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We propose an asymptotic framework to analyze the performance of (personalized) federated learning algorithms. In this new framework, we formulate federated learning as a multi-criterion objective, where the goal is to minimize each…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-21 Gary Cheng , Karan Chadha , John Duchi

In federated learning (FL), the assumption that datasets from different devices are independent and identically distributed (i.i.d.) often does not hold due to user differences, and the presence of various data modalities across clients…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Shengkun Zhu , Feiteng Nie , Jinshan Zeng , Sheng Wang , Yuan Sun , Yuan Yao , Shangfeng Chen , Quanqing Xu , Chuanhui Yang

Graph Federated Learning (GFL) enables collaborative representation learning across distributed subgraphs while preserving privacy. However, heterogeneity remains a critical challenge, as subgraphs across clients typically differ…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Wentao Yu , Bo Han , Jie Yang , Chen Gong

Adaptive optimization has achieved notable success for distributed learning while extending adaptive optimizer to federated Learning (FL) suffers from severe inefficiency, including (i) rugged convergence due to inaccurate gradient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-02 Yan Sun , Li Shen , Hao Sun , Liang Ding , Dacheng Tao

Federated Learning (FL) has been a pivotal paradigm for collaborative training of machine learning models across distributed datasets. In heterogeneous settings, it has been observed that a single shared FL model can lead to low local…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Yifan Yang , Ali Payani , Parinaz Naghizadeh

One-Shot Federated Learning (FL) is a recent paradigm that enables multiple clients to cooperatively learn a global model in a single round of communication with a central server. In this paper, we analyze the One-Shot FL problem through…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Jacopo Talpini , Marco Savi , Giovanni Neglia

The objective of Vertical Federated Learning (VFL) is to collectively train a model using features available on different devices while sharing the same users. This paper focuses on the saddle point reformulation of the VFL problem via the…

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 is a paradigm of joint learning in which clients collaborate by sharing model parameters instead of data. However, in the non-iid setting, the global model experiences client drift, which can seriously affect the final…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Jiaze Li , Haoran Xu , Wanyi Wu , Changwei Wang , Shuaiguang Li , Jianzhong Ju , Zhenbo Luo , Jian Luan , Youyang Qu , Longxiang Gao , Xudong Yang , Lumin Xing

In traditional federated learning, a single global model cannot perform equally well for all clients. Therefore, the need to achieve the client-level fairness in federated system has been emphasized, which can be realized by modifying the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Seok-Ju Hahn , Gi-Soo Kim , Junghye Lee

We propose Federated Preconditioned Mixing (FedPM), a novel Federated Learning (FL) method that leverages second-order optimization. Prior methods--such as LocalNewton, LTDA, and FedSophia--have incorporated second-order optimization in FL…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Hiro Ishii , Kenta Niwa , Hiroshi Sawada , Akinori Fujino , Noboru Harada , Rio Yokota

Federated learning (FL) enables multiple clients to collaboratively train a global model while keeping local data decentralized. Data heterogeneity (non-IID) across clients has imposed significant challenges to FL, which makes local models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Yuting He , Yiqiang Chen , XiaoDong Yang , Hanchao Yu , Yi-Hua Huang , Yang Gu

We introduce a new and increasingly relevant setting for distributed optimization in machine learning, where the data defining the optimization are unevenly distributed over an extremely large number of nodes. The goal is to train a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-10-11 Jakub Konečný , H. Brendan McMahan , Daniel Ramage , Peter Richtárik

A key challenge in federated learning (FL) is the statistical heterogeneity that impairs the generalization of the global model on each client. To address this, we propose a method Federated learning with Adaptive Local Aggregation (FedALA)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Jianqing Zhang , Yang Hua , Hao Wang , Tao Song , Zhengui Xue , Ruhui Ma , Haibing Guan

Traditional federated optimization methods perform poorly with heterogeneous data (ie, accuracy reduction), especially for highly skewed data. In this paper, we investigate the label distribution skew in FL, where the distribution of labels…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Jie Zhang , Zhiqi Li , Bo Li , Jianghe Xu , Shuang Wu , Shouhong Ding , Chao Wu

Traditional federated learning uses the number of samples to calculate the weights of each client model and uses this fixed weight value to fusion the global model. However, in practical scenarios, each client's device and data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Leiming Chen , Weishan Zhang , Cihao Dong , Sibo Qiao , Ziling Huang , Yuming Nie , Zhaoxiang Hou , Chee Wei Tan

Federated Learning (FL) is a decentralized machine learning architecture, which leverages a large number of remote devices to learn a joint model with distributed training data. However, the system-heterogeneity is one major challenge in a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Xingyu Li , Zhe Qu , Bo Tang , Zhuo Lu

Data generated at the network edge can be processed locally by leveraging the paradigm of edge computing (EC). Aided by EC, decentralized federated learning (DFL), which overcomes the single-point-of-failure problem in the parameter server…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Yunming Liao , Yang Xu , Hongli Xu , Lun Wang , Chen Qian

Federated Learning is a distributed learning paradigm with two key challenges that differentiate it from traditional distributed optimization: (1) significant variability in terms of the systems characteristics on each device in the network…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-23 Tian Li , Anit Kumar Sahu , Manzil Zaheer , Maziar Sanjabi , Ameet Talwalkar , Virginia Smith

Federated learning allows a large number of devices to jointly learn a model without sharing data. In this work, we enable clients with limited computing power to perform action recognition, a computationally heavy task. We first perform…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-07-27 Pranjal Jain , Shreyas Goenka , Saurabh Bagchi , Biplab Banerjee , Somali Chaterji