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Heterogeneity arising from label distribution skew and data scarcity can cause inaccuracy and unfairness in intelligent communication applications that heavily rely on distributed computing. To deal with it, this paper proposes a novel…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Chenghao Huang , Xiaolu Chen , Yanru Zhang , Hao Wang

Federated learning (FL) is a promising strategy for performing privacy-preserving, distributed learning with a network of clients (i.e., edge devices). However, the data distribution among clients is often non-IID in nature, making…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-15 Matias Mendieta , Taojiannan Yang , Pu Wang , Minwoo Lee , Zhengming Ding , Chen Chen

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

Federated learning (FL) triggers intra-client and inter-client class imbalance, with the latter compared to the former leading to biased client updates and thus deteriorating the distributed models. Such a bias is exacerbated during the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Chenguang Xiao , Zheming Zuo , Shuo Wang

Federated Learning (FL) is a distributed machine learning paradigm where clients collaboratively train a model using their local (human-generated) datasets. While existing studies focus on FL algorithm development to tackle data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Shuqi Ke , Chao Huang , Xin Liu

As people pay more and more attention to privacy protection, Federated Learning (FL), as a promising distributed machine learning paradigm, is receiving more and more attention. However, due to the biased distribution of data on devices in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-27 Yuquan Zhang , Yongquan Zhang

Label Distribution Learning (LDL) models supervision as an instance-wise probability distribution, enabling fine-grained learning under inherent ambiguity, but its success relies on high-fidelity label distributions that are costly to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Junxiang Wu , Zhiqiang Kou , Hongwei Zeng , Wenke Huang , Biao Liu , Hanlin Gu , Yuheng Jia , Di Jiang , Yang Liu , Xin Geng

Federated Learning (FL) enables distributed Artificial Intelligence (AI) across cloud-edge environments by allowing collaborative model training without centralizing data. In cross-device deployments, FL systems face strict communication…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Daniel M. Jimenez-Gutierrez , Giovanni Giunta , Mehrdad Hassanzadeh , Aris Anagnostopoulos , Ioannis Chatzigiannakis , Andrea Vitaletti

Federated Learning (FL) has emerged as a promising distributed learning paradigm that enables multiple clients to learn a global model collaboratively without sharing their private data. However, the effectiveness of FL is highly dependent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Zhongyi Cai , Ye Shi , Wei Huang , Jingya Wang

Federated Learning (FL) enables collaborative model training across distributed clients while preserving data privacy, but remains challenging when client data are highly heterogeneous. These challenges are further amplified in multi-label…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Can Peng , Yuyuan Liu , Yingyu Yang , Pramit Saha , Qianye Yang , J. Alison Noble

This work considers the category distribution heterogeneity in federated learning. This issue is due to biased labeling preferences at multiple clients and is a typical setting of data heterogeneity. To alleviate this issue, most previous…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-31 Rui Ye , Mingkai Xu , Jianyu Wang , Chenxin Xu , Siheng Chen , Yanfeng Wang

Federated Learning (FL) has emerged as one of the prominent paradigms for distributed machine learning (ML). However, it is well-established that its performance can degrade significantly under non-IID (non-independent and identically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Kasra Borazjani , Payam Abdisarabshali , Naji Khosravan , Seyyedali Hosseinalipour

Federated Learning (FL) is a distributed machine learning strategy, developed for settings where training data is owned by distributed devices and cannot be shared. FL circumvents this constraint by carrying out model training in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-24 Maria Hartmann , Grégoire Danoy , Pascal Bouvry

Federated Learning (FL) suffers from severe performance degradation due to the data heterogeneity among clients. Existing works reveal that the fundamental reason is that data heterogeneity can cause client drift where the local model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Haoran Xu , Jiaze Li , Wanyi Wu , Hao Ren

Recent studies have shown that, like traditional machine learning, federated learning (FL) is also vulnerable to adversarial attacks. To improve the adversarial robustness of FL, federated adversarial training (FAT) methods have been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-24 Chen Chen , Yuchen Liu , Xingjun Ma , Lingjuan Lyu

Federated Learning (FL) is a promising distributed machine learning approach that enables collaborative training of a global model using multiple edge devices. The data distributed among the edge devices is highly heterogeneous. Thus, FL…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Ji Liu , Beichen Ma , Qiaolin Yu , Ruoming Jin , Jingbo Zhou , Yang Zhou , Huaiyu Dai , Haixun Wang , Dejing Dou , Patrick Valduriez

Federated learning aims to collaboratively learn a model by using the data from multiple users under privacy constraints. In this paper, we study the multi-label classification problem under the federated learning setting, where trivial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-25 Xuming An , Dui Wang , Li Shen , Yong Luo , Han Hu , Bo Du , Yonggang Wen , Dacheng Tao

Federated Learning (FL) is a promising framework for performing privacy-preserving, distributed learning with a set of clients. However, the data distribution among clients often exhibits non-IID, i.e., distribution shift, which makes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Zhe Qu , Xingyu Li , Rui Duan , Yao Liu , Bo Tang , Zhuo Lu

Federated learning (FL) is a popular solution for distributed machine learning (ML). While FL has traditionally been studied for supervised ML tasks, in many applications, it is impractical to assume availability of labeled data across…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Satyavrat Wagle , Seyyedali Hosseinalipour , Naji Khosravan , Christopher G. Brinton

Federated learning (FL) has emerged as a promising paradigm for privacy-preserving distributed machine learning, but faces challenges with heterogeneous data distributions across clients. This paper presents FedSat, a novel FL approach…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Sujit Chowdhury , Raju Halder