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Synchronous federated learning (FL) is a popular paradigm for collaborative edge learning. It typically involves a set of heterogeneous devices locally training neural network (NN) models in parallel with periodic centralized aggregations.…

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Federated Learning (FL) has emerged as a promising approach to address privacy concerns inherent in Machine Learning (ML) practices. However, conventional FL methods, particularly those following the Centralized FL (CFL) paradigm, utilize a…

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Federated learning (FL) involves several clients that share with a fusion center (FC), the model each client has trained with its own data. Conventional FL, which can be interpreted as an estimation or distortion-based approach, ignores the…

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Cross-device Federated Learning (FL) faces significant challenges where low-end clients that could potentially make unique contributions are excluded from training large models due to their resource bottlenecks. Recent research efforts have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-30 Hanhan Zhou , Tian Lan , Guru Venkataramani , Wenbo Ding

Federated learning (FL) is a new machine learning framework which trains a joint model across a large amount of decentralized computing devices. Existing methods, e.g., Federated Averaging (FedAvg), are able to provide an optimization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-15 Xingyu Li , Zhe Qu , Bo Tang , Zhuo Lu

In the context of the growing proliferation of user devices and the concurrent surge in data volumes, the complexities arising from the substantial increase in data have posed formidable challenges to conventional machine learning model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Eyad Gad , Zubair Md Fadlullah , Mostafa M. Fouda

Federated Learning (FL) enables collaborative model training without centralizing data. However, real-world deployments must simultaneously address statistical heterogeneity across client data (non-IID), system heterogeneity in device…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Chaimaa Medjadji , Sylvain Kubler , Yves Le Traon , Guilain Leduc , Sadi Alawadi , Feras M. Awaysheh

In practical federated learning (FL), the large communication overhead between clients and the server is often a significant bottleneck. Gradient compression methods can effectively reduce this overhead, while error feedback (EF) restores…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Diying Yang , Yingwei Hou , Weigang Wu

In Federated Learning (FL), clients may have weak devices that cannot train the full model or even hold it in their memory space. To implement large-scale FL applications, thus, it is crucial to develop a distributed learning method that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-24 Sunwoo Lee , Tuo Zhang , Saurav Prakash , Yue Niu , Salman Avestimehr

Federated Learning (FL) remains highly vulnerable to poisoning attacks, especially under real-world hyper-heterogeneity, where clients differ significantly in data distributions, communication capabilities, and model architectures. Such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Weiyao Zhang , Jinyang Li , Qi Song , Miao Wang , Chungang Lin , Haitong Luo , Xuying Meng , Yujun Zhang

Statistical heterogeneity of data present at client devices in a federated learning (FL) system renders the training of a global model in such systems difficult. Particularly challenging are the settings where due to communication resource…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Huancheng Chen , Haris Vikalo

Federated learning (FL) is a distributed learning paradigm that enables a large number of mobile devices to collaboratively learn a model under the coordination of a central server without sharing their raw data. Despite its practical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Bing Luo , Xiang Li , Shiqiang Wang , Jianwei Huang , Leandros Tassiulas

Federated learning (FL) is an emerging machine learning (ML) paradigm that enables heterogeneous edge devices to collaboratively train ML models without revealing their raw data to a logically centralized server. However, beyond the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Jiachen Liu , Fan Lai , Yinwei Dai , Aditya Akella , Harsha Madhyastha , Mosharaf Chowdhury

Federated Learning (FL) enables large-scale distributed training of machine learning models, while still allowing individual nodes to maintain data locally. However, executing FL at scale comes with inherent practical challenges: 1)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Hossein Zakerinia , Shayan Talaei , Giorgi Nadiradze , Dan Alistarh

Federated Learning (FL) is commonly used in systems with distributed and heterogeneous devices with access to varying amounts of data and diverse computing and storage capacities. FL training process enables such devices to update the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-31 Zeyneddin Oz , Ceylan Soygul Oz , Abdollah Malekjafarian , Nima Afraz , Fatemeh Golpayegani

Federated Learning (FL) plays a critical role in distributed systems. In these systems, data privacy and confidentiality hold paramount importance, particularly within edge-based data processing systems such as IoT devices deployed in smart…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-08 Humaid Ahmed Desai , Amr Hilal , Hoda Eldardiry

Efficient and secure federated learning (FL) is a critical challenge for resource-limited devices, especially mobile devices. Existing secure FL solutions commonly incur significant overhead, leading to a contradiction between efficiency…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Yunlong Mao , Mingyang Niu , Ziqin Dang , Chengxi Li , Hanning Xia , Yuejuan Zhu , Haoyu Bian , Yuan Zhang , Jingyu Hua , Sheng Zhong

Federated learning (FL) enables distributed participants to collectively learn a strong global model without sacrificing their individual data privacy. Mainstream FL approaches require each participant to share a common network architecture…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-28 Yiying Li , Wei Zhou , Huaimin Wang , Haibo Mi , Timothy M. Hospedales

Federated learning (FL) is a system in which a central aggregator coordinates the efforts of multiple clients to solve machine learning problems. This setting allows training data to be dispersed in order to protect privacy. The purpose of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-27 Subrato Bharati , M. Rubaiyat Hossain Mondal , Prajoy Podder , V. B. Surya Prasath

Federated Learning is a framework that jointly trains a model \textit{with} complete knowledge on a remotely placed centralized server, but \textit{without} the requirement of accessing the data stored in distributed machines. Some work…

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