance in data or behavior. Ensuring the convergence of these clients' models relies on how closely users collaborate with those with similar…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-24 Eunjeong Jeong , Marios Kountouris

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

Diffusion-based classifiers such as those relying on the Personalized PageRank and the Heat kernel, enjoy remarkable classification accuracy at modest computational requirements. Their performance however is affected by the extent to which…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-02-20 Dimitris Berberidis , Athanasios N. Nikolakopoulos , Georgios B. Giannakis

Personalized Federated Learning aims at addressing the challenges of non-IID data in collaborative model training. However, existing methods struggle to balance personalization and generalization, often oversimplifying client similarities…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Mattia Giovanni Campana , Franca Delmastro

In diverse fields ranging from finance to omics, it is increasingly common that data is distributed and with multiple individual sources (referred to as ``clients'' in some studies). Integrating raw data, although powerful, is often not…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-11-08 Yuanxing Chen , Qingzhao Zhang , Shuangge Ma , Kuangnan Fang

We consider the problem of personalized federated learning when there are known cluster structures within users. An intuitive approach would be to regularize the parameters so that users in the same cluster share similar model weights. The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-29 Boxiang Lyu , Filip Hanzely , Mladen Kolar

Federated Learning (FL) enables edge devices to collaboratively learn a global model, but it may not perform well when clients have high data heterogeneity. In this paper, we propose a dynamic clustering algorithm for personalized federated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Heting Liu , Junzhe Huang , Fang He , Guohong Cao

Data heterogeneity is one of the most challenging issues in federated learning, which motivates a variety of approaches to learn personalized models for participating clients. One such approach in deep neural networks based tasks is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Jian Xu , Xinyi Tong , Shao-Lun Huang

This paper studies Dictionary Learning problems wherein the learning task is distributed over a multi-agent network, modeled as a time-varying directed graph. This formulation is relevant, for instance, in Big Data scenarios where massive…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-03-06 Amir Daneshmand , Ying Sun , Gesualdo Scutari , Francisco Facchinei , Brian M. Sadler

Non-IID dataset and heterogeneous environment of the local clients are regarded as a major issue in Federated Learning (FL), causing a downturn in the convergence without achieving satisfactory performance. In this paper, we propose a novel…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-30 Hunmin Lee , Yueyang Liu , Donghyun Kim , Yingshu Li

Knowledge sharing and model personalization are essential components to tackle the non-IID challenge in federated learning (FL). Most existing FL methods focus on two extremes: 1) to learn a shared model to serve all clients with non-IID…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-08 Jie Ma , Guodong Long , Tianyi Zhou , Jing Jiang , Chengqi Zhang

With the emergence of distributed data, training machine learning models in the serverless manner has attracted increasing attention in recent years. Numerous training approaches have been proposed in this regime, such as decentralized SGD.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-08-25 Hongchang Gao , Heng Huang

In the collaborative clustering framework, the hope is that by combining several clustering solutions, each one with its own bias and imperfections, one will get a better overall solution. The goal is that each local computation, quite…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-25 Yohan Foucade , Younès Bennani

Modern mobile devices have access to a wealth of data suitable for learning models, which in turn can greatly improve the user experience on the device. For example, language models can improve speech recognition and text entry, and image…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-30 H. Brendan McMahan , Eider Moore , Daniel Ramage , Seth Hampson , Blaise Agüera y Arcas

We propose a decentralized learning algorithm over a general social network. The algorithm leaves the training data distributed on the mobile devices while utilizing a peer to peer model aggregation method. The proposed algorithm allows…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-05-28 Anusha Lalitha , Xinghan Wang , Osman Kilinc , Yongxi Lu , Tara Javidi , Farinaz Koushanfar