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In the federated learning scenario, geographically distributed clients collaboratively train a global model. Data heterogeneity among clients significantly results in inconsistent model updates, which evidently slow down model convergence.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-04-13 Xujing Li , Min Liu , Sheng Sun , Yuwei Wang , Hui Jiang , Xuefeng Jiang

Federated Learning is a novel paradigm that involves learning from data samples distributed across a large network of clients while the data remains local. It is, however, known that federated learning is prone to multiple system challenges…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Amirhossein Reisizadeh , Isidoros Tziotis , Hamed Hassani , Aryan Mokhtari , Ramtin Pedarsani

In federated learning (FL), data heterogeneity is one key bottleneck that causes model divergence and limits performance. Addressing this, existing methods often regard data heterogeneity as an inherent property and propose to mitigate its…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Rui Ye , Yaxin Du , Zhenyang Ni , Siheng Chen , Yanfeng Wang

Federated learning allows clients to collaboratively learn statistical models while keeping their data local. Federated learning was originally used to train a unique global model to be served to all clients, but this approach might be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-20 Othmane Marfoq , Giovanni Neglia , Laetitia Kameni , Richard Vidal

Federated learning is a distributed machine learning approach which enables a shared server model to learn by aggregating the locally-computed parameter updates with the training data from spatially-distributed client silos. Though…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-20 Mike He Zhu , Léna Néhale Ezzine , Dianbo Liu , Yoshua Bengio

Federated Learning (FL) can be coordinated under the orchestration of a central server to collaboratively build a privacy-preserving model without the need for data exchange. However, participant data heterogeneity leads to local optima…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-30 Boyuan Li , Zihao Peng , Yafei Li , Mingliang Xu , Shengbo Chen , Baofeng Ji , Cong Shen

Statistical heterogeneity severely limits the performance of federated learning (FL), motivating several explorations e.g., FedProx, MOON and FedDyn, to alleviate this problem. Despite effectiveness, their considered scenario generally…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Ziqing Fan , Jiangchao Yao , Ruipeng Zhang , Lingjuan Lyu , Ya Zhang , Yanfeng Wang

Decentralized training of deep learning models is a key element for enabling data privacy and on-device learning over networks. In realistic learning scenarios, the presence of heterogeneity across different clients' local datasets poses an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-21 Tao Lin , Sai Praneeth Karimireddy , Sebastian U. Stich , Martin Jaggi

In this paper, we investigate the effect of data heterogeneity across clients on the performance of distributed learning systems, i.e., one-round Federated Learning, as measured by the associated generalization error. Specifically, $K$…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Masoud Kavian , Romain Chor , Milad Sefidgaran , Abdellatif Zaidi

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

Federated optimization is a constrained form of distributed optimization that enables training a global model without directly sharing client data. Although existing algorithms can guarantee convergence in theory and often achieve stable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Zhongxiang Lei , Qi Yang , Ping Qiu , Gang Zhang , Yuanchi Ma , Jinyan Liu

Heterogeneous federated learning (HtFL) aims to enable collaboration among clients that differ in both data distributions and model architectures. Prototype-based methods, which communicate class-level feature centers (prototypes) instead…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Xinghao Wu , Jianwei Niu , Guogang Zhu , Xuefeng Liu , Shaojie Tang , Jiayuan Zhang

Federated Learning (FL) enables multiple clients to collaboratively learn in a distributed way, allowing for privacy protection. However, the real-world non-IID data will lead to client drift which degrades the performance of FL.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Yunlu Yan , Chun-Mei Feng , Mang Ye , Wangmeng Zuo , Ping Li , Rick Siow Mong Goh , Lei Zhu , C. L. Philip Chen

Federated Learning (FL) deals with learning a central model (i.e. the server) in privacy-constrained scenarios, where data are stored on multiple devices (i.e. the clients). The central model has no direct access to the data, but only to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-03 Debora Caldarola , Massimiliano Mancini , Fabio Galasso , Marco Ciccone , Emanuele Rodolà , Barbara Caputo

Federated learning (FL) enables distributed model training, yet in heterogeneous deployments, Bandwidth-Constrained Clients (BCCs) often contribute inefficiently due to limited uplink bandwidth. In model-heterogeneous FL with fixed small…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Chengjie Ma , Seungeun Oh , Jihong Park , Seong-Lyun Kim

In federated learning, communication cost is often a critical bottleneck to scale up distributed optimization algorithms to collaboratively learn a model from millions of devices with potentially unreliable or limited communication and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-24 Farzin Haddadpour , Mohammad Mahdi Kamani , Aryan Mokhtari , Mehrdad Mahdavi

We propose a novel federated learning method for distributively training neural network models, where the server orchestrates cooperation between a subset of randomly chosen devices in each round. We view Federated Learning problem…

Mobile devices, including smartphones and laptops, generate decentralized and heterogeneous data, presenting significant challenges for traditional centralized machine learning models due to substantial communication costs and privacy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Mayank Kumar Kundalwal , Anurag Saraswat , Ishan Mishra , Deepak Mishra

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

In recent advancements in machine learning, federated learning allows a network of distributed clients to collaboratively develop a global model without needing to share their local data. This technique aims to safeguard privacy, countering…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Davide Domini , Gianluca Aguzzi , Nicolas Farabegoli , Mirko Viroli , Lukas Esterle