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Federated Learning (FL) holds great potential for diverse applications owing to its privacy-preserving nature. However, its convergence is often challenged by non-IID data distributions, limiting its effectiveness in real-world deployments.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Kun Zhai , Yifeng Gao , Difan Zou , Guangnan Ye , Siheng Chen , Xingjun Ma , Yu-Gang Jiang

Federated learning (FL) is an emerging learning paradigm to tackle massively distributed data. In Federated Learning, a set of clients jointly perform a machine learning task under the coordination of a server. The FedAvg algorithm is one…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-14 Junyi Li , Feihu Huang , Heng Huang

Federated Learning (FL) facilitates the fine-tuning of Foundation Models (FMs) using distributed data sources, with Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) gaining popularity due to its low communication costs and strong performance. While recent work…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Zihao Peng , Jiandian Zeng , Boyuan Li , Guo Li , Shengbo Chen , Tian Wang

Federated Learning is an emerging learning paradigm that allows training models from samples distributed across a large network of clients while respecting privacy and communication restrictions. Despite its success, federated learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Isidoros Tziotis , Zebang Shen , Ramtin Pedarsani , Hamed Hassani , Aryan Mokhtari

Federated learning often suffers from slow and unstable convergence due to the heterogeneous characteristics of participating client datasets. Such a tendency is aggravated when the client participation ratio is low since the information…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Geeho Kim , Jinkyu Kim , Bohyung Han

Federated Learning is a distributed machine learning approach which enables model training without data sharing. In this paper, we propose a new federated learning algorithm, Federated Averaging with Client-level Momentum (FedCM), to tackle…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Jing Xu , Sen Wang , Liwei Wang , Andrew Chi-Chih Yao

Federated learning (FL) has attracted increasing attention in recent years. As a privacy-preserving collaborative learning paradigm, it enables a broader range of applications, especially for computer vision and natural language processing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-24 Yilun Lin , Chaochao Chen , Cen Chen , Li Wang

Federated learning (FL) enables collaborative model training across distributed clients while preserving data privacy. However, data and system heterogeneity often cause catastrophic forgetting and unbounded drift in model updates, leading…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Taehwan Yoon , Bongjun Choi , Wesley De Neve

Asynchronous learning protocols have regained attention lately, especially in the Federated Learning (FL) setup, where slower clients can severely impede the learning process. Herein, we propose \texttt{AsyncDrop}, a novel asynchronous FL…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-31 Chen Dun , Mirian Hipolito , Chris Jermaine , Dimitrios Dimitriadis , Anastasios Kyrillidis

Federated Learning (FL) enables collaborative model training across distributed clients while preserving data privacy, yet faces challenges in non-independent and identically distributed (non-IID) settings due to client drift, which impairs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Mohammad Partohaghighi , Roummel Marcia , Bruce J. West , YangQuan Chen

Federated Learning (FL) is a privacy-preserving machine learning framework facilitating collaborative training across distributed clients. However, its performance is often compromised by data heterogeneity among participants, which can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Ziru Niu , Hai Dong , A. K. Qin

Federated learning (FL) is a privacy-preserving paradigm for collaboratively training a global model from decentralized clients. However, the performance of FL is hindered by non-independent and identically distributed (non-IID) data and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-08 Xinyu Zhang , Weiyu Sun , Ying Chen

Federated learning (FL) is a distributed learning technique that trains a shared model over distributed data in a privacy-preserving manner. Unfortunately, FL's performance degrades when there is (i) variability in client characteristics in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-28 Muhammad Tahir Munir , Muhammad Mustansar Saeed , Mahad Ali , Zafar Ayyub Qazi , Ihsan Ayyub Qazi

In federated learning (FL), model training performance is strongly impacted by data heterogeneity across clients. Client-drift compensation methods have recently emerged as a solution to this issue, introducing correction terms into local…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Evan Chen , Shiqiang Wang , Jianing Zhang , Dong-Jun Han , Chaoyue Liu , Christopher Brinton

Federated Learning (FL) commonly relies on a central server to coordinate training across distributed clients. While effective, this paradigm suffers from significant communication overhead, impacting overall training efficiency. To…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Jungwon Seo , Minhoe Kim , Chunming Rong

Conventional synchronous federated learning (SFL) frameworks suffer from performance degradation in heterogeneous systems due to imbalanced local data size and diverse computing power on the client side. To address this problem,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Yumeng Shao , Jun Li , Long Shi , Kang Wei , Ming Ding , Qianmu Li , Zengxiang Li , Wen Chen , Shi Jin

Federated learning (FL) is a paradigm where many clients collaboratively train a model under the coordination of a central server, while keeping the training data locally stored. However, heterogeneous data distributions over different…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-27 Yaqi Sun , Shijing Si , Jianzong Wang , Yuhan Dong , Zhitao Zhu , Jing Xiao

Federated learning (FL) is a promising strategy for performing privacy-preserving, distributed learning with a network of clients (i.e., edge devices). However, the data distribution among clients is often non-IID in nature, making…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-15 Matias Mendieta , Taojiannan Yang , Pu Wang , Minwoo Lee , Zhengming Ding , Chen Chen

As an emerging paradigm of federated learning, asynchronous federated learning offers significant speed advantages over traditional synchronous federated learning. Unlike synchronous federated learning, which requires waiting for all…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-10 Chaoyi Lu , Yiding Sun , Pengbo Li , Zhichuan Yang

Federated learning (FL) is an emerging machine learning paradigm that allows multiple parties to train a shared model collaboratively in a privacy-preserving manner. Existing horizontal FL methods generally assume that the FL server and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-02 Liping Yi , Gang Wang , Xiaoguang Liu , Zhuan Shi , Han Yu