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Federated learning (FL) typically faces data heterogeneity, i.e., distribution shifting among clients. Sharing clients' information has shown great potentiality in mitigating data heterogeneity, yet incurs a dilemma in preserving privacy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-12 Zhiqin Yang , Yonggang Zhang , Yu Zheng , Xinmei Tian , Hao Peng , Tongliang Liu , Bo Han

Federated Learning (FL) is a machine learning setting where many devices collaboratively train a machine learning model while keeping the training data decentralized. In most of the current training schemes the central model is refined by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Tao Lin , Lingjing Kong , Sebastian U. Stich , Martin Jaggi

Recent advances in collaborative knowledge distillation have demonstrated cutting-edge performance for resource-constrained distributed multimedia learning scenarios. However, achieving such competitiveness requires addressing a fundamental…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Jing Liu , Zhenchao Ma , Han Yu , Bobo Ju , Wenliang Yang , Chengfang Li , Bo Hu , Liang Song

Federated learning allows multiple parties to build machine learning models collaboratively without exposing data. In particular, vertical federated learning (VFL) enables participating parties to build a joint machine learning model based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Yan Kang , Yang Liu , Xinle Liang

Federated Learning (FL) has emerged as a promising approach to enable collaborative learning among multiple clients while preserving data privacy. However, cross-domain FL tasks, where clients possess data from different domains or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Yuwen Yang , Chang Liu , Xun Cai , Suizhi Huang , Hongtao Lu , Yue Ding

Federated Learning (FL) is a machine learning paradigm where many local nodes collaboratively train a central model while keeping the training data decentralized. This is particularly relevant for clinical applications since patient data…

Federated Learning (FL) allows collaborative training among multiple devices without data sharing, thus enabling privacy-sensitive applications on mobile or Internet of Things (IoT) devices, such as mobile health and asset tracking.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Phung Lai , Xiaopeng Jiang , Hai Phan , Cristian Borcea , Khang Tran , An Chen , Vijaya Datta Mayyuri , Ruoming Jin

Vertical federated learning (VFL), a variant of Federated Learning (FL), has recently drawn increasing attention as the VFL matches the enterprises' demands of leveraging more valuable features to achieve better model performance. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-09 Yuanqin He , Yan Kang , Xinyuan Zhao , Jiahuan Luo , Lixin Fan , Yuxing Han , Qiang Yang

Collaborative fairness is a crucial challenge in federated learning. However, existing approaches often overlook a practical yet complex form of heterogeneity: imbalanced covariate shift. We provide a theoretical analysis of this setting,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Tianrun Yu , Jiaqi Wang , Haoyu Wang , Mingquan Lin , Han Liu , Nelson S. Yee , Fenglong Ma

Federated learning allows multiple clients to collaborate to train high-performance deep learning models while keeping the training data locally. However, when the local data of all clients are not independent and identically distributed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-28 Xutong Mu , Yulong Shen , Ke Cheng , Xueli Geng , Jiaxuan Fu , Tao Zhang , Zhiwei Zhang

Federated Learning (FL) allows edge devices (or clients) to keep data locally while simultaneously training a shared high-quality global model. However, current research is generally based on an assumption that the training data of local…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-27 Zhe Zhang , Shiyao Ma , Jiangtian Nie , Yi Wu , Qiang Yan , Xiaoke Xu , Dusit Niyato

With the advancement of edge computing, federated learning (FL) displays a bright promise as a privacy-preserving collaborative learning paradigm. However, one major challenge for FL is the data heterogeneity issue, which refers to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Huan Wang , Haoran Li , Huaming Chen , Jun Yan , Lijuan Wang , Jiahua Shi , Shiping Chen , Jun Shen

This paper addresses the challenge of mitigating data heterogeneity among clients within a Federated Learning (FL) framework. The model-drift issue, arising from the noniid nature of client data, often results in suboptimal personalization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-19 Kawa Atapour , S. Jamal Seyedmohammadi , Jamshid Abouei , Arash Mohammadi , Konstantinos N. Plataniotis

As a special type of multimedia data, Lithography Hotspot Detection (LHD) training often requires stronger privacy protection than conventional multimedia data, and federated learning provides a promising potential solution to this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Yuqi Li , Xingyou Lin , Yanli Li , Kai Zhang , Chuanguang Yang , Zhongliang Guo , Jianping Gou , Tingwen Huang , Yingli Tian

Federated Learning (FL) enables decentralized machine learning while preserving data privacy, making it ideal for sensitive applications where data cannot be shared. While FL has been widely studied in supervised contexts, its application…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Mirko Nardi , Lorenzo Valerio , Andrea Passarella

Knowledge distillation (KD) can enable collaborative learning among distributed clients that have different model architectures and do not share their local data and model parameters with others. Each client updates its local model using…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Pengchao Han , Xingyan Shi , Jianwei Huang

We give a novel formal theoretical framework for unsupervised learning with two distinctive characteristics. First, it does not assume any generative model and based on a worst-case performance metric. Second, it is comparative, namely…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-12-28 Elad Hazan , Tengyu Ma

Federated learning (FL) allows multiple clients to collectively train a high-performance global model without sharing their private data. However, the key challenge in federated learning is that the clients have significant statistical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-23 Liang Gao , Huazhu Fu , Li Li , Yingwen Chen , Ming Xu , Cheng-Zhong Xu

Composite federated learning offers a general framework for solving machine learning problems with additional regularization terms. However, existing methods often face significant limitations: many require clients to perform…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Yuan Zhou , Jiachen Zhong , Xinli Shi , Guanghui Wen , Xinghuo Yu

Federated Learning (FL) is a promising technique for the collaborative training of deep neural networks across multiple devices while preserving data privacy. Despite its potential benefits, FL is hindered by excessive communication costs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Vasileios Tsouvalas , Aaqib Saeed , Tanir Ozcelebi , Nirvana Meratnia