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AI methods are increasingly shaping pharmaceutical drug discovery. However, their translation to industrial applications remains limited due to their reliance on public datasets, lacking scale and diversity of proprietary pharmaceutical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Markus Bujotzek , Evelyn Trautmann , Calum Hand , Ian Hales

Federated learning (FL) is an emerging distributed machine learning paradigm that enables collaborative training of machine learning models over decentralized devices without exposing their local data. One of the major challenges in FL is…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-07-11 Md Sirajul Islam , Simin Javaherian , Fei Xu , Xu Yuan , Li Chen , Nian-Feng Tzeng

Spectral clustering has emerged as one of the most effective clustering algorithms due to its superior performance. However, most existing models are designed for centralized settings, rendering them inapplicable in modern decentralized…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Suyan Dai , Gan Sun , Fazeng Li , Xu Tang , Qianqian Wang , Yang Cong

Federated Learning (FL) is currently one of the most popular technologies in the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI) due to its collaborative learning and ability to preserve client privacy. However, it faces challenges such as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Thanveer Shaik , Xiaohui Tao , Lin Li , Niall Higgins , Raj Gururajan , Xujuan Zhou , Jianming Yong

Federated clustering (FC) is an unsupervised learning problem that arises in a number of practical applications, including personalized recommender and healthcare systems. With the adoption of recent laws ensuring the "right to be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Chao Pan , Jin Sima , Saurav Prakash , Vishal Rana , Olgica Milenkovic

Federated learning enables edge devices to train a global model collaboratively without exposing their data. Despite achieving outstanding advantages in computing efficiency and privacy protection, federated learning faces a significant…

Driven by the growth of Web-scale decentralized services, Federated Clustering (FC) aims to extract knowledge from heterogeneous clients in an unsupervised manner while preserving the clients' privacy, which has emerged as a significant…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Shenghong Cai , Zihua Yang , Yang Lu , Mengke Li , Yuzhu Ji , Yiqun Zhang , Yiu-Ming Cheung

Federated learning (FL) is a widely used framework for machine learning in distributed data environments where clients hold data that cannot be easily centralised, such as for data protection reasons. FL, however, is known to be vulnerable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Dekai Zhang , Matthew Williams , Francesca Toni

This study investigates clustered federated learning (FL), one of the formulations of FL with non-i.i.d. data, where the devices are partitioned into clusters and each cluster optimally fits its data with a localized model. We propose a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Xue Yu , Ziyi Liu , Wu Wang , Yifan Sun

Federated learning (FL) has emerged as a privacy-preserving paradigm that trains neural networks on edge devices without collecting data at a central server. However, FL encounters an inherent challenge in dealing with non-independent and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-10 Zijian Li , Yuchang Sun , Jiawei Shao , Yuyi Mao , Jessie Hui Wang , Jun Zhang

Federated clustering (FC) aims to discover global cluster structures across decentralized clients without sharing raw data, making privacy preservation a fundamental requirement. There are two critical challenges: (1) privacy leakage during…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Jie Yan , Jing Liu , Zhong-Yuan Zhang

We consider a foundational unsupervised learning task of $k$-means data clustering, in a federated learning (FL) setting consisting of a central server and many distributed clients. We develop SecFC, which is a secure federated clustering…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-01 Songze Li , Sizai Hou , Baturalp Buyukates , Salman Avestimehr

In this paper, we investigate federated clustering (FedC) problem, that aims to accurately partition unlabeled data samples distributed over massive clients into finite clusters under the orchestration of a parameter server, meanwhile…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Yiwei Li , Shuai Wang , Chong-Yung Chi , Tony Q. S. Quek

Federated learning is a decentralized learning paradigm wherein a central server trains a global model iteratively by utilizing clients who possess a certain amount of private datasets. The challenge lies in the fact that the client side…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-25 Shaohan Sha , YaFeng Sun

Clustered federated learning (FL) has been shown to produce promising results by grouping clients into clusters. This is especially effective in scenarios where separate groups of clients have significant differences in the distributions of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-22 Saeed Vahidian , Mahdi Morafah , Weijia Wang , Vyacheslav Kungurtsev , Chen Chen , Mubarak Shah , Bill Lin

Federated learning (FL) is an emerging distributed machine learning paradigm enabling collaborative model training on decentralized devices without exposing their local data. A key challenge in FL is the uneven data distribution across…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-03-08 Md Sirajul Islam , Simin Javaherian , Fei Xu , Xu Yuan , Li Chen , Nian-Feng Tzeng

Federated Learning (FL) has gained significant attention as it facilitates collaborative machine learning among multiple clients without centralizing their data on a server. FL ensures the privacy of participating clients by locally storing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Huiqiang Chen , Tianqing Zhu , Wanlei Zhou , Wei Zhao

Federated learning (FL) is a distributed learning method that offers medical institutes the prospect of collaboration in a global model while preserving the privacy of their patients. Although most medical centers conduct similar medical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-08 Yousef Yeganeh , Azade Farshad , Johann Boschmann , Richard Gaus , Maximilian Frantzen , Nassir Navab

Federated learning (FL) is an emerging technique used to collaboratively train a global machine learning model while keeping the data localized on the user devices. The main obstacle to FL's practical implementation is the Non-Independent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-01 Hiep Nguyen , Lam Phan , Harikrishna Warrier , Yogesh Gupta

Federated recommendation aims to collect global knowledge by aggregating local models from massive devices, to provide recommendations while ensuring privacy. Current methods mainly leverage aggregation functions invented by federated…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-06-07 Honglei Zhang , Haoxuan Li , Jundong Chen , Sen Cui , Kunda Yan , Abudukelimu Wuerkaixi , Xin Zhou , Zhiqi Shen , Yidong Li