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A label-efficient paradigm in computer vision is based on self-supervised contrastive pre-training on unlabeled data followed by fine-tuning with a small number of labels. Making practical use of a federated computing environment in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-17 Nanqing Dong , Irina Voiculescu

Machine learning in medical research, by nature, needs careful attention on obeying the regulations of data privacy, making it difficult to train a machine learning model over gathered data from different medical centers. Failure of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Jun Luo , Shandong Wu

In federated learning (FL), classifiers (e.g., deep networks) are trained on datasets from multiple data centers without exchanging data across them, which improves the sample efficiency. However, the conventional FL setting assumes the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-16 Qiong Zhang , Jing Peng , Xin Zhang , Aline Talhouk , Gang Niu , Xiaoxiao Li

While existing federated learning approaches mostly require that clients have fully-labeled data to train on, in realistic settings, data obtained at the client-side often comes without any accompanying labels. Such deficiency of labels may…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Wonyong Jeong , Jaehong Yoon , Eunho Yang , Sung Ju Hwang

Federated learning provides a privacy-preserving manner to collaboratively train models on data distributed over multiple local clients via the coordination of a global server. In this paper, we focus on label distribution skew in federated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-23 Jianghu Lu , Shikun Li , Kexin Bao , Pengju Wang , Zhenxing Qian , Shiming Ge

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

In medical imaging, developing generalized segmentation models that can handle multiple organs and lesions is crucial. However, the scarcity of fully annotated datasets and strict privacy regulations present significant barriers to data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Pochuan Wang , Chen Shen , Masahiro Oda , Chiou-Shann Fuh , Kensaku Mori , Weichung Wang , Holger R. Roth

Federated Learning has emerged as a leading paradigm for decentralized, privacy-preserving learning, particularly relevant in the era of interconnected edge devices equipped with sensors. However, the practical implementation of Federated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Manuel Röder , Christoph Raab , Frank-Michael Schleif

Federated Learning (FL) is a powerful framework for privacy-preserving distributed learning. It enables multiple clients to collaboratively train a global model without sharing raw data. However, handling noisy labels in FL remains a major…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Seunghun Yu , Jin-Hyun Ahn , Joonhyuk Kang

Federated learning enables the deployment of machine learning to problems for which centralized data collection is impractical. Adding differential privacy guarantees bounds on privacy while data are contributed to a global model. Adding…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Andrew Silva , Katherine Metcalf , Nicholas Apostoloff , Barry-John Theobald

Federated Learning is a distributed machine learning paradigm dealing with decentralized and personal datasets. Since data reside on devices like smartphones and virtual assistants, labeling is entrusted to the clients, or labels are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-28 Vasileios Tsouvalas , Aaqib Saeed , Tanir Ozcelebi

Privacy concerns are considered one of the main challenges in smart cities as sharing sensitive data brings threatening problems to people's lives. Federated learning has emerged as an effective technique to avoid privacy infringement as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-06 Abdullatif Albaseer , Bekir Sait Ciftler , Mohamed Abdallah , Ala Al-Fuqaha

Federated learning achieves joint training of deep models by connecting decentralized data sources, which can significantly mitigate the risk of privacy leakage. However, in a more general case, the distributions of labels among clients are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Tao Sheng , Chengchao Shen , Yuan Liu , Yeyu Ou , Zhe Qu , Jianxin Wang

Many existing FL methods assume clients with fully-labeled data, while in realistic settings, clients have limited labels due to the expensive and laborious process of labeling. Limited labeled local data of the clients often leads to their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Yae Jee Cho , Gauri Joshi , Dimitrios Dimitriadis

Federated learning (FL) has emerged with increasing popularity to collaborate distributed medical institutions for training deep networks. However, despite existing FL algorithms only allow the supervised training setting, most hospitals in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-17 Quande Liu , Hongzheng Yang , Qi Dou , Pheng-Ann Heng

Federated learning (FL) enhances data privacy with collaborative in-situ training on decentralized clients. Nevertheless, FL encounters challenges due to non-independent and identically distributed (non-i.i.d) data, leading to potential…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-29 Weiming Zhuang , Lingjuan Lyu

The purpose of federated learning is to enable multiple clients to jointly train a machine learning model without sharing data. However, the existing methods for training an image segmentation model have been based on an unrealistic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-05 Jeffry Wicaksana , Zengqiang Yan , Dong Zhang , Xijie Huang , Huimin Wu , Xin Yang , Kwang-Ting Cheng

Federated Learning (FL) has shown great potential as a privacy-preserving solution to learning from decentralized data that are only accessible to end devices (i.e., clients). In many scenarios, however, a large proportion of the clients…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-31 Wentai Wu , Ligang He , Weiwei Lin , Carsten Maple

Medical image classification plays a crucial role in computer-aided clinical diagnosis. While deep learning techniques have significantly enhanced efficiency and reduced costs, the privacy-sensitive nature of medical imaging data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-04 Sufen Ren , Yule Hu , Shengchao Chen , Guanjun Wang

Representation learning has been proven to play an important role in the unprecedented success of machine learning models in numerous tasks, such as machine translation, face recognition and recommendation. The majority of existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-24 Wentao Wang , Guowei Xu , Wenbiao Ding , Gale Yan Huang , Guoliang Li , Jiliang Tang , Zitao Liu