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Federated averaging (FedAvg) is a popular federated learning (FL) technique that updates the global model by averaging local models and then transmits the updated global model to devices for their local model update. One main limitation of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-15 Luong Trung Nguyen , Junhan Kim , Byonghyo Shim

Federated learning (FL) is a distributed learning paradigm that enables multiple clients to learn a powerful global model by aggregating local training. However, the performance of the global model is often hampered by non-i.i.d.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Chun-Mei Feng , Kai Yu , Nian Liu , Xinxing Xu , Salman Khan , Wangmeng Zuo

In the federated learning setting, multiple clients jointly train a model under the coordination of the central server, while the training data is kept on the client to ensure privacy. Normally, inconsistent distribution of data across…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-21 Wei Huang , Tianrui Li , Dexian Wang , Shengdong Du , Junbo Zhang

Federated learning is a powerful paradigm for large-scale machine learning, but it faces significant challenges due to unreliable network connections, slow communication, and substantial data heterogeneity across clients. FedAvg and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-06 Ziheng Cheng , Xinmeng Huang , Pengfei Wu , Kun Yuan

Federated Averaging (FedAvg) has emerged as the algorithm of choice for federated learning due to its simplicity and low communication cost. However, in spite of recent research efforts, its performance is not fully understood. We obtain…

Federated Averaging (FedAvg) and its variants are the most popular optimization algorithms in federated learning (FL). Previous convergence analyses of FedAvg either assume full client participation or partial client participation where the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-08 Yae Jee Cho , Pranay Sharma , Gauri Joshi , Zheng Xu , Satyen Kale , Tong Zhang

Federated Learning (FL) is a privacy-protected machine learning paradigm that allows model to be trained directly at the edge without uploading data. One of the biggest challenges faced by FL in practical applications is the heterogeneity…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-20 Zirui Zhu , Ziyi Ye

Federated learning (FL) learns a model jointly from a set of participating devices without sharing each other's privately held data. The characteristics of non-i.i.d. data across the network, low device participation, high communication…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-02 Zhaonan Qu , Kaixiang Lin , Zhaojian Li , Jiayu Zhou , Zhengyuan Zhou

The statistical heterogeneity of the non-independent and identically distributed (non-IID) data in local clients significantly limits the performance of federated learning. Previous attempts like FedProx, SCAFFOLD, MOON, FedNova and FedDyn…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-15 Ziqing Fan , Yanfeng Wang , Jiangchao Yao , Lingjuan Lyu , Ya Zhang , Qi Tian

Federated learning (FL) is a promising distributed learning framework where distributed clients collaboratively train a machine learning model coordinated by a server. To tackle the stragglers issue in asynchronous FL, we consider that each…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Jiarong Yang , Yuan Liu , Fangjiong Chen , Wen Chen , Changle Li

Federated learning is a popular paradigm for machine learning. Ideally, federated learning works best when all clients share a similar data distribution. However, it is not always the case in the real world. Therefore, the topic of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Yuchuan Huang , Chen Hu

Federated Learning (FL) has emerged as a promising approach for privacy-preserving model training across decentralized devices. However, it faces challenges such as statistical heterogeneity and susceptibility to adversarial attacks, which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-13 Jialuo He , Wei Chen , Xiaojin Zhang

Federated learning (FL) faces challenges of intermittent client availability and computation/communication efficiency. As a result, only a small subset of clients can participate in FL at a given time. It is important to understand how…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Shiqiang Wang , Mingyue Ji

We consider a standard federated learning (FL) architecture where a group of clients periodically coordinate with a central server to train a statistical model. We develop a general algorithmic framework called FedLin to tackle some of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-01 Aritra Mitra , Rayana Jaafar , George J. Pappas , Hamed Hassani

Federated Learning (FL) is a distributed learning approach that trains machine learning models across multiple devices while keeping their local data private. However, FL often faces challenges due to data heterogeneity, leading to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Dun Zeng , Zheshun Wu , Shiyu Liu , Yu Pan , Xiaoying Tang , Zenglin Xu

We investigate the optimization aspects of personalized Federated Learning (FL). We propose general optimizers that can be applied to numerous existing personalized FL objectives, specifically a tailored variant of Local SGD and variants of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Filip Hanzely , Boxin Zhao , Mladen Kolar

Federated Learning (FL) is a newly emerged decentralized machine learning (ML) framework that combines on-device local training with server-based model synchronization to train a centralized ML model over distributed nodes. In this paper,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-27 Chung-Hsuan Hu , Zheng Chen , Erik G. Larsson

Federated Learning (FL) enables training a global model without sharing the decentralized raw data stored on multiple devices to protect data privacy. Due to the diverse capacity of the devices, FL frameworks struggle to tackle the problems…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Guanghao Li , Yue Hu , Miao Zhang , Ji Liu , Quanjun Yin , Yong Peng , Dejing Dou

Federated Learning (FL) has achieved significant achievements recently, enabling collaborative model training on distributed data over edge devices. Iterative gradient or model exchanges between devices and the centralized server in the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Ji Liu , Tianshi Che , Yang Zhou , Ruoming Jin , Huaiyu Dai , Dejing Dou , Patrick Valduriez

Federated learning (FL) enables decentralized clients to train a model collaboratively without sharing local data. A key distinction between FL and centralized learning is that clients' data are non-independent and identically distributed,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Like Jian , Dong Liu