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Model-Heterogeneous Federated Learning (Hetero-FL) has attracted growing attention for its ability to aggregate knowledge from heterogeneous models while keeping private data locally. To better aggregate knowledge from clients, ensemble…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Yichen Li , Xiuying Wang , Wenchao Xu , Haozhao Wang , Yining Qi , Jiahua Dong , Ruixuan Li

Federated learning (FL) is a privacy-preserving machine learning paradigm in which the server periodically aggregates local model parameters from clients without assembling their private data. Constrained communication and personalization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-10 Zhiyuan Wu , Sheng Sun , Yuwei Wang , Min Liu , Quyang Pan , Junbo Zhang , Zeju Li , Qingxiang Liu

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

Most current federated learning frameworks are modeled as static processes, ignoring the dynamic characteristics of the learning system. Under the limited communication budget of the central server, the flexible model architecture of a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Yiting Zheng , Bohan Lin , Jinqian Chen , Jihua Zhu

Federated learning is a machine learning technique that enables training across decentralized data. Recently, federated learning has become an active area of research due to an increased focus on privacy and security. In light of this, a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-09 Jae Hun Ro , Ananda Theertha Suresh , Ke Wu

Federated learning (FL) offers a privacy-preserving framework for distributed machine learning, enabling collaborative model training across diverse clients without centralizing sensitive data. However, statistical heterogeneity,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-04-08 Hengrui Hu , Anai N. Kothari , Anjishnu Banerjee

Federated learning (FL) is a machine learning paradigm in which distributed local nodes collaboratively train a central model without sharing individually held private data. Existing FL methods either iteratively share local model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-25 Xuan Gong , Shanglin Li , Yuxiang Bao , Barry Yao , Yawen Huang , Ziyan Wu , Baochang Zhang , Yefeng Zheng , David Doermann

Federated learning (FL) is a decentralized collaborative machine learning (ML) technique. It provides a solution to the issues of isolated data islands and data privacy leakage in industrial ML practices. One major challenge in FL is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-26 Yushan Zhao , Jinyuan He , Donglai Chen , Weijie Luo , Chong Xie , Ri Zhang , Yonghong Chen , Yan Xu

Federated learning enables multiple clients to collaboratively learn a global model by periodically aggregating the clients' models without transferring the local data. However, due to the heterogeneity of the system and data, many…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Dezhong Yao , Wanning Pan , Yutong Dai , Yao Wan , Xiaofeng Ding , Hai Jin , Zheng Xu , Lichao Sun

Federated Learning (FL) enables multiple machines to collaboratively train a machine learning model without sharing of private training data. Yet, especially for heterogeneous models, a key bottleneck remains the transfer of knowledge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Sunny Soni , Aaqib Saeed , Yuki M. Asano

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

Most existing federated learning methods are unable to estimate model/predictive uncertainty since the client models are trained using the standard loss function minimization approach which ignores such uncertainties. In many situations,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Shrey Bhatt , Aishwarya Gupta , Piyush Rai

Personalized federated learning has gained significant attention as a promising approach to address the challenge of data heterogeneity. In this paper, we address a relatively unexplored problem in federated learning. When a federated model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-01 Tiandi Ye , Cen Chen , Yinggui Wang , Xiang Li , Ming Gao

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

Multimodal Federated Learning (MFL) enables clients with heterogeneous data modalities to collaboratively train models without sharing raw data, offering a privacy-preserving framework that leverages complementary cross-modal information.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Min Tan , Junchao Ma , Yinfu Feng , Jiajun Ding , Wenwen Pan , Tingting Han , Qian Zheng , Zhenzhong Kuang , Zhou Yu

This letter proposes a novel communication-efficient and privacy-preserving distributed machine learning framework, coined Mix2FLD. To address uplink-downlink capacity asymmetry, local model outputs are uploaded to a server in the uplink as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-18 Seungeun Oh , Jihong Park , Eunjeong Jeong , Hyesung Kim , Mehdi Bennis , Seong-Lyun Kim

Federated Learning (FL) is an emerging distributed learning paradigm under privacy constraint. Data heterogeneity is one of the main challenges in FL, which results in slow convergence and degraded performance. Most existing approaches only…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Lin Zhang , Li Shen , Liang Ding , Dacheng Tao , Ling-Yu Duan

Federated learning is a distributed machine learning paradigm designed to protect data privacy. However, data heterogeneity across various clients results in catastrophic forgetting, where the model rapidly forgets previous knowledge while…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-07 Pengju Wang , Bochao Liu , Weijia Guo , Yong Li , Shiming Ge

To leverage enormous unlabeled data on distributed edge devices, we formulate a new problem in federated learning called Federated Unsupervised Representation Learning (FURL) to learn a common representation model without supervision while…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Fengda Zhang , Kun Kuang , Zhaoyang You , Tao Shen , Jun Xiao , Yin Zhang , Chao Wu , Yueting Zhuang , Xiaolin Li

Distributed learning frameworks often rely on exchanging model parameters across workers, instead of revealing their raw data. A prime example is federated learning that exchanges the gradients or weights of each neural network model. Under…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-05 Hyowoon Seo , Jihong Park , Seungeun Oh , Mehdi Bennis , Seong-Lyun Kim